Sentences with phrase «skittishness as»

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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.

Yet part of Francis» charm is that this skittishness didn't come off as a snub, because the pope proceeded to spend the better part of the next hour standing in the front of the economy cabin of the papal plane to personally greet each of the roughly 70 journalists on board.

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.

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.

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.

Indiscriminate, mass - breeding of the German Shepherd Dog has led to many unstable examples of the breed today who exhibit undesirable traits such as nervousness, skittishness, and dog aggression.

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.

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.

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.