Sentences with word «skittishness»

Sharing the handheld skittishness of Allen's previous, much darker film, Husbands and Wives, this one bombs along nicely.

It is prepared to trust itself to one of the most notoriously unreliable features of human existence — not only the pain and riskiness of human gestation and childbirth, but also the whole of human skittishness about male honor, and the potential for violence that goes with female dependency.

Despite investor skittishness over Caterpillar CEO comments suggesting an economic slowdown and rising Treasury yields signaling inflation risks, Federated Investors» Phil Orlando contends stocks will return to record territory this year.

Along with revealing data, perceptive analysis, and welcome candor, however, comes a certain skittishness in sensitive areas such as African American parenting practices, a bit of folly (encouragement of dialect and street language in English class), and some sky - pie about «collective action» and national leadership to solve problems for which there are no easy solutions.

That holds true for borrowers of both conventional and jumbo loans, although jumbo loans could remain a bit on the costly side as lenders wrestle with lingering skittishness among investors about the safety of nonconforming mortgages.

One reason may be investor skittishness over new challenges to the British drug maker's flagship HIV franchise.

Namely, it's just begging the government to continue examining its practices, which can only result in more skittishness from investors.

Those reversals are generally a signal that there is an underlying «turbulence» in market internals, which is a symptom of increasing skittishness by investors.

If there is a certain skittishness when it comes to talking about them much, I suspect it is in large part because both have been exploited for ideological purposes: slavery to underscore black victimhood and to mandate compensatory attitudes and policies; the Holocaust as a convenient stick with which the ACLU and its like beat their «Fascist,» i.e., conservative, critics.

Andy's wooing of Trish is a fairy - tale courtship, but Carell and Keener fuse their contrasting skittishness into a moonstruck neurotic connection, and when Andy does finally act to confront his problem, it's a glorious release indeed: a nerd's love - in.

Dai invites the group to the town, which causes some initial skittishness, but they are eventually welcomed by most of the strike committee, led by the no - nonsense Hefina (Imelda Staunton) and the soft - spoken Cliff (Bill Nighy).

The tester's ride was about average for a small car, and except for some occasional skittishness in the rear, its handling was good enough.

Affenpinschers can be standoffish, so if you don't teach them early on to be friendly and trusting toward people they don't know, their natural caution can become skittishness or suspiciousness.

The online media company has faced pressure in recent days amid investors» general skittishness about media stocks.

The puritanical skittishness about sex.

Such a lengthy timeline, combined with hefty up - front costs and lingering public skittishness, suggests that next - generation nuclear faces an uphill battle.

But ornithologists suspect that the woodpecker's extreme skittishness has kept it under the radar for decades, so the robot may have a better chance than a relatively noisy and impatient scientist.

Perhaps more significant, that listing may evoke skittishness at funding agencies and on the institutional review boards that must sign off on research involving human subjects.

So it looks like Javier Bardem is no longer officially on board as Roland, assuming he ever actually was, though Howard seems to still be committed to the ambitious joint movie / TV adaptation plan, Universal's budget skittishness be damned.

Echoing Stardust Memories and forming a kind of hyper - misanthropic double bill with Deconstructing Harry, Celebrity is Allen's jet black industry satire, composed of a series of increasingly brutal vignettes in saturated black - and - white, presented with cokey, non-sequential skittishness.

Nobody in this movie, despite the fine performances of Williams and especially Rogen, appears to live on Earth, but on some mystical faraway planet where people actually care about Margot's indecisive skittishness.

But I am happy to report that there is a pretty great moment in a funny - touching scene in Happy Christmas with Lynskey wherein Kendrick totally embraces and uses this very quality described FOR her characterization, both playing it out and commenting on her own skittishness.

It's an aura of incessant skittishness, mixed with irrepressible melancholy, as this tribe has suffered a loss to these monsters» talons that they're still attempting to recover from.

Tellingly, there are no literal sex scenes in Phantom Thread, a pointed decision that reflects something other than the usual skittishness in American cinema.

Mike could have been written with Eisenberg in mind, his ineffectual skittishness and that hint of darkness to the sweetness that lets Mike have the uncontrolled reflexes of a coldly efficient killer and the helpful personality of a guy who will point out a gun to the bad guy at just the wrong moment.

The 3450 - pound hatchback charges stoically through the gusting wind, although front - end skittishness keeps us from pushing too hard.

After Shane?s skittishness sends him out the door, Maggie realizes that Kyle Chase has had his eye on her from the start.

Presently, deteriorating stock market internals suggest fresh skittishness among investors, which coupled with still - rich valuations (on the basis of normalized earnings) often results in particularly negative outcomes for stocks.

What minor skittishness there was around the 30th anniversary of the 1987 crash evaporated faster than a Bartles & Jaymes wine cooler spilled on the hood of a VW Rabbit in the parking lot of a summer concert featuring Poison, Ratt, and Cinderella.

My original investment thesis was that the shares were significantly undervalued due to 1) the former management's aggressiveness resulting in a heavy debt load, 2) an unexpected continued weakness in the price of natural gas, 3) Mr. Market's skittishness as regards to SD's share price as it had fallen 80 + % over the past 5 years and 4) my belief that the new management would quickly sell off assets or, preferably, the whole company.

Anderson, who has taken in mill dogs himself, says a little skittishness shouldn't discourage anyone wanting to adopt one of the pooches.

It is important to consider the inherent skittishness of your cat — the stimulus gradient needs to be slow but progressive.

Although skittishness is a characteristic in some lines, the breed as a whole is generally pretty sound with other dogs and it shouldn't take too much effort on your behalf to have your Poodle socializing contentedly with other dogs.

But, judging by remarks by in - house counsel at a recent conference, there's still skittishness toward TAR.

As usual, no one thing can be blamed for Bitcoin's current downturn, but recent skittishness around a subpoena for Bitfinex and concerns around Tether — a kind of cryptocurrency counterpart to USD that matches the dollar one to one — probably factor in.

Going forward, however, investors» skittishness about CMBS loans might spell new difficulties for the CMBX index.

Other than his initial skittishness and getting accustomed to new surroundings and what seemed, to him, novel things like television, there haven't been that many.

Less forgivable is the Cayman's occasional skittishness.

Afghan Hounds can be standoffish, and if you don't teach them early on to be friendly and trusting toward people they don't know, their natural caution can become skittishness or suspiciousness.

In fact, there is timidity and skittishness in some lines, sharpness in others.

Mark Zuckerberg announced the news on Thursday evening in a post on his own Facebook page to expected investor skittishness.

Valukas also portrayed a corporate culture in which there was heavy pressure to keep costs down, a reluctance to report problems up the chain of command, a skittishness about putting safety concerns on paper, and general bureaucratic resistance to change.

One only has to think of the steep price defunct bookseller paid for having Amazon run its web site for years, or how much bigger Target's (tgt) would be if it hadn't waited until 2011 to take back oversight of its e-commerce from Amazon to understand the skittishness.

Some longtime market observers attribute the skittishness to aftershocks of the 2008 financial crisis.

The horse and its skittishness answer to that which is low in a man and its skittishness is that which courage checks.

And stopped it will be, through the offered mediation of New York's Archbishop Dolan, or the skittishness of the financial community, or the disturbance of the neighbors, or the anger of the protestors, or the refusal of the building contractors.