Sentences with phrase «of twiddle»

Terrence Malick's latest game of twiddle sticks cinema peppers the landscape of celebrity ennui with vacuous narrative threads and listless visual poetry.

Carlos Sainz Jr is clearly fed up of twiddling his thumbs in the off - season, so he's taking to the hills of Monte Carlo this weekend during the first round of the new WRC season.

Lily has had periods of twiddling, pinching, poor latch, and marathon - nursing.

But instead of twiddling our thumbs and waiting for Sony to surprise us with the next system, we've done some digging to get to the bottom of the mystery that's kept us up at night: what is the PS5 and when is it coming out?

So, instead of twiddling my thumbs, I wrote music for the drum machine.

Instead of twiddling your thumbs during your commute to work or taking the full 60 minutes for lunch why not spend this time researching relevant companies or updating your work documents?

I'd have thought a reasonable amount of twiddling would be necessary.

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In any case it should be clear that we do not create unity, no more than we bring about righteousness by means of our works, but that on the other hand we should not sit around twiddling our thumbs.

I don't believe single women are called to twiddle their thumbs until a godly man finds you and makes you his wife and then you can finally serve God in the context of marriage.

Religion is a waste of time and I don't like to spend even a few minutes of my day thinking about it when I could be doing something far more productive... twiddling my thumbs, perhaps.

Overall, Dan Allender presents the Sabbath as day of rest, but not for sitting around, twiddling your thumbs, and thinking Godly thoughts.

When looked at this way, all the parables and teachings from Jesus about the Kingdom of God become much more clear, and we see that as followers of Jesus, we have a much larger role to play on this earth than just sitting around twiddling our thumbs while we wait for the rapture.

If I may digress a little: a regular pastime that I enjoy after hearing each enthusiastic new TV report of an endeavour to communicate with deep space civilisations (which we are now told must surely exist) is toimagine some «alien», hugely remote and distant from us in every way, twiddling with a radio set!

Fortunately some of us love to think about it, tweak and twiddle, modify and elaborate, challenge and be challenged — it's a meaning of life.

It means that as followers of Jesus, we have no business sitting around twiddling our thumbs and waiting for Jesus to return.

No waiting, no twiddling of thumbs, just a good cookie ASAP.

Miso is a funky Japanese fermented soybean paste that's probably been patiently loitering in the back of your fridge for months twiddling its thumbs, waiting for you to realize its worth.

onto more important matters whilst arsenals arrogant manager twiddles his thumbs, the rest of the big teams are doing what they always do getting ready to spend big.

So as the clock ticks down and Arsene Wenger sits twiddling his thumbs (sorry, working hard on transfer deals I mean) in his office, it looks almost certain that the transfer of the Egypt international midfielder Mohamed Elneny will be our one and only signing of the winter window.

With all of Liverpool's competitors strengthening, investing, and pushing onwards, new competitors emerging, and transfer targets being of a questionable level or rebutting Liverpool FC's approaches, all whilst the club twiddles its proverbial thumbs — expecting Klopp to deliver on his promise with his current squad — is the prospect of returning Liverpool back to the top level of English and European football the greatest challenge in world football?

(And then I spent a day twiddling my thumbs trying to think of ways to entertain my hands without any knitting or strength left in my hands to do so, but that's another story.

It will probably take quite a bit of «twiddling» to have an effect, but perhaps you could team it with a few other induction methods!

If you're breastfeeding you may have noticed your baby twiddling or even hitting you while breastfeeding.This is actually part of the natural process of breastfeeding, in that nipple stimulation and breast massage actually encourage milkflow.

I know exactly what you mean (the twiddling of the other nipple can be very weird / irritating can't it).

The brilliance of the Monkey Mama necklaces is the «twiddle busters» - the beads that little fingers can turn and fiddle with while they nurse or snuggle.

My son was immediately drawn to the big, colorful beads and immediately took to the task of turning them, examining them, and, well, «twiddling» them.

No Twiddle Twaddle brought one of her kid's favorite books to life by putting together this fun outdoor bath with a castle!

Just because the budget battle appears to have ended doesn't mean legislative leaders will spend the remainder of the 2011 session twiddling their thumbs.

If it hadn't been for this ridiculous descent into farce, made worse by the appalling quality of feline - based puns on offer from everyone from the Tory party chairman downwards, we would have been left twiddling our thumbs.

The city school system — the largest of its kind in the country — is on the verge of dramatic change, and Gov. Cuomo has bet his second term on an aggressive campaign to transform a system he claims has failed more than 250,000 students over the past decade while state bureaucrats twiddled their thumbs.

Twiddling the dials on a lab instrument back and forth, the men had to mix red and green light so that the result, to their eyes, matched a standard shade of yellow.

After 3 years at Nottingham studying physics, I'd come to the conclusion that, though the general gist of my course amazed and fascinated me, the nitty gritty of the mathematics and the hours sitting in a lab twiddling dials were really not for me.

Sections of it, when twiddled around a finger, have shown some promise as a stimulant to cogitation.

A study of people's ability to translate training that involves clicking and twiddling a computer mouse reveals that the brain can apply that expertise to other fine - motor tasks requiring the hands.

Each news report has to be a «breakthrough» that «changes everything,» he complained — as if scientists spend most of their time twiddling their thumbs until every once in a while one of them stands up and shouts «eureka!»

(That a short section of the cam vaguely resembles a nude female's hips and thighs isn't accidental: Hillis twiddled and tweaked to make the cam look like that.

Another distinctive feature of Bumble is that you don't have an opportunity to sit around twiddling your thumbs.

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As they reel in a parade of visitors, Rebecca serves up embalming fluid injections to the ones who rudely twiddle on cellphones in their company.

Suffice it to say there's a climactic twist that will set eyes rolling, assuming viewers didn't tumble to it early on and spend the rest of the movie twiddling their thumbs awaiting the reveal.

Some of the characters in the film were mere silhouettes, Bobby Cannavale, who I thought was excellent in a supporting role in Blue Jasmine, was left twiddling his thumbs in this one.

But given that the creative forces of this second - string «Hunger Games» wannabe have made the now - par - for - the - course, money - grab move of altering and stretching events in the final book into a two - part finale, «Allegiant» is basically a thumb - twiddling placeholder that relies on crashes, attacks and subpar effects rather than dramatic substance.

But Osbourne's not just twiddling his unemployed thumbs, and soon he has put together his memoirs, tales of his CIA adventures.

It's just a shame that we'll be left twiddling our thumbs for the rest of this year, eagerly anticipating getting our hands on it.

«Insurgent» could have been the «Catching Fire» of the «Divergent» film series, building on the original premise in bold and fresh new ways, but instead, it's more like «Mockingjay: Part I,» a sluggish, twiddle - your - thumbs chapter that's more about the setup than the payoff.

Unlike our usual patented Empire lists, this one was compiled by 26 famous movie villain actors, who were kind enough to take time out from their busy schedules of moustache - twiddling and cat - stroking to cast their votes.

There are some really powerful emotional beats littered throughout, and the rich cast of characters (both new and returning) help keep things from getting too boring, but it often feels like Lawrence is just twiddling his thumbs in fear of getting too far ahead, with most of the film spent setting up the next installment.

Unfortunately, this low - fi offering — though inclusive of some nice performance footage — dawdles and twiddles its thumbs for far too long before getting around to its one gem, and the spine around which the rest of the film should be based.

But I've sat in classrooms and watched as «smart» kids twiddled their thumbs (or acted out) in boredom and frustration while the instructor toiled to get basic concepts into the heads of those who, for whatever reason, were finding it much harder to learn.