Sentences with phrase «sloughing of»

After three days of Music Fest, I had pretty much reverted to my paisley bell bottom pants days, when I used to sew Indian brass bells in the cuffs just to alert those on «the straight and narrow highway,» while I enjoyed chimes as an alternative to the sloughing of corduroy.

Various natural and anti-ageing products are used for skin nourishment, sloughing of dead skin cells, facial radiance and skin hydration.

«Anyone who currently takes their pet into a veterinary hospital with unlicensed technicians is putting their pet in peril... â $ œI have witnessed first hand horrific examples... Soap solution was accidentally placed in the eyes of pets scheduled for surgery, resulting in the sloughing of the surface layers of their corneas.

Pathogens produce toxins and cause excessive cellular sloughing of the intestinal wall, producing the mucous that is associated with colitis.

In rare cases, usually in dogs over 12 years old, affected eyes may become suddenly painful with ulceration occurring as a reaction or sloughing of the abnormal material.

: Since menstruation causes sloughing of blood, it is important for a woman to eat foods rich in iron to replace the iron that may have been lost during menstruation.

The bleeding comes from the place where the placenta was attached to the uterus and from the sloughing of the lining of the uterus.

Not for nothing did John Bunyan speak of the «Slough of Despond» and «Doubting - Castle.»

There have been a slough of books recommended here at Evangel in the last month of so — and to buy them all you'd need a small fortune.

Samuel Gompers expressed the trade unionist's lack of confidence in ministers accusing them of being apologists and defenders of the status quo and of using «their exalted positions to discourage and discountenance all practical efforts of the toilers to lift themselves out of the slough of despondency and despair.»

In the slimy slough of sin.

He knew the trials of a «Pilgrim's Progress,» the depths and the Slough of Despond.

Helped out of his slough of despond, Hendra starts «back down the path of faith» at the end of the 1980s.

Jennifer Capriati, for instance, has credited her black Lab - boxer puppy with helping her emerge from her own slough of despond, and Dottie Mochrie, the golfer, not only brings her chows on the LPGA tour but also has imprinted their image on the bottom of her golf bag.

Allow crafting with your child to open up a whole slough of conversations.

Previous Conservative leaders have hit the sloughs of despair in the past and gone on to win where it really matters — at the next general election.

For every fellow lifter you've got cheering you on, there will be a slough of others tearing you down and discouraging you.

Once Johnny's babble of half - baked ideas and hand - me - down theology begins to pall, we're bogged down in the slough of despond, with only the banality of evil for company.

Instead, the movie turns into failed tragicomedy, and the parish off the County Sligo shoreline becomes the Slough of Despond.

Acting wise, Lesley Manville is the obvious star, pulling - out all the stops and then even more (some might think rather too many) as she descends into the slough of despair.

As a result, the characters in this movie drag themselves through a slough of crude and sexual jokes.

And then, down and out, battered and grieving, he must somehow climb out of his slough of despond toward redemption.

But the more our daily toil and struggle in the sloughs of ordinary human existence and human suffering increased, and the more our journey within in the fearful paradoxicality of everyday life contrasted with the neat and seemless principles of neoliberal logic of privatization, the more rational Marxism sounded to me.

Lastly, there is a slough of resources in Apple's Developer Center including white papers, getting started resources, video tutorials and more.

Paul's career has been spent in eight schools in London, Surrey and Slough all of which have had very challenging communities.

You lay them around the kids» beds like stepping stones through the Slough of Despond and, for good measure, Vitamix them to an imperceptible pulp for the occasional smoothie.

For every time I've felt the slough of despond at the latest annihilated species, or vile Trumpian utterance, there are those brief, shining acts of altruistic purity that restore the dram of faith I still hold for humanity.

After winning a slough of awards throughout its production, the Quattroporte will enter 2011 with some updates, a baby brother, and the same Ferrari sourced V8 that we all enjoy so much.

These are presented by men such as Pliable, who turns back at the Slough of Despond; and Ignorance, who believes he's a true follower of Christ when he's really only trusting in himself.

From gorgeous sunsets at Manresa State Beach, wildlife viewing along the sloughs of Elkhorn Slough to wine tasting at the world - renowed Annie Glass factory outlet.

Her articles have appeared in a variety of magazines including Spalife, enRoute, Review Magazine, Pure Canada and Royal Wings and a whole slough of newspapers like the Chicago Tribune, New York Post, San Francisco Chronicle, St. Louis Post Dispatch, New Orleans Times - Picayune, New Hampshire Union Leader Post, the Halifax Chronicle Herald, Vancouver Sun and St. Petersburg Times.

In one corner a few gold «oil skins,» the artist's sheets of dried oil paint, drape atop a stool like the slough of a reptile.

So here we are «regulating» what's left of the US economy into a permanent slough of micro-regulated despond.

Hence, the world of «bodies», of «needs», of «utility» is a dead world, the slough of a dead serpent.

one has to wade through sloughs of thick, dickhead aggression and stupid, dopey illogical bullshite personality projections before one can even get to respond to the stunted, state of denial and stenographed plagiarism from ANY half legitimate fellow - traveller site... just as long as it in even the most infantile, infinite way support the most insipid debate!

This discussion walked into a slough of denigration: neck - deep.

I'll just note that the very first reply came from you, presumably raised from your slough of indifference to the topic.

In the presence of crooks, the trough of disillusionment can easily turn into the slough of despond...

These entrepreneurs are rewarded with a slough of tax reporting requirements from a tangled web of government agencies.

Not exact matches

We all slough off bits of ourselves everywhere, every day.

So why would a company that has colonized most of the known world over the last two decades slough off its billion - dollar brand?

A lazy person knows there's lots of life and fun to be experienced, so finding the shortcuts through the slough just makes a lot more sense than dragging your feet down a long road.

The amount of data you slough off everyday — in lab tests, medical images, genetic profiles, liquid biopsies, electrocardiograms, to name just a few — is overwhelming by itself.

During this phase of the event, teams must move the tire and a simulated casualty down a muddy slope, across a muddy slough, and up the other side.

Citibase Prepares For Elizabeth Line Boost With The Opening Of A New Flexible Office Hub In Slough

And calling people «simpletons» because they don't want to slough through a bunch of randomly strung - together words to figure out a simple message is disingenuous, and the sure sign of a vain, prideful pseudo intellect who can not communicate effectively.

It was like the scales sloughed off my eyes, and for the rest of the evening and all the next day, whenever I looked at my daughter, I saw her more clearly for who she really is — a treasured possession on loan from God.

Many a problem of inherited ritual the first Christians sloughed off in leaving the temple and synagogue, but many new ones faced them as soon as they inaugurated what the Epistle to the Hebrews called, «our own assembling together.»

And while there are attributes and character traits to each of us that need to be sloughed off so that other aspects can be raised up to their potential, I think that we sometimes get the two reversed so that we disown and discredit that which should be strengthened and honored, and we raise up and glorify those things we should let die.

To prepare for mission, in this view of things, would require the members of a congregation to discount their self - serving stuff, attempting to slough it off in order to offer their more recognizably Christian hopes and actions, such as the grace and love witnessed in their Communion, to other people.