Sentences with phrase «than it sounds»

Accomplishing that goal is harder than it sounds, he says, and much of the company's funding is going into R&D.

The key to the Body by Science approach is to perform reps reaaallly slowly, keeping muscles under load for an extended period of time, and to keeping working until failure — which is even tougher in practice than it sounds in theory.

«Remember Wagner, whose music has been described as better than it sounds?

Whatever the politics, the U.S. economy is more complex — and more interesting — than the sound bites suggest.

The logic behind the idea is unassailable, but actually putting this wisdom into practice can be harder than it sounds, Sinek warns.

Read faster and retain more: Train your eye to read groups of words rather than sounding out individual words in your head, known as sub-vocalizing, says Beth Moreno, a University of Texas prof who teaches speed - reading courses.

Luckily, the recipe is easier than it sounds: I started by baking one sweet potato until it was soft enough to slice and remove the flesh.

The question turns out to be harder than it sounds.

Targeting low - cost, low - debt producers of any kind is more complicated than it sounds, however.

Extraterritorial application of the CFPOA requires that prosecutors demonstrate a «real and substantial» link to Canada — tougher than it sounds.

Here, witness the «inverted tail grab» — a feat both more and less complicated than it sounds.

Building guidable arms turns out to be a lot harder than it sounds, requiring the design of a «zero - gravity» system that allows Baxter's arm to move freely when being pushed around but prevents the arm from flopping under the pull of gravity.

It's easier than it sounds because other people are dying to make real friends too.

Traveling via dense bone makes your voice sound — to you — more resonant than it sounds to everyone else.

But four games at this time of year is a lot bigger than it sounds.

If it all sounds a little obsessive, the two partners say that the emphasis on sweat - inducing feats is more flexible than it sounds.

Doing that can be harder than it sounds, though.

Pascal surely knew it was harder than it sounds.

That's even worse than it sounds: Commonly eaten farm animals are rarely euthanized, so the presence of those drugs raised the possibility that meat from horses or even dogs and cats from animal shelters had made it into the supply, as has been known to happen.

But we quickly discover this is harder than it sounds.

A target for nominal GDP (or the sum of all money earned in an economy each year, before accounting for inflation) is less radical than it sounds.

Hiring for your weaknesses is trickier than it sounds because it requires you to be hyper - aware of your own shortcomings and blind spots.

Finding the exact baseline for each bank is more complicated than it sounds.

This is easier than it sounds.

For some, that may turn out to be true, but such success stories are more a result of good luck than a sound retirement strategy.

Throughout history, many investors have faced strong temptation to join the investment bandwagon based on emotions, rather than a sound financial strategy.

Of course, the process is more complex than it sounds.

As the Creative Department disassembles its Creative Lounge, Ginsberg goes on a rant — which, like previous similar speeches from this character, is less crazy than it sounds.

You'd have to be deaf and dumb to believe music is nothing more than sound waves!

Though the book has received some trashings (notably by Peter Berkowitz in The New Republic), The Curse of Cain may be» as Mark Twain said of Wagner's operas» better than it sounds.

You've put your finger on precisely what I feel, tho I dare say my version of it is less noble than this sounds.

But encouraging someone is actually much harder than it sounds.

Sometimes it's a lot harder than it sounds though.

«This requires paying attention to each other,» she said — a task more difficult and crucial than it sounds.

It's harder than it sounds, especially if you come from as varied a denominational background as we do.

This is easier than it sounds, in that any individual who is part of Generation X or younger would gladly take sixty - seven cents on the dollar of promised Social Security benefits.

With the introduction of script, later intensified by print, the visual (space) aspect of language becomes more important than the sound (time) aspect.

Maybe the idea of motherhood as a spiritual practice, in an era in which advertisers regard motherhood as a market, is a lot more political than it sounds.

The challenge maybe harder than it sounds, especially for millennials.

This «Fairness Doctrine» has become the foundation of free speech on radio and television, and it has prevented many of the more blatant attempts by some broadcasters to use the public airwaves as nothing more than a sounding board for their own special views and interests.

All the pro-Rand rants sound more like «devoted» Scientologists defending their fake prophet than sounding like reasonable people discussing the pros and cons of some made - up economic theories.

So money, power, and land were often used to gain the support of the authorities, rather than sound reasoning from the Scriptures.

But as both Jesus and President Obama hinted at, keeping these commandments is much harder than it sounds.

(This is one reason why the piece is much harder than its sounds, as many a ten - year - old has found out.)

Religions other than yours sound false and just CRAZY right?

As the libertarian blogger Megan McArdle once pointed out, that possibility is more likely than it sounds: With the advent of no - fault divorce and the extension of welfare benefits to unmarried mothers, the late twentieth century demonstrated that marriage is both more important and more fragile than reformers had thought.

Urging readers to pick up your book feels a lot like sending out a résumé or auditioning for a play or selling grapefruit door to door for your high school marching band trip to London (which is way harder than it sounds, by the way).

This is less paradoxical than it sounds, if one remembers that Norbert Wiener, following in Schroedinger's footsteps, defined information as «essentially a negative entropy.»

nothing I love more than the sound of goofy kids being goofy

If Catholics need to be called away from the excesses of Marian devotion to a stricter fidelity to the biblical witness, evangelicals should reexamine their negative attitudes toward Mary, many of which derive from anti-Catholic bias rather than sound biblical theology.