Sentences with phrase «so knee jerk»

In two decades I've learned not to be so knee jerk and definitive about football.

Not exact matches

And so it is with customers and their knee jerk reaction to getting a deal.

Morgan Stanley's Jonas is a car guy and gets the business, so his bullishness can be chalked up more to far - reaching thinking than knee - jerk bullishness.

«The knee - jerk instinct is to respond that when a proven strategy is so exceedingly out of favor that its viability is questioned, the cycle must be about to turn around.

Given that most politicians» main aim is just to stay in power, the knee - jerk policy responses by the regime of the day is not encouraging, so pondering their reaction to a significant % of the electorate panicking about their mortgages is nightmarish.

So you do see the knee - jerk reaction, which is a ballistic missile is fired over the Sea of Japan, over Hokkaido, Japanese yen rallies.

Markets are driven by the mismatch amongst expectation and truth so it arrives as no surprise that the knee - jerk reaction to the election has been broadly constructive.

«These results signify that advisors should continue to remind clients that markets can get turbulent, so they should steer clear of emotional investments and knee - jerk reactions by maintaining a fundamentally diversified portfolio to help them achieve their long - term financial goals.»

So today, America's conservatives need less of the Reagan-esque optimism and the knee - jerk patriotism and more of the hard wisdom about democracy one gains from political philosophy, and from a more realistic assessment of our own history.

Now it just so happens that MOST of the Catholics are knee jerk liberals and voted for Obama..

Just came out of a bad church situation in which I was disrespected as an educated woman, so that was a knee - jerk reaction on my part.

So, we are experiencing the knee jerk reactions to our comments.

Part of why I think Jesus talks so explicitly about loving our enemies and turning the other cheek is because it isn't our knee - jerk reaction; it doesn't necessarily come naturally to us.

My own experience in teaching religion and theology to middle - and upper - middle - class undergraduates and graduate students in America for the past decade or so certainly suggests that this way of thinking about religion fits neatly with a strong tendency toward the kind of knee - jerk relativism that is also widespread among those in the same social strata.

Just the usual knee - jerk response which is why so many dislike you.

Frankly, this blog strikes me as one of those deals where the former pastor figures out that all the other religious people are wrong, and he doesn't want to be one of those «fundie douchebags» (to quote one of your fans), and so he starts spewing cynical knee - jerk vitriol against anything that smacks of conservativism or evangelicalism or whatever.

I have to admit that I have a knee jerk reaction to the goat / ram - as - devil presentation, as I understand that such imagery was a way for the early Established church to villianize pagans via propaganda... so when I see it used today as continued propaganda, I tend to be offended.

But hopefully if the Republicans do hold majority in the house and senate, maybe they won't be so knee - jerk resistant to Obama's ideas.

«We're doing close to $ 15 billion worth of trade with the Arab region and this is a very important area of our economy and trade obviously contributes to prosperity so it's important for us to view these issues objectively and calmly and not to resort to knee jerk reactions and biased comments.»

My knee - jerk reaction was um no, it's too cold, but she's so dedicated to walking even when the temps are below zero, that I agreed if for no other reason than I didn't want to be a wimp.

So here we go with an article which will be considered by many to be a knee jerk reaction to yesterday's appalling performance but is in actuality more related to the state of play at the club the problems with our manager and ultimately the utter lack of ambition from the board.

Well that's what this column is for, so here's our latest offering of knee - jerk reactions to what we saw on the pitch this weekend...

So should knee - jerk critics who want to run off a fair manager with some backbone.

Whether you think it's time for Bruce to leave now or be given more time, one thing for sure is that the board are unlikely to make any knee - jerk reactions so soon into a new season.

So your reflexes, like a knee hit with a hammer, are jerking.

I have been through 6 Superintendents and countless top level bureaucrats in that time and made plenty of enemies myself — just so you know that I am no knee - jerk supporter of school districts or school bureaucracies.

The knee - jerk reaction when someone cheats on you is to want to kick the «no - good so and so» out.

When our ingrained attachment needs are triggered, such as during a conflict with our spouse, it can be difficult to rise above our knee - jerk, subconscious reflexes to shut down / run away or worry / cling — relating tendencies that insecurely attached children learn to be able to maintain attachment with their parents, but these same tendencies don't work so well in other relationships like marriage.

«I do feel though that this rush to action / knee jerk reaction that is so typical of this administration could have waited until Monday to happen.

Of course, once we realized that the irrational fear of fats was a knee - jerk overreaction, we had to find some other obsession to craze the nutrition world with, so we focused on carbohydrates instead.

Supetube, I think what I've discovered about Mann's films (and PE was the first in which I was hyperaware before I entered the theater so it helped in digesting the film) is that my knee - jerk reaction is to see them as technically accomplished but strangely hollow.

«Spider - Man» frequently falls victim to easy sentimentality — the knee jerk reaction seems to be «if we want people to care, put a six - year - old on screen» — especially with Peter and Gwen's on - again / off - again relationship which doesn't develop so much drive in an endless circle, marking time until the climax.

After so many years of muted feminist filmmaking, I felt revived and energised by what at one level might seem like knee - jerk feminism but lurking underneath is a brilliant and slyly funny showing of how patriarchy also harms the patriarchs.

So after the knee jerk reaction of «I shall be very put out.»

It would be a knee - jerk reaction to condemn Journey's multiplayer were it a traditional game, but Journey's multiplayer meshes so seamlessly with the single - player experience that less - informed players may think they are encountering a non-player-character at first glance, and encountering a player unexpectedly for the first time is an utterly magical moment that can't be described.

As someone who does not hate Three Billboards (I use the disclaimer since so many people online do and it is imperative that the next comment not come across and knee - jerk hatred of the movie so that my horrified confusion will be heard) «what the what now?

So you are getting this knee - jerk reaction because schools are so scared that if they don't make a referral, they will be found wanting.&raquSo you are getting this knee - jerk reaction because schools are so scared that if they don't make a referral, they will be found wanting.&raquso scared that if they don't make a referral, they will be found wanting.»

Those groups are typically written about in superficial, knee - jerk ways (their stories often shoe - horned into predictable political narratives), so there's an opening to write about them with nuance and complexity.

Back then, when prospective annual sales were off by a few hundred thousand units — let alone 700,000 — headlines would scream, analysts would predict the end of civilization as we know it and automakers would knee - jerk so hard they required arthroscopic surgery.

Not so long ago, when prospective annual sales were off by a few hundred thousand units — let alone 700,000 — headlines would scream, analysts would predict the end of civilization as we know it and automakers would knee - jerk so hard they required arthroscopic surgery.

So we find ourselves asking again: Must industry cater to the lowest common denominator, to the reptilian brain inside men and women whose judgments are under - informed, simplistic, and knee - jerk?

I knew last month when Amazon announced the changes to the payment schedule for the KU / KOLL programs that there would be the immediate knee jerk reaction we see so often where Bezos and company are concerned.

So I guess what I'm saying is that we need not knee - jerk pro or con here but wait and see what happens over the next month or two.

Huge number of myths around indie publishing and going to a traditional publisher, so many that most writers won't think of indie publishing, will just knee - jerk right into the old agent / editor / publisher system without one thought of going another way.

So, my dislike isn't all that reasonable but is knee - jerk and I'm working on it.

And consider this: the word «liberal» became so poisoned to much of the electorate by conservative rhetoric that a new label, «progressive,» had to be invented so there could be a handle for people with those sensibilities that did not evoke knee - jerk condemnation.

The knee - jerk reaction is understandable, but look on the bright side: those who should be ignoring the «a few typos are okay» heads - up are the ones who will use that as an excuse to call things «good enough» when they really aren't, so their blurbs and sample chapters will be more likely to accurately reflect their content.

I'd call this an amazingly knee jerk reaction if it wasn't so obvious that the sequel was already in development before the first one was even available.

It would be a knee - jerk reaction to condemn Journey's multiplayer were it a traditional game, but Journey's multiplayer meshes so seamlessly with the single - player experience that less - informed players may think they are encountering a non-player-character at first glance, and encountering a player unexpectedly for the first time is an utterly magical moment that can't be described.

It's so normalized that when these elements are critiqued, the knee - jerk response I hear most often is that if these stories did not include the exploitation of women, then the game worlds would feel too «unrealistic» or «not historically accurate».