Sentences with phrase «shrugged when»

The First Reader shrugged when I asked him what he thought «I don't use it.»

«I don't care» Dietl shrugged when I asked if Massey will endorse him.

Speaker Carl Heastie, who ascended to the post after Bharara's office charged his predecessor with corruption, only shrugged when asked if the former prosecutor may consider running for governor.

«The Rose Bowl should always always be on the first [of January],» Nick says, shrugging when I mention TV ratings.

Nevertheless, most voters responded with a shrug when asked if they are better off than they were four years ago.

Imagine a doctor walking into an exam room, telling you that something terrible will probably happen to your brain in 20 years, then offering nothing but vague shrugs when pressed on the precise what and when, or even whether it might be preventable.

We think he's the good guy because he is being played by Brosnan, but we are never given enough of a handle on who he is and what makes him tick, so all we can do is shrug when he gets in and out of hot water.

Did I catch Willem Dafoe with a little bit of a shrug when Sam Rockwell's name was announced?

Small business retailers, groomers, fishermen and veterinarians often shrug when asked to get involved in something outside of their state.

Implying that quantity counts over quality permits the later shrug when joint custody results in an infant's having insecure attachment to the primary caregiver.

Not exact matches

He found they spent anywhere from 70 % to 90 % of their time in meetings, but «when I asked what they were doing about making meetings better, almost all of the leaders of large corporations that I talked to just sort of shrugged their shoulders with a resigned air of defeat.»

When she shrugs off a pornographic image being passed around at work, she's all but high - fived.

Many of us just shrug our shoulders and say we know charisma when we see it.

«He is very much the person who, when someone says it's impossible, shrugs and says, «I think I can do it.»

When most people encounter a problem on this scale, they shrug their shoulders.

But when those power brokers happen to be a family or founder, retail investors tend to shrug and invest anyway — for good reason, it turns out.

«But when I'm just sitting there at night reading, often the paper magazine or the book, I'm used to that,» he adds with a shrug.

It's easy to shrug off a startup that operates in the gray area of the law when it's just a few people and an idea.

The accumulation of expertise and financial wherewithal along the way has allowed Lululemon to shrug off things like the departure of CEO Robert Meers (the one - time Reebok International president was replaced by Day, a 20 - year veteran of Starbucks and doubtless a better representative of the company's core customer) and the seaweed scandal of 2007, when clothing touted for its supposedly skin - friendly properties was found to contain none of the marine ingredient.

When it comes to judging the success of a piece of content, many marketers will shrug off metrics like social shares and comments because they consider them «vanity metrics.»

When Chinese regulators talk of liberalisation, western cynics shrug.

Among the most striking facts we've discovered in historical research (and in real time) is the tendency for markets to shrug off overvaluation when market action is uniformly favorable.

I just get a little depressed to see us young people shrugging off the best ways to save money for the future... Shelter your income, then you can give back the moolah as you see fit... or when we get old

Female founders can be especially susceptible to sexual harassment from male investors, experts say, because of the power imbalance between their roles — an entrepreneur who needs a check to get her business off the ground may feel obligated to laugh awkwardly and shrug it off when the VC with the checkbook makes a sexual remark.

That means it's important to not shrug off talk of higher rates as just a pipe dream, and then get caught holding the bag if and when they transpire.

When John asks Lucas if he's been saved, he shrugs.

When one young man shrugged and said, «I haven't decided what I want to do yet,» his friends laughed and then applauded in support.

I heard more of their intersecting stories, and when Idelette was done talking about her book, about her passions, I wanted to see her on every stage of every slick Christian conference, to bring some mama - truth, to preach the Gospel of Being With Each Other, but then I kind of had to shrug because part of Idelette's power is that she's outside of that system, outside of that church - marketing world, too busy living the truth of it to package it.

I did not go logically from here to there but to refute your statement of fallacy that «If it was verified, it was verified by peasants» which you hold to be true but when crushed you shrug and say «So What»

When religion comes across questions they can't answer it shrugs its shoulders and says, God knows and that's good enough.

Well, yes, but a writer can't shrug off responsibility for what her publisher says about her book, especially when the publisher is HarperOne.

I can't help but think of Matthew Scully, who put it this way, «Justice is not some finite commodity, nor are kindness and love... a wrong is a wrong, and often the little ones, when they are shrugged off as nothing, spread and do the gravest harm to ourselves and others.»

When Crick's autopsy showed that she was not terminal, Nitschke shrugged, said he knew it all along.

When they see evidence in the media of a commercialized and trivial entertainment business in the name of faith, the creatively godless shrug their shoulders.

When one Pagan encounters another Pagan who believes and practices Paganism differently, they might argue a bit about these things, but in the end, they both just shrug their shoulders and decide to «live and let live.»

Those who are not disciples of Jesus either think they understand (when they do not) or shrug their shoulders and move on (because they just don't care).

I adore when people try to cozy themselves with Rand, or the tenets in Atlas Shrugged, when they clearly have neither read, nor understand what she was peddling.

When I read Atlas Shrugged I never once thought about religion.

Jesus taught that all who have lust in their hearts are adulterers, but that doesn't mean a woman should shrug her shoulders when she learns her potential new husband is a serial philanderer.

And even though I want to live boldly, speak truthfully, love madly, work for justice, sometimes when I hear the Voice, the invitation, I shrug, «Meh — I'm tired» and I'll just cheer on the women and men actually doing something instead and convince myself that it's enough.

When we elect an atheist and everyone in the US just shrugs, then... yeah.

Not knowing anything about this trap, nearby townsfolk shrug, when asked.

But when we fail, we do not simply shrug and say, «Jesus paid it all.»

When I bring up intersex people in conversations about gender and sexuality, I am typically met with blank stares, shrugged shoulders, and dismissive platitudes about how most people fit neatly into male and female categories and generalities, so we shouldn't worry about the outliers.

How much more does our reputation suffer when we shrug off or cover up this sort of behavior?

Of course, when I was a Christian and someone said what I just said, i would shrug my shoulders and say «Our ways are not His.»

When you threat or elude to threats from a divine creator all atheists just kinda shrug and think man that dude is crazy... Also to any moron who says its just a theory, so is gravity.

The novel is full, too, of wonderful throwaway observations about human nature («Lancelot shrugged his shoulders — one of the stupidest things to do when the other party wants to have a fight»).

When talking to non-theists, I do a lot of shrugging and «Crazy, right?

When the non-Christian response to our «biblical answer» is less receptive than we would like, we shrug our shoulders and quote another verse.