Sentences with phrase «slightly more self»

As far as reasons go, some of the most frequently reported include attraction to someone else, unhappiness or boredom in the current relationship, and simply having an opportunity arise.3 Of course, some people cheat for slightly more self - destructive reasons, such as wanting to retaliate against one's partner and / or wanting to end a relationship but, fortunately, those tend to be less common motivations.

On the e - book formats: http://goodereader.com/blog/tablet-slates/amazon-to-allow-epub-ebooks-on-the-kindle-e-reader/ On a slightly more self decieving note on publishing: http://lunch.publishersmarketplace.com/2011/05/as-expected-ebooks-slide-to-17-percent-of-sales-in-march-as-trade-rebounds-but-e-is-now-amazons-top-format/ This of course may reflect wishful thinking as it does not include figures of independent sales — which I suspect would account for their loss in market share.

After all, most recent horror flicks are such shallow sacks of shocks that even a lousy movie like Scream, a shallow but slightly more self - aware sack of shocks, can become a hit and even receive respectful reviews.

Elfin - faced, he brings a delicious, barely contained, free - floating irritation, only slightly more self - contained than the one he showcased so exquisitely in SHAUN OF THE DEAD.

When kids are older and slightly more self - sufficient we will probably come around.

I'm not about to say it's a good thing but I do appreciate that with age I become somewhat wiser on life and slightly more self - aware of my bad habits.

Not exact matches

People who gave us permission to use their Facebook data were on average younger (48 years vs. 57 years), more educated, more likely to be female (58 % vs. 50 %), and more likely to be unmarried (66 % vs. 71 %), with slightly lower scores on mental health and life satisfaction, significantly more self - reported friends (4.5 vs. 4.0), and less time spent interacting in person with real - world friends.

I am only reporting what has very gradually, silently and unspectacularly happened: a slow metamorphosis that still looks slightly ugly to old friends who want me to be more like my old radical activist self.

What he pleaded for was a little less self - conscious and officious management — a slightly more subtle approach.

Having played for the club, knowing staff, and players that are still there, I'd say I'm slightly more in the know than your good self.

I first came across the concept of a safe play space at Janet Lansbury's blog, and, in slightly more detail, Magda Gerber's book Your Self Confident Baby (affiliate link).

The self - directed learning is easy to follow, but is more challenging to understand than the lectures and seems slightly beyond the scope of them.

Over the years Haidt and his University of Virginia colleague Jesse Graham have surveyed the moral opinions of more than 110,000 people from dozens of countries and have found this consistent difference: self - reported liberals are high on 1 and 2 (harm / care and fairness / reciprocity) but are low on 3, 4 and 5 (ingroup / loyalty, authority / respect and purity / sanctity), whereas self - reported conservatives are roughly equal on all five dimensions, although they place slightly less emphasis on 1 and 2 than liberals do.

Now, just a few months later, the universe is back to its slightly more mundane self.

Self - identified Democrats actually became slightly more supportive of government solutions between 2008 and 2010.

The fusion rate in the core is in a self - correcting equilibrium: a slightly higher rate of fusion would cause the core to heat up more and expand slightly against the weight of the outer layers, reducing the fusion rate and correcting the perturbation; and a slightly lower rate would cause the core to shrink slightly, increasing the fusion rate and again reverting it to its present level.

If you'd like to take a slightly more official self - assessment, check out this quiz created by Dr. Elaine Aron, who began studying the innate temperament trait of high sensitivity back in 1991.

Self - employed females are now the most sought after of any profession while those looking for men prefer slightly more traditional career paths.

In this self proclaimed city of festivals you will find a population of slightly more women than men and maybe the real reason they also boast the largest shopping mall in north america?

Era Extrana really develops Neon Indian's sound, its a bit more self - conscious in a good way, and it feels more developed than psychic chasms; If Chasms was the fun summery debut than Extrana is the slightly darker artistic statement, more suited for Autumn night drives.

There's the conniving, self - centered priss (Kirsten Dunst); the slightly more well - adjusted priss (Julia Stiles); the loose - limbed Jewish provocateur (Maggie Gyllenhaal) who comes to pattern herself on Watson; and, of course, the requisite homely girl (newcomer Ginnifer Goodwin) who makes the others feel better about themselves.

It's a bold and clever conceit to hang a film on, and if McDormand's character had been only slightly more human, the audacity of her actions would have rung with genuine anger and desperation, rather than the same relentless sense of bitter self - aggrandizement that she evinces all throughout the film.

In the end, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot plays like a slightly above - average version of the narrative where a single gal (or in the movie's self - effacing parlance, «white lady») finds herself — and even that business was better - handled (and tweaked with more specificity) on Fey's TV show.

If you're an unquestioning fan, you won't mind, but more critical viewers may be slightly taken aback by the self - inflicted praise.

When examining responses by students» self - reported race / ethnicity, we see that black or African - American students are slightly more likely than white students to feel that they must be ready to fight to defend themselves.

There is some variation among self - reported demographic groups: female students are slightly more likely to take pride in their school work, and students who identify as other than male or female are slightly less likely to take pride in their school work.

Similarly only 61 per cent of respondents thought that grammar schools achieved the aim of producing children who are «confident and self - assured adults», only slightly more than the 58 per cent who said this about the secondary moderns.

The SLS has meatier steering, with slightly stronger self - centering action, but turn - in is equally attentive and feedback doesn't deteriorate on poor tarmac or when you wind on more lock.

There is perhaps a fraction more weight to the steering, but there's still a slightly artificial manner to the way it self - centres and, in fact, during those first few degrees of lock when you turn into a corner.

Steering feel is slightly more positive, self - return a bit stronger, and the dampening feels firmer but does not hamper the still outstanding ride comfort.

My 6 - foot, 4 - inch self was able to climb back there with ease and I had slightly more space than in your average economy class airline seat.

Media coverage for nonfiction works is slightly more likely, even in the self - published world, but that depends on the timeliness of the subject matter and the author's notoriety, but even then I'd still recommend starting smaller with local publications such as community newspapers.

The decline overall in self - published titles is welcome for obvious reasons * and, that individual self - published writers are selling slightly more copies may indicate that legitimate marketing methods (that do not flood uninterested parties with unwelcome messages, that do reach target audiences and which do not contain pointless emphasis on fake / purchased reviews or bloated, meaningless «awards» rather than pertinent and honest content) are beginning to surface in this sub-culture.

Several independent authors weighed in on the discussion, some pointing fingers at the traditional publishing industry and how its business practices lead to situations like this, while others were slightly more supportive of the publishers, acknowledging that situations like this one won't arise in self - publishing because an author can't pay himself a $ 50,000 advance.

I spent a delicious couple of hours this morning lazing in bed listening to The self - publishing podcast (I have a lot of catching up to do) and I look forward to many more hours of absorbing myself in the slightly zany world of Sean, Johnny and Dave — it will ultimately be time well spent.

It's a slightly different type of problem from the issue of self publishers growing in confidence and ability (equipped as they are now with more tools to aid the creation, distribution and sale of their books).

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Her self - deprecating attitude helps this viewer move past the slightly shallow aspect of art world in - jokes, to the idea that the art world construct might be one more cosmic joke of the unconscious.

The exhibition (above, an installation view) covers other, more intimate responses, including a series of small self - portraits that mostly feature a goofy, slightly Jules Feifferish face applied to images of other artworks or artists; a few sculptures, among them «Socialist Pizza,» which involves a Ray's Pizza box, two of Picasso's hefty 1930s beach maenads and a hammer and sickle; and a work using a photograph by Hans Haacke.

With what appears to be eight legs, a head, and a thorax, no one could quite believe how that little spider could create such an anatomically correct, slightly more intimidating, self - portait.

Sole practitioners, small boutiques, and freshly minted calls at slightly larger firms likely form a more accurate comparison point within the profession, and self help books, notaries public, winging it with something gleaned from a Google search or simply not dealing with the matter at all are likely alternatives in the client's mind.

Self employed persons are not necessarily excluded from this benefit but the burden of proof could be slightly more difficult.

We recruited respondents via Amazon's Mechanical Turk marketplace, and our final survey sample consisted of slightly more men (56 %) than women (44 %), with 78 % self - identifying as «White / Caucasian» (5 % African American, 5 % Hispanic, 8 % Asian American) and holding a college or advanced degree (88 %).

This book is also focused on DBT, but it is slightly more oriented for self - help purposes than Linehan's book.

More specifically, although happiness generally declines slightly over time, this isn't true for people who enter a relationship with higher levels of self - esteem.

Publicly traded self - storage real estate investment trusts (REITs) posted total returns of nearly 30 % in 2010, slightly outpacing the broader REIT sector and more than double the average total return for companies traded on the Dow Jones Industrial Average.