Sentences with phrase «simply brush off»

After all, if we feel a slight temperature increase, we are likely to simply brush it off by cranking up the air conditioning or delighting that spring has come that much earlier.

Sometimes, you will simply brush it off or think of the worst case scenario.

Couldn't struggling prey simply brush off the poison as it trickles?

«Sometimes they just don't «stick» for long, so if someone receives them in the morning they might simply brush off through normal routines later in the day,» he said.

This means I can simply brush off the person telling me to move to the back.

In standard forms of pollination, bees collect pollen by simply brushing it off plants» anthers.

When she calls her brother Frank, the owner of a car dealership, in real despair, he simply brushes her off.

While heat waves and extreme weather events are routinely pointed to as indicators of global warming trends, the coldest weather in over a century is simply brushed off as «natural variability.»

Not exact matches

As if anticipating an objection, Miss Mac Donald brushes aside the old argument that atheists are simply living off the spiritual capital of a distinctive Jewish and Christian civilization.

In the beginning, I fried off the eggplant but found that simply brushing the slices with oil and baking them created an equally delicious dish with only a smidgen of the oil.

Was I simply too passionate about our practice model that I was brushing off the worries of conventional medicine?

You simply twist off the cap, open the side seal and use the brush to clean the inside with warm soapy water.

Never worry about cleaning it because it is bigger because the cleaning process is similar to other tanks, and that is simply cleaning out the tank and brushing off the metal ring.

Critics say that, as is, that's simply putting a Band Aid on a larger wound: Just last week, New York Times architecture critic Michael Kimmelman, in a larger critique of the problems at the much - maligned terminal, called that plan «a project born of political expediency,» noting that Cuomo has «brushed off more sweeping proposals that might tackle once and for all the whole panoply of problems that plague Penn Station.»

It simply will not do for them to attempt to brush off these serious allegations by treating them as an internal party matter.

This eyeshadow by Alima Pure doubles as an eyeliner by simply dipping an angled eyeliner brush into water and wipe off the access liquid.

Alas its very familiar tones will turn some folk off I'm sure, simply brushing it aside as a rip - off, which I would understand.

If it gets dirty, you can give it a bath — or simply sprinkle talcum or chalk powder on the ferret's coat before brushing it off.

If your kitty simply won't tolerate routine tooth brushing, try the company's Pet Plaque - Off Fresh Breath.

I brushed off her dream as tragic backstory fodder and assumed she simply had a generic absentee father.

I love Gerda Wegener for her whimsical sexuality, Frank Duveneck for the mastery of brush work and planes of form, Peter Doig for his deceptively complex poetic «un - narratives», Alma Tadema for his simply astounding craft (look close at at Tadema if you want the top of your head blown off), and Alice Neel and Jim Shaw and Walter Robinson and Inka Essenhigh and so many more.

One sceptical writer says that direct.gov «is arguably the first Internet petition system to mean something: it allows concerns to be brushed off officially, rather than simply be ignored.»

Four or five dives a day with a number of five - metre - long great white sharks (some which came so close to my cage I could brush their teeth), is something that will give anyone an appreciation for these animals, and the need to protect them and other sharks from a commercial fishing industry that would simply cut off their fins and throw them back in the sea to die.

A spouse's bidding can also be brushed off as needy or annoying, but often what they want is simply a quick connection: a brief chat, a smile, a reassuring word.

This is simply done by having a very small amount of paint on your brush, and wiping the excess off on a cloth and lightly going over your furniture.