Sentences with phrase «with hands waving»

Weaning the Helpless Handraisers, Part 2 Last month, Tools for Teaching looked at verbal modalities for dealing with those helpless students who sit through Guided Practice with their hands waving in the air, waiting to be personally tutored.

Tools for Teaching: Weaning the Helpless Handraisers, Part 2 Last month, Tools for Teaching looked at verbal modalities for dealing with those helpless students who sit through Guided Practice with their hands waving in the air, waiting to be personally tutored.

Typically, you're met with hands waving in the air — the same hands every day; the same students saying the same thing: «I don't know what to do here.»

This is nothing but more shameful marketing from Duke personnel, obfuscating the situation with hand waving and double speak as was done for years as Baggerly and Coombes tried to shed light on this situation.

Many overweight people who use cream and sugar in their coffee laugh it off with a hand wave when you suggest that part of their weight problem is the «little bit» of cream and sugar in their coffee but it all adds up!

Did I miss not being able to adjust the volume with a hand wave?

Despite the fact that an average of models may or may not be physically realistic, the fact that their average and error bars all run so much higher than observation, and are so statistically significant, should not be overlooked with a hand wave.

There are a number of other problems of a similar funamental formulation variety and yet you continue to respond only with hand waving.

Shakun at least, went on the NYT record with a hand waving / wringing exercise that at best exaggerated the findings of the paper or at worst completely misrepresented it.

You can only pretend to do it with hand waving, sleight of of hand, and ad homs.

Not exact matches

First Lady Melania Trump made waves when she appeared to swat her husband's hand away while walking down a tarmac in Tel Aviv with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife, Sara, in May.

Think about it — how nice would it be to bypass a security area with a simple wave of your hand?

The company offers to implant its workers and startup members with microchips the size of grains of rice that function as swipe cards: to open doors, operate printers, or buy smoothies with a wave of the hand.

Waymo, on the other hand, has teamed up with other car manufacturers that are interested in its program, namely Fiat Chrysler, that wish to use Waymo's tech into a wave of new minivans.

He says this with a wave of the hand, leaning back in his chair.

The president's announcement of steel and aluminum tariffs last week sent shock waves across Washington, with internal White House divisions coming to a head, prompting the resignation of economic advisor Gary Cohn and strengthening the hand of trade advisor and economic nationalist Peter Navarro.

Damocles «So this supposed deity can create all of the universe with a mere wave of its hand, yet seems to have a difficult time getting the idea cross that slavery is wrong?

So this supposed deity can create all of the universe with a mere wave of its hand, yet seems to have a difficult time getting the idea cross that slavery is wrong?

And I remember the evangelist — a wild - eyed man waving a Bible in one hand, slicking his hair back with the other and shouting himself hoarse on the Good News.

I will not wave my hand in the air with the arrogance of the sopranos for I am not welcome here in this house;

Oh, the Calvinists could make perfect sense of it all with a wave of a hand and a swift, confident explanation about how Zarmina had been born in sin and likely predestined to spend eternity in hell to the glory of an angry God (they called her a «vessel of destruction»); about how I should just be thankful to be spared the same fate since it's what I deserve anyway; about how the Asian tsunami was just another one of God's temper tantrums sent to remind us all of His rage at our sin; about how I need not worry because «there is not one maverick molecule in the universe» so every hurricane, every earthquake, every war, every execution, every transaction in the slave trade, every rape of a child is part of God's sovereign plan, even God's idea; about how my objections to this paradigm represented unrepentant pride and a capitulation to humanism that placed too much inherent value on my fellow human beings; about how my intuitive sense of love and morality and right and wrong is so corrupted by my sin nature I can not trust it.

Any simple logic of cause and effect (the author employs much hand - waving with that phrase alone) would have cause being prior to effect.

Reality, Since there's such a huge body of literature arguing that orientation is something partly, mostly or completely socialized, or otherwise socially constructed, I find it silly for one researcher with the wave of a hand to dismiss all of that work to the contrary out of hand.

That Kierkegaard's thought is an important contribution to the debates over social and political philosophy is my firm belief, as against those who would dismiss such an idea with a wave of the hand and a chuckle.

It may be a heavy - handed allegory, but Neill Blomkamp's sci - fi blockbuster is part of a wave of recent films concerned with humanity's future — none of... More

We're talking about talking serpents, the parting of bodies of water with the wave of a hand, an impossible Ark, a vengeful hate - filled man - made god, rising from the dead, killing people who work on sunday or selling our daughters into slavery.

It's like in a magic trick when the magician is waving one hand about, with lots of color, light, and flourishes, that is the time to watch what his other hand is doing.

Here is where our theology becomes cold hard fact that can heartlessly call itself right and with a wave of the hand send all those who differ in thought and life to eternal torment.

Somewhere along the way they will likely make mention of the many Christians who do not condemn LGBTQ people, and rather than consider and respond to the arguments and beliefs of these other Christians, these pastors will just dismiss them with a wave of the hand and scornful comment about such views being «biblically illiterate.»

He would, with the wave of his hand, ensure that the world never ever moves away from the American greenback being the world's reserve currency so that the U.S. can simply print more money as required with nary a care.

My comment about hand - waving was directed at your expansion to «larger differences», rather than dealing with the issue at hand.

If you look deeply into ANY religion you will see that it doesn't make any logical sense, like talking burning bushes and virgin birth and dead people coming back to life in three days and parting seas with the wave of a hand or walking on water or poison won't kill you and neither will a copperhead.

There is plenty evidence, atheist extremists just dismiss it all with a simple wave of the hand.

I do not want to be the tyrant that waves a hand with anger or fear or hate only to cause more bad things.

True Friend, I as an atheist and human being like you, would not want (and do not want to see) a system of government, culture, society, religion, or authority where if I were to wave a careless hand with unthinking anger, the deaths of anyone would be encompassed, much less the deaths of billions of human beings of any belief?

If Jesus wanted us all to have health care, couldn't he just wave his hand and make us all healthy to begin with?

Waving a dismissive hand toward our daughter, who until this point had tried her darndest to win the doctor's attention with coy smiles and giggles, this gifted physician who knew so much about the disease abruptly replied, «We want to ensure you don't have another one of those!»

(a traditional italian summer drink made with almond syrup), we do eat watermelon and blackberries, but the pine grove, the woods and the beach are not always close at hand, and instead we have heat waves, damp weather and weepy children...

Our hands shot up along with almost half the group, and we were all waved over to join a stocky Hawaiian in non-descript baggy pants.

With the largest selection of personally brewed coffees in the country, hand - pulled espresso and latte art, CoffeeKitchen is all about this third wave of coffee.»

Flicking away mosquitoes with a wave of a hand, listening to the creak of a kid pumping back and forth on a swing set all alone, overhearing the drama of some poor folks down the way have a shouting match (He my baby!

New York Yankee catcher Thurman Munson, waiting at home greeted Jackson with both hands, then gave him a little Sinatra wave of advance, as if the Yankee dugout were Munson's office and he had just asked Jackson in for smokes and a martini.

And then, with a wave of his hand, he sends them off.

He slowly jogged back with his hand in the air, waving to the crowd and soaking in the adulation.

Dismissing him with a wave of your hand because of a handful of second - half and postseason starts seems dangerous.

And facts is majority of the current squad are the top four recruit, who are to be sorted out, that can not be done with a wave of the hands.

But it was his opposite number Kevin Trapp who made the outstanding save of the match, tipping Diego Costa's header onto the bar with a nonchalant wave of his hand.

With 5points lead & 2games in hand for Chelsea, I don't think its too early for Man City to wave retaining the trophy bye!

The Emirates faithful get stung with the biggest entrance fee's for their patients and loyalty and you expect them to do a Mexican wave, whilst Wenger spends most of his time sitting in the dugout, with his face buried in his hands!

he says with a wave of the hand.