Sentences with phrase «time preening»

Daniel Radcliffe has grown already by Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) and his presence benefits greatly from his increased confidence and maturity, and Kenneth Branagh is perfectly cast as the guest wizard, a glib, ego - maniacal author who spends more time preening that practicing spells.

Birds fed the crude oil were less active and spent less time preening their feathers than birds fed peanut oil, said study coauthor Christopher Goodchild, an ecotoxicologist at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater.

Not exact matches

The holidays can be stressful and hectic, so there's every chance that she will relish the opportunity to take some time out to feel pampered and preened.

Of course, they do have one thing right: it is hard to find time to indulge in our old preening rituals when we have an infant who needs our attention.

Each parent would hop on and off the chick several times before the birds preened each other and one left to fish.

It looks great with white, camel or jeans but also with my beloved Preen skirt that you have already seen multiple times on this blog.

Through it all, actress Posey strikes attitudes and preens across the glib surface of the film, and though her campy excesses are tolerable for a brief time, the performance becomes an exercise in overkill.

While Anton is ready to go with the times, Burt, a preening, self - deluding, perma - tanned hick, can't see why they should.

There are no actual Hunger Games this time, just the battle between the totalitarian government (led by preening President Donald Sutherland) and the rebel forces.

By this time, the funny has gone so far missing that this set starts to feel like a preening exercise in self - aggrandizement.

Funny without being distracting, though she can deliver when it's her time to shine, which works for Preen's eleventh - hour speech.

And there's a dangerous new kid in town, a «Jackass» - y guerrilla performer (Jim Carrey, doing pretty much what Tom Cruise did in «Rock of Ages» — self - serious preening, with weirdly off - kilter timing) who gives the bloodthirsty public what it wants: violence, drills to the skull, that kind of thing.

The only time I laughed was when Lennon's preening TV phony whips out an acoustic guitar, announces that his next song is dedicated to Nelson Mandela and begins singing about his love of Yetis.

A theatrical troupe arrives on an island off the coast of Florida, where Alan (Alan Ormsby, who also co-wrote the film and created its makeup effects), the group's preening and tyrannical director, wastes no time in pulling pranks on his unsuspecting actors and, for added kicks, holds a séance in an attempt to bring to life one of the corpses (Seth Sklarey as Orville) dug up from the local cemetery.

The orange - eyed beast is voiced by Benedict Cumberbatch, who, through a sludge of voice - altering electronics, seethes and preens between fiery exhalations; this scene is one of the few occasions in the film where anyone actually takes time to talk.

At the same time, Rotherham fails to remember that for all the preening of Beltway reformers, the most - successful school reform efforts have been — and continue to be — done by folks who didn't know much about education until stumbled into reform.

Your cat usually preens and grooms a whole lot but if she's got fleas — she may be doing it all the time.

Birds preen themselves during bath time, which helps them keep their feathers clean and free of dirt.

Obtaining a dog should be a time for rational decision making — not an excuse for moral preening.

luxuriating, basking and preening in the conventional wisdom of the day with a touch of of a 3 stooges» prank: off the stage, time for the hook.