Sentences with phrase «such slippery»

I briefly considered battling through the rain and wind to mend their broken hearts, but I didn't fancy being on the road in such slippery conditions.

The Redmi Note still doesn't convince me to change my mind about phablets, primarily because it occupies such an awkward position between a smartphone and a tablet — and it's just too clunky for me to tote around making calls and texting on the go, especially with such slippery plastic backing.

With the notion of «balance» as such a slippery and multifarious one, it's no surprise that Vasilikos» camera has been turned to such a wide variety of subjects: a hula hooping woman; a heron; a dog; some very unusual dentures.

Such a slippery slope means that Darkest Dungeon will brutally punish the foolhardy.

It's a fairly short list compared to others, which may explain why this is such a slippery sub-genre in general.

I should be more careful in my terms, but I'm basically worried that it's such a slippery report, and that it's more extrapolation than data than actually points to something.

According to Deadline, Jason Momoa has turned out to be just such a slippery actor, as he has now dropped out of the movie.

One thing I'm particularly pleased at myself for thinking of, was how to tame the facing for such a slippery, tricksy fabric.

I can hardly imagine sewing in that detail with such a slippery fabric.

Its such a slippery slope.

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With such little - understood connections between diseases and their origin — and between one pathological breakdown and another — it's an awfully slippery slope to deny health coverage to someone «who sits at home, eats poorly» and gets sick.

Such changes often lead job candidates down a slippery path and often yield more problems than solutions.

The day after Vermont legalized assisted suicide, for instance, Cardinal Seán O'Malley of Boston, chairman of the Committee on Pro-Life Activities, warned of a «slippery slope» and urged Catholics to fight the future passage of such laws.

In the bigger picture, it is a slippery and dangerous slope away from God to doubt that the Word of God as available to us now in the entire Bible does not sufficiently provide the explanation of God's nature and grace and the means for our salvation through faith in Christ, and such a situation can not logically stand anyway.

St. Petersburg is a long way from Vermillion, and Degaev was, as it happens, an astonishingly slippery triple agent in Tsarist Russia who somehow managed to escape death despite doing such normally suicidal things as betraying to his fellow revolutionaries the names of the police agents to whom he had just betrayed his fellow revolutionaries» among whom were several police agents masquerading as revolutionaries.

Critics of genetic modification in humans fear such a move would start something of a slippery slope leading to «designer» babies — parents could basically pick eye color, size and maybe even personality traits.

The courts are being thoroughly refurbished such that navigating the slippery floors which so many of us have had to experience should soon be a thing of the past.

Did you know that just thinking about bathing a new slippery wiggly baby could bring such feelings of trepidation?

The new study shows that there was a small increased risk of choking with very sticky foods such as thick chunks of bread that might get stuck, at least temporarily in the throat, or large chunks of very slippery foods which might accidentally slip in a baby's grasp and be swallowed whole, such as large hard chunks of melon and avocado, or very ripe banana.

Instead, retaining the claws probably helps northern true seals catch a larger meal than they could with the stiff, slippery fins of other pinnipeds such as sea lions and fur seals, Hocking and his colleagues report April 18 in Royal Society Open Science.

There is concern that such a programme is on the brink of a «slippery slope» — where the inclusion of disease markers results in false inference of a connection between physical conditions and antisocial behaviour.

Other exotic - sounding varieties, such as lawyer's wig, man on horseback and short - stemmed slippery Jack, can bring in $ 100 or more a kilogram.

The papillae prevent slippery foods such as jellyfish from being expelled with the water.

But one has also to consider such microcosmic problems as poisonous snakes, being alone in the forest on slippery paths, or the occurrence of landslides next to the station.

The best nonslip materials, such as rubber, wear out quickly; more durable materials, like polyurethane, are too slippery.

He adds that these spiders probably use their sticky feet to capture prey, especially slippery ones such as cockroaches.

Getting the robot's legs, each of which featured four joints, to move in a synchronized fashion — not to mention adjust dynamically to slippery surfaces such as ice — proved challenging.

In most cases, liquid such as water or oil is the cause and this slippery state is what we describe as superlubricity — there is basically no friction on a surface.

When BAM is lubricated with standard fluids such as water - based oil emulsions, it is more slippery than DuPont's Teflon coating (of nonstick cookware fame), Russell says.

To find out whether acid rain was indeed the problem, the team focused on one problematic sliding layer in the Jiweishan avalanche: a thin bed of black shale, which contains slippery clay minerals such as talc, in addition to fine organic material and calcite, which helps cement the shale together.

These materials react with bases — substances, such as ammonia or lye, that feel slippery — to form salts.

Packed with nutrients, such as calcium, iron, magnesium, manganese, phosphorus, potassium, selenium, zinc, and vitamins B1, B2, B3, and C, slippery elm can give a real boost to nervous system function.

Other key nutrients include zinc, omega - 3 fish oils, vitamin A, C, E as well as herbs such as slippery elm and aloe vera.

Rhubarb root capsules, whether from turkey rhubarb (Rheum palmatum) or garden rhubarb (Rheum rhabarbarum), can be taken for short term relief of constipation and come often mixed with other laxative herbs, such as cascara sagrada, senna, aloe vera, barberry and slippery elm.

I have found that the «extremely sensitive» psoriasis patients with multiple allergies and multiple food intolerances generally should proceed very slowly indeed, good advice for them is remain on the Psoriasis Diet, use anti-inflammatory remedies, such as slippery elm powder before meals and ginger with meals, and introduce probiotics, lactic acid fermented food and anti-microbial products only very gradually over a four week period.

Good Green Stuff will help to encourage more effective digestion due to it's mucilaginous and soothing ingredients (such as slippery elm) and both pre and probiotic ingredients that help to preserve proper levels of beneficial bacteria in the bowel.

This viscous, slippery fluid coats the cartilage lining the joint, fills all of the empty space within the joint cavity and as such is responsible for the so - called lubrication of the joint structures.

Try digestive enzymes which combine herbs such as slippery elm, papaya and chamomile with aloe vera juice.

I suggest wear something semi slippery under them (such as a thin layer of chapstick) to help eliminate that * I did nt experience any lip staning with envy (its a «slippery» lipstick it stays put yet moves around a bit such as in the inner lip area), but I did with betrayal but it wasn't bad at all.

This piece is jersey but it has such a high rayon mix that it feels very slippery.

A slick, slippery film, Tonya doesn't go for much real substance, as it opts for such a flashy presentation that it shoots for glitz over everything else.

A slippery stylist, Soderbergh's films hop from genre to genre with creative restlessness appearing to be his defining characteristic whether filming glossy, expensive star laden confections such as the Oceans series or experimenting with digital video and unknown actors on low budget conceits such as Bubble or The Girlfriend Experience.

And so, with a slippery smooth melding of social conscience and satire, British firebrand Ben Wheatley (Kill List) chose for his fifth feature to conform the skyscraping High - Rise, knowing full well the risks involved in such a structure.

One such example is the slippery character of Death.

Manohla Dargis, The New York Times: To say that Charlie Kaufman «Äôs «ÄúSynecdoche, New York «Äù is one of the best films of the year or even one closest to my heart is such a pathetic response to its soaring ambition that I might as well pack it in right now... Despite its slippery way with time and space and narrative and Mr. Kaufman «Äôs controlled grasp of the medium, «ÄúSynecdoche, New York «Äù is as much a cry from the heart as it is an assertion of creative consciousness.

In the name of boosting academic performance and giving struggling kids a better shot at succeeding in first grade, California appears to be headed down the slippery slope to universal preschool, never mind that state voters rejected such a plan when Rob Reiner got it onto the ballot in 2006.

That's why it is essential for weather procedures and practices to be established before the winter season arrives — usually during the first term of each school year — and that they take into account all the situations that may arise during this period, such as slippery ice on the school grounds, for example.

Such is the torque that on slippery or even just cold tarmac you'll see the traction control light blinking furiously even when you might think you've short - shifted, but the calibration of the various systems (F1 - Trac, E-Diff3, SSC2, etc.) is so good that you hardly feel them doing their subtle work.

A vehicle fleet equipped with V2V technology enables additional capabilities that could help motorists, pedestrians and municipalities, such as by notifying road crews when and where slippery roadway conditions are present.

Some buyers may still want to shift gears to gain the advantages that 4WD affords over AWD, such as a broader range of ability for towing and hauling heavy loads up slippery slopes and over rough terrain, but for most buyers AWD provides the greatest benefit at the lowest cost.