Sentences with phrase «ruminating on»

We focus on finding solutions, not ruminating on problems, and we turn your focus to the future, not the past.

For example, ruminating on mistakes, problems, and worrying about the future can be self - destructive.

MBCT also strives to help participants avoid ruminating on negative emotions rather than simply ignoring unpleasant feelings.

Instead of spending so much time and energy ruminating on the past and all of the things that were wrong, Collaborative Divorce actively encourages forward thinking, focusing on the future and how that unformed future can be better than the not - so - great past.

That usually involves ruminating on all the resolutions we promised to keep this same time last year, yet somehow failed to follow through on.

In my last post, I considered the new defence of the person section in the Criminal Code, ruminating on the increased reliance this new section appears to have on the «reasonableness» or «reasonable person» standard of assessing the defence.

Regardless of whether my proposal finds fertile soil, it seems to me that ruminating on our emotional responses to family breakdown might offer some valuable insights toward the reform of our present management of family law disputes.

After ruminating on the meaning of the legal tech ICO, I couldn't help but think back to just the week before when I was at the culmination of MDR LAB's accelerator programme for start - ups.

Over at PrawfsBlawg, as they commemorate their tenth anniversary, they've been ruminating on the question of how legal blogging has changed over the past decade.

There we were, ruminating on just what gizmos creative minds will dream up to win fame and glory (plus cash and bike) in the Specialized Innovate or Die competition, and in a totally unrelated web search, happened upon the «B.O.B. Mower,» which looks

Rather than ruminating on a worst - case scenario — one where world leaders leave the event without a plan to combat climate change — participants of the side events focused on making sure that what we get will be a «FAB deal»: fair, ambitious, and binding.

Incorporating maps, bins or mirrors with organic materials, such as rocks and earth, the nonsites create a dialectic between outdoors and indoors, ruminating on time, site, sight, nature and culture.

Both ICA and the Studio Museum agree that Rodney McMillian's art has not received the attention it deserves — and in particular, it deserves a publication ruminating on his extensive body of work.

Ever since he was 11 years old, watching the news coverage of Bobby Sands, he'd been ruminating on the hunger strike and the idea of control, about how «as a child, the only time you have control is when you're eating.»

Ruminating on this passage of time and its relationship to landscape painting, Bradley has embellished these pastoral and interior scenes with multiple facets, where each work contains the exact day, month, hour, minute and second the landscape was seen In a parallel body of work Bradley has made a series of digital portraits that combines the clichés of 20th century abstraction with WWII techniques for naval camouflage.

Contemporary artists including Andrew Cross, Susan Collins, Peter Collis and Rosie Maguire join forces to provide an idiosyncratic vision of this watery throroughfare, ruminating on the poetry, paintings and songs it has inspired over the years.

Nearby, Frances Stark also pictures herself lying on a sofa in her studio, ruminating on the array of influences and references that surround her.

He was interested not so much in ruminating on one perception as in moving from one to the other.

Ruminating on Rembrandt, he created a series as a commentary on the 1972 theft of a Rembrandt from the Kunstverein in Münster, Germany.

First off, I've been spending a considerable amount of time ruminating on the case studies from Charlie479.

She also spends most of her life ruminating on the brief moments with Thomas and their consequences.

Indeed, I just finished Jane Friedman's recent book entitled «The Business of Being a Writer» (which is excellent BTW) so I've been ruminating on this for a few weeks.

I'd been ruminating on Seth's words of wisdom when a fellow sent me a private message (PM) on Facebook:

The Humbles — brothers and British expats — began East Coast Defender in a small shop in Florida, tinkering and ruminating on an idea.

In Washington, when a new president is elected, it sparks weeks of feverish ruminating on each personnel decision, with breathless discussions of everything from high - profile cabinet appointments to who should (or will) be the Bureau of Migratory Waterfowl's next deputy assistant secretary for planning and policy.

Anyway, I'm still ruminating on what I read and what was said.

Ruminating on everything that is going wrong is not the same as a community of educators helping each other explore solutions.

After ruminating on my nerd - induced culture shock, the reality of my impending graduation set in, and I began exploring the potential for this experience to be catalytic in my educational and professional work.

I meet you in every dream and when I wake, I can not close my eyes again for ruminating on your sweetness.»

With that in mind, I feel bad ruminating on the subject at such length, but the fact of the matter is that countless mentions and viewings of Annie Hall are easily traced back to its Academy Award triumphs.

Quite by accident I had the opportunity to watch back - to - back films at the festival ruminating on the destructive force of love, ignited first in Tracy Wright's haunting monologue in Trigger, and then extrapolated in fine detail through the anatomy of a divorce that is Blue Valentine.

Robinson in Ruins, the latest film from British filmmaker Patrick Keiller, is an incredibly dense experimental documentary / cine - essay that tells a tale of the titular Robinson, recently released from prison and currently traveling through England photographing various landscapes while ruminating on a heady combination of historical, political, economic, agricultural, and architectural topics.

It's impossible to avoid mention of Gloria Swanson when ruminating on the early days of American...

While ruminating on his life we travel back to the mid 1950's and the iconic jazz club known as Birdland.

Instead, he shambles around post-apocalyptic America ruminating on the state of his non-life, feeding on flesh, and grunting with his best undead friend «M» (Rob Corddry) at the airport bar.

Jackson and his co-writer's demand a lot of willingness on our part to go along with the film's lengthy, multiple introductions, but when the company hits the road (After Bilbo stands in his house, silently ruminating on how quiet, peaceful, and boring it is after a night of dwarf merriment), the film's pacing of trials only lets up for non-textual interludes.

The theory of suspense is that the audience needs to know more than the characters, who spend their time ruminating on what could have caused this while remaining largely ignorant of the shadow people trying to snatch them.

I normally associate Denny's with tobacco - stained loners drinking cup after cup of coffee and ruminating on times gone by.

Expect less some less punishing than this sounds, for this is a film more interested in our ability to overcome than ruminating on the gruesome.

To that, I say cheers, and raise many a beer to this commendable, collaborative effort between a stellar cast and a director who know exactly what they are setting out to do — making visual jokes at the expense of an aging group of stars, while ruminating on the nature of relationships amongst friends as they age together.

Marking a reunion between director Jason Reitman, writer Diablo Cody and star Charlize Theron, Tully finds the trio once more ruminating on adulthood, albeit in less sarcastic fashion than Young Adult.

More time is spent ruminating on the forest than on the protagonist, yet a connection between nature and humanity is felt.

Plain - speaking denunciations of the world's most romanticised emotion creates a Herzog - like tone of chaos, especially as Joe seeks solace from her feelings in nature, ruminating on the trees that, somewhat unconvincingly, were beloved by her father (Christian Slater).

To be honest, I am not familiar with this Ritter and, if you're anyone who is suspicious of those who seem to be coasting on famous coattails and producing anything of much import (Kate Hudson) to those who really have something to offer (Casey Affleck), this can be a prickly slope if you start ruminating on it too long.

The movie finds Varda and J.R. traveling the French countryside and engaging with working - class figures while ruminating on various philosophical matters.

But Mark Hamill's once open - faced Skywalker has become a hairy malcontent who sits around ruminating on past failures.

One, 89 - year - old Agnès Varda, has spent more than 60 years ruminating on the nature of time, the interior and exterior lives of women, and the socially marginalized.

If this film has Harry dropping lucky seven f - bombs and ruminating on his sexy a $ $, then maybe this thing is fun.

Unfortunately, the rest of the episode follows Dexter's descent into a routine guilt spiral, blaming himself for Rita's death (he should have «been there» to «protect her»), rather than ruminating on how it feels to be on this receiving end of a serial killing.

The film opens with Wenders ruminating on the passage of time, while a time - lapse video unfolds across the screen, and it's a strange decision that otherwise adds nothing to the film.