Sentences with phrase «references were over our heads»

«The billboard ads in the subway cars weren't speaking to the experiences of immigrants like us and the cultural references were over our heads.

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If you come across a word you don't know, there's no need to pull out the dusty dictionary or even head over to an online reference site every time.

So, head over to http://www.nourishbalancethrive.com/highlights and you will receive this email with the references and I think Tommy's doing something really amazing here, which is creating maybe a training course or a book or something called — but anyway, if you need over to nourish, balance, thrive.com/highlights you will be able to sign up and you'll get this in installments, week by week.

Now that I'm older, I can appreciate some of the humor I didn't get when I was little PLUS I can understand the cultural and social references that went over my head.

I think I had a couple of men propose this sort of arrangement to me in the past but I was so clueless and dense (cause it was outside my frame of reference) that it completely went over my head.

The jokes are a combination of «Lego humor» that anyone who has ever used Legos could appreciate, mixed with family friendly pop culture references that will go right over the little ones heads.

As a result, Dragon Quest Builders is my first glimpse at the franchise so any potential references or Easter eggs from the previous games have most definitely gone straight over my head.

I had heard it had lots of film references & it did, it made me realise I'm really not the film buff I like to believe I am as most of that went over my head.

Filled with movie allusions, pop culture references, and Baker's slang usage going over the aliens» heads, there's nothing to set this apart.

An «80s - themed dance party is also quite a highlight, opening with Deanna and her three girls making their curtain - revealing entrance in «Dynasty» fashion and leading to her dropping a TV's «Dallas» reference that goes over the heads of her peers and then confidently initiating a dance - off with mean girl Jennifer (Debby Ryan) to Sugarhill Gang's «Apache (Jump on It).»

There are some delightfully bizarre gags that you would certainly never find on Disney Channel along with many obscure pop culture references likely to go over some teens» heads.

This is a sentiment often repeated by reviewers about children's books and one that I can't help thinking is a little patronizing; I dread to think how many references go over my head when I read a book, but it doesn't stop me enjoying it, so why should it be different for children?

There are things in it that don't appeal to me simply because I'm too old — references to new music groups, for example, that just go over my head.

Marvi, who had been an ad executive in the Philippines, noticed the ads around us relied heavily on obscure cultural references that were over our heads.

It is chock - full of references to each, grabs you by the nostalgia groin, and you can either run over pedestrians OR jump on their heads like Mario!

The sequel doesn't walk that line fine enough as there are too many moments where the game seems to be screaming at the player to not only get the reference but be pounded over the head with it over and over again.

The one really inspired game mechanic (referenced in the book's cover) is that you can stack multiple animals — so as Old Man Noah you can hoist horses and cows over your head and still run at a full clip back to the ark.

As a result, Dragon Quest Builders is my first glimpse at the franchise so any potential references or Easter eggs from the previous games have most definitely gone straight over my head.

For example, in the portrait that alludes to Frank Stella's work, Varejão painted black and white lines across her own face in the same style as some Native American tribes; in that which references Georgia O'Keefe, there is a mask over Varejão's head paying homage to a painting O'Keefe made in 1942 reflecting on the deities worshiped by the Hopi tribe.

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Chat Heads are little icons that float at the top of the screen that let users quickly pop in and out of conversations, no matter where they are - they even persist when navigating through other apps, so you can reference something while still being able to send relevant information over to friends.

I know some people shy away for Christian based writing but this is a good book that does not beat you over the head with the Bible or use references from the Bible to insult the reader.