Sentences with phrase «tamp things»
As riots erupted and smoke billowed from black neighborhoods in the wake of Martin Luther King's assassination, Robert F. Kennedy met with black activists, politicians and celebrities in a hotel suite «to tamp things down and divine what should come next,» writes David Margolick in «The Promise and the Dream: The Untold Story of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy.»
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When we're slow at work, we ramp up our business development efforts, and tamp things down when business pick up.
In The Guardian, thankfully, Dean Burnett, a neuroscientist, standup comic and author of «The Idiot Brain,» has tried to tamp things down, explaining why diagnosing Trump is «likely to do more harm than good.»
Like Julianne Moore going nuts in her drugstore breakdown in Magnolia, Day - Lewis doesn't quite know when to stop - and Anderson doesn't know how to, or want to, tamp things down.
She has a tendency to tamp things down (I am familiar with this technique btw) and as the hormones amp up, I'm especially wanting her to figure out ways to let things out.
Not exact matches
It's almost a good thing Florida's offense is starting from scratch, as it will keep expectations tamped down.
So yeah, that growing influence pissed off the sport's purists, who introduced regulations tamping down on all the upper - body nonsense and getting things back to the ballroom roots.
The only thing that would tamp the screaming was being held, so we kept sleeping on the couch for ease.
If we're exposed to endocrine disruptors, it's supposed to be there to help us, but it's being tamped down by the many things that you say, watching TV late at night, being glued to our screen.
Dark, funny, paranoid, arbitrary, humming with tamped - down eroticism and in love with all things weird: That's the good news.
Back on topic, anything to tamp down the dross should be a good thing, right?
The whole thing is an altar piece to a goddess who's also a well - designed, attractive object, her alien qualities tamped by her own aesthetic perfection.