Sentences with phrase «really going through the motions»

I wasn't expecting to fall this hard for Coachella, but after getting a taste last week and then really going through the motions this past weekend, I can see why so many people keep coming back like it's a bad relationship.

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Once you've put everything in place, there's another critical element in the process that really separates the winners from the copycats and the folks who are just going through the motions.

Pure Barre challenges you to not just go through the motions of the workout, but to really connect your thoughts and focus to each and every tiny muscle you are working.

Maybe he never really had faith and just went through the motions.

Likewise, I think many Christians don't really trust in God, so much as they go through the motions.

But I think they would look at a complete lack of change in someone's life and wonder if there's really been a conversion at all — or if they are just going through the motions, paying lip service.

A young man may coerce a girl to go through the motions of lovemaking: what he can not do is to force the girl really to love him, responding to him as a free human person and participating gladly in the enterprise we call lovemaking.

Jesus talks a lot about love, that was the hardest because going through the motions really did not seem to work for a long time.

Not sure we were really serious about Lemar - I think he was probably our yearly «well we tried but failed» marquee signing - we were going through the motions with him.

Really nothing more to it than going through the motions.

It feels like the club is just going through the motions these days, because no one within the club really cares whether we win, lose, or draw.

Not making excuses, but it was like WF were thrilled to be there and really wanted the game, and the Ags were just going through the motions.

Manchester United are just going through the motions without really fighting for anything and their hosts have one of the bluntest attacks in the top half of the table.

I haven't had sex for 5 years and then she wasn't really enjoying it just going through the motions.

When this happens all those toxins need to go into your blood and then get excreted through your urine or bowel motions (particularly if you lose weight really quicly).

If that thing isn't something that would really keep you up at night, then why are you going through the motions?

To do this, visualize your muscles as they're being activated and then feel them as they go through a full range of motion for the rep.. Although it might sound a bit lackluster, there is research that shows that your mind - body connection can really boost your muscle recruitment!

In addition, work on improving your form and technique and really focusing on the exercises instead of just going through the motions.

Swiss balls strengthen your core really effectively because they take your torso through a more full range of motion (you have to extend back to come up — unlike on the floor where you only go flat on your back).

If I'm gonna help patients get better, I got ta understand the latest and the greatest and the newest and even the oldest and — and if more doctors took time to take that on and take their jobs more seriously, I think a lot of doctors just get into this, you know, this regular routine of just cranking patients through a mill and not really seeing patients, not really hearing patients, just kinda of — just kind of going through the motions with patients.

If you're just going through the motions and not really pushing your body to the limit, your results will be extremely limited.

So, you go through the motions without really focusing on what you're doing.

The very very last thing that I add in and sometimes it can be a good 12 - 15 weeks before I add in this component is chronic competitive motion where it's okay, we're actually going out to go on a bike ride or swim or run or something that is metabolic conditioning roadwork because that's the stuff in someone that is overtrained who often times has their parasympathetic nervous system really really beat up you know, if you test their heart rate variability, the number called there high frequency is really really consistently low you know usually because there are triathletes or marathoners that's more often I'm dealing with those people with adrenal fatigue than I am with like a cross fitter who's kind of an opposite sympathetic nervous system fatigue issue but with those parasympathetic nervous fatigue, the last thing we add back in is the swimming and the biking and the running because it's important to realize that when you're trying to recover from adrenal fatigue or overtraining, even if you're doing like an easy swim or an easy bike ride or an easy run, if you're a triathlete or a marathoner or a swimmer or a cyclist, those easy sessions send a message to your body that you're training, that you're running from a lion and you still get that hormonal depletion and it's so easy for you to just turn into a depletion session and so that's the very very last thing that I'll add back in so that's kinda like the crow's eye view of you know, the type of things that I'll implement in a program for overtraining recovery, you know and you know, this is something that people hire me to walk them through.

It's really the seat of better running, throwing, hitting, and any kind of motion where you're going to have to be using that thoracic spine, rooting through the hips and the feet to rotate with power, strength, balance, etc..

I have been going through the motions of blogging just been really dragging my feet with it lately.

To its credit the production is pretty good, but it really seems like Alanis is just going through the motions on this one — we've heard the same shlocky - pop from other pop artists over the past couple decades.

Joaquin Phoenix never makes the audience really feel like he's progressed, only that he's possibly going through the motions

Joaquin Phoenix never makes the audience really feel like he's progressed, only that he's possibly going through the motions of being coked - up.

Like Robert Downey Jr. in «Iron Man» or Ryan Reynolds in «Deadpool,» Gadot is so right for the role as the eternal Amazon warrior that all the movie really needs to do is go through the motions and it could be watchable.

PARK CITY, Utah How long has it been since I saw a film that was really scary, instead of just going through the motions of scary?

Without the strong bond, everything else that follows feels artificial, going through predictable motions in order to get to what Barker really is interested in showing — the sadomasochistic costumed bad guys and some very gruesome deaths at their hands.

This is the closest the movie gets to finding something deeper than simply going through the motions of the story, although the relationship that develops between Bob (and Kathy) and Roberto (and his wife) isn't convincing enough of a conflict for it to really hit home (More intriguing is a moment of solidarity between Bob and Kathy after a close call — an embrace that goes on for a beat too long).

While Williams goes through his earnest warm - fuzzy motions as the lead (the only really distinctive thing about his work here is how he wears a head - to - toe metal suit for much of the picture), the standout work — and that which goes a long way for one's involvement in the picture — belongs to Embeth Davidtz, who has a dual role as Amanda, a.k.a. «Little Miss,» the youngest daughter in the family that «adopts» Andrew; and Portia, her granddaughter.

But, really, no harder to watch than Harris and beautiful ginger ostrich Jayma Mays as his pregnant opposite - sex mate Grace go through the motions of the workaholic - learns - to - be-a-loving-family-man masterplot.

Nowadays technology offers many ways to help people really understand and learn, rather than simply going through the motions of learning (and sooner or later forgetting) training material.

Have you ever met an adult who doesn't really love what they do, but just goes through the motions in their job and everyday life?

I always find myself asking, do we really have to go through the motions of pledging our commitment to banal slogans such as «put children first,» «every child has unique needs,» and «schools should be organized to serve children, not adults»?

So I was no longer reading it, I was really just going through the motions.

And since Apple requires a complex password with numbers, letters, and at least one capital letter, having to go through the motions of typing it in all the time get's really annoying really fast.

@grgoelyk, Really, past that break I did it for myself to just go through the motions in excel because sometimes that's fun.

It's too easy to get caught in the trap of trying to see everything there is to see; going through the motions but not really absorbing anything.

The narrative of the story is really what keeps things going, but at times I almost just wanted to see how things played out instead of having to go through the motions of a police work day.

I try and champion fighting games, but its really hard to watch a franchise go through the motions as King of Fighters has.

Because there's no explanation whatsoever for why you get your magical Assassin powers, and there's so little setup for Kenway's character, it's still fun and pretty, but it feels really by the numbers, like I've never been more aware that I was going through the motions of playing an Assassin's Creed game as I have with this one.

Most clients will know if you really want to learn from them, or if you are just going through the motions.

«They can tell when people are just going through the motions, and they can tell when someone really wants to be there.»

«Mainly because it's forcing people to go through these types of motions for really no purpose whatsoever.

The company went through familiar motions, but the usual buzz and excitement for its new flagship phone weren't really there.

I haven't had sex for 5 years and then she wasn't really enjoying it just going through the motions.

I decided that divorce was the best option for me, that it wouldn't be fair to either of us for me to continue going through the motions but never really feeling that he and I would make a good marriage together again.