Sentences with phrase «past graveyards»

But I fear we literally do not know what we are talking about, do not know how to think through what we are proposing, and are whistling past graveyards of our own making.

Or maybe they do understand that at some level but in true delusional believer behavior they are in denial, whistling past their graveyard.

You're just whistling past the graveyard fool and you need everyone else to also believe it in order to validate your magic sky fairy tripe.

Sounding only a little bit like a man whistling past a graveyard, seven of the National League's finest teams spent a happy springtime assuring themselves and a nodding assortment of itinerant experts what a whale of a pennant race this was going to be.

Whistling past the graveyard ya know

Waiting for his production to recover and pretending that he's a typical hitter who is just «getting unlucky» is nothing more than whistling past the graveyard.

Knick fans are entitled to hope he is just whistling past the graveyard

Steve Israel, who led the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee after the debacle of 2010 for Democratic Party, tells me that the Democratic National Committee simply whistled past the graveyard.

«The entire document is the functional equivalent of whistling a happy tune past the graveyard,» said mayoral spokesman Marc LaVorgna.

I wonder if it isn't a case of whistling past the graveyard.

Maybe I'm whistling past the graveyard or just obstinately refusing to accept evidence.

That's important because the Big 5 has been whistling past the graveyard for a decade; trying to convince folks that e-books — and e-readers — are just a passing fad and citing their puny e-book sales as evidence... e-book sales that they have * deliberately * tanked with astronomically high retail prices.

There are a number of people working in the financial services industry who, in my humble and respectful opinion, are whistling past the graveyard when it comes setting return assumptions for their clients.

She has exhibited nationally and internationally with her collections «East of Eden», «Strange Days» and «Whistling Past the Graveyard» — all the work from which was acquired by the legendary Damien Hirst and presented by A Gallery in London.

3 (Bob B) I think Andy is whistling past the graveyard.

«It's sad that the former Big Three are whistling past the graveyard so they can continue making gas guzzlers,» said Daniel Becker, director of the Sierra Club's Global Warming and Energy Program and frequent critic of the auto industry.

And that looks like an attempt at «whistling past the graveyard».

Josh seems to be whistling past the graveyard a bit.

So far, however, even if it is a case of whistling past the graveyard, Americans are clearly more focused on other issues.»

Dismissing the Paris treaty as a paper tiger because its emission reduction and funding commitments are not «binding» under international law is whistling past the graveyard.

But I'd say that WebCite's argument (see their FAQ page) about copyright where an author has a cited page archived is a bit of whistling past the graveyard: it relies on the fact that Google and the Internet Archive cache web pages and on the U.S. case of Field vs Google.

In light of his earlier prophetic comments, his reaction that this feels «like whistling past the graveyard» should cause all but the most stubborn to at least pause.

We were all whistling past a graveyard.

Not exact matches

A homeless man who has made a church graveyard his home for the past six months has been served an eviction... More

y Heather Crosby's Fridge Tour «Your fridge is kind of like a graveyard: smelly and riddled with ghosts of meals past.

The Elephants» Graveyard, unkind Europeans called the NASL, but a parallel closer to home might be those stud farms in Kentucky where the great horses of the past, the Secretariats and Spectacular Bids, the Alydars and Affirmeds, can be seen by the curious, peacefully grazing.

Flying past Pine Island Bay takes the plane over a glacial graveyard.

Perhaps if mom were around, she might offer comfort, but she is long dead and buried, Brady's visit to her desolate graveyard recalling many Boot Hills of movies past.

They fought to send an immoral way of life into the graveyard of the past so a nation could move forward, free of the weight of its chains.

The internal tug - of - war of the emotional turmoil lands them deep in Riley's subconscious, along with Riley's core memories, which they need to save before they're lost to the graveyard of the forgotten past.

As Erika walks among the cars without sound emanating from the bright, surrounding movie screens, the setting suggests a graveyard for her to roam and search for even a semblance of excitement to momentarily obscure a past seemingly lost to mistakes, daydreams, and fear.

The canyons, dry wash rivers, sandy creek beds, ditches, and gullies that joined up with the Cap Rock cliff form the graveyard of past Indian civilizations, flying and testing grounds of herds of leather - winged bats, drying grounds of monster - size bones and teeth, roosting, nesting, and the breeding place of the bald - headed big brown eagle.

This past spring, French artist Sophie Calle inaugurated Here Lie the Secrets of the Visitors of Green - Wood Cemetery, 2017 — , a simple installation nestled within a sprawling graveyard in Brooklyn.

The ruins of gravestones still pepper the landscape of this former graveyard, and the village is a palimpsest where the past co-exists with the present.

Crisscrossing the country in his van for the past 32 years, he transmutes graveyards into art studios.

A place meant for great comfort and contentment, the graveyard becomes a vibrant place for celebrating past lives, memory, and rebirth.

Up to 50,000 clunkers have whistled past the automotive graveyard in Germany and found new life elsewhere, according to Ronald Schulze, an expert with the Association of Criminal Investigators, a professional group of police sleuths.