Sentences with phrase «superstitious about»

But what if you're superstitious about numbers ending in five or zero?

New technology has often drawn dubious detractors, it's still not uncommon for people to be superstitious about flying for example, and early theories about the negative impact such high - speed travel could have on the female anatomy included; «women's bodies were not designed to go at 50 miles an hour, the uteruses of female passengers will fly out of their bodies if accelerated to that speed.»

Why is it that some people are superstitious about black cats?

Yes, a cat's coat does influence his or her personality, but there's nothing superstitious about it.

I'm a little superstitious about my writing.

I'm always working on something new but I'm terribly superstitious about discussing it.

If Hollywood has been superstitious about working with Proyas again, that fear has been waylaid.

The director was a bit superstitious about watching the nominations but her crew insisted they all get togetehr.

On the rumors that she was engaged after she wore a ring on her engagement finger at the BAFTAs: «I'm just not very superstitious about rings.

Chinese Malaysians are superstitious about numerous things, and many of those.

I'm very superstitious about my jewellery thinking it's going to protect, heal, guard, help, give me super powers, you get the idea.

I'm not superstitious about Friday the 13th, but being a nurse I am superstitious about a full moon.

While I was very cavalier about discussing my flu season triumphs before flu season was over, I've been a little cagey and superstitious about talking about our new home before we had the keys in hand.

«Im kinda superstitious about it,» she says.

Every once in a while, we will meet with people who tend to be superstitious about the most mind baffling things.

I actually went so far as to become oddly superstitious about it.

When I was pregnant with Laurel I was superstitious about doing anything too much in advance of her birth, but for many reasons, this time around is different.

Otherwise Prof. Wenger will become superstitious about November, and who wants that?

Not to say we should be superstitious about things pagans have touched.

Not exact matches

Traders» superstitious fears about Friday the 13th are based somewhat on history.

(sorry, I probably should have put G.Z. first in that word grouping, such as «Ground Zero / Mosque» since Ground Zero is more important... or is that an immature and silly SUPERSTITIOUS thing to worry about?

Where the Eternal does not come to heal such a sufferer, what happens, with the aid of cleverness, is about as follows: first, the sufferer lives for some years by an earthly hope; but when this is exhausted and the suffering still continues, then he becomes superstitious, his state of health alternates between drowsiness and burning excitement.

Both groups wanted to differentiate their beliefs about God from those of popular religions, which they regarded as superstitious.

We must dance around the hard questions about the foundations of our faith; and we must add a dash of the fear of hell every now and then to hypnotize the superstitious.»

How much of our society is superstitious, accepts astrology, and is fascinated with thought about spiritual beings?

Prayer is a perennial fact about men as men; and one might say that insofar as sophisticated moderns have assumed that prayer is an outworn, superstitious practice, they have by that token ceased to be men and have contented themselves with being a rather sophisticated variety of simian.

I don't think we should get into legalism about this, and I don't think we should be superstitious, but in the New Testament there is more to baptism than you have said.

There is nothing «holy» about any of them, they are just a tool to control the weak minded, superstitious and ignorant.

The Roman Canon Law, still in force, had all sorts of superstitious regulations about the consecrated bread, that it was not to be touched by anyone other than a priest, that if one of the breads was dropped various purificatory rules had to be performed; now instead of simply lifting the rules, on the contrary, they almost compel everyone to touch the Sacrament, with a kind of compulsive hysteria, as far removed from the Gospel as the Roman rules themselves, though in the opposite direction.

When the tomatoes start to disintegrate (with the help of your wooden spoon) add about half a bottle of good Passata (you could of course use either just passata or canned tomatoes but this works for me and I'm superstitious).

The clear path for the Cubs either worries you as a superstitious type, thrills you as a positive type or makes you excited about the huge pile of baseball that somebody is about to step into.

If the superstitious attitude about November is to be believed, it naturally follows that we could be stung through complacency as we start December.

My only concern about Welbeck and it's a completely superstitious concern is that he wears the number 23 shirt... Think of the last 2 players to wear that shirt, Bendtner and Arshavin, look how they turned out... Really hope it's different with Welbeck as I'm sure it will be!

Hah yeah, I saw him hop over the foul line an inning back as he was walking back to the dugout, instantly made me think that he was being superstitious (about the perfect game he was throwing)!

Call me superstitious, but the gods of Arsenal are plaguing the club with injuries simply becuz of how sad the feel about how badly the club is being run and the despicable tendencies of the manager.

The cycle might continue, as if a superstitious thought about something good happening might bring on a heartbreaking outcome.

She practices, teaches, and writes about feng shui on her website Feng Shui With Me in a way that is easy to implement right away, without resorting to dubious and superstitious cures.

She quickly addressed the ensuing frenzy, explaining she is «superstitious» about pregnancy and promising, «When the time is right, everyone will know.»

Their closest neighbor, Colm Donnelly (Michael McElhatton), tries repeatedly to meet with Adam and Clare — to warn them about tampering with the trees — but they rebuff him as the superstitious village kook.

The film falls into the subgenre Folk Horror, a largely British off - shoot of the horror genre exploring the urban inhabitant's unease about the countryside, where spiteful and superstitious bumpkins are still in the thrall of demonic forces.

I'm about halfway through a first draft of a book centering around a car crash, a mysterious woman who dies in it, but I'm superstitious and can't talk about a book until it's finished.

Her exploration veered quickly into the realm of archaeology as she slowly uncovered fragments of detail and placed them together in the growing mosaic of her outline She is currently working on a novel set in an entirely different time and culture, «farther in the past but again about women's lives» Being a little superstitious she doesn't like to reveal more.

I can't say for certain, but it got me thinking about the superstitious patterns of our writer tribe.

It is superstitious and wishful thinking to assume that the market will perform strongly simply because of two Discount Rate cuts, despite elevated valuations, high levels of bullishness, absence of a recession, and an S&P 500 index that is only about 2 % from its all - time high.

There are many reasons, including superstitious fear of black dogs, «old wives» tales» about black dogs, Black dogs depicted in movies and literature as evil or devilish.

Sometimes just thinking about potential disasters can make people superstitious and nervous.

It's understandable how, if a person had never once consulted a scientific paper or sat down for a serious, ideology - free conversation about climate change with one of the overwhelming majority of scientists who agree that man - made climate change is a real, observable phenomenon, he could be confused into thinking that the greatest challenge of our time is comparable to the medieval superstitious that arose in the absence of scientific understanding.

Does anyone seriously think that China, India and Brazil are as gullible and superstitious as the average Western - educated, flip flop - wearing science astrologers that are taking government grants to spin doomsday tales about evil American businesses causing a climate Armageddon as an excuse to ramp up taxes on all factors of production to fuel an out - of - control Leftist - liberal government grown too big to fail?

Sadly, however, it is an embedded part of the social structure of AGW True Believer religion that the members of the cult simply refuse to admit any fact that conflicts with their preconceived and superstitious notions about the catastrophic consequences of AGW.

The same thing happened from 1910 to about 1954, but climate scientists weren't as superstitious or stupid back then.