Sentences with phrase «sort of an amateur»

I am sort of an amateur baker, so perhaps this next bit of advice won't be helpful: I used an organic sea salt.

Lofland and Banks fare best in this regard, the former drawing on a sort of amateur genuineness (he seems, as he did in Jeff Nichols» Mud, to be a young man very much of this specific time and place), the latter revealing the tortured essence of a cloistered rich housewife.

But recreated on film, his stasis makes little sense; he comes off as the worst sort of amateur, a deer caught in the headlights put through manufactured fictional paces that he, perversely enough, lived for real.

John Hawkes takes a rare leading role, playing an alcoholic ex-cop who stumbles across a woman's dead body and haphazardly becomes sort of an amateur private eye to investigate further.

I think he's capable of fascinating approaches as a sort of amateur detective.

Not exact matches

Atlanta coach Bob Weiss, an amateur magician who can balance a fork on a toothpick, resorted to trickery of sorts, jump - switching on Detroit's screens out high so that whenever a Piston guard used a screen he would be confronted by a Hawk big man.

Generally speaking, general relativity is not the sort of physics that offers much fodder for amateurs.

The eBird is sort of a revolutionary new Internet - based tool that allows anybody from amateur to professional to put in bird sightings from anywhere in much of the western hemisphere right now; it may be worldwide eventually and assemble all that data into one place, so that we can start understanding how birds move, how their populations change.

Kuiken provides a number of scary headlines about amateur scientists cooking up all sorts of trouble, but concludes,» [M] uch of this alarm is overblown, as critics overestimate the current abilities of the DIYbio movement and underestimate the ethics of its participants, who can range from PhD - trained scientists to the true amateur who has little professional training.»

The company's blog offers all sorts of how - tos for fitness pros and amateur fitness fans alike, from opening your own gym to stopping shin splints.

It sort of feels like amateur hour.

Though granted Sam Raimi is a mad genius, so we got a crazy result like Evil Dead out of this amateur enthusiasm sort of thing.

Daisy Ridley and John Boyega are amateurs lacking in any sort of charisma who were given precisely zero to work with.

As far as amateur vampire hunters in the vampire den sort of scenes go, not too shabby.

The film starts as a sort of Super Size Me for doping with Fogel using himself as a guinea pig to explore how easy it is for amateur cyclists to trick drug tests.

Heâ $ ™ s Roger Greenberg, the sort of socially malfunctioning egotist that gives amateur psychologists hours of fun.

I am looking to hire all types of people (no amateurs please) to do all sorts of jobs for me, as long as I do not have to pay anything.

Like most website operators, Amateur Traveler collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request.

I often download and listen to an episode of Amateur Traveler before heading off to a destination, if only to get a feel for what sort itinerary I could build out while there.

I have been painting and selling professionally for 15 years and have had just one (read 1) inquiry asking for an artist's statement, Leave that sort of «Save the Whales» navel gazing for amateurs and focus on (A) creating great work (B) building up your bio of shows, awards and recognition, and (C) sound marketing of both A & B. David W. Mayer West Creek Studio www.dwmayer.com

A few years ago, when I was first launched into becoming the amateur investigator of what's up with whatsupwiththat, and the flood of really well crafted (certainly not done by ignorant people) anonymous emails conveying little known proof of Obama's secret Islamitude, and other lies that would damage Rush Limbaugh's reputation if he were to personally deliver them... Ah Say, Ah Say (Foghorn Leghorn accent) when I was first launched into all that, from reading prodigious comment - storms in many places, including judithcurry.com, but also invading more liberal venues, I concluded what we have here is less a movement for anything, than a massively stroked and stoked «Great Liberal Hating and Baiting Cult», with a very big self - organizing component, but definitely nourished in all sorts of ways by the folks you can read about in Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right by Jane Meyer (best book yet of its class and I've read many).

It may be that the road to a PhD involves some sort of arrested development (indeed, many academics I have met stayed at school all their lives for precisely that reason)-- but it doesn't excuse science which is so bad that even an amateur like me can see how wrong it is at surface level.

I am simply raising the question as to whether your contributions to the conversation about uncertainty are sufficiently informed to rise above the level of counterproductive half - baked amateur speculations, of the sorts that typically appear in the comments of climate blogs.

Fun for the eccentric amateur, but christ is this supposed to be the sort of stuff driving international policy on climate science?

This means that today's move opens up entirely new sorts of machine learning scenarios to developers of all spades, and thanks to Google Cloud Platform's competitive pricing and lack of upfront cost, amateur developers and researchers can play along for fairly cheap.

Balconies are perfect for amateur gardeners as you can fill the space with an abundance of low - maintenance potted plants in all sorts of colours and varieties.