Sentences with phrase «play devil»

Trading up is a wonderful thing, but just to play devil's advocate, here is the major downside I see: When you «trade up» via 1031 exchange, you usually need to buy into the same market you sold into and do it under a time constraint.

To play devil's advocate.

To be fair, I'm going to play devil's advocate to my own suggestion.

«Cindy challenges us to think differently,» She's the one in the room who will play devil's advocate to make you think outside the box about how to help people.»

But let's play devil's advocate.

Always play devil's advocate.

The mediator will often attempt to explain the position of the opposing party, and even play devil's advocate - arguing the position of the other party - if they feel that doing so will help settlement.

In portions of our conversation, I play devil's advocate to help contrast what people normally think about cover letters and the way that Debra Ann offers as an effective document.Here some of the highlights that Debra and I covered:

To play devil's advocate, the idea is relatively well thought - out.

To play devil's advocate here, TouchPal's settings interface borders on cluttered, and the app itself isn't exactly the most efficient out there.

But let's play the devil's advocate and seriously consider if a 401 (k) really is a viable product to invest in anymore.

Monica Bay: To play devil's advocate for a moment though, that community that you just mentioned has a very, very robust annual meeting, that I have been to some of theirs and when you have added so many blocks, and I am not saying they are bad or good, but that venue when it was Legaltech only, the volume of folks that historically go there is so overwhelming to begin with, do you run the risk of having something for everyone in a venue that already has been a mob scene, is it going to overwhelm people or what's your goal on that?

Just to play devil's advocate (pun intended!)

Play devil's advocate with your client and challenge them with the hard questions.

But when preparing a will for a client, it can be a useful exercise, once you have a good first draft, to intentionally play devil's advocate.

And just to play devil's advocate, given the importance of the jet stream, would if always be unimodal?

Only this time, play devil's advocate against yourself and try to understand the topic from their point of view assuming that they may actually be on to something and are not somehow simply closed minded.

Just to play devil's advocate for a moment... I've sacrificed 8 or 9 years of my life to building up enough scientific experience and credibility that «I» can get access to data.

Now they turn around and play devil's advocate.

In Ireland we argue for the fun of it too... kind of banter — but it is also a way to engage and probe people's ideas and I would often play the devil's advocate simply to see where the argument goes and what we can learn.

But let's play devil's advocate: say an intense climate communications effort convinces the rich world that we are already far too wealthy for our own good and should happily begin a substantial reduction in our incomes and GDP.

I have read sufficient on the subject of the timing between the onset of a solar magnetic minimum and global temperatures that I am willing to play devil «s advocate and argue against anything that anyone suggests is true.

Let me play devil's advocate.

To play devil's advocate, the lack of correlation in the figure above doesn't rule out an effect because there's an integration between CR forcing and temperature.

Translated as «photocopier work,» Sigmar Polke's «Photocopierarbeiten» series was made with the experimental use of a photocopier, resulting in warped, blurred and fragmented images that play devil's advocate to the celebrated artist's history of paint, pen and canvas.

Doesn't hurt to play devil's advocate, though.

But maybe that is just me wanting to play devil's advocate as usual.

But since I want to play devil's advocate here, let's ask ourselves if the developer's reasoning has some sound logic behind it.

Right, it's time to take sides or play devil's advocate.

So, got ta» play devil's advocate here.

@AspiringProGenji Don't mean to play devil's advocate here, because I think this is one of the rare games that does open world right, but it actually makes less sense for Kratos and his son to be randomly exploring different realms that have absolutely nothing to do with their goal, especially considering the writers go out of their way to let the player know that Kratos does not like to be distracted by trivialities.

Kotaku: «But again, let me play devil's advocate, as a skeptical gamer, if I'm listening to what you just said, there are two things to that: First of all, the list of top - 5 best - sellers, not all of those are games I'm playing as a Kotaku reader, as an intense hardcore gamer, I'm not playing a lot of Wii Sports, I'm not playing a lot of Wii Fit.

I'll play devil's advocate here and assert that I definitely know of people (at least one in the TH101 group) who failed to use the credit due to not redeeming it before their December statement hit (now a moot issue since it it moving to an anniversary year basis).

I'll play devil's advocate here.

Doug Hoyes: Now, there must be some that are successful or otherwise these guys wouldn't exist so let me play devil's advocate here and obviously I'm your side of this argument because I'm not a big fan of the whole debt settlement industry in general, but, obviously they exist for a reason.

Just to play the devil's advocate, Bogle, Malkiel and Sharp appear to say that non-market cap weights in an index represent an attempt to tilt toward value and small cap stocks, and that proponents incorrectly assume the historical premiums on these sub-sectors will persist into the future (investors tend to arbitrage away excess profits once detected).

So, okay so let me play devil's advocate here.

Doug Hoyes: So, let me play devil's advocate here.

Although, to play devil's advocate to my own question, if you have limited funds like I do, perhaps it is wisest to redeploy capital as soon as you uncover what you deem to be more promising opportunities.

Since I know a little something about ethical theory (dual major philosophy and theology on the island of Malta, followed by over 8 years of graduate work in literature with a focus on Paradise Lost, Badiou and Zizek) AND because my own views on appropriate author ethics are brazenly unpopular, I thought I would play devil's advocate.

I still play devil's advocate with myself.

Just to play devil's advocate; we never hear Natalie's side of the story, only Alice's.

I'll play the devil's advocate here.

To play devil's advocate for a moment, though, I want to point out that there is a compelling reason for writers to form an official business even if they only have a single book out or aren't even sure whether they intend to nurture their writing as a revenue stream.

No, I'm not putting you on or trying to play the devil's advocate.

Or, if you don't disagree, play the devil's advocate and put forward an alternative viewpoint anyway.

Bradley Cooper is set to play the devil in a movie adaptation of John Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost.The Hangover star will embrace his dark side...

To play devil's advocate, isn't that the point?

Writer - director Mike Binder would like to play devil's advocate for a moment.

Your attempt to play devil's advocate was a thinly veiled attempt to strike fear into the heart of any black woman considering being open to interracial dating.