Sentences with phrase «very dysfunctional»

A partner in a small firm was miserable because the firm operated in a very dysfunctional manner.

I was four when Ginger died and I was inconsolable, as she was my special friend in a very dysfunctional household.»

The investment management industry is very dysfunctional.

As for traditional cable - and - weight - stack machines, he calls them «very dysfunctional» because the locked - in motion can lead to repetitive strain.

He had a very dysfunctional family situation in Ireland, and wrote about it quite eloquently.

Because I haven't been directly involved with someone with autism I had a hard time deciphering if Ginny's behaviors were related to autism or growing up in a very dysfunctional home.

This always - puzzling process is made even more confusing by her very dysfunctional family - a mother who takes her younger sister out drinking and a father who smokes pot in the garage.

Our kids had very dysfunctional backgrounds.

The film works well because behind the crude potty humor, there is a very dysfunctional, yet charming relationship that forms between a grandpa and his grandson.

Marvel's Captain America: Civil War is technically a film about Steve Rogers, but given its gigantic roster of superheroes, it plays more like a very dysfunctional Avengers movie.

The 46 - year - old plays Everett Lewis alongside protagonist Sally Hawkins who plays Maud Lewis in Maudie, a «very dysfunctional love story» based on a true story.

It's not black and white, and there is this love underneath necessarily and it's in this very dysfunctional and emotional way, so we were trying to bring in that grey area.

Their relationship is the crux of the film and it is a very dysfunctional one at that.

Recalling both The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) and American Beauty (1999), this teen drama recounts the trials and tribulations of one very dysfunctional family.

I worked at a pizza place for many years and it caused me to be very dysfunctional if you know what I mean.

I came from a broken, very dysfunctional and abusive childhood.

«I looked at the Buffalo Public Schools as a very dysfunctional thing.»

«If he finds people that are willing to be extremely adversarial toward John Degnan and projects like the Port Authority Bus Terminal, or pursue some of the other objectives that Cuomo wants to see pursued, the Port Authority could become a very, very dysfunctional place,» Robins said.

And yet Trump seems to be moving the country as a whole in the right direction vs. Cuomo continues to run a very dysfunctional state.

Seems like a very dysfunctional group that won't be able to effectively govern.

I have a very dysfunctional family dynamic and I am so passionate about ensuring that Youngling and I change our future and for our family from here on in.

He's clearly a very dysfunctional human being, or as I prefer to say, «a complete saddo».

Very dysfunctional.

I was raised as a catholic and my home was so very dysfunctional in the relationships and just difficult all around.

Not exact matches

«We're seeking very deliberately to benefit from the dysfunctional American immigration system,» Jason Kenney said recently, when asked about a year - old campaign that erected giant «Pivot to Canada» billboards in the San Francisco Bay - area advertising directly to foreign nationals blocked from obtaining H - 1B visas.

Fending off criticism from analysts that the board is dysfunctional, Lane argued that the board is very different than the ones of the past, comprised of 8 new directors since the company ousted Hurd.

I guess you god is like a very abusive and dysfunctional husband or parent, «love me or I'll kill you»

``... very strong politically correct and left - wing revisionist history attitude or tone that's also Anti-American (especially a vague charge against «U.S. foreign policy»), and strong anti-capitalist elements... blasphemy, implied urinating, vomiting, scatological humor, and comments on breast feeding and sexual parts of people's bodies; light brief violence includes beating on car window and trying to damage car, man comically shoves people off a stage, man burns books; sexual content includes homosexual references, implied adultery with a pregnancy out of wedlock, talk about a priest raping boy in the past, a giant condom balloon placed on church steeple, references to real condoms, implied fornication; upper male nudity, man wears a dress; alcohol use and drunkenness; smoking and marijuana use depicted, including eating marijuana brownies; and, strong miscellaneous immorality includes lying, stealing, revenge, rebellion, dysfunctional family portrayed, father is a pothead and a drinker and lives in a trailer»

Unfortunately, dysfunctional organizations, including families, very often side with the abusers.

Control is very much at the heart of many dysfunctional families and dissent or independent choices can not be tolerated.

very hard thing to come to the realization when I was 19 that I had grown up in a dysfunctional family and that it had given me a footprint that I would carry for the rest of my life.

To make the point he quotes Dawkins» own «perceptive» summary of Lot in The God Delusion: «If this dysfunctional family was the best that Sodom had to offer by way of morals, some might begin to feel a certain sympathy with God and his judicial brimstone» (Cheekily adding, «Well, Rabbi Dawkins, I think I'm very happy with that gloss!»)

There were times when it showed signs of being very unhealthy and dysfunctional, when it was truly selfish, guarded, paranoid, narrow, cruel, shallow and unjust.

I can only hope that this attempt is taken more seriously than the largely muted and clearly unsuccessful protests of late last season... although the plane writing escapade brought some much - needed attention to the matter, it failed to resonate with fence - sitters and those who had just recently fell off the Wenger truck... without a big enough showing of support the whole endeavor appeared relatively weak and poorly organized, especially to the major media outlets, whose involvement could have significantly changed what was to follow... but I get it, few wanted to turn on their club, let alone make a public display of their discord... problem is, they are preying on that vulnerability, in fact, their counting on you to keep your thoughts to yourself... who are you to tell these fat cats how to steal your money... they have worked long and hard to pull the wool over your eyes... they even went so far as to pay enormous sums of cash to your once beloved professor to be their corporate spokesmodel so that the whole thing would be more palatable... eventually the club made it appear as if this was simply a relatively small fringe group of highly radicalized supporters, which allowed the pro-Wenger element inside the club hierarchy to claim victory following the FA Cup win... unfortunately what has happened to this club can't be solved by FA Cups or a few players coming in, the very culture of this club needs to be changed and that starts at the top... in order to change the unhealthy and dysfunctional narrative that has absorbed this club we need to remove everyone who presently occupies a position of power... only then can we get back to the business of playing championship caliber football, which should always be the number one priority of this organization... on an important side note, one of the most devastating mistakes made in the final days of this hectic and poorly planned transfer window didn't have to do with the big name players like Sanchez or Lemar, but the fact that they failed to secure Jadon Sancho, who might even start for Dortmund this season... I think they might seriously regret this oversight... instead of spending so much time, energy and manpower pretending that they were desperately trying to make big moves, they once again lost the plot due to their all too familiar tunnel vision

However the NHF chief executive David Orr says the market is «dysfunctional» and warned: «Home ownership is increasingly becoming the preserve of the wealthy and, in parts of the country like London, the very wealthy.»

It will be interesting to see how they spin this, since he was once a part of the very leadership team they deemed so dysfunctional.

The relationship at the very top of the party now seems completely dysfunctional.

Beyond the currently dysfunctional labor market for science jobs, something else that badly needs disrupting is the pernicious ideology that sees scientists seeking off - campus careers as failed academics rather than as experts who are very valuable to the right employers.

Motor neurons in the brain are not lost until the final stages of the disease, but starting very early in the process they appear to exist in a dysfunctional form.

The couple may have their own beliefs about why an aspect of their relationship is dysfunctional but through careful observation the relationship coach may determine that the source of the problem is very different from the couple's perception.

However, it does a very good job of showing Kurt as a troubled boy, growing up angry within a dysfunctional family, and the tragedy that evolves from him pretending not to care about being cool while desperately wanting to be loved and failing to deal in a healthy way with any kind of rejection.

Old School DOES have some very funny moments but the real problem is the three main characters are about as dysfunctional and sorry as people get.

I love Little Miss Sunshine, it's a fantastic independent epic that demonstrated not only a shocking realism to dysfunctional family relationships, behaviours and hardships, but demonstrated it in such a way that it wasn't miserable, it wasn't depressing — it was moving, smart and very funny.

-- and a very spot - on one at that — because, thereafter, the film's rocky first twenty minutes is so forcefully broad and madcap all at once to take in Joy's wacky dysfunctional life.

is a provocative dysfunctional family drama, very similar to others of its ilk in story, but very different in execution

Most of the first hour of «Mascots» is simply these «interviews» — and, sadly, most of it is not very funny, as these dysfunctional characters, played by the likes of Parker Posey, Tom Bennett, Chris O'Dowd, Zach Woods and Sarah Baker, are annoying, dull or both.

The first half is a portrait of a family that is not dysfunctional, but dealing with very real hassles.

The show, which is an adaptation of a British series, is ostensibly a comedy — about aging, about the dysfunctional health - care system, about the everyday indignities of being alive — and it is often very funny.

Rising stars Charlie Hunnam, Chris O'Dowd, and Lizzy Caplan enacting a not - very - funny dysfunctional family drama and romance.

(In Korean and English with subtitles) Dans Paris (Unrated) Dysfunctional family dramedy, unfolding around Paris over the course of one very eventful day during the Christmas season, examines the emotions of grieving parents (Guy Marchand and Marie - France Pisier) coming to grips with their daughter «s suicide while trying to cheer - up a depressed son (Romain Duris) and to keep tabs on their other boy (Louis Garrel) who «s frittering away the hours chasing women.