Sentences with phrase «out of my element on»

The theme is Coachella inspired, and to be honest I was a bit out of my element on this one.

«Like all true off - road vehicles, the G500 feels slightly out of its element on pavement,» we wrote.

It never feels clumsy or totally out of its element on roads better suited for much smaller things like a Mazda MX - 5 Miata or Porsche Cayman.

While body roll is present, the diesel - powered Giulia never feels out of its element on the track — you can genuinely have fun in it.

The sea captain may be out of his element on the ethereal island, but the sight of the beautiful Alannah astride her white stallion captivates his heart.

Not exact matches

«Because Prezi has a spatial element to it, instead of separating out things on slides, you actually place things in a spatial relativity, and because of that people understand and retain the information better.»

For the most part my clients fall into 3 categories: my peers — fellow YFE's looking for inspiration on how to incorporate more visual elements into their web presence, seasoned creative entrepreneurs seeking out a stronger connection with the Millenniel mindset, and traditional local business owners - searching for innovative ways to use the softer side of social media.

Remember though, if you default on a secured loan then the assets or asset class you used as a security could be seized by the creditor in a Court procedure that could also put your company out of business, so there is some element of risk to consider with asset - based financing.

That's when Mokhtarzada, out of his element in the realm of venture capitalism, took on his first advisory board member — who quickly posed a fortuitous question: «If you sell this company right now, what are you going to do tomorrow?»

So if we go back to the elements of the «alternative» model I sketched out above, with its emphasis on purpose and a stakeholder - based approach to capitalism, it seems pretty clear that these elements have a natural affinity with the Asian cultural norms around collectivism and long - term orientation.

The one element binding this diverse group of investors together is that they receive some type of equity or stock vehicle when they put money into a growth company; each group then has its own set of goals in regard to how much of an investment return its members hope to earn on that stock and how quickly they hope to earn it (usually when they cash out during an initial public offering or in a merger or acquisition deal).

Moreover, if Afghanistan really is a problem requiring the application of «all the elements of national power,» then it is a problem that exists on a nation - building scale, making killing more out of place.

Trudeau said the federal government's decisions on such elements of the bill were developed after years of consultations with experts looking at the most effective ways to cut criminal elements out of the sale of marijuana.

It's based on «the best elements» of Peter Lougheed and Ralph Klein's legacies and rejects the «liberal drift» and «questionable ethics» that forced Wildrose members out of the Progressive Conservative party years ago.

We're hitting on all of the elements of the growth model and we feel that - and in fact as we look out longer - term, we definitely have the ability to offset a lot of the pressure that this may put on that SG&A line.

I came out of the Methodist tradition which is based on the Wesleyan Quadrilateral which demands that faith be based on four elements — Scripture, Tradition, Reason, and Experience.

What are the odds that out of all the elements in the entire universe, we would be on a planet that has air, when air is exactly what our body needs to survive!

``... very strong politically correct and left - wing revisionist history attitude or tone that's also Anti-American (especially a vague charge against «U.S. foreign policy»), and strong anti-capitalist elements... blasphemy, implied urinating, vomiting, scatological humor, and comments on breast feeding and sexual parts of people's bodies; light brief violence includes beating on car window and trying to damage car, man comically shoves people off a stage, man burns books; sexual content includes homosexual references, implied adultery with a pregnancy out of wedlock, talk about a priest raping boy in the past, a giant condom balloon placed on church steeple, references to real condoms, implied fornication; upper male nudity, man wears a dress; alcohol use and drunkenness; smoking and marijuana use depicted, including eating marijuana brownies; and, strong miscellaneous immorality includes lying, stealing, revenge, rebellion, dysfunctional family portrayed, father is a pothead and a drinker and lives in a trailer»

Melanie Phillips pointed out that she had been writing for more than two decades «on the various elements that have contributed to this collapse of order: family breakdown and mass fatherlessness; educational collapse which damages most those at the bottom of the social heap» and so on.

One learns best, however, by doing it oneself, perhaps starting out with a limited inquiry focused on one of the following elements in parish culture:

I found Wilfred M. McClay's essay on the book A Secular Age by Charles Taylor (May 2008) interesting, but it seems to me that a crucial element is missing from Taylor's thesis» at least as it is described by McClay» and that is a grappling with the disturbing emergence of a profound antihumanism that is growing like a virulent cancer out of the secular mindset.

On the basis of this question he looks to the universalistic elements in the New Testament as the foundation for a theology «out of the ghetto.»

creationism is far from an adult theory, its a child like story with fantasy elements based on myth and NO science, we always hear about these crazy people trying to outlaw evolution.But has you stated we have billions of years of evidence, thanks for helping us evolutionists out, unfortunately you have none, just a book, no science, no artifacts, no garden of eden, no bones of adam or eve or even the snake for that matter, no ark, no proof of a biblical flood, no proof of a created world by a higher power, no nothing..

In a 2009 essay in the Chronicle of Higher Education on the fiftieth anniversary of Strunk and White's Elements of Style, Edinburgh professor Geoffrey Pullum isn't content to point out errors in that celebrated book.

Large amounts of phosphorus could be from the moon impacting (moon surface = KREEP (potassium, rare earth elements, phosphorus)-RRB- Even in their picture showing meteorites landing on molten surface (lol) shows a glowing molten moon — they ignore the big blob in the sky and say «meteorites» instead of «ejecta» — they should be put up against a wall and shot with silly string and cast out into the outer darkness of unemployment to wail and gnash their rotting teeth.

Every life has its weak spots, its lamentable elements, and if we insist on emphasizing them we can make miserable business out of living.

As Paul Pfeutze has pointed out, both the dialogical philosophy and pragmatism emphasize the concrete and the dynamic, both reject starting with metaphysical abstractions in favour of starting with human experience, both insist upon «the unity of theory and practice, inner idea and outer deed,» and both insist on the element of faith and venture.

But from what I understand out of the ancient monastic materials I work on, prayer is really an entire relationship, and the verbal part is only one element.

If the resurrection is the true dénouement of the whole story and not a «happy ending» tacked on to a tragedy, then there is an element in the story itself which brings us to the frontiers of normal human experience, where experience runs out into mystery.

Ultimately I fell into a suicidal depression and got helped in a secular environment (I personally have a hard time with the term secular as I believe all the graceful elements of help be they Christian with a cross on the building or secular w / out the cross have as their origin God and His Son and Spirit even working through people unaware of the Author of the graces they extend).

This has led Arthur H. Robinson, professor emeritus of cartography at the University of Wisconsin and author of the most widely used textbook on cartography, Elements of Cartography (John Wiley, 1984), to describe the Gall - Peters land - masses as «somewhat reminiscent of wet, ragged, long winter - underwear hung out to dry on the Arctic Circle» («Arno Peters and His New Cartography,» The American Cartographer, October 1985)

A leading Catholic ethicist and economist, Daniel Rush Finn, has pointed out that the boundaries placed on the market are a critical element in «the moral ecology of markets.»

Recent studies of the miracle stories in the Gospels in comparison with those told of Jewish and pagan saints and sages or «divine men» have brought out the fact that the emphasis on faith as a condition of healing is a distinctive element in the Gospel narratives.

and found that «though various attempts have been made to combine the elements in differing proportions (RF9U4, RF4U7) or to concentrate on one or two of the elements, washing the others out, discomfiture has been the recent lot of Disciples as the tradition simmered in uneasy flux» («Formula in Flux: Reformation for the Disciples of Christ,» The Christian Century, September 25, 1963, p. 1163).

Especially the theme of God's word and promise, but also those of exodus, redemption, covenant, justice, wisdom, of the Logos made flesh, of the Spirit poured out on the face of creation, of the compassion, paternity and maternity of God, and especially the Trinitarian character of God — all of the indispensable elements in a Christian theology — communicate their depth only when they are united with the theme of divine self - abnegation which, at least to Christian faith, comes to its most explicit expression in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus?

It is when the signified question the basis of their signification that the recognition of the camouflaged elements in the hyphen becomes an issue right out in the open and builds up the pressure on the hyphen.

[4] Others, like James Massey, have pointed out that the Dalit element, which forms an indispensable part of any discourse on identity has been systematically and deliberately left out of the discourse.

Functioning on the basis of the principle that «the how of our present experience must conform to the what of the past in us» (S 58), symbolic reference operates in the intersection of the two modes of perception, an intersection at which «a pair of such percepts must have elements of structure in common, whereby they are marked out for the action of symbolic reference» (S 49).

It's true that the Bible talks about moving on from childhood to adulthood, but there are elements of childhood that I am meant never to lose and I find myself crying out time and time again, «Father — help me!»

New England society was founded on and lived out of a clear center, which from its inception contained certain paradoxical or peripheral elements.

-LSB-...] out there in InternetLand — I settled on this design, which takes elements from this blogger's baked version but incorporates three different flavor tiers, reminiscent of childhood days spent eating -LSB-...]

The perfect indoor picnic has 3 main elements: a giant blanket to sprawl out on, an abundance of greenery, and a few pillows throw to cushion your booty.

Delicious on its own, or my favorite way with a nice spoonful of plain yogurt on the side for a creamy and smooth contrasting element (I decided to try this out on my own and thought it was amazing!).

While pricing is definitely an important part of certification, and while Rainforest Alliance Certified ™ farms often generate significantly higher prices for their crops, a system that focuses primarily on pricing may miss out on a number of other critical elements that influence whether or not a farmer can lift himself out of poverty.

My seeded pumpkin toast is a twist on the original recipe being nut - free and I've toasted the seeds and buckwheat to really bring out the flavours of those delicious elements.

When Harry Guggenheim is drawn out on his philosophies about racing, he speaks with the conviction of a hardheaded, not overly imaginative man who is delighted to find in this particular sport an element of life lacking in the day - to - day conduct of other businesses.

nice to see you crawl out of your hole just in time to offer your 2 cents worth once again... unlike yourself I started following this team long before Wenger arrived on the scene and will continue to do so long after he's gone... in his earlier years I admired the cerebral elements he brought to the EPL, which at that point was more brutish than beautiful, and I respected the seemingly tireless efforts of Arsene, Dein & staff to uncover and develop talent without sacrificing the product on the field... likewise I appreciated that such a youthful manager wasn't afraid to bring strong personalities and / or world - class players into the fold without being fearful of how said players would potentially undermine and / or dilute his authority... unfortunately this all changed about 10 years ago and culminated in the removal of all our greatest players, both young and old, without any real replacements coming in... from Henry to RVP to Fabergas and Nasri, it was easy to see that this club was no longer interested in competing at the highest levels... instead of being honest, minus the ridiculous claims regarding the new stadium, Wenger chose to side with management and in doing so became the «front man» for this corporation pretending to be a world - class soccer club... without the «front man» this organization would have been exposed numerous years earlier, so his presence was imperative if the facade was to continue... it's for this reason and more that I despise what this once great man and Kroenke has done to my beloved club... the gutless, shameful and manipulative way they have treated the fans, like myself, is largely indefensible and this is why I felt it necessary to start offering my opinion in a public format... trust me, I resisted the temptation for many years but as long as the same shit continues to exist I will voice my opinions and if you don't like it maybe you should look for a different team to pretend to follow

The recent fixture at West Ham was a perfect case in point; the quality of football was superb when we raced into a 2 - 0 lead, but our intent on attacking to add a third and fourth, plus an element of poor understanding to not realise that West Ham were trying to find Andy Carroll with early crosses into the box from out wide, ultimately led to our downfall.

The department's Organized Crime Strike Force maintains that in 1974 - 75 a group of gamblers, working for organized crime elements, won huge exacta and trifecta bets on rigged races and lugged hundreds of thousands of dollars out of New York tracks.

That didn't quite work out on Tuesday because he looked exhausted and like he wasn't quite playing at 100 percent after the knock he took on Friday night, but with that trait and his ever - increasing quality on the pitch, Pulisic will be the central element of the national team moving forward.