Sentences with phrase «thrashing about»

Most Realtors are short - termers thrashing about desperately trying to obtain listings and buyers in order to survive for another month or two.

The vast majority of Realtors are noisily thrashing about on the surface so much of the time (making themselves look busy) that they miss the stuff that exists below the surface... where the higher quality of the water quietly resides.

There are simply far too many real estate «professionals» thrashing about out there.

Why do so many enter the business, thrashing about, spending most of their time and money «marketing» themselves as experts etc., when clearly they are not, only to find out that they are not suited to the business, not academically prepared / knowledgeable enough to stand toe - to - toe with those already established in the business who are, or, who are not financially / psychologically prepared to dig down deep enough to make up for the shortfall of the foregoing before running out of resources, both financial and psychological in nature.

This will probably not be a very popular post on a real estate forum, however my experience is that when things are stuck, thrashing about is not a good solution.

Frantically thrashing about in fear of dying, the frogs climbed on each other, splashed furiously, and did whatever they could to stay afloat.

I'd expect a great deal more from such an analysis than the current thrashing about but I have some doubts as to whether such an exercise is currently feasible with existing data and models.

In my thrashing about to see the periphery of the «local focus», I get ridiculed for stating the obvious.

I have personally have a top - loading multi-day rucksack that has spent 15 years thrashing about in places like the Pyrenees, Patagonia, New Zealand, and South West Tasmania.

He had just left the Chelsea School of Art after an unsatisfactory period as a figurative painter in an institution that overvalued abstract expressionism, and was «thrashing about as an artist» attempting to express his perplexity and anger at the dismal political situation facing the left at the time.

Although I was slowly beginning to think about making objects, I was mostly thrashing about while in art school, lost in the hugeness of painting.

Game control design has not always been a simple matter of evolution down the years - more a case of thrashing about blindly and hoping something works.

Game control design has not always been a simple matter of evolution down the years — more a case of thrashing about blindly and hoping something works.

I could still hear the Butcher growling and thrashing about, and after some quick sleuthing I found him trapped between a staircase and a barrel.

Thrashing about in a ridiculous supercharged Le Mans prototype feels delightfully nervy as you wrestle to keep control of a twitchy thoroughbred powered by a nuclear reactor, whereas a friendly little Focus RS can be chucked about like nobody's business.

I like how you make FME sound like a wounded beast thrashing about before its inevitable demise come launch day.

If you associate body - boarding with screaming kids and sunburned tourists thrashing about in white water then you might want to think again!

Tipped ears may bleed a lot, especially if the cat is thrashing about hitting the ear on the cage and preventing clot formation.

As pain increases, the owner may witness the cat trembling or shaking, or even thrashing about if the pain is extreme.

Instantly, both dogs began screaming and thrashing about on the ground.

WARNING: This post is not about self - publishing or gatekeeping or Amazon or e-books or all the other stuff we've been thrashing about over the last week or so.

If your idea of a good time is thrashing about the turns, you'll be happier going down a weight class to the IS 200t or up in power to the 3.5 - liter engine.

Another analogy is that emotions can be like turbulent waves thrashing about on the surface of the ocean.

The room is full of traps that can hurt you, and he becomes enraged, thrashing about and attacking with more ferocity.

It features men and women in black suits thrashing about to a piece of drumming and chanting that's no doubt supposed to carry metaphoric force and give the soundtrack an Ennio Morricone urgency, but that comes across more like a Hasidic tribute to Stomp!.

She was still thrashing about and trying to find some comfortable position on the gurney.

Shuffling us all across the parking lot, loading everyone back into the car, with Isaiah screaming and thrashing about in my arms all while balancing two hot cups of coffee was less than pleasant to say the least.

I am laughing at your description of Job and the thrashing about.

It's rather amusing watching homebirth advocates thrashing about on the Web, Facebook and Twitter trying to deal with the new paper in the Journal of Medical Ethics equating homebirth to driving without putting a seatbelt on your child.

One minute, you're all snuggled up fast asleep and the next, your baby is screaming blue murder and thrashing about like a madman.

Your baby may appear to be «fighting» between waking and sleeping: wriggling, moaning and thrashing about.

I had a rough time getting her in the tub because she kept thrashing about as toddlers are wont to do.

Suffering of children has the same meaning and purpose as a frog thrashing about as the pond dries up.

But suppose we switch now to the man thrashing about in the water down below.

But ideas about swimming and theories about what to do when your boat overturns matter desperately if you are the man thrashing about in the water.

Films and TV no doubt contribute to this mistake: how often have you watched a scene where two people meet, say, in the street and after a few pleasantries and greetings, the next scene is of them thrashing about in bed?

After narrating in detail his bodily motions at the time of his greatest torment, just before his conversion — «I tore out my hair, battered my forehead,» cried, groaned and thrashed about — Augustine identifies the moment of transformation in a simple phrase: «My face changed» (mutato vultu).

Why do people week after week return to their hard chairs before dull pulpits to hear a man thrash about in a limbo of words relating vaguely to some topic snatched desperately on Saturday night from the minister's own twilight zone?

Does he use trial and error,» or thrash about, or experiment systematically (PS 12:225)?

He watched as his Miramonte boys water polo teammate Charlie Wiser thrashed about attempting to gain position against his San Ramon Valley defender approximately six feet in front of the goal.

I know most fans will say thrash about Ospina if He makes one or two mistakes in goal.

Do you give in when your toddler throws himself on his back in the supermarket and thrashes about like a crab?

It pains my heart to see him thrash about and cry out in his sleep but I am happy that I am able to be near him and provide comfort.

Because your child will not be aware of your presence and may have a tendency to thrash about, any efforts you put into comforting your child will most likely be wasted.

A child having a night terror may suddenly bolt upright in bed, cry, scream, moan, mumble, and thrash about with his eyes wide open without being truly awake.

They thrash about, even when swaddled to within an inch of their lives.

Much like quicksand, the more people thrashed about, the more deeply they found themselves trapped.

He constantly challenged Pedro and talked thrash about Ju Jitsu until the professor accepted the challenge.

The ability to jump and grab a giant enemy, scaling it to stab it in the face while it thrashes about is incredible.

Take two Volkswagen Group products to the track, in this case the Golf R and the Leon Cupra 280, thrash them about and see if you can come to a conclusion as to which is best.