Sentences with phrase «schoolyard bully»

That is the classic schoolyard bully strategy.

They also taunt as well as any fat, pimply schoolyard bully.

Maps are not linear arenas where players will simply run around pillars with their hands flailing in the air as if they were about to beat up by the schoolyard bully.

Right away you're treated to the wonderful title screen with a blocky looking USS Lexington laying into a much smaller vessel like a schoolyard bully.

That's like the schoolyard bully playing «Stop Hitting Yourself» all over again.

During these Mutsuhiro is depicted as something akin to a savage schoolyard bully.

Unfortunately, Teller doesn't realize that the reason for Simmons» intimidating reputation is that his teaching style is pitched somewhere between a drill sergeant and a schoolyard bully.

It is best avoided unless a movie that has the attitude and mind - set of a schoolyard bully happens to be your thing.

Most of us suspected that the soulless drones in our home town were actually from outer space, after all, and what is an apocalyptic invader if not a schoolyard bully in jumped - up form?

A schoolyard bully physically hurts a smaller boy until another boy steps in and punches him.

Instead, watching Deadpool is like watching the schoolyard bully trying to humiliate and beat up a group of Wall Street brokers who are standing two miles away.

Their very presence is the equivalent of a schoolyard bully's challenge: «Go ahead — make me laugh.»

I wouldn't give the time of day to a schoolyard bully, so why would I let my mind's own inner mean girl run the show?!

Rich Piana, the famous youtuber and 5 % nutrition owner, turned into an ugly schoolyard bully when he confronted a fan who tried to sabotage his social media accounts.

It's the classic example of the schoolyard bully.

When the schoolyard bully takes a swing, there's a bizarre tendency in our culture to pretend that the kid who swings back is somehow equally at fault for the fight.

«It's like when the schoolyard bully takes everyone's lunch money, and then says, I just wanted to give everyone the opportunity to build good will with me,» Master said.

«Unfortunately, in an attempt to provoke your opponent, your campaign has decided to em - ploy schoolyard bully tactics, including using «sly Italian references», against Mr. Cuomo, a proud Italian American whose family has contributed tremendously to our image,» wrote Savino, president of the New York Conference of Italian - American State Legislators, in an open letter to Paladino.

The Republican primaries in Virginia have become a haven for schoolyard bully tactics as candidates unleash personal attacks on each other in ways and to a degree seldom seen in American politics.

Pataki likened GOP 2016 frontrunner Donald Trump's controversial comments on President George W. Bush and the 9/11 attacks to «an eighth - grade schoolyard bully spewing nonsense.»

because I still feel sickened by her post in which she, very much like a schoolyard bully, insulted and tore apart a poor mom who had gone through a traumatic home birth.

Sorry Muneef, if your beliefs demand that you make threats to command obedience, you and your beliefs are equal to those of a schoolyard bully.

These atheist seem to be little more than cowards and like a schoolyard bully, they pick on the kid (Christians) who won't fight back (and they do it in secret).

How is that different from the schoolyard bully who twists your arm until you say uncle?

Like a schoolyard bully.»

Its a bit like the schoolyard bully who says he is being picked on when the other kids get big enough to stand up for themselves.

Todd, I think it's time for you to back away from the keyboard until you can actually contribute something meaningful to the conversation other than schoolyard bully insults.

The former schoolyard bully of the software world is remaking itself as a collaborative, customer - friendly service provider.

The polar ice caps are melting, world leaders are taunting each other like schoolyard bullies, and billion dollar companies are revealing themselves to be clueless about important matters.

Still many of the atheists posting here sound like schoolyard bullies.

Exodus is back - peddling because their schoolyard bullying is being exposed, but their message of intolerance remains unchanged, and they are still a hate group, or more accurately, a self - hate group.

Among the many remarkable aspects of Joyce's work are his unflinching depictions of domestic violence and schoolyard bullying.

Also they're like the schoolyard bullies, they talk a big talk and act so tough but when you punch them in the nose they fold and cry for mama.

Rather than dismissing schoolyard bullying as «a phase» that children will eventually outgrow, parents have the unique opportunity to alter these behaviors by helping young children overcome the very fears, anxieties, and insecurity that place them at risk.

While the schoolyard bullying that was prevalent in the first film doesn't show up as much in this one, there are some moments of mean - spirited sibling rivalry.

The problem with trying to measure the extent of schoolyard bullying should be obvious: the term lacks any clear definition.

For many years the majority view (reminiscent of Tom Brown's School Days) was that a little bit of schoolyard bullying was fine, probably made young people more resilient, and unless someone was in need of hospital treatment, it really wasn't the school's business.

In general, Noll's book offers good instruction and advice on dealing with schoolyard bullies and on recognizing those bully «best friends» who weasel their controlling ways into kids» lives.

Berman's glossy ads, which have run in Washington, DC, and New Jersey, portray teachers unions as schoolyard bullies.

The best of these works frequently underscore darker moments, running the gamut from a bombing and a book - burning to schoolyard bullying, but do so without criticizing the characters nor the conditions of the societies which shaped them.

It provides a powerful explanation for schoolyard bullying and youth violence; its effects are painfully evident in the context of teenage gangs and criminal activity, in tragedies such as in Littleton, Colorado; Tabor, Alberta and Victoria, B.C..

The biggest shock from reading the emails was that the IPCC assessment process had a substantial element of schoolyard bullies, trying to insulate their shoddy science from outside scrutiny and attacks by skeptics, over concern with their press and media attention, discrediting skeptics, etc..

Having done so you may want to reconsider your remarks about «schoolyard bullies» and «high priests».

Having said that, PDA and gryposaurus are correct in their characterization of the shameful broad - brushed attacks on scientists involved in the IPCC process, calling them «schoolyard bullies» and a «priesthood» and claiming that their priority is to «maintain the importance of the IPCC».

«the IPCC assessment process had a substantial element of schoolyard bullies, trying to insulate their shoddy science»

No doubt, most of us would express outrage at this kind of retaliatory schoolyard bullying.

Another example: I'm trying not to overthink how bizarre it is that she bugged me for a red bow tie recently — and wears a red neck tie — given I spent most of high school sporting one with my school uniform (HOW did I get away with that... both from a schoolyard bullying and uniform enforcement aspect?).

As another former colleague wrote on Instagram following Dolly's death — and recalling the schoolyard bullying that has shaped her own life and personality — «I imagine that from the outside my life looks shiny.

Not exact matches

Ackman called Icahn a «bully,» while Icahn compared Ackman to a «crybaby in the schoolyard.»

Bullying has gone from the schoolyard to the internet and there is no respite for victims from their perpetrators.