Sentences with phrase «spiel about»

What Schweiger never quite deals with, in all his spiel about using his PIOMAS with hindcasts versus forecasts, etc, is that we simply don't know what the sea ice volume is.

After listening to Timothy «Speed» Levitch, a professional tour guide, spiel about the origins of the po» - boy sandwich and other local histories, about a hundred people gathered on Esplanade Avenue Wharf to sip prosecco and witness the launch of Strachan's bright P.3 - pink neon on a donated, 120 - foot - long Mississippi River barge.

I don't want to give you a big spiel about how all your future sales hang on you getting your headline right, how your headline alone determines whether a viewer even reads the rest of your page, how your headline can make or break your sales page... I don't want to give that lecture, but I must, because it's all true.

Chummily businesslike, with a polished spiel about his love of art, Mr. Hill talked about his inspirations and approaches in the Blackstone offices last month.

Oil on Linen 48 cm x 33 cm Following on from the spiel about the Balloon painting this is another of the accompaniment...

I could deliver the usual spiel about how you need to memorize the levels, come up with strategies for the boss battles, figure out how to best use your weapons, and have a decent amount of skill to begin with in order to do well in this game.

I guess that is a good way of segueing into the usual spiel about early access games being buggy and missing content and all that, so don't say I didn't warn you.

If you have StreetPass active on System A but not System B, then play ACNL on System B, when you go back to System A, he'll give you the spiel about having to reactivate StreetPass, when it's already active.

RAGE begins with a spiel about how significant people were placed into «Arks» of cryogenic pods in order to prepare to rebuild Earth for a better tomorrow.

«I [make pet foods] very visible, and if people want to ask me questions about it, they can,» said Jeff Elmendorf, manager at The Dog Store in Alexandria, Va. «I've been in retail too long to hop in [customers»] faces and start giving them a spiel about why they should switch their dog to a particular food.

Clearly, as a value investor, you wouldn't expect me to say anything other than the usual spiel about racy tech stocks and their absurd valuations.

He went on a spiel about how local banks don't know how to give the correct electronic routing number.

So when they caller started in on the spiel about how the Department of Education would Garinshee my SSDI check because its the law and can do it, I politely listened and then informed them that I was aware of that law but that they may want to ask their supervisors for additional information.

Okay, I know, I know, we just got through this whole spiel about how to keep track of your student loans.

According to Amazon's little spiel about the beginnings of the newspaper, The Onion was «founded in 1756, when Friedrich Siegfried Zweibel, an immigrant tuber - farmer from Prussia, shrewdly bartered a sack of yams for a second - hand printing press and named his fledgling newspaper The Mercantile Onion after the only words of English that he knew.

Now one editor did try out the spiel about how publishing houses need to shift models in this bad economy but I wasn't having any of that.

I ran into this problem with Kobo myself and found it HUGELY frustrating when they tried to give me the spiel about «you can't download this because it's an epub3 book».

So, I launched into a spiel about how it might be fun to have Mr. Pants and family trapped somewhere like a mall, or, as I suggested, an airport.

My guess is it won't be long before Dymocks start to offer (for a fee) the services of an editor and some spiel about edited novels getting pride of place on their D Publishing book shelf.

The Soul Stone is definitely orange, the spiel about the Infinity Stones, as explained by the Collector in Guardians of the Galaxy, confirms as much.

If a close - up implies empathy, Kershner is careful to keep his distance from Brooks, though he allows him, almost entirely through camera angles, a small victory at the climactic soiree when Brooks challenges a fellow partygoer's pick - up spiel about Vermeer.

First up, Eric goes on a spiel about Metal Gear Solid V and the rage - inducing moments he's had with it, Matt talks about Super Mario Maker and the freedom and restraints it gives players, Kenneth gives his final update on Amnesia: Memories» abuse - enabling and Tearaway: Unfolded's changes from Vita to PlayStation 4, and Travis is the only person in the world playing Mad Max right now.

spiel about weddings was cliche.

Before the naked yoga began, Willow gave a spiel about rules and boundaries.

Brooks then gives a long spiel about how it was all quite sweet and cosy between Brooks and the Browns at the time.

Greets you once a quarter — by name — at the entrance of the school with a flyer, awkward and uncomfortable eye contact, a peace offering of a donut hole, and a convincing spiel about how critical this fundraiser is to the big upcoming [thing you definitely forgot about].

In fact, American women have already heard this whole spiel about how we are trapped and imprisoned by our roles and choices as parents, and that criticism came from many in Jong's generation of second - wave feminists.

Editors don't have the time to read a 500 - word spiel about you, and are more likely to hit delete than read to the end.

I gave a 7 - ish minute spiel about molecular gastronomy, this here blog, my weird love of reverse frozen spherification, and the three desserts you see here, which were funded by FOTA.

I could launch into the spiel about the reasons why but I'm sure most people have heard it all before.

Not exact matches

It's not really a spiel, so much as I want to find out about a person's behaviour.

You're like the Faux News network - state something absurd, illogical and maybe unarguable, and then get all huffy about the reaction to your spiel as though the REACTION was the news.

All these comments defending the bald eagles here and all the hyper - Christian spiels to go with it, and not a one about how the national bird is about to be slaughtered at the hands of Pagans.

In defence, I'm pretty sure Sanchez was given the «spiel» about how Arsenal were going to be built around him bla, bla, bla..

So when you talk about FSG and Liverpool down in the pub, you won't be the loony in the corner, delivering a spiel nobody cares about.

Kuo said the new findings are further evidence that pediatricians should tailor their messages about breastfeeding and solid foods to each particular parent and child - rather than always giving «the same spiel» about introducing solids at the four - month visit.

Have a brief spiel ready about how interested you are in working for the company and why, and explain that you don't want to miss any opportunities to apply.

Blog posts from a qualified trainer about everything from staying motivated to fat loss, but we particularly love her spiels on weight training.

You guys, I've decided to try something new — something that I've been thinking about for a while now.Whenever I begin to write my little spiel towards the end of my blog post's, I always notice that I never really know what to say.

Needless to say by the end of my subscription, I couldn't help but feel like I had been scammed and, honestly, felt foolish for believing all their spiels on compatability and caring about members finding matches.

Obviously Soulmates isn't a site where you're likely to get attempted mailshots, like some of the repeat messages I've received on Plenty of Fish, and people are more discerning about who they contact, so there is a lot less communicational traffic, however all the messages I've received so far have been pretty odd, and rather painful attempts to «make an impression» — dwelling on obscure aspects of my profile, like something in the background of a photograph, or the way I phrased something in my nowhere - near - well - enough - prepared self - marketting spiel.

At the conclusion of my spiel, they said, «We really don't understand all this stuff that you are talking about, but we know it's a good idea.

In her twelve - minute spiel, Hastie critiques the movie and talks about the real excitement — and the drudgery — that make up her typical workday.

In the first hour of class he told us a little bit about his writing process, and at the end of his spiel he said how much he really hated writing (but was driven to do it by the stories -LSB-...]

If you're curious about the whereabouts of this Totem pole & what surrounds it though, then head over to whywasteannualleave.com, where you'll find a whole spiel from when that part of my brain (hopefully!)

One of the things I bought from Zeela was this really cute little Pong clone called Las Vegas Super Color Teve - Spiel:D I tried it out tonight and it was fun, I didn't see the colors though because apparently the TV was black and white XD I'll try it with another TV next time... what I really liked about this Pong version is that the joysticks also go horizontally, so it actually resembles Tennis even more:) You can run back and forth and not only up and down XD It has SO MANY BUTTONS on it though!

A career at Spiel is about passion and commitment, to the projects and to each other, and at the same time working on some of the most creatively rewarding and challenging projects in the gaming industry.

After the GBA, the company was so nervous about the short lifespan that it came up with the whole «third pillar» spiel to cover for it.

Naughty Dog hasn't said too much about the system, only confirming it'll give all players some ND Points to start with while delivering the usual spiel of «You can still earn everything in - game without the currency.»

I've always had a bio and short spiel to give someone who wanted to know a little about me (the artist) but your piece points out that it's more than that.