Sentences with phrase «stroke your ego with»

I mean, you can stroke your ego with pride to assume that any god who does exist would somehow automatically be very invested in your life, but that's just presumptuous with no reason.

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«The logic here is that by softening someone up with an ego - stroking positive message, they'll be better poised to actually listen to your critical feedback as opposed to dismissing it entirely, or reacting defensively.

I don't have to address someone who obviously just wants people to agree with whatever you say to stroke your ego.

You and other religiously handcuffed people stroke your own egos with such nonsense to the point of making a laughingstock of your beliefs and predictions.

Heading to church on Sunday gives you your next fix with the Priest telling you how important you are to God and that you will get to live for eternity in heaven, which is whatever you want it to be... talk about an ego stroke.

False preachers / teachers are those that stroke man's ego with 1 or 2 of Jesus» scriptures then go on and on... about what man wants to hear instead of all of Jesus» truth what needs to be heard.

What's wrong with being glad that a false prophet, a man that stuffed his bank account with righteous dollar bills, a man who preyed on weak minded people for his own financial benefit and the chance to stroke his own ego, was nearly killed?

Convinced that he is the only one the king would want to honor, Haman presents the king with another way to further stroke his own ego.

You know, the kind that strokes your ego, boosts your self esteem, tweaks your life, kind of like Dr. Phil with a few Bible verses thrown in for good measure.

Maybe he should be honest with the team and tell them when they are rubbish — instead of stroking their egos and calling them «fantastic».

His role is stroking wenger's... ego... Certainly nothing to do with football that's for sure but have known that for 5 years... He's the midfield equivalent of lord bendtner... Just hope for a bit of effort in second half

We need to stop with the ego stroking and avoid playing players on reputation, it's Ozil OR Cazorla.

more likely the old codger will stick with getting his 8M and ego stroking and using any success to prolong his dictatorship.

That aside, no I» m not looking for a collection of people to sit and stroke my ego and agree with all I come out with.

There's no end of women attracted to men with power, and men with egos that need to be stroked.

Unless your guy is sleeping with you and others that he's texting, I doubt he's a player, but one who likes to have his ego stroked.

Egos are duly stroked with a numbered build plaque between seats, adorned with designer Ian Callum's signature.

On the contrary, those whose snobbery requires the green light from yesterday's monopoly holding publishers must only need it as a stroke to their egos — not as anything to do with the craft of writing.

I've met people who refuse to go to critique groups because they've had an awful experience with a group — with members who needed to stroke their egos by tearing other writers down.

They don't reach out to other writers, they don't make connections in any meaningful way with the community, and simply buy into these vanity motivated «services» that stroke their egos, take their money, and teach them how to game the system.

The work from these years infuses Abstract Expressionist materialism with playfulness, figuration, and a spirit that is at once everyday and dramatically artificial, in a picture of the 50s radically different from the commonplace image of big egos and broad strokes.

I guess Joe Romm, through all the stress, frustration and duplicity associated with Washington ego stroking has forgotten who our current president is.

And as with any profession, they aren't above a bit of ego - stroking, either.

You don't get data from a scientist by using FOI requests, you do it by stroking their ego a little, or by engaging them with a compelling research idea you want to pursue with it.

While this may be a useful strategy for stroking one's ego, when it comes to nurturing relationships with the potential to evolve into new business, the quality of one's followers is more important than the quantity.

Washington's current expertise in stroking the egos of plutocrats will have to be replaced with more consumer - oriented marketing chops.

I don't need my ego stroked, but every job seeker knows that being treated with dignity, as a human, is rare.