Sentences with phrase «squinting at»

Because we had already installed bead board on the lower half of the room, it felt less daunting to choose a deep, saturated green for the walls above, and after squinting at countless swatches, we finally landed on a paint color.

So surely, many of you must be squinting at the title, rubbing your eyes in disbelief at the -LSB-...]

Knowing what to expect from that invitation — and what information to ask for, if it's not included in the email — could mean the difference between sailing into the interview with confidence and stumbling around the lobby of your prospective employer, squinting at directories and fending off receptionists.

1080p picture quality is decent, though there's no way to zoom in either the Omna or HomeKit live - views, which leads to a lot of squinting at your iPhone screen.

Perhaps there's appeal here for travelers stuck on an airplane as an alternative to squinting at a small display, though we can imagine two hours of Daydream VR causing major eye strain.

The results were mixed: checking into Foursquare from my wrist is definitely a little piece of the future, but pressing buttons eight to ten times while squinting at a low - res black and white display feels like a big piece of the past.

That's especially true when you're squinting at the two from a distance.

Having said that, before the iPhone most people were happy tapping away on tiny physical keyboards and squinting at tiny screens, so we may yet be surprised.

The witness can look at the decision in an enlarged form, [instead of] squinting at a document that might have been produced in 1964 and that no - one can read it because it's so smudged,» he says.

This logic hinges a bit on the idea that most trees are heading for the same asymptotic size — squinting at romann's plots in # 62 its hard to tell if this is the case.

This was after a lot of squinting at the original photograph.

Squinting at the portrait of Queen Beatrix in Luc Tuymans's Antwerp studio, I observe that she has on a lot of blue eye shadow.

A pugnacious art world fugitive who had studied with and then taught under Josef Albers at Yale in the 1950s, yet defiantly rejected his era's vogue for nonrepresentational painting, out in his element he'd be squinting at the fish, the birds and the far - off horizon, spitting tobacco, chewing his mustache, cursing us all — a roll of Tums in his shirt pocket and his eye zeroing - in on the flat, all - over screen of his life's obsession....

It was difficult to get close to Wallace's notes because it was the hit piece on the floor, and a writer was three deep at any moment squinting at Wallace's smallish handwriting.

As the hatches opened, and doors of military vehicles were thrown wide, what emerged was not the angry stereotypes of power and masculinity we expected, but wide - eyed youths with tiny frames, squinting at the cacophony of Cairo.

I recall spending hours squinting at my fat, yellow, original Gameboy's monochrome screen, adjusting the tint order to try to make out its pixels in direct sunlight, although this never really worked.

The kind of games that conjure up memories of squinting at «@» symbols convincing yourself it was a rat, or possibly an ogre.

Much like the occasional ambiguous puzzle, not being able to fully see the surface you're walking on before succumbing to the laws of gravity will become very old very quickly, particularly because you probably did the actual hard bit with ease; the game also likes zooming out and showing off the incredible environment, which is bloody terrific, or at least it would be if you were allowed to take it all in instead of squinting at that platform you're walking because you can't rely on yourself to walk across it safely.

Squinting at a paper printout of the controls in the glow of the screen, I crouch and rummage through my backpack to take stock; a flashlight, a bandage, some painkillers.

Likewise, the more time we spend opening giant attachments, deconstructing your elaborately wrapped submission, or squinting at your poorly formatted sample material, means less time to actually consider the thing that matters: your story.

«This is so California,» he says, squinting at the hotel pool, which is empty except for a...

«No more squinting at a hard to read display outdoors where we spend much of our time,» noted Hong.

Squinting at the familiar, crabbed handwriting, the member of Congress from Pennsylvania — about to begin his second term as Speaker of the House of Representatives — read on: «Reynolds claims to have proof showing that Hamilton secretly engaged in speculation in government securities.»

By flicking between the different displays you can adjust or select whatever you want, without squinting at tiny buttons emblazoned with infinitesimal text characters.

I have to keep squinting at that number because even now it seems pretty incredible.

«I want to be a paleontologist,» my young male patient said, squinting at a wrinkled clipping from the newspaper of a dinosaur skeleton at the museum as I examined him.

When you're keeping track of a dozen adventurers with their own frustrating quirks, it can be easy to get tired of clicking through menus and squinting at a screen.

You mentioned squinting at the dark settings of the movie.

Allen's old sharp eye feels watery on Sheezus, squinting at the discourse around feminism, race and privilege unfolding online in 2014, and riding them as a bandwagon back to the middle of the very space the Myspace - spawned pop star once owned, but not having the conviction to do much with them once she's arrived.

My sentiment of this album is summed up perfectly by the NME quote here: «Allen's old sharp eye feels watery on Sheezus, squinting at the discourse around feminism, race and privilege unfolding online in 2014, and riding them as a bandwagon back to the middle of the very space the Myspace - spawned pop star once owned, but not having the conviction to do much with them once she's arrived.»

I have no idea if this made sense, I've yet to put my contacts in and I'm squinting at the computer.

People who spend regular time with me knowing when I'm not wearing my glasses I'm usually awkwardly squinting at virtually everything leading everyone to say, «Girl, go put your glasses on!!»

I spent hours in the grocery store, with my list of «safe ingredients» in one hand and squinting at the tiny print of the ingredients label of the box or can held in my other hand.

We know how it feels to stand in the beauty aisle, squinting at a long list of ingredients but not remembering which ingredients to avoid.

It is like looking right under the hood of a car instead of squinting at the engine from a few blocks away.

Edward O. Wilson has spent a lifetime squinting at ants and has come away with some of the biggest ideas in evolutionary biology since Darwin.

SQUINTING at dimly lit tapestries, costumes and silks could be a thing of the past if Britain's museums and stately homes take up the results of a recent study.

Unlike previous gravitational wave detections, which were heralded with news conferences often featuring panels of scientists squinting at journalists under bright lights, this was a low - key announcement.

Unlike previous gravitational wave detections, which were heralded with news conferences often featuring panels of scientists squinting at journalists under bright...

Adults don't like squinting at the bright sunlight so consider that your kids might not like it either.

If you're an adult, you spent decades of Decembers in shopping malls sipping Orange Julius to strains of «Wonderful Christmastime» (before malls became Boschian hellscapes of drone kiosks and massage chairs), and now you spend hours squinting at your prescriptions with Delilah spinning «My Grownup Christmas Wish» in the background.

I'm squinting at the screen through puffy eyes and a bad hotel coffee headache, overlooking the marina at Shelter Island in San Diego.

I love pitchers who emerge from a mountain bunker with a long, long beard after several years, squinting at the sun and ready to take the world on again.

After a couple days in the underground lab with Starbucks lattes on intravenous drip, I came out, squinting at the bright sunshine, with a solution to the chili conundrum.

«After dozing an hour or two, he'd open his eyes, squint at the screen, blink twice, and resume precisely where he'd left off — a prodigious feat of concentration.»»

After dozing an hour or two, he'd open his eyes, squint at the screen, blink twice, and resume precisely where he'd left off — a prodigious feat of concentration,» Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has related, for instance.

she squints at cowpoke Redford and her herd of thirsty cattle.

At the January meeting, though, Eran squinted at it and looked at it sideways — and in real - time he found a problem that everyone else had missed.

Five years later, I was in his office, watching as he squinted at the paystubs spread across his desk.

Ryan Winkel, operations specialist for Canopy Lawn Care, squints at his computer, straining to see a blue Post-it stuck to a contract that's been scanned into the company's system.