Sentences with phrase «unnatural at»

Gray hardwood flooring may seem unusual or unnatural at first glance, but the opposite is actually true.

Learning new ways to communicate can seem unnatural at first but will help you and your partner to support and nurture each other.

In The Seven Principles That Make Marriage Work, Dr. Gottman has a list of repair attempts that may feel unnatural at first but provide you the vocabulary to naturally repair conflict before it harms your marriage.

Among her recent museum exhibitions are, Unnatural at the Bass Art Museum in Miami Beach, 2012 and In Residence, at the USF Contemporary Art Museum in Tampa, 2012.

I for one have always felt those moments — where a cut - scene seems to stop and wait for me to push the stick to resume — were awkward, unnatural at best.

The switch was a little unnatural at first but turned out to be an invaluable learning experience.

To make matters worse, to change down you pull the lever towards you; the opposite way to most performance cars so it feels unnatural at best and at worst causes you to change up rather than down.

The system's influence can feel unnatural at first, but does allow you to be more aggressive with the throttle while simply pointing the wheel where you want to go.

It works best when you're flat - out and rolling quickly from one direction to the other, where it's positive and amazingly direct, but it feels really jumpy and unnatural at lower speeds.

Like some other segments, those elements sounded somewhat unnatural at times, but usually the track came across as acceptably well integrated.

It may seem a bit unnatural at first, but the control scheme proves to be extremely effective when the chips are down.

It may feel unnatural at first to offer up compromises that stretch you beyond your comfort zone.

Ironically, it's a shade of cerulean so stunning it almost looks unnatural at first glance.

Using the logic above, that would make OBs, MWs, etc unnatural at births.

Now, I'm not saying that tandem nursing or long - term nursing is unnatural at all.

Not exact matches

Still, Freeman says, having a plant on every desk or at the end of every row, while unnatural, is still better than no plants at all when it comes to cultivating biophilic design.

And the reason their minds stop at work is because they feel that it's an unnatural experience; that they have to be robotic in their approach to it, that they have to act like an automaton.

Buying at this time seemed the unnatural thing to do, as the world was selling.

And the issue at hand is «natural and unnatural» as pertaining to homosexuality.

The Romantic tradition to which Melville at least partially belonged modified this pastoral motif in a number of ways, but it never lost its certainty that cities are perverse, the swarming nests of all that is evil and unnatural.

But that is rather the point at issue: for modernity is unnatural, is indeed anti-nature, or even anti-Christ (and so goeth about as a roaring lion, seeking whom it may devour).

At ten I had objected so violently to the dancing lessons she'd wanted me to take that I escaped them — but not the various junior high semiformal dances and high school proms where I spent each endless, unnatural, awkward hour dying for release.

For Rousseau and (in a more ambiguous way) Locke, love, death, and freedom are unnatural, and for Darwin, strictly speaking, they, being unnatural, don't exist at all.

Even so, Paul's view toward the same - sex aspect of those rites didn't seem very positive at all, and he did call the sex acts (as the NIV put it) «shameful» and «unnatural.»

Pepler further develops this premise by proposing that: «Life must gradually be informed by creative worship if we are to furnish the imagination with sensations that are not constantly militating against religion and making it an unnatural and unsocial effort to remain religious at all.»

People looked at this and thought it was unnatural.

The events in the third novel, Unnatural Causes (1967), take place at Monksmere Head, a point of land on the Suffolk coast where several writers live.

Tyler Ward is married with two kids, blogs at tylerwardis.com, and just released his first book, Marriage Rebranded: Modern Misconceptions & the Unnatural Art of Loving Another Person.

Of course there are other complexities at play there, but in the end, like a person's taste in beverage, it is no more unnatural than a person's taste in beverage.

Thats your business, I don't care to change you, but I will stand up to the fact that not all atheists are supporters of deviant unnatural behavior, at the expense of social order and responsibility and children.

But it has also promoted a distraction of mind in the reader, so that, perhaps precisely from respect and admiration for China and Persia, the thinkers of the middle ages, the four universal monarchies (a discovery which, as it did not escape Geert Westphaler, has also set many a Hegelian Geert Westphaler's tongue wagging), he may have forgotten to inquire whether it now really did become evident at the end, at the close of this journey of enchantment, as was repeatedly promised in the beginning, and what was of course the principal issue, for the want of which not all the glories of the world could compensate, what alone could be a sufficient reward for the unnatural tension in which one had been held — that the method was valid.

«The question is not at all whether it is natural or unnatural, since this question is generally inapplicable to fallen nature, in which — and this is the point — everything is distorted, everything, in a sense, has become unnatural....

The New Testament church sees planting churches as normative and natural, while we see it as traumatic or at the very least, unnatural.

Even among primitive peoples men established their manhood by forcing their bodies to perform unnatural feats of suffering and endurance at the behest of their minds.

Apparently getting stuck in a rose bush while weeding stubborn ferns and the thorns digging in your back and arms and pulling at your hair will make you go into a contortionist mode, thereby forcing you to twist your body in unnatural angles to try to free yourself without getting impaled on the thorns.

I also try to avoid granola in my house because I devour it at an unnatural rate!

There's still plenty of sugar in these guys, but at least it's not uber - refined and unnatural sugar, you know?

However - I'm on a carb - restricted diet (per doc's orders, and thus the joy at seeing this recipe) so I made a simple syrup from plain sugar and that horrible, unnatural «splendid» sweetner - and hey!

To the beginner, the golf grip feels at first like the most unnatural thing in the world, but he will soon find out that only through practicing the correct grip can he control with any degree of steadiness the arc of the club and the flight of the ball.

His knees were never pretty — zipper - scars on both — and his left hand's pinky rested at an unnatural angle.

What is at least as remarkable as the women's pro circuit is the fact that no one any longer thinks this to be an unnatural state of affairs.

I felt Mertesacker was the worst player today and Holding next.There was no defence today at all.The formation too is another I hate and doesn't really help us.Some of our players look so unnatural in this set up.We're fitting square pegs in round holes atm.Why not go all out with 4 -2-3-1?

Under appreciated in my opinion — came at a difficult time and forced to play in an unnatural role.

At the Defensive End he is simply the Most Dominant Defensive Center I can remember — at 7» 2» 280 + lbs the guy's foot speed & coordination is inhuman (B / c of Soccer)-- one of the Hardest things to coach a young player to do at the Defensive end is to Keep his hands raised b / c even if your opponent is Taller if your hands are already raised he must bring the ball thru your Hands — but it's an Unnatural thing to At the Defensive End he is simply the Most Dominant Defensive Center I can remember — at 7» 2» 280 + lbs the guy's foot speed & coordination is inhuman (B / c of Soccer)-- one of the Hardest things to coach a young player to do at the Defensive end is to Keep his hands raised b / c even if your opponent is Taller if your hands are already raised he must bring the ball thru your Hands — but it's an Unnatural thing to at 7» 2» 280 + lbs the guy's foot speed & coordination is inhuman (B / c of Soccer)-- one of the Hardest things to coach a young player to do at the Defensive end is to Keep his hands raised b / c even if your opponent is Taller if your hands are already raised he must bring the ball thru your Hands — but it's an Unnatural thing to at the Defensive end is to Keep his hands raised b / c even if your opponent is Taller if your hands are already raised he must bring the ball thru your Hands — but it's an Unnatural thing to do

We have looked at the incident a few times and the collision looks accidental but Demba Ba's leg twists and goes off at an unnatural angle, it was sure to have been painful and will take a lot of time to heal.

But we are, and it feels as natural and timely as it does unnatural and premature, if that makes any sense at all.

Wearing a bra for more than 24 hours at a time can not only cause it to wear out more quickly, it can cause unnatural stretching as well as giving bacteria a home to grow.

It's right arm dangled at a unnatural angle.

In this way babies are not subject to any unnatural stresses at home.

It felt unnatural and upon looking at us in the mirror I could see that my little one was not so happy with how the carrier was holding him especially in the groin area.