Sentences with phrase «slack around»

The overall steering feel is just behind the Ameo only due to some slack around the dead centre where it feels slightly vague.

However, some slack around the dead centre position prevents this sedan from being more involving to drive, especially when you're in the mood for some fun around bends.

I may add belt loops just to take up the slack around the waist so drafts are not going in.

In a ring finish you can work the slack around toward the two tails then strand by strand tighten rather than needing to untie the double knot and start again.

Not exact matches

The top reason people gave for slacking off when it came to estate planning was that they «just hadn't gotten around to it,» according to the survey of 1,003 adults conducted in late January.

While Slack's work force — around 600 employees — is tiny next to the likes of Google and Facebook, the company is growing so rapidly that its hiring over the next year or two could make it one of the first major tech companies to reach, or approach, gender and ethnic parity.

Second, with Slack being a relatively small company at around 370 employees, data on diversity at the company is bound to be volatile as the company grows.

Slack's work force, now numbering around 300, has grown so fast the company has had to find new San Francisco offices twice in the past 15 months.

Around five to 10 investors call Butterfield each week to see if they could invest in Slack, and some are even asking if they could just buy the entire company, according to Honan's article.

A big one she identifies is impatience with slackers and the tendency to work around them.

Start changing the stigma around time off as «slacking off» - in reality, it's the opposite: good for your health and career, and beneficial for your employees and your company.

The team messaging app Slack has only been around for about a year, but it has certainly created quite a stir among influencers in its short existence.

But if sales teams had done a bit of digging into company data around that time, they would have recognized where Slack was going.

Slack had around 250 employees when the report was posted, which was two years after the platform was launched.

If you don't already know Chris, well, get ready — she's an over-caffeinated, fast - talking, Pentecostal Aussie who is filled with the Spirit and leaves most of us slack - jawed while she preaches her face off around the world and sets the curtains on fire.

So turn around and I'll pick up the slack.»

To make up for the fact that I've been a slacker these last few months with Around the World in 12 Plates, I'm bringing not one but TWO recipes to this month's party.

Less work in the kitchen, less work on the laptop, a little more slacking and laying around, right?

Manny Machado is finally the star he was supposed to be, even though we had to wait around until he was 22, the slacker.

Both have been around too long now to be given any slack, they have to perform, every week, not one in three.

One of the ideas kicking around in the ol' SB Nation MLB Slack was to do a retrospective on the most famous / memorable moments of each player's career.

With Josh Jackson around, there's simply no time to slack off.

One result of having to look down so much at where you're stepping is that you don't tend to look around; you watch your boots schlomp, schlomp, schlomp, trudging through the snow, trying not to step on slack rope.

Teens need a little slack on the leash so they can learn about the world around them and figure out who they are as individuals in that world.

I want to be reminded regularly to cut people around me a little more slack, to be patient even when I'm in a hurry, and to smile and be kind to everyone around me!

The necklace should be fitted around the neck, with just enough slack for comfort without pressure but not enough to get even a hand through it.

Make sure there isn't too much slack in the necklace to allow the baby to wrap the necklace around their neck multiple times.

Therefore, I dedicate this post to all you other slacker moms out there who find themselves scrounging around for last minute Easter basket ideas.

This is an intermediate to advanced version of the classic PWCC, yet once it is tied adjustments can be made quickly because all the slack from the outside «pocket» pass can come around back and up through the slip knot.

Again, that's not to say that you have to eat garbage all the time, but cut yourself some slack and save the fancier dishes or experimentation for the weekend when your hubby is around to entertain the kids.

When outreach is based around volunteer commitment rather than on strict message control, training becomes particularly important, since volunteers will need to learn to do everything from planning events to motivating slackers.

In a lab near Deisseroth's office, Tye inserted a fiber - optic cable into a mouse's little brain at just the right spot, leaving enough slack for the animal to run around.

For me, I prefer some wet, occlusive oils in the winter months, especially around my knees and elbows and on days when I'm slacking on drinking enough water.

Holding gentle pressure while simultaneously pressing with the opposite hand on a point around the pelvis to produce slack in the muscle (a modified strain counter strain technique.

Of course, he is newly retired from his hockey career, so Mike deserves some slack too, even if his wife could roll circles around him with an exercise machine.

Christmas is just around the corner and I've been slack on everything from shopping to decorating our home.

My biggest struggle is feeling like I have to post 5 days a week, and I'm slowly but surely coming around to the conclusion that I need to re-think that idea and give myself a little slack.

I was looking at all these girls running around in leggings and flimsy little jackets and I couldn't help but think that maybe fashion needs to start cutting us some slack.

And thankfully, before I could say «Bunch of slack - jawed faggots around here.

This movie is targeted towards a very specific audience (old - school gamers and fans of the book series) and it DOES revolve around a guy who is a slacker (Scott).

Rosario Dawson (Rent) lights up the screen as Becky, and is so damn likeable you simply accept that this radiant woman would hang around slackers Dante and Randal.

While the director's Slacker, Dazed and Confused, and Boyhood are all part of the lineup already, it took Criterion a while to get around to tackling this one.

9/2, 3 p.m. 9/7 7 p.m. RICHARD LINKLATER: DREAM IS DESTINY A rare and unusual look at a fiercely independent style of filmmaking that arose from Austin, Texas in the»80s and how Richard Linklater's films — Slacker, Dazed and Confused, Waking Life and Boyhood — sparked a low - budget, in - your - own - backyard movement in this country and around the world.

But a lot of him goes almost nowhere in this slack and spiritless solo escapade, spun off from an initially intriguing premise that deflates around you with a low whine as you watch, like a punctured bouncy castle.

A good chunk of the season is devoted to vampires — creatures who can, in the «True Blood» - verse, run like The Flash, fly, and fuck like pornstars — sitting around a conference table debating politics and religion, and the other «super» groups don't exactly pick up the slack, what with the werewolves holding auditions for a new pack leader and the faes throwing slumber parties with their new BFF, Sookie.

A single mom (Amy Adams) and her slacker sister (Emily Blunt) find an unexpected way to turn their lives around.

The second section of the film feels very much like a talky Richard Linklater picture (think «Waking Life,» or moments of «Slacker «-RRB- and essentially boils down to a big table of friends eating and conversing about life — intellectual, philosophical and social ideas revolving around technology, sex, romance, memory, perception and more.

Slacker Richard Linklater is known for making conversation - driven films, and that's pretty much all this one is — a nearly plotless wandering around the streets of Austin, picking up unrelated conversations here and there, then moving on to the next one.

Based upon a long - running title that apparently did not overlap with my early teen years spent celibately sulking around comic book shops, Guardians of the Galaxy stars Parks and Recreation's lovable lummox Chris Pratt as Peter Quill, an interstellar slacker doofus catting about the cosmos hooking up with alien chicks and listening to a K - Billy's Super Sounds of the 70's soundtrack on his retro cassette Walkman.

Although it's rough around the edges, the expected low - budget trappings work mostly to the benefit of this gritty and evocative drama from director Justin Chon, who also stars as a young Korean - American man who has inherited — along with his slacker brother (David So)-- his late father's fledgling Los Angeles shoe store in 1992.