Sentences with phrase «puzzling over a problem»

But if you're at the office puzzling over a problem late in the afternoon one day and have the impulse to enjoy a drink to get the ideas flowing, this research suggests that you should feel free to go ahead.

Back around the turn of the millennium, Susan Anderson was puzzling over a problem in ethics.

While puzzling over the problem, Furrer took a walk along Adobe Creek, which runs near the school.

Not exact matches

These sorts of odd - ball questions — logic puzzles, brainteasers and riddles — have been favoured by some employers as a means of testing problem - solving and communications skills for over half a century.

I have never ceased puzzling mightily over this old, old «problem of evil» until, to adapt a line from Dr. Seuss, my puzzler is chronically sore.

In his autobiography, Fosdick describes the focus of effective preaching: «Every sermon should have for its main business the head - on constructive meeting of some problem which was puzzling minds, burdening consciences, distracting lives, and no sermon which so met a real human difficulty, with light to throw on it and help to win a victory over it, could possibly be futile.»

Benteke should complete his move to Merseyside on Wednesday after his # 32.5 million buy - out clause at Aston Villa was triggered by the Reds over the weekend [via Guardian Sport] and is set to be the final puzzle in the jigsaw for Rodgers, who witnessed his side struggle for goals last season following the departure of Luis Suarez to Barcelona and the numerous injury problems to Daniel Sturridge.

First Signs My Child was «Different» Once I was able to stop worrying about problems like developmental delays and hearing loss, I found myself puzzled and amazed by what my son could do, reading his first word, for example, at just a little over 2 years of age.

How do I help my child learn to solve her own problems instead of coming running to me over every puzzle piece that doesn't fit?

It's a problem that sounds simple, but the best minds in mathematics have puzzled over it for generations: A salesman wants to hawk his wares in several cities and return home when he's done.

Leonardo puzzled over how we can see a single world of solid objects given the different eye views (now known as Leonardo's paradox), but he failed to grasp the critical point that retinal disparity is not a problem but is the basis for stereopsis.

Lucy pushes an untidy mop of red hair away from her brow and puzzles for a moment over the problem she faces.

This so happens to be an issue I've been pondering since reading about the controversy over safe starches, and a couple pieces of the puzzle recently fell into place that I think I add up to at least one explanation for the debilitating symptoms some people develop on going low - carb, and offer a method for anyone going low - carb to do so without problems.

With over 100 hand - crafted puzzles, Kami 2 takes you on a mind - twisting journey that combines logic and problem - solving.

Creatures When dropping Toki in a nest, birds now have a «cooldown», so they won't instantly pick you up again when walking out of the nest Birds don't stop anymore when they sense vibration, making them less annoying when accidentically stomping near them No more random sorting of creatures: they all appear on their assigned depth value, preventing smaller creatures from sometimes getting lost behind bigger creatures Fixed the «spawning multiple camera birds» bug Slug corpses can't kill anymore, so no more accidentally walking into them and dying Bugs When stomped, berrybugs and copybugs now always hop the same distance (3 tiles), making their behavior more predictible Berrybugs now briefly stop if they detect an edge above their heads while walking on the floor, making it easier to stomp them onto a wall Copybugs and berrybugs get stunned when they're in the trajectory of a to be spawned bubble, so they can't hop / roll away before bubble is spawned Glowy berrybugs now use the same turn animation as normal berrybugs, so no more faster glow bugs Frogs and bubbles Bubbles now prioritize Toki Tori over other entities, so no more accidental berrybug ballooning Added a small delay before catching an entity in a bubble to allow for catching Toki Tori, even if he's a little further away than an entity Added possibility to queue a «turn by whistle» while the frog is running towards a berrybug, so you don't have to wait before being able to let the frog face the desired direction Fixed a problem where a fat frog won't belch anymore Achievements In - menu achievements system, including progress achievements Added a number of new achievements Tokidex completion is now a progress achievement (you can see how far along you are) Fixed the Fried Chicken achievement, so it's less hard to get All electrocuted entities now count for the X-Ray Enthusiast achievement Menu Completely new, streamlined and fast to access menu system Ability to set language from menu New font Graphics Improved presentation of telepathic Ancient Frog messages, fixed a problem where sometimes they'd spawn multiple times Fixed black flickering when buttonbashing during fades and level transitions Screenfades are now 100 % black Added button prompts to the first time you need to use whistle and stomp Areas and puzzles Added l - ife area for Ife < 3 Added an extra landing stone in the wasteland area Added more snow globes: — RRB - Water mountain approach: berrybug in the «pro» puzzle can no longer be lost Water mountain top: frog for Ancient Frog puzzle now starts bloated, added light to make «pro» puzzle easier to execute Shaft top: Small tweak to make sure berrybug isn't killed by the slugs midway through the level Water cave: made the light shaft where you need to whistle the hermit crab a bit wider, created hole for frogs at end of level to prevent them from falling down, made some «pro» puzzles a bit more forgiving Dark forest: lowered warp when entering dark area, so it's easier to travel up with a bubble Lava cave: improved bat puzzle Meadow: made some pro puzzles less difficult Hideout: removed alternative solution for Ancient Frog puzzle Descent: made it easier to pick up fat frog at beginning

With over 100 hand - crafted puzzles, Kami 2 takes you on a mind - twisting journey that combines logic and problem - solving.

The bite - sized puzzles offer the perfect pick - up - and - play opportunities that Vita owners love so much, and I think puzzle lovers will have a good time mulling over the solutions to these tricky problems.

The best way to solve problems like these are to take a step back from the game, take a walk and I remember personally going over a puzzles again and again in my head, at school, while laying in bed, when waking up in the morning, until it just clicked, and I would rush back to the PC and try out my solution and the times it did work there was no experience like it, and I have not been able to recreate that magic, until now, thanks to Grim Fandango Remastered.

My biggest problem with the game winds up being that it gets to the point that some of the puzzle bits before you hit a checkpoint are so complex it's really, really a hassle to screw up at the end and have to redo it over and over.

With over one hundred hand - crafted puzzles, Kami 2 takes you on a journey of logic and problem - solving.

One of Project Arts Centre's most ambitious exhibitions to date, it will «puzzle over signs, forms and communication, motivated by one of the major problems facing our planet — the markings and warnings around nuclear burial sites.»

Over time, these puzzles help children with autism to improve attention and concentration, and enhance their problem - solving and reasoning abilities.