Sentences with phrase «preening about»

He says very little of any consequence — a litany of whines about sceptics and prattling and preening about mad math and freaky physics on a lonely blogospheric outpost.

Last year's Glastonbury headliner was controversial, as Kanye West preened about the stage in front...

Last year's Glastonbury headliner was controversial, as Kanye West preened about the stage in front of a disobliging crowd.

The remaining 1 percent can openly preen about newly acquired treasures at Art Basel Miami Beach, as Mr. Orlofsky of the Gagosian Gallery noted.

Nothing makes sense and yet you continue to prattle and preen about curve fitting blog science.

Third - party apps from Eat 24 and Allthecooks were also preened about, but the most newsworthy part of the Android Wear announcements had to do with hardware: The Wear - powered Samsung Gear Live was announced, with both it and the LG G Watch available for preorders today.

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His hubris, on full display as he preens and gossips and makes catty remarks about Trump's spray tan and hand size, quite possibly put this man he considers a dangerous buffoon in office.

He preened with guns and knives on social media, bragged about shooting rats with his BB gun and got kicked out of school — in part because he had brought bullets in his backpack, according to one classmate.

Men who had more recently joined the group thought this «poncy,» and there were some (relatively good - hearted) jibes from the neophytes about self - preening and «Buddhist» pretensions of enlightenment.

They need to stop employing preening refs who care more about their image than the beautiful game.

Purists claim he's a preening narcissist who embodies everything coarse and bullying about the sport.

It does not help when preening sports analysts brag about their playing days.

Nor are the debates about preening presenters.

There's something wonderfully delicious about a large - budget Hollywood production of Vanity Fair — the 19th - century novel whose aim was to skewer a self - important class that reveled in its own preening excess and adhered to its own inverted version of morality.

The only time I laughed was when Lennon's preening TV phony whips out an acoustic guitar, announces that his next song is dedicated to Nelson Mandela and begins singing about his love of Yetis.

He's also juggling the tense relationship between a preening director (Ralph Fiennes) who's been handed a doltish cowboy (Alden Ehrenreich) as his new star, a foul - mouthed actress (Scarlett Johansson) with an unexpected pregnancy, and twin gossip columnists (Tilda Swinton) threatening to reveal dirt on just about all of Mannix's charges.

Donald Sutherland remains a preening, gleefully and theatrically arch villain (though the less said about his rebellion counterpart Julianne Moore's performance the better), and Hutcherson puts in a strong, conflicted performance (Jennifer Lawrence, however, never seems entirely at home once she embraces the role of inspiring leader).

And, of course, there's the film's overarching storyline — plucky natives seek to stick it to the preening continentals — which has more than a ring of the England national team about it, especially when it becomes clear that the stone agers were playing the game long before their bronze cousins.

At the same time, Rotherham fails to remember that for all the preening of Beltway reformers, the most - successful school reform efforts have been — and continue to be — done by folks who didn't know much about education until stumbled into reform.

This week it is about submitting your NaNoWriMo baby, but not before you have wash, dressed and preened it first.

If you've ever wondered — or tried to explain — what birds are saying as they flit about in trees or preen on their perches, help is here: Lita Judge's new book, Bird Talk: What Birds Are Saying and Why, is a wonderfully illustrated compendium of bird behavior and communication for young readers.

There are countless moments when the game's screen is flooded with so many bouncing, preening coins (and they do seem to be preening, mocking Mario for wanting them) that Mario can only scramble about like a doomed game show contestant, grabbing whatever he can.

The object of his eye was none other than Faye Dunaway, preening in a scene from an old movie about a shutterbug who sees murders through her viewfinder before they happen.

Waters freely manipulates images of less - than sacred, low - brow references — Elizabeth Taylor's hairstyles, Justin Bieber's preening poses, his own self - portraits, and pictures of individuals brought into the limelight through his films — to entice viewers to connect to his astute and provocative observations about society.

Sen. Sessions» interrogation of Holdren, and Holdren's pushback (within the limits of Capitol Hill protocol, in which Senators are allowed to chastise, misprepresent, and preen without being accountable for their statements, while witnesses must restrain themselves in responding), runs for about 7 minutes at 1:05 - 1:12.

You curve fit without any understanding of the underlying mechanisms and then preen and prattle about how deep and meaningful all this simple nonsense is.

Instead of prattling and preening like a hyperactive penguin about how courageous and scientific you are — why don't you just come back with a result?