Sentences with phrase «skittishness about»

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

If that's the case, then buying a longevity annuity might be a way for you to allay your skittishness about the market, while also allowing you to hold onto more of your nest egg.

The puritanical skittishness about sex.

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.

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

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.