Sentences with phrase «still gnawing»

I love shoes and when I graduated and got my first job I bought a pair of pretty expensive shoes and when I found them mangled in my bedroom with Oliver still gnawing on the leather, I burst out crying.

Jürgen is trained as an apprentice baker, yet it still gnaws at him that he left high school before earning his Abitur, the degree that allows young Germans to go to a university.

He admits, somewhat grudgingly, that Denver may have been in over its head against New York and San Francisco, but the 42 - 10 loss to Washington still gnaws at him.

As it stands, I like the movie as a piece of entertainment quite a bit, but the missed potential for something more still gnaws at my feelings of unabashed exuberance.

He still gnaws on grass occasionally but I feel it's more of a habit at this point since he was doing that beforehand.

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His hands weaken, and he feels that he must soon give way to certain fate; but still he clings, and sees two mice, one white, the other black, evenly moving round the bush to which he hangs, and gnawing off its roots.

And, oh, when the hour - glass has run out, the hourglass of time, when the noise of worldliness is silenced, and the restless or the ineffectual busyness comes to an end, when everything is still about thee as it is in eternity — whether thou wast man or woman, rich or poor, dependent or independent, fortunate or unfortunate, whether thou didst bear the splendor of the crown in a lofty station, or didst bear only the labor and heat of the day in an inconspicuous lot; whether thy name shall be remembered as long as the world stands (and so was remembered as long as the world stood), or without a name thou didst cohere as nameless with the countless multitude; whether the glory which surrounded thee surpassed all human description, or the judgment passed upon thee was the most severe and dishonoring human judgement can pass — eternity asks of thee and of every individual among these million millions only one question, whether thou hast lived in despair or not, whether thou wast in despair in such a way that thou didst not know thou wast in despair, or in such a way that thou didst hiddenly carry this sickness in thine inward parts as thy gnawing secret, carry it under thy heart as the fruit of a sinful love, or in such a way that thou, a horror to others, didst rave in despair.

Thus there is little hope for our recovering a feeling of truly belonging to the cosmos as long as we hold onto the assumptions about physical reality (such as the primacy of primary qualities and cognate assumptions) underlying scientism and materialism.5 For we will continue to have a gnawing suspicion that the real world is so different from our projections that we are still without a home in the universe as it runs on colorlessly and meaninglessly beneath our secondary and tertiary «subjective» projections.

While the fiber in oats can make them more filling, I still find that bellying up to a bowl of plain oats only leaves me gnawing my arm off an hour later.

Nonetheless, I still love sifting through the lists — and checking them twice — just to see what's the next new gnaw, tea or spice.

Still, there's something that will continue to gnaw at Valverde's mind.

I can understand how that can be a scary thought because honestly during my first weeks of breastfeeding Jack Jack while he was still learning how to latch properly, it felt like he was gnawing on my nipples.

(Ah, it takes me back to a different house, a different toddler, same DNA, same single - minded determination to gnaw on anything that will hold still...)

Still, small and medium breeds should have a blast gnawing at it for quite some time.

I still followed the same pattern, doing research by day and writing by night, though the e-mail correspondence attached to the writing business was beginning to gnaw a hole into my research time.

Many of the limb bone fragments of large mammals show traces of rodent gnawing and carnivore chewing at a time when the bones were still fresh.

Still, Frietson Galis, an evolutionary developmental biologist at Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden, the Netherlands, questions whether Agilodocodon really gnawed bark and ate tree sap.

Still, even as worries about media monopolization gnaw at our hearts, it's...

Or maybe you landed on a career track and worked your way up but still have that dream of being a writer gnawing away at you... even though your daily work doesn't leave much room for creativity.

Some 30 years later, the stories began to gnaw at his psyche, and Heivoll realized he had to delve into the lingering memories of those still alive to try and piece together the puzzle.

Allergies, internal infections and autoimmune deficiencies attack the skin from within but the itch still causes a dog to scratch, gnaw, rub and lick the offender.

So they chew, gnaw and scratch until they bleed and still it itches!

They don't break easily so they pose little in the way of choking hazards, but you'll probably still be able to stay in the room with your dog while he gnaws one of these down.

Even when provided with the proper forage and gnawing substrates, some rodents will still experience problems with overgrown teeth.

The national park, though somewhat gnawed away at the edges, retains a core of well - preserved forest, extensive mangroves and winding creeks rich in flora and fauna while you'll still find pristine white sand beaches lined with casuarinas and palms rather than pizzerias and pub quizzes.

Yes, you are the closest to doing loot boxes properly, but they're still loot boxes and they're still terrible and you should be ashamed of yourselves for gnawing at jealousy and addictive / completionist tendencies with a real money component.