Sentences with phrase «seems akin»

Your position seems akin to a smoker refusing to quit his three - pack - a-day habit because he doesn't want to become a vegan ultra-marathon runner.

In this he seems akin to Robert Indiana, another hard - edge painter with a big heart, though Smith eschews overt social or historical referents.

And the combat system seems akin to that of the Arkham series.

I'm not too surprised about the 2 player vs, Bandai Namco said such on one of their videos and this seems akin to One Piece Unlimited Cruise SP's additions, welcome with but brief and inconsistent presentation.

With the faded opulence of its grand old manor houses lining the seafront, its retro children's playgrounds and vintage soft drink advertisements that have been bleached by the sun, Muizenberg wears its past on its sleeve and seems akin to stumbling upon a Mad Hatter's Tea Party!

Comparing a brand new, V -10-powered super car to a six - cylinder sports car from twenty years ago seems akin to comparing apples to pumpkins — but there's a method to the madness.

There's plenty of action, even if the payoff seems akin to the one in Cruise's last SF film, last summer's Oblivion.

It seems akin to stories of sibling

This question seems akin the Can black people be racist?

, and the West Rutland Art Park (which seems akin to the deCordova), but needed to edit our plans given timing — I hope to fulfill this mission soon!

«India for Christ by 2100» seems akin to the world - view of Hindutva because it refuses to respect the plurality of religious experiences and expressions.

That might seem akin to watching paint dry, but it could prove important.

At first glance, his stark pen - on - paper drawings seem akin to humorous newspaper cartoons — and, indeed, he's contributed to The Guardian for...

Hepworth's abstract forms, which seem akin to caves and shells, were affected by the Cornish landscape.

Some of these situations seem akin to the situation where someone gives you a flash drive with a bunch of [potentially] pirated videos on it that they say are legal.

Not exact matches

Managers seem to take an approach akin to plugging their ears and yelling «Lalalalalala.»

It seems to replace common sense in people and is akin to brainwashing.

But in Mark, finding the donkey seems more like a delegated chore — somewhat akin to the worship committee meeting to plan the Palm Sunday service, one of those thousands of routine and inglorious details of church work that are necessary but not the real action.

The difference between the most radical statements on abortion and the more conservative statements seems to reflect the difference between a relational - activist view of human beings and a view of human beings as static substances, akin to the anthropology of classical philosophy.

Nah, you don't seem to grasp that the morality of a religious person is akin to the morality of a child: «I must be good to avoid punishment or gain reward.»

pdx: «Nah, you don't seem to grasp that the morality of a religious person is akin to the morality of a child: «I must be good to avoid punishment or gain reward.»

There are others who understand the human situation more in terms akin to those prevailing in certain areas in New Testament days, when it seemed to many men that they were in the control of forces indifferent to their fate and that God, however potentially powerful, was very far off.

It seems to be an impulse akin to the desire to adorn a bride on her wedding day and make her as beautiful as possible.

Ancient man found himself living in a world which seemed to be a gigantic living entity which could hardly be described as «it», for it pulsated with life akin to that which he experienced in his own person.

But the catholic church seems to be teeming with pedophiles, they seem more akin to nambla then a religious order.

present moments of existence which seem to have revelatory power, secular epiphanies akin to what scholastic philosophers called acts.

Instead, what I seemed to be experiencing was something akin to withdrawal from an addiction.

Shame seems, to me, akin to embarrassment, but maybe experienced more deeply, and with a sense it matters more than mere embarrassment, in how others see us.

I mean many have said we should have something akin to an IQ before you are allowed near one, but this actually seems like a legitimate question.

OG is better but again his killer instinct seems to be lacking in some instances but with him I think its more akin to the fact that he's comfortable in his role and feels that he's always going to be first choice which is dangerous.

I do not understand the economics of the business well enough and there always seems to be contradictory reports about everything (dollars, skills, scheme fit etc.) From my admittedly naive, fan - based vantage point, we needed to strengthen the offensive line and the linebacker corp, add some punch to the running game (while keeping an eye on the draft for a fleet - footed youngster), and bring some leadership to a clubhouse that was akin to Animal House last year (of course, winning makes grown ups out of everyone).

Until we cease to buy our season tickets, which for many is akin to taking out a second mortgage, the ludicrous salaries paid to players and Managers will continue to increase.With regard to the present crop of Arsenal players some may lack the guts and determination of the ex players you mention but at the end of the day the problem at the club now is a lack of quality particularly through the spine of the team.Virtually all our fans recognise the need for quality in Goal, at Centre Back and DM.Unfortunately the one man who is in a position to do something about it does not seem to agree with us.

Then we had the AVB thing before that, which seems to have been something akin to a player led coup.

Yet the manager's comments seemed more akin to Sutton preparing for their FA Cup fifth round clash at Arsenal than one of the best teams in the country playing in Europe's top club competition.

Alongside Hernandez, whose knowledge of the offside rule was skin - deep at best (and seemed more akin with something from the Fast Show), there was no sense of the Cole - Yorke - Sheringham - Solskjaer quartet that Fergie always dreamt of replicating.

Though the meeting I attended seemed on the surface like an informal discussion, to Bailys it was akin to group therapy.

Every day I read comments, blogs, and tweets that seem to think that nursing a baby is akin to urinating on a public park bench.

Actually there are other kinds of foreign policy risks they may be managing, and that they are given strategic powers to deal with — economic risk, threats to our national economy which in practise may mean something more akin to industrial espionage, as certainly seems to be the case in the USA.

The move seems to akin to including a «Surgeon General's Warning» on political advertising by listing the top five donors to a group that's paying for the campaign.

«We know that bats must be «seeing» the turbines, but it seems that the air pressure patterns around working turbines give the bats what's akin to the bends,» says Holland.

NASA's Mars rover Opportunity seems to have stumbled into something akin to a carwash that has left its solar panels much cleaner than those of its twin rover, Spirit.

I'm too scared to take it, as my symptoms seem more akin to estrogen dominance.

That said, I do generally agree with your sentiment in the sense that: I would say that eating margarine because it seems to have less calories than butter is akin to drinking diet soda for a calorie reduction — seems pretty stupid because ultimately there are so many gotchas on the product that even if there is a calorie difference, you are shooting yourself in the foot.

And for those of us for whom canning seems both infinitely mysterious and akin to figuring out nuclear fusion, freezing is so much, well, easier.

The best performance was given by the CGI animators, but again, seemed more akin to the brutal comic books than the toys or cartoons with gratuitous dismemberment aplenty.

Comparisons may seem unfair, but they also don't flatter this August: Osage County, and judging it any other way is akin to grading on a curve.

Once out of the woods, their quirks seem more akin to examples of systematic abuse patterns and terrible parenting - a visit to Ben's sister (an ever delightful Kathryn Hahn) reveals his need for constant superiority.

They seem like a stock platformer set - up on intial touch (walk, run, jump, float), but some practiced play reveals something more akin to the set - up of a good fighting game, with almost every action capable of adapting, cancelling or transforming the properties of Raymans movement in some way.

For me, it seems like the alien outside force is akin to a cancer, and that is a running theme throughout the film, that is changing everything it touches and will eventually destroy all there is....

Lucas mentioned during the pre-release for the film that it was akin to Titanic in space, where we all know the tragedy will befall everyone in the movie, which makes every scene before the fall seem more ominous and heartbreaking.