Sentences with phrase «something about her manner»

When our mothers said, «Clean your plate, because children are starving in China,» they meant to teach us something about manners and gratitude.

And there's something about his manner and line of questioning that makes guests think, «I can let down my defenses with this guy.»

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There was something about her manner that told me there was absolutely no doubt in her mind that she would be chosen for the talent show.

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The point is that they caught my attention and gave me something to think about — they gave me manner and matter, and for that I give them credit and remembrance.

«But they are behaving in a very, very dangerous manner, and something will have to be done about it.»

Not every way of communication honors the truth: sometimes the manner in which something gets conveyed subverts reality, as when a preacher says all the right words about God's love but in a tone of voice and with a concluding string of «oughts» (therefore we ought to do this and we ought to do that) that makes you feel guiltier than ever.

You may not WANT it to be this way, simply because it labels athiest in the same manner as thiests, but that's not going to change the fact that an athiest has a BELIEF about something dealing with a deity just as much as a Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, Christian, etc. has a BELIEF about something dealing with a deity.

That «secular» literature might have meant something to someone in Solomon's court has been argued from time to time about certain proverbs and wisdom texts, but not about texts where God is the main actor in the story — and certainly not in the manner of Bloom, where J suddenly sounds like a skeptical college professor who is much more «mature and sophisticated» than the believers in his midst and their God.

About a hundred years ago the German scholar Otto Ribbeck conjectured that half a dozen of the later satires were not by Juvenal at all but by a forger who copied something of his manner without equaling his spirit.

There is a lot speculation about rollbacks / coin wipes here on the forums, due to the recent bug, is this something we should be weary of or do you guys intend to resolve the problem in a different manner?

Their football at times was wonderful to watch, retaining possession in a flawless manner, but perhaps some of the rust from their pre-season hasn't yet washed off but the decision making of some of their creative stars, Samir Nasri in particular, was poor and like Arsenal teams down the years, the Gunners tried to take the long route in order to score that wonder goal instead of cutting corners and actually giving the Liverpool defence something to think about.

A somewhat astonishing return of fifteen points from their first nine matches of the season had given the early doubters something to really think about, as the Baggies weren't just overcoming the odds but doing so in a manner which commanded the utmost respect, particularly from their rivals.

But I've been noticing something as my eldest shifts well into his teen years, as he is out and in the world more and more all the time - beyond our doors, beyond our reach, beyond me whispering in his ear about manners and advice and all of that.

Teachers are overworked like everyone else, but as one teacher at Emerson Elementary pointed out that breakfast - in - the - classroom time can be valuable — learning how to do hygiene, table manners, using breakfast time to talk about how to eat properly, how to carry on a conversation while eating, even something as simple as handwashing!

There's something to be said about taking your kids out to eat to «teach» them proper manners.

More scathing was the verdict of New Statesman correspondent Stephen Bush: «Something v charming about Williamson's leadership bid, which he approaches in the manner of a 14 - year - old who's read a self - help dating book... Now I will initiate Stage 2: the airing of the sex scandal!»

«The eccentric manners of Samuel Atta Mills and his ilk who in this 2016 year of our Lord thinks that there is something negative to «expose» about Dr Nduom's name Papa Kwesi Nduom is a confirmation that truly he does not even come from KEEA.»

If A affects B without being right next to it, then the effect in question must be indirect — the effect in question must be something that gets transmitted by means of a chain of events in which each event brings about the next one directly, in a manner that smoothly spans the distance from A to B. Every time we think we can come up with an exception to this intuition — say, flipping a switch that turns on city street lights (but then we realize that this happens through wires) or listening to a BBC radio broadcast (but then we realize that radio waves propagate through the air)-- it turns out that we have not, in fact, thought of an exception.

But if it were looking at something else as well — an indicator that somebody is talking about this video in a hateful manner on a different platform — maybe it should start monitoring the comments more carefully.

Something about the way the service works — its immediacy, spontaneity, the ability to broadcast your musings into cyberspace while walking down the street — has charmed people into spilling all manner of thoughts and observations — quotidian, profound, and idiotic — through Twitter messages, or «tweets.»

Im a very nice girl, love to smile & laugh im playfully when its time l im serious when i need to be i have manners & im very blunt so if i say something outta the way just be able to handle me i love any race i lets me learn about different things & different backgrounds

There is something disgusting about his manner of feeding himself; how is he able to suggest that he would be entitled every bite even if he were in a room of starving people?

In her real life, Gyllenhaal was born into privilege, and yet there's something about the arrangement of her features, her loose posture and down - to - earth manner that make it very easy to believe she has never had a dime.

I think there's something about approaching both in the same manner.

The film is clearly rooted in classical tragedy, and there's something noticeably Shakespearean about the manner in which the plot coyly unravels.

She offers a series of questions that helps readers begin to think about their history and create a «brag bag» (a collection of information on accomplishments, passions, and interests) with «brag bites» (snippets of information expressed in a short, pithy manner that ensures people walk away with something to remember) and «bragologues» (stories that can be told in a variety of ways in a variety of circumstances).

Just about anytime President Trump talks about or does something in regard to public schools, it is in a disparaging manner.

There's plenty of competition in this sector, most of it more modern and with better driving manners, but there's something about the LX that still appeals.

That's what we call «dry snitching,» talking about someone or something in an indirect manner so that you can seem like you didn't talk about anyone specific at all.

Something about John's manner suggested he was overly familiar with the house: guiding Andrew around, showing him where to put his shoes, offering him food.

And I've begun to wonder, also, if the unspoken concern that lies behind resistance to ebooks among literary - minded people isn't somehow related to this feeling, that the novel is on the cusp of changing irrevocably, becoming something unrecognisable to we who care about it so, and in the traditional capitalist manner: with little to no discussion about what these changes might mean and lots of racing pell - mell toward the ever - retreating utopian future.

This book completely encapsulates the concepts behind this website in that it is possible to learn something about investing in a reasonably painless manner.

I am approaching my debt in much the same manner, and it does feel good to finally be doing something positive about it.

It may sound strange, but cats remember the tone, sounds and manner of your talk and can understand that you are about to do something with the cat — feed it, leave it, etc..

«Sinking down into this haunting submerged abyss, gazing at bizarre, mesmerizing limestone formations and encountering all manner of marine life is something that you won't forget,» says Jameson about the great blue hole.

There is something terrifically earthy about the manner in which Café Organic has been designed.

There is something clinical about Wilson's manner, as if she were preserving clouds rather than painting them.

A practitioner and a thinker, Hansen talks about the similarity of Happenings and collage in his influential book, Al Hansen, A Primer of Happenings and Time / Space Art, Something Else Press, New York, 1965: The happening, no matter how much it is rehearsed, is still a curious and unique form of theater in that one puts its parts together in the manner of making a collage.

These «Irascibles,» in spite of their docile appearance, were «technically» angry about something that had happened, but generally speaking, their protest, summed up in the open letter they had sent to the president of the Metropolitan Museum and that contained their objections, put them in a position that was rather typical during the avant - garde period: joined in battle, working together, sharing the successes as well as any failures in a compact manner.»

And one with an important message: Tala Madani's sardonic descriptions of male behaviour can teach us something about men and their manners.

Paul Vaughan,» There's something about the way the solar cycle affects circulatory geometry that's not being understood (AT ALL) by the majority of people speculating (in a manner inconsistent with hard - constrained wind & rotation observations unfortunately) about «60 year» cycles.

There's something about the way the solar cycle affects circulatory geometry that's not being understood (AT ALL) by the majority of people speculating (in a manner inconsistent with hard - constrained wind & rotation observations unfortunately) about «60 year» cycles.

Around 2007 — which we now know was «peak climate» time — I decided that I ought to learn something about climate science and was rapidly set on the path to scepticism by Connolley at Wikipedia and the Team at RC behaving in a manner quite alien to my understanding of science.

One objective I would have would be to phrase any question in a manner that reveals something about the «real» state of the candidate thoughts.

If someone claims to be a scientist and is using that term as credentials in a priest class manner, this tells us something about that person.

For that reason, I am always shocked to hear about a lawyer doing something that most lawyers consider bad manners or bad business.

«If I'd come to see them about a divorce or something that was sensitive to me, I do not feel that their bedside manner would be particularly inviting,» she reflects.

It is the responsibility of every healthcare provider to anticipate the risks that come with pregnancy and childbirth and do something about it in a timely manner.

But there was something about Bartleby that not only strangely disarmed me, but in a wonderful manner touched and disconcerted me.