Sentences with phrase «of stab in the dark»

You're also able to see a freelancer's work history and reviews before you hire them, which makes it less of a stab in the dark than other hiring methods.

It was «a kind of stab in the dark,» she concedes.

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If they can be sufficiently reduced to primitive and human creation, then any religious claim becomes a stab in the dark (of the entire universe).

Regardless of how we understand purpose, then, if we hold that nature is influenced by any sort of final causation, this contention will appear to many to be no more than a stab in the dark without any empirical warrant.

The fear and trembling can be from a piece of music, a liturgy, a passage of scripture, and best of all, from that stabbing light that can penetrate prayer in the darkest hour.

The things you worry about... ok my friend, you just need more wine and you won't worry as much I worry and all of parenting feels like blind stabs in the dark some days, but we're all just doing the best we can do and you're an amazing mama!

He has not exactly been prolific at Old Trafford but I like him and what he offers the team and there have been plenty of reports linking him with us before which said that Arsene Wenger was a fan, so it is not just a transfer stab in the dark.

There are crucial factors determining the outcome of these games we have no clue about at this point, bercause they hasn't happened yet... This is just 16 stabs in the dark.

Whether it is agent posturing, touting his players» availability around in the media in order to garner interest, or journalists making stabs in the dark, however, the vast majority of these links are unfounded and ultimately come to nothing.

I'm on a role with the predictions Chris as I nailed the 3 - 0 against Watford and Danny's glorious double celebration of his deserved England recall Course no need to mention the poor Milan finishing that thwarted my 3 - 2 pre match stab in the dark.

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Do an online search of the fruit or vegetable to find out how you might work with it, or just have a stab in the dark as to how to use it.

First, she forces him to watch videos from «the dark web,» which is filled with the darkest of dark images possible, like a man being repeatedly stabbed in the throat.

And yet, I do appreciate the B - movie charms of the Olympus Has Fallen and especially enjoy how approximately 64 % of the film consists of Butler's disgraced Secret Service agent wandering dark hallways and stabbing people in the head.

Of course, various supporting characters, including Emily Browning («Pompeii»), Christopher Eccleston («Thor: The Dark World») and Chazz Palminteri («Once Upon a Time in Queens»), come to various ends, while others appear onscreen only to be slapped, beaten or shot, stabbed or generally dispatched as an illustration of Helgeland's use of semi-graphic violence for the sake of well, semi-graphic violencOf course, various supporting characters, including Emily Browning («Pompeii»), Christopher Eccleston («Thor: The Dark World») and Chazz Palminteri («Once Upon a Time in Queens»), come to various ends, while others appear onscreen only to be slapped, beaten or shot, stabbed or generally dispatched as an illustration of Helgeland's use of semi-graphic violence for the sake of well, semi-graphic violencof Helgeland's use of semi-graphic violence for the sake of well, semi-graphic violencof semi-graphic violence for the sake of well, semi-graphic violencof well, semi-graphic violence.

Considering the less than stellar track record of Stephen King adaptations (including the recently released monumental failure that is The Dark Tower), it's pleasant to report that director Andy Muschietti's (Mama) stab at one of the writer's most revered works of art doesn't float like a lifeless corpse down in Pennywise's sewer lair, but instead propels forward with frightful momentum and probably the best character work that could be done when bringing such a lengthy and detailed story to the silver screen.

Speaking to the UKTV podcast A Stab In The Dark, Gatiss again expressed his frustrations with being unable to align the schedules of Sherlock «s two main stars, Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman.

But, hey, it's a show about running bootleg liquor during Prohibition, so a bottle makes about as much sense as anything else, and I'm going to take a similar stab in the dark and presume that what they're moving onto trucks in the next shot is crates of the same stuff.

Speaking on the podcast A Stab in the Dark (Via Digital Spy), Gatiss has said the following: «It was very, very hard to schedule the last series, because of Martin [Freeman] and Benedict [Cumberbatch]'s availability.

At this point, outside of knowing that X-Men: Dark Phoenix is going to be taking another stab at the beloved Dark Phoenix storyline from the comics, which was first attempted (very poorly) in X-Men: The Last Stand, details have been pretty scarce.

The story of Schlenker's first issue of Gratuitous Type is a lot like the story of many first issues, which are often a tense combination of a passionate desire to make and say something new, a lot of head bashing with printers and distributors, and a clueless, frantic stab in the dark.

Taking a wild stab in the dark, we surmised that the letter icon must be the means of programming a destination by address, a leap of faith that proved inspired as it brought up an on - screen keypad that allowed us to program in our address with ease using the large virtual letters.

Well, maybe the prices that are printed on their books are not actually working for them, and that might be because they used the stab - in - the - dark method of pricing.

It's still great to get a big X of sales over a short Y amount of time, but Amazon likes sales consistency, not stabs in the dark that can't be sustained.

I think by sharing our experiences we can all learn a bit more from each other so these kind of decisions aren't as stab in the dark and trial and error based — so many times I have shaken my head and rolled my eyes and said «why did I do that?

Back in those darker days when nobody had heard of Kim sodding Kardashian and we still liked to solve problems by building castles and stabbing people with swords witches were not exactly treated kindly.

I'm going to take a stab in the dark here, and suggest that maybe — just maybe — GameSetWatch readers aren't exactly the kind of people to require the pictured Locust bust in their respective lounge rooms.

When you take a long, hard look at 2012's sports titles, pretty much all you see are a lot of stopgap solutions and wild stabs in the dark at something, anything different to do with the hardware we've been saddled with lo these last several years.

All the endless speculation, rumors, guesses, conjectures and just plain wild stabs in the dark about the next generation of...

Join Jacob and Evie Fry in the dark underbelly of Victorian London for the usual sneak and stab affair.

It is always refreshing when you don't have an inventory full of useless items that «maybe I'll use later», and you don't have to just wildly stab in the dark at item combinations.

All the endless speculation, rumors, guesses, conjectures and just plain wild stabs in the dark about the next generation of video game consoles finally came to an end today.

Still using the filbert brush, I «stabbed» in some pale colour (darker than the sky colour but not too much) for the most distant bank of trees.

I'm going to take a stab in the dark and guess you don't have the newest of equipment unless you just had it installed.

When it comes to reaching their potential; about 70 % of college educated professionals say they feel like a duck stuck up a tree, and it gets dull and boring after many years of trying to excel in careers that were essentially a stab in the dark.