Sentences with phrase «own hobbyhorse»

Both the Trump and Trudeau governments have their pet hobbyhorses, and both are antithetical to actual free trade.

Jeff Jacoby is riding one of my favorite hobbyhorses.

(Milton, Dryden, Pope, Johnson, Macaulay, Newman, Tennyson all have their personal hobbyhorses to ride, to say nothing of contemporary writers.)

Sometimes writers spend so much time beating their hobbyhorse that there is little left for a compelling story.

Get on your hobbyhorse and tell us all about it!

It's not so much a satirical view as a perception that most people are naturally obsessive — the hobbyhorse theory of humanity.

The story also shows that charter schools are much more than a right - wing hobbyhorse — that Democrats, too, are capable of using them to buck the system.

Again, annoying at first, but it becomes kind of fun, and bounding around in such a hobbyhorse was actually an appropriate check to your ambitions with the 4Runner's 270 - horsepower V6 in this inescapably tall and heavy (4,750 - pound claimed curb weight) vehicle.

Charleston was my father's ministry, his hobbyhorse, his quiet obsession, and the great love of his life.

And my latest hobbyhorse: overused words.

It wasn't like his other gifts — the basket of candied cherries, the hobbyhorse, the toy drum — not a gift for a child at all.

The Nexus 7 includes NFC (Near - Field Communication) circuitry, Google's latest hobbyhorse.

This new sport of hobbyhorse riding blends rider and mount, and it is this hybridization and fusion that Husain became interested in.

Keyed by Hutchins's clay - headed hobbyhorse, most of the work in the show embraces domestic life, but tentatively and with trepidation.

One of them is the video «hobbyhorse revolution», I mentioned before.

I doubt that hobbyhorse riding could have developed into such a high level of competition if those girls didn't run blogs, or post their exploits on Facebook or Instagram.

For example, in my current show «Rider, Path, and Vehicle» a video on the internet about girls hobbyhorse riding inspired me, and parallel to that I read a lot of Sufi literature.

We spoke with the artist about her current show «Rider, Path, and Vehicle» at the brand new location of PSM Gallery that is filled with an installation of paintings covering layers of influences from Sufi Liturature, comics, hobbyhorse riding, Native Americans» spiritual relation to nature and furry subculture.

A hobbyhorse in that sense, is accessible to anyone and doesn't require a lot of money or years of training.

Works include a giant copper bell that looks like a billy goat's testicles, cast concrete goats piled with things like fire hoses and even a 40 ft. long hobbyhorse — or, rather, hobbygoat — lying on the lawn.

But patience is not one of the blogosphere's virtues and so there was no shortage of people extrapolating wildly to support their pet hobbyhorses.

[Response: And another example of someone over-extrapolating from the Thompson et al paper in order to promote their pet hobbyhorse.

Looking at the intersection of sustainability and tourism does seem to be a recurring theme on Dot Earth, and I hope it's making people really think about the topic and not just reach immediately for their favorite hobbyhorse.

You can find almost anything here, but if you don't cite your source, there's no way to tell if you read a hobbyhorse post or a bit of something out of context.

The places that were hammering away on the hockey stick hobbyhorse don't have any followup, that I can find, since the 2005 data and charts hit the news recently showing continued increase in temperature.

You have repetitively intruded your hobbyhorses regarding two topics with which I am not involved — average temperature of Essex and McKitrick; and entropy — into other threads.

The problem is when you hijack threads to beat your hobbyhorses.

So - called «revenue - neutral» carbon pricing — whereby the proceeds are used to fund tax cuts — has long been a cherished hobbyhorse of free - market economists and the odd Republican who favors climate action.

may I suggest «a merry - go - round *» for the «piiri pieni pyörii / small circle going around» * Webster Dictionary, 1913 Merry - go - round», n. Any revolving contrivance for affording amusement; esp., a ring of flying hobbyhorses.

Mandelbrot is hard to summarize and I've obviously not conveyed the salient point here, because this has diverged into other people's hobbyhorses.

For the record, I checked on accumulation of mercury and other toxic metals by Azolla (one of my hobbyhorses).

My hobbyhorse, bringing the big whales back to fertilize the ocean... White roofs — reflecting visible light — when reroofing; High - emissive roofs — radiating infrared — when reroofing; harvesting krill — good idea?

This fact underlies my work as an expert, focusing on two aspects of numbers: first, that they are appropriate to the situation, and second — a hobbyhorse of mine — ensuring that advice about financial risk has an array of numbers attached so that the recipient can appreciate the risk (and can focus their attention on the material issues).

You should also be cautious about implementing all suggested changes, as each reviewer has a curse of knowledge of their own, as well as «hobbyhorses, blind spots, and axes to grind».