Sentences with phrase «wallow at»

«The beachgoers in Eric Fischl's paintings are real people caught with their guard down — often their bathing suits too — as they wade and wallow at surf's edge or lounge on the sand, sunlight slathering their naked thighs and shoulders.»

This, he suggested, means he's looking elsewhere for decent returns on his firm's huge fixed - income investments, as U.S. government bond yields look set to continue to wallow at historic depths.

Not exact matches

Sports can mirror our own failings at times — the low periods known as a losing effort at work and the wallowing colossal inability to rise to the challenge as a father.

«Constructive wallowing,» she argues, isn't simply a failure of backbone and grit, it's an occasion for self - compassion and a chance to learn about your negative feelings and fear so you can get better at working through them.

But instead of sitting here wallowing in envy of this super-heavyweight marketing marriage, let's look at what Disney is doing to promote the upcoming and eagerly awaited installment in the Star Wars series, «Star Wars: Episode VII — The Force Awakens» and outline five lessons we can use in our small business marketing campaigns.

When the next 20 % pullback happens, instead of wallowing in fear, smile at the incredible opportunity.

«Unlike the average American — wallowing in credit - card debt, clinging to a mortgage, terrified of the next downsizing at the office — he isn't worried about the economic crisis.

At our age, time is too precious to be wasted away in wallowing around in mud of his sort.

Dan had the good sense to be at a friend's house, playing Halo that night, so I wallowed alone in self - pity for a while before rousing myself to take a picture of the sugar - doused pie with my phone, tweet about the fiasco, and soak in the sympathy of my readers.

At a more subtle psychological level it becomes a useful word for those who do not really want to change, and so they indulge in a continual «confession of sin,» replacing the will to change with the ritual of wallowing in guilt.

English players don't mix it up enough, in fact Bale is the only British playing outside England and among the elites of Europe; French, Spanish, German players bring a mix of flavours to their game while the English players sit at home romanticizing the mediocre, wallowing in that sense of entitlement and never thrown at the deep end.

You had such a great time wallowing in your euphoria at seeing Walcott once again look supremely out of position and completely ineffective... that you failed to notice Walcott only scored after he was switched back to the WING... LOL.

It was Hubert Green at Houston, interrupting all the wallowing.

Those skeptics who arrived at the Cubs» camp in Mesa expecting to find it wallowing in a sea of coaching confusion were disappointed.

These guys will not be down for long, if at all, they are vets to All Sports Series and know that there is no time to wallow..

Trouble is, some «so called» fans need to be fed rubbish so that they can wallow in their misery and have a go at the club and manager for being incompetent in keeping our players.

I wallow in nostalgia, must be my age, so really enjoyed a look back at the 30's.

Many times they left loving spouses only to later wallow in misery with the one they found so compelling at the start — whom they now can hardly stand.

Held last weekend at Newton Park in Glen Ellyn, the event drew 100 6 - to 11 - year - olds, who squealed in delight as they wallowed in two 50 - by -50-foot expanses of mud.

You might get to look at your own reflection and wallow in self - pity for a moment or two while the baby gets entertained.

In spite of all these wealth and resources, Africa is wallowing in abject poverty, and as much as I agree that some of the causes of this unfortunate situation is the making of Africans themselves, much of the blame must be put at the doorsteps of some western countries, and I will explain.

A clever, savvy politician, Faso knows he has to create at least the appearance of distance from a president whose approval rate is wallowing in the 30s, while also holding fingers to winds from the left.

«Bloomberg's job - approval is over 50 percent, at a level most politicians would wallow in during this anti-incumbent storm, but it's way down from the heady 70 - plus heights the Mayor enjoyed before he ran for a third term,» Q pollster Mickey Carroll said.

We can not continue to die like chicken whilst our wives and children wallow in abject poverty and most at times, the education of deceased police officers children truncates.

At Pfennig's invitation, I had arrived at the American Museum of Natural History's Southwestern Research Station in mid-July — just after the early summer monsoons had turned cattle wallows into nursery ponds and newly hatched tadpoles into cannibalAt Pfennig's invitation, I had arrived at the American Museum of Natural History's Southwestern Research Station in mid-July — just after the early summer monsoons had turned cattle wallows into nursery ponds and newly hatched tadpoles into cannibalat the American Museum of Natural History's Southwestern Research Station in mid-July — just after the early summer monsoons had turned cattle wallows into nursery ponds and newly hatched tadpoles into cannibals.

Hippos wallow in freshwater pools during the day to escape the sun (right); at night they plow through the mud to grasslands to eat, trampling out hippo highways in the process.

I've been suffering through looking at outfit posts from across the country for weeks with girls showing off their bare legs and fun summery frocks only to wallow in our own cloudy darkness.

To start with, his joy at being home alone is infectious — instead of wallowing, why not indulge yourself and have a Christmas of doing what you want for a change?

Worse, at least for parents with little ones in tow, the new movie wallows in lame jokes aimed at adults, such as one where a husky, whisker - studded transsexual princess says of Prince Charming, he «makes me hotter than July.»

Practically zippy at times, with brief, puckish scenes hopping between decades, I, Tonya rarely wallows in dolefulness, despite the many misfortunes that fall upon the Harding household.

With understated grace and attention to the minutia of journalism, Spotlight sidesteps melodrama at every turn, never glorifying its reporters or wallowing in the lurid.

Yes, sure, it's mostly there to communicate period detail — and to wallow in the ways in which we were allowed to poison ourselves right there in front of God and society — but the sheer volume of cigarette smoke floating in the frame at any given time ends up contributing a lot to the misty atmospherics at play in Jackie.

Even worse is the film's wallowing in mass destruction — why not just stay at home, microwave some popcorn and YouTube clips from 9/11?

It's often a bummer to realize you're alone or at least widely abandoned in the act of loving a movie, so allow me to wallow in that terrible moment that the young revolutionaries experience late in this film's second act when they realized the citizenry has bolted their doors and abandoned them.

All the action sequences stop now, as the script wallows in the doldrums of survival at sea, with depictions of starvation that eventually lead to cannibalism.

The movie doesn't so much wallow in the abhorrent side of humanity as it showers, bathes, and dresses in it before heading off to work at MTV.

Payne wallows in this hick sideshow: There's a long shot of the extended family gawking like lobotomy patients at a sports game, while another scene set in a supremely tacky restaurant / karaoke bar finds Stacy Keach — as an old, bullying business partner — warbling out a painful rendition of «In The Ghetto.»

Or they may find shades of themselves in Barb, Julia Roberts's bitter daughter who bristles at Violet's barbs and wallows in a world of unfulfilled promise.

Manchester by the Sea goes on to be a fantastic meditation on the long tail of trauma, but one that doesn't wallow needlessly: There's such humor and humanity at work that the film manages to be cathartic.

But, far too much of Three Billboards trumps its humanity and empathy with vicious cynicism, which makes its goal of at least partially redeeming a handful of characters feel like little more than a hollow stab at stamping some sense of humanity on a film that otherwise wallows in the worst of it.

At first blush, it might have seemed that the series was just going to full - throttle go after Trump and his supporters, but these opening moments are a more damning indictment of obtuse liberals — I believe «snowflakes» is one word to describe them — who wallowed in self - pity and indignation after the election.

But at least wondering where they'll end up next adds some element of suspense and surprise to this otherwise formulaic wallow in treacly good intentions.

Neither guilty pleasure nor bodice - ripper, it's a wallow, a traipse through high heather that only hides the wet suck of the moors, and damned if it doesn't, when all's said and done, project something like a masculine gaze in its positioning of brooding, demonic Heathcliff at its centre.

And although there are a few gratuitous boob shots (including a convention - breaking one from Whitlow) and some sincerely awful special effects that are, again, forgiven for being the product of borrowed invention, there's nothing at the centre of the exercise except an invitation to wallow in our youthful lack of critical facility.

What can we do as educational and cultural workers, at this crucial moment in history, when corporate revenue expands as the job market shrinks, when there is such a callous disregard for human suffering and human life, when the indomitable human spirit gasps for air in an atmosphere of intellectual paralysis, social amnesia, and political quiescence, when the translucent hues of hope seem ever more ethereal, when thinking about the future seems anachronistic, when the concept of utopia has become irretrievably Disneyfied, when our social roles as citizens have become increasingly corporatized and instrumentalized in a world which hides necessity in the name of consumer desire, when media analyses of military invasions is just another infomercial for the US military industrial complex with its huge global arms industry, and when teachers and students alike wallow in absurdity, waiting for the junkyard of consumer life to vomit up yet another panacea for despair?

Then the teacher must leave, because helpless handraisers are experts at wallowing to keep you there.

Helpless handraisers are experts at wallowing.

The soft suspension setup does mean that the X1 wallows over undulations at higher speeds, though.

It's not going to induce sea - sickness though, and the E 350e doesn't wallow around at all.

Clicking the adaptive dampers to Sport mode shores up some of the wallow, and while the steering never whispers a single jot of information from those impossibly wide front tires, at least in Sport and Drag mode you don't feel like you're twirling an arcade game's tiller.