Sentences with phrase «strange habit of»

Big tech companies have this strange habit of shoving things down our throats even if we don't really appreciate their choices and the latest seems to be Google and its beloved Project Fi program.

Northwest US and Canadian softwoods are being clearcut so that we can continue our strange habit of building houses out of two by fours.

Thanks for informing me of what I've been trying to teach you for a year or more... You make a strange habit of doing this sort of thing.

She has started developing a strange habit of getting up and scratching furiously on the carpet where she has been sleeping.

Right now you're probably thinking that my strange habit of tracking expenses sounds pretty off - putting.

Technology has a very strange habit of turning the impossible (or at the very least, the improbable) into reality.

He becomes suspicious of his middle - eastern looking neighbor Khaled Abol Naga who has just moved in and seemingly fits the profile of a terrorist because of his friendship with other Arab looking guys who show up at his place with all kinds of mysterious packages and who has the strange habit of dumping his garbage at odd times at night.

She has a strange habit of picking the end of her tail up in her mouth and resting with it in her mouth, occasionally batting the tip hanging out of her mouth with her paw playfully.

Babies have this strange habit of babbling and even crying while they are still asleep.

Oh, I forgot to comment on this strange habit of Danes;) when I was a child I often had (semi-dark) bread with chocolate as an afternoon snack, and nothing could make us happier.

She is cryptic but hypnotizing, while he is wounded but dangerously curious about the strange habits of his old friend.

These villages are familiar with the strange habits of foreign tourists, however it may be a good idea to employ a local guide to avoid any social faux pas.

One of the strangest habits of traditional law firms (which really means most law firms, if we're being honest) is the tendency to take one of the firm's most productive lawyers out of a practice he or she loves and appoint that lawyer to manage the firm.

Not exact matches

Be open to new opportunities anywhere, and make it a habit of reaching out to strangers.

You can even make a habit of practicing with strangers you'll probably never see again, since research suggests that making conversation with fellow commuters leaves people happier.

There was a security, love, and wonder I sensed (at an early age) that only Catholics had ¯ the hushed, steepled churches and the priests; the parish school with veiled nuns whose black habits swept the floors; the picture of the pope on the bedroom wall, a strange man with what looked like an eggshell on his head who gave the sense of a wider world and eternity.

It's a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up.

It's been strange to see how changing just one habit can impact so many areas of life — attitude, relationships, group dynamics, even scheduling and time management.

These habits are all the more necessary in modern societies where a high degree of interdependence among strangers co-exists with an economic system that emphasizes individual profit maximization and a political system vulnerable to interest - group activity.

Enemyism is the habit of viewing the Other as a stranger to be feared, projecting one's own negative traits onto the Other as destructive.

We all have such strange habits as mixing salads before serving them... Now looking at your lovely separated bright «lanes» of vegetables I wonder why I have never had this wonderful idea.

But for some strange reason goalkeepers have a habit of picking up bizarre knocks.

Stranger things have happened but the institutional habit of picking players solely on their name appears to be at an end.

Try not to make a huge deal out of his strange eating habits, or you may just reinforce it.

You will probably want to eat some kind of food that you don't even like and even want strange combinations say; chocolate sandwich (don't worry once the baby is born your eating habits will return to normal).

Evolutionary biologists theorize that we were wired with disgust to avoid pathogens and that it became more generalized to make us suspicious of strangers who might inadvertently threaten us with their unfamiliar foods, habits, and germs.

Sculpted by the dark, acidic river's challenging conditions — including an annual drop in water level of more than 30 feet — the fish have evolved strange forms, bizarre habits, and striking colors.

After all, we're probably all at least vaguely familiar with the strange and dangerous cosmetic habits of our ancestors: arsenic in face powder, copper or lead to color the eyes, not to mention lead - based face masks used by the Greeks to «improve» skin condition.

A group of strangers in the local community center may not be able to influence your personal habits as powerfully as your best friends, but group counseling can be a way of manufacturing social support — a group of lifelong smokers can be pretty influential, after all.

If you have completely numbed yourself with pornography, and in the worst case, it is over decade long habit, you have made yourself numb, insensitive... You get excited only from the strangest tentacle or vomit porn, then you should go lurk to pornfree pages and get support from other pornography victims, as well as to find comrades of fate.

Most of us are not strangers to skimping (out of necessity or habit) on sleep during the week, and trying to catch up on the weekends by sleeping late or napping.

Funny how something strange like taking photos of yourself with a tripod will begin to feel like normal behavior when it becomes habit.

I don't make it a habit to invite random strange men to my house for the safety of both me and my child.

As well, his murderous behavior is a strange vindication of the human habit for the same.

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I've see enough of TLC's My Strange Addiction to know that habits like this can become alienating crutches (for instance when you prefer eating sofa stuffing over human connection) but I still think that there's something so hilariously endearing about embracing one's crazy, external opinions be damned!

But the MCU has a strange relationship with its villains, namely that one of its only legitimate cons is that it has an unfortunate habit of producing forgettable or unenjoyable antagonists.

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The film begins at the dinner table of Texan matriarch Verna Sawyer (Lili Taylor), whose young sons have a habit of doing nasty things to strangers who wander into their orbit.

When Hoonie covered his misshapen mouth with his hands, something he did out of habit meeting strangers, he resembled his nice - looking father, both having the same large, smiling eyes.

Q: My adopted 10 - year - old Miniature Schnauzer has the habit of barking incessantly at strangers.

Bored dogs tend to develop far stranger, disturbing habits and behaviors than dogs that get plenty of exercise and mental stimulation.

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Humans exhibit strange habits out of stress and boredom — hair twirling, knuckle cracking, overeating, etc..

How to tell if age is the issue: If you notice — along with a lack of appetite — shifting sleep habits or strange behaviors or vocalizations in your dog, or if he just seems distant or absent.

Someone I know, whose 13 - year - old cat is now deceased, assumed that his strange behaviors (memory problems, change in litter box habits) were the result of dementia.

If this person backs away, the dog will learn that this behavior is effective at getting what he wants (for the stranger to go away), and a new habit of fear aggression will be formed.

Whatever strange, funny, adorable or bizarre habit your cat does have, chances are he or she shares a habit with millions of other felines — the love of kneading.

There's a whole subgroup of frequent travelers who share a strange habit: Stockpiling hotel amenities.

VILLAIN: A diabolical genius, Bruce Nauman has persuaded naïve curators and critics around the world that his habit of torturing clowns, tormenting viewers with claustrophobic tunnels, and filming strange nocturnal surveillance videos is a force for good — when really his endgame is infinitely more disturbing, resolving itself only at his viewer's point of death.