Sentences with phrase «pokes fun at how»

While I poke fun at the falacies of things, and yes I poke fun at how science fails at times (they can make a car that runs almost completely without gas, but they can't make deoderant that lasts more than half a day?)

My local sports talk radio has been poking fun at how the local personalities of the RSN can benefit from Disney.

Other generations have also poked fun at how connected millennials are to technology; but this generation grew up with technology all around them so it's not really a big shocker there.

I'm not trying to poke fun at how fixated writers are on query letters, nor to diminish their importance.

Even the characters themselves poke fun at how absurd the story can be, providing plenty of chuckles with inside jokes on franchises, the nature of J - RPG plots, to even making fun of one another.

Realtor.com ® even poked fun at how emojis might one day end up in listing descriptions in an online video.

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«So, let's say your friend is testifying in Congress,» Zuckerberg joked, poking fun at his own recent two - day appearance on Capitol Hill to explain to the House and Senate how Facebook does business and protects its business information.

Nevertheless, understanding the words of Jesus in the Gospels will be much easier if we presuppose that Jesus may be telling a humorous story to poke fun at the religion and theology of His day, rather than the traditional idea that a dour - faced Jesus is telling a serious story about how to live and behave to truly be His follower.

Some of these may offend you, but here is how I think Jesus responds to every single one (including the last one there which pokes fun at religion with a really big stick):

A great deal of fun has been poked at the method of deciding historical matters by majority vote of a select conclave, although that is how the church has usually decided matters of dogma.

Before the Tide's semifinal trouncing of Michigan State, Alabama's OC poked a little fun at himself for how few carries he gave Derrick Henry against Ohio State the previous year.

Other fans simply poked fun at Benteke's almost literal inability to score no matter how many times he had a shot at an easy goal dead to rights (an occurrence that has happened no fewer than three times over the last few months).

How they have loved to poke fun and laugh at Arsenal in recent years as we failed to win any major piece of silverware from the 2005 FA cup win over Manchester United on penalties until that dramatic fightback from 2 - 0 down to beat Hull City at Wembley last May.

For a start, she knows how to poke fun at herself and those around her....

We have a lovely safe area to walk around, which is great for them to learn how to stay close to mama, how to navigate stairs, and lots of fun nature stuff to look at and poke.

Precisely how Pataki would go about separating himself from this crowded field seems unclear, but for the moment, he is poking fun at the rather long odds posted next to his entry.

Paul poked fun at several grants funded by NSF — a time - honored practice going back at least 40 years, to Senator William Proxmire (D — WI) and his «Golden Fleece» awards — and complained that the problem is not «how does this happen, but why does it continue to happen?»

Remind me to tell you the story about how my boss once forwarded me an email poking fun at someone and I responded, poking fun back, and managed to INCLUDE THE PERSON WE WERE LAUGHING AT IN THE EMAIat someone and I responded, poking fun back, and managed to INCLUDE THE PERSON WE WERE LAUGHING AT IN THE EMAIAT IN THE EMAIL.

I love how Taylor Swift isn't afraid to poke a bit of fun at herself in the video for Shake it Off.

She has evolved from simply poking fun at her own experiences, and has now devoted her writing to providing straightforward and action - oriented advice to singles, especially newly single 40somethings, on how to navigate today's online dating world.

She has evolved from simply poking fun at her own experiences, and also directs her writing to providing straightforward advice to singles, especially newly - single 40somethings, on how to navigate today's online dating world.

Stupid in how they bring out their survival instinct and heavy on both sadistic and satirical elements, this Team Apatow collaboration (minus Judd himself) pokes fun at their lives in the most extreme way.

The first presenter of the night was Justin Timberlake who even poked fun at the interesting opening segment by joking: «How about TJ's monologue?

I really liked what I saw at the most recent PAX, developers Reality Pump have been extremely forthcoming in admitting the problems they had with the previous game and what they've done to rectify them, and how can you not fall in love with an ad campaign that produces an entire miniseries of video episodes poking fun at itself?

The beautiful trailer pokes fun at trends within the game industry while showcasing how Trine... Read More

Ford began by poking fun at the technical language Lucas wrote in the scripts, noting how he would need multiple takes during filming.

How does this movie poke fun at the interconnectedness of these opposing forces?

Even the other kids at school poke fun and tease her about how the boogeyman is her uncle.

Thanks to all those Lonely Leo memes poking fun at Leonardo DiCaprio's quest for an Oscar, we know how hard it can be for a deserving Hollywood figure to go home without a statue year after year.

Come on, we all need a little Wendoming in our lives, no matter how much fun we poke at it.

My first hit was the cunningly titled Space Babes released for a the Gameling hand - held (there's plenty of fun poked at various companies in how things are named), the first foray into creating an RPG, the genre my company, Mad Wolf Games, would become most known for in the future.

The game's clever in how it parodies it's unfortunate victims, poking fun at the many clichés, tropes and idiosyncrasies of the genre without falling foul of the very same problems itself.

Pretty much every line of dialog spoken in the game feels like it's poking fun in one way or another at how most kids, teenagers and even adults today speak.

and just imagine how funny it would be to hear Cartman poke fun at all of Nintendo's other I.P. (Chris Bowring)

It could be that Lewis was poking fun at someone in his community, a bit past her prime, dreaming of love, but the artist also allows us to witness a person experiencing an inner event and in trying to understand her inner state we can see the possibilities and limitations for shared experiences — what do we do, exactly, when we want to understand how another is feeling?

Through text, print, video, and sculpture, the projects in this exhibition playfully map out how contemporary artists poke fun at the political universe and its claims to social truth.

In the way that Julia Wachtel puts together two versions of masculinity, this work also explores the idea of the male figure in the history of art, and perhaps maybe pokes fun at the ceremony of masculinity and how it's reproduced in popular culture.

Reminiscent of how Comedian George Carlin poked fun at the plastics scare, Driessen dismisses this hyperbole.

There are lawyers right now complaining about how the Globe took quotes out of context, paid more attention to the stereotypes than to the reality, and used the campaign to poke more fun at lawyers.

«If we can understand ourselves, how people view us, and show that we can poke fun at ourselves, that probably improves our image.»

I liked how he or poked fun at us.»

The Tulip is an upcoming ICO which seemingly aims to poke fun at these experts for not realizing how things are evolving right now.

If you have read my blog and chuckled, or laughed at how poke fun at myself, then I have done my job.

Last Summer, I wrote a post called «How to Love Your Ugly Kitchen», in which I poked fun at the fact that my kitchen has these bright orange wood cabinets that are really not my thing.