Sentences with phrase «sat in a room like»

This isn't the first time I've sat in a room like this, where community stakeholders were brought together to talk about improving Houston's school food.

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When he asked Nancy if she would rather go sit in the living room, she replied, unmoved, «No, I really would like to stay here while you work.»

And one of the things I'm excited about — hopefully you'll have some more time now that you've turned over the CEO role — that people like you and me can sit in a room and say let's forget about what we believe and don't believe.

When I sat in rooms with middle - aged white men, I heard them speaking like young black men in America.

«Writers would sit in a dim, quiet room and contemplate a series of ten prompts asking them to produce and then describe dream - like creations.

Munger, sitting in the reading room of his L.A. home — the 88 - year - old is currently enjoying a biography of Deng Xiaoping — ticks off a lot to like about See's from a management perspective.

For instance, instead of sitting on the couch with each person in the room playing a game like Crossyroad on his or her smartphone (and then comparing scores), you find yourself cheering (or jeering) one another as each person attempts to one - up the high score.

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«It's like the big white elephant sitting in the middle of the room, yet nobody wants to see it.»

I sat there in the waiting room, weeping like a child as Bootsy sat there looking at me, skin and bones, vacant eyes.

If you discovered an elephant in your sitting room, you would immediately ask yourself how it got to be there — you would not think, «Oh well, maybe it's just here for no reason — elephants often just turn up like that.»

I liked your comment a lot... it takes a strong person to sit in a room of people of another belief and just roll with the punches.

Typical is his recounting of a teenage moment at school in York: «I was sitting in the art room and looking through its big window across to The Minster when I had a revelation just like Saul's on the road to Damascus.

Directly relating my Bible reading with my longing for relationship with Him... sitting alone in my living room, no worship music, no lights, no bulletin, no 3 points... it was really a blessing, and felt a lot more like worship than most of my Sunday morning experiences.

Joe comes over to sit in my lap and we all stare out the window, looking just above the dark bones of the trees at the sun setting, gliding silent in the now - dark room that smells like spices.

Our church has a room in the back of the sanctuary that has a large 2 - way mirror that folks can sit in and hear and see the service and take care of whatever business they need — like feeding a baby.

A sparrow, its feathers so fluffed for warmth it looked like a fat monk in a robe and tonsure, peering out from the ice - cased lilac hedge while I sat at the living - room window, waiting for my parents to wake.

Every Thanksgiving since I can remember, after my family and I gorged ourselves with the usual fare, we sat around the living room like stuffed turkeys and forgot the whole reason we were together in the first place.

I don't like sitting in a crowded room being forced to stand, watching the groupies raise their hands to lyrics that haven't touched me yet.

The mixture, once it's cooked and sits to room temp is very thick, just like condensed soup in the cans.

Enough already, I want to wear a jacket and sit in the TV room with a blanket over my legs, oh well at least I can cook and bake like it is October.

Only after having it sit at room temperature for 45 minutes while you re-position the pieces while taking pictures does it start to look a little melty, messy and greasy like in the pictures.

We typically like to enjoy this dish on a lazy weekend as brunch while we sit in the living room and enjoy a nice hot cup of tea.

But the thing about staycations is, they allow you to really live, and put responsibility aside when other things come up — things like invitations for patio drinks at 2pm / 4pm / 8 pm on a beautiful summer day, a sporadic trip to the park to sit and read a good book, sleeping in way later than necessary, random backyard / living room yoga, or quick little road trips to visit friends that you just don't see often enough.

Sitting in my newly arranged living room, noshing on a luscious creamy piece of pie and watching my giant wolf dog allow my baby to hug his neck, life doesn't seem like it could get much better.

Mitch Moreland replacing Encarnacion is like eating concert tickets for your favorite band on a dare, then spending the night sitting on a keyboard, over and over again, in a dark room, alone, while singing their biggest hits at the top of your lungs, sobbing, wishing you hadn't eaten the tickets.

Yeah, that's Pacquiao lifting his shirt in front of a bunch of important people in a locker room to demonstrate that his protective cup is a good protective cup and sits normally on his junk, like it's supposed to.

Shanahan ran the team like a boys» camp counselor, instituting silly rules: no sitting on helmets during practice, no eating sunflower seeds in the locker room.

It worked with Robin van Persie who finally came good after years of sitting in the treatment room, but it didn't work with Abou Diaby, and it doesn't look like it's working with Theo Walcott and Alex Oxlade - Chamberlain.

That might seem like a weird transaction for the Dodgers to make, or at least the timing is weird, but remember: money is not real to them, and they are already sitting on a nearly $ 30 million Cuban import in the minors who they don't have room or a plan for.

Now the two of them, Tweed and Papa, who sits in his chair like a busted old jazz musician, torn around the edges but straight with dignity, spend much time together in Papa's living room.

Before games, while teammates bounced around the locker room in a jangle of loud talk and nerves, he quietly sat at his locker with a piece of reading material, head bowed, like a holy man in meditation, lost in any time but the present.

We talk about this in the locker room as football players and leaders, how you want everyone around you to feel like they can be great for having played with you, sat in a classroom with you, been a friend of yours.

the protest IS NOT a violent one (believe me after being in the army for 10 years I know what one of those looks like) ok so the protest may not cause too big a stir in the board room but do we have to sit meekly and just put up and shut up??

We found the separate bedroom / sitting room layout (didn't see this advertised anywhere else) is especially good for families with younger kids (or for dads or moms who like to come home later and don't want to wake everyone up on the way in!).

They hate waiting in line at the grocery store, they don't like waiting for their turn when playing a game, and they aren't interested in sitting in the waiting room at the doctor's office.

I would start pumping in the recovery room as soon as you can (like once you're able to sit up and someone else is holding the baby, etc.) as much as you can, up to every 3 hours or so if you aren't too exhausted.

Alison Jones, Oxford, UK Photo: Megan Soto On La Leche League Meetings Series Meetings I am so new to this mothering thing, so I arrive with a little one in a sling, and enter a room where there are mothers; those mystical others who seem to know what to do, I want to be like them too, so I go into the hall, sit... Read More

Dd's room was next to ours Swaddle Blankets yes Crib yes, but you could put off the purchase several months SnuggleU Rocking chair / glider yes, at least somewhere to sit Activity gym yes Bouncer yes Bumbo Exersaucer yes Jumper no, but some babies love it Front Carrier yes, for shopping in stores without carts Stroller yes Wet wipe warmer Changing table yes, it keeps all the supplies in one spot Swing yes Lilly Padz Nursing pillow yes Milkies Nipple cream yes Nursing nightgown no, no I gave up and just wore a t - shirt to bed Bottle warmer Bottle dishwasher basket yes, it's great for anything small, like pump parts Bottle drying rack Highchair yes, we use the Fisher price space saver Booster Seat for Meals yes Burp clothes yes, we just used Gerber diapers Baby bathtub yes, totally not necessary though Nasal aspirator yes, target one you can suck!

Although my husband doesn't like me pumping while he's watching TV but if I am sitting in a corner of the room, he has no complaints.

I love reading, I love how I can physically just be sat in my living room but, through the power of words on a page, feel like I'm in a whole different place, watching the excitement and drama of someone else's life unfold.

Sound machines are like little music boxes that hang on the crib or sit on a table in your baby's room.

«There I was - sitting in a chair, at the end of the sink counter in the ladies» room, with my breasts attached to the pumping cones, naked except for my pantyhose and nursing bra, my dress wrapped around me for cover - feeling like I was in a bizarre scene from «Cabaret» or «Clockwork Orange.»»

They also had condiments, like HP sauce, tabasco, worstershire, ketchup, mustard, we have learned in the past to bring our own.Buffet dining room had about 20 large size high chairs — no boosters but our almost 3 year old son could sit in it comfortably.A la carte restaurants had 2 each.Kids area had a very nice well maintained playground but the plastic got extremely hot during the day.

They actually have maintenance build in rooms especially for nursing moms into our bathrooms which normally are like an entry / sitting room when you first walk in and then into another door which is the bathroom itself.

Or he may be one of those kids (like my older son) who needs someone to help him fall asleep (by nursing, or rocking, or sitting in his room) until he's 3 years old, and then suddenly he just starts going to bed easily by himself.

I cried several times knowing exactly what it feels like to sit in that doctor's waiting room, in front of his desk as he gives the news, in the MRI lab waiting for my child to emerge, and at home wondering when the symptoms will end and my child will be healed.

Elizabeth Pantley in my eyes is an amazing and extraordinary person with the ability to make you feel like she is right there sitting in your living room walking you through what to do... move over Super Nanny.

If you have the room and you're the type that likes to buy stuff in advance, you never know what stuff you can score super cheap, even if it has to sit in storage for a while.

I like that I was able to just sit down and participate, become better informed while my children were in the next room completing their independent seat work.