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Democrats wasted no time in patting themselves on the back.
That night last week, the Rondons took stock, patting pockets.
"You did the right thing," said Shifa, patting Eliana's arm.
To: Lisa Lerer I'm Patting Myself on the Back Today!!
But don't go patting Apple on the back just yet.
"Come, sit," I said, scooting over and patting the bench.
Trump also establishes dominance by patting Abe on the hand.
"I'm not patting myself on the back yet," he says.
"It's the order of things," he explains, patting her head.
"This faggot!" he replied, as he began patting him down angrily.
"The fear," she added, patting her chest, "has affected my heart."
I grumble the whole way with N. sympathetically patting my back.
Water, patting, comforting; I have to pick it off the pillow.
"Not so mean," Tommy says, patting his friend on the back.
" Dana consoled Cormier ... patting his back, saying, "F***, I'm so sorry.
All that back rubbing and patting was not scripted at all.
Not by scapegoating other countries and patting ourselves on the back.
Then came everyone else, patting Naeher's back and shoulders, smothering her.
I'm getting kinda tired of patting Jeff Flake on the back.
Everyone agrees that this is a time for back-patting, right?
"Say hello to your boy," he added, patting the justice's arm.
"This sends a strong visual message," Lewis said, patting his rifle.
He misses patting the cows and scratching them behind their ears.
"These are the moneymakers," said Mr. Legarreta, 38, patting his legs.
Recently I've been patting Vintner's Daughter Active Botanical Serum on after.
"Don't be afraid," Fatlawi said, patting him reassuringly on the back.
"Relax your body," she said over and over, patting his back.
You're always patting yourself on the back if you're doing that.
"I love you," Jin says to Suga, patting him on the shoulder.
At the prayer breakfast Thursday Trump continued patting himself on the back.
After that, physical contact was limited to just patting on the head.
But the two camps are hardly patting each other on the back.
Jessica cradles her with both hands, her right hand patting her back.
Are you patting yourself on the back for hitting the sheets early?
It goes beyond back-patting; she believes in engaging and challenging others.
Finish by patting bronze, shimmery shadow onto lips with your ring finger.
"I'm actually pregnant and due in April," she said, patting her stomach.
She was patting at his jeans, which were draped over the chair.
"Calm down," Landrum said, smiling and patting the side of the bed.
The press is celebrating and Congress is patting itself on the back.
"We are with you," Mr. Pence said in English, patting his hand.
As expected, the two companies issued statements patting each other on the back.
" Afterwards, she said,"Everybody behind me was just patting me on the back.
Step 1: Start by patting a black, matte eyeshadow all over your eyelid.
Definitely patting myself on the back for some personal growth for this one.
How can you mess up patting a steak with paper towels, you ask?
"New York deserves a box like this," Bartlett said, patting its curved top.
His body language betrayed constant anxiousness: fussing with the tie, patting his stomach.
But still, as my son got older, I found myself patting him down.
"I'm doing them today," the 34-year-old said, patting his vest pocket.
"I have confidence we'll find work," Mr. Morales said, patting his son's arm.
Now his favorite game is patting down and shackling "migrants" with plastic cuffs.
"It wasn't just, 'Gee whiz,' and patting them on the back," he said.
This POTUS seems unable to stop physically patting everything — and everyone — around him.
In the video, you first see an officer patting down Johnson for weapons.
Most were busy patting one another on the back for a job well done.
There's no doubt the members of The Academy are patting themselves on the back.
Zuckerberg's tone-deaf remarks read like 1,000 words of patting himself on the back.
Nobody in this chain of self-aggrandizement and back-patting really believes it's legitimate.
The Prez kept patting Kim in a friendly way ... and kinda guided him inside.
It's for a purpose greater than simply the industry patting itself on the back.
After washing my face and patting dry, I reached for the sleek silver bottle.
Gone are the days of hovering and patting until I'm sure she's completely asleep.
He was a hand-shaking, back-patting politician hiding a very ugly dark side.
"It's quite old, probably been around since the 1970s," he says, patting it affectionately.
"Siéntese, siéntese" — sit down, sit down, she said, patting the seat next to her.
"She keeps her focus really well," Ms. Gee said, patting Ozma, a retriever mix.
Past the firestone where Fatma is patting dough, as she has for 60 years.
"He's got it in here," said Red Sox starter Rick Porcello, patting his chest.
The Japanese are not comfortable with extra gestures of affection like the hand patting.
Here she is patting Drumstrick, one of the turkeys that got pardoned by the president.
On one occasion, a Nazi stopped her and her clandestine radio operator, patting them down.
My hair is so soft afterwards, I can't stop patting myself on the head, literally.
Emma Stone was spotted patting her boyfriend Dave McCary's thigh during their rare appearance together.
In one YouTube video he described "stimming" -- self-stimulating behavior such as patting the chest.
He shrugged before patting his hair to make sure it looked good for the camera.
Patting his chest to check for the hidden pocket sewn into his shirt, Babr smiled.
So Ryan is patting himself on the back for giving a schoolteacher some French fries.
She swaps between using different pressures of strokes, dotting, swiping, patting, and smearing the paint.
"Thank you so much," Mr. O'Rourke said, gently patting the sleeping child on her back.
As officer Rodney Vawter joined him, Silver rolled Wiggington onto his side, patting him down.
I&aposm gonna dip my finger into the glitter and just start patting that on.
You heard it here first, everyone: All the excitement over Wonder Woman is just "self-congratulatory back-patting" from "male Hollywood doing the same old thing," but male Hollywood director James Cameron patting himself on the back for creating Sarah Connor is real feminism.
Apple is patting itself on the back for hitting its goal of 100 percent clean energy.
As they stood side by side, there was a lot of shoulder-patting back and forth.
Now, Christie is patting himself on the back for the restraint he showed during the exchange.
Remember the New Orleans mayor went to prison for patting his pockets with hurricane Katrina money.
The ceremony ends with the taitas singing to participants and patting their backs with dried leaves.
The Senate is the most back-slapping, arm-patting, one-arm hugging place you can imagine.
Also, Trump is patting himself on the back here -- in case you somehow missed that. 5.
"It's fucking awesome—an absolute beast," Ebsworth says of the huge smoker, patting its side proudly.
Patting oneself on the back is often oafish, but in this case it was also offensive.
To avoid that, many Washington Republicans have no intention of patting Mr. Bannon on the head.
In his monologue, Mr. Fallon seemed determined to show that his head-patting hand had claws.
"Have the baby soon," Collins said, patting him, the final word on a pretty successful day.
You look terrible, he said, patting my face, and my hearing was only half underwater now.
There are two affective ideas here [patting the furry bunny ears of his Lapin Câlin chair].
"I think they have some terrific ideas," Castor said, all but patting activists on the head.
Still, some prominent art critics are patting Saatchi on the back, hailing the show as important.
"I respect your view," he said, patting Mr. Kierstead on the shoulder and starting to walk away.
I met her this morning," Lindsay said, patting Locklear's shoulder, "and she's the best friend I got.
"Thank you for recollecting the Australian people's pure and innocent childhood," Pak says kindly, patting my hand.
In one YouTube video she described "stimming" -- self-stimulating behavior such as patting herself on the chest.
I've got this covered, I assure her team, patting my finger on my extensive list of questions.
After patting dry again, I oohed and aahed as I did a double take in the mirror.
"They were patting him down and trying to see if he did have money," Narier Ducasse said.
"It's an old bathing suit that I glued plastic flowers on," she said, patting down a gardenia.
I did not know you could applaud while patting yourself on the back at the same time.
The smaller boy had a wet paper towel in his hand and he was patting my cheeks.
"Nobody is around here patting themselves on the back and saying, 'Oh, we succeeded,'" Mr. Duggan said.
When the statue was unveiled, the pope examined it closely, at times patting a figure or two.
" "There's a difference between, you know, patting someone on the butt and rape or child molestation, right?
I'm not patting myself or our team on the back, but they worked hard day and night.
They dipped and washed and dipped back into the warm water again, before patting her skin dry.
It's like patting your head while rubbing your belly ... while tap dancing and reciting the alphabet backward.
So, let's not go patting Amazon on the back for realizing that puppy abuse isn't a good look.
Expect a new round of "everything is hunky dory" back-patting from the company's executives at that time.
As Southern Baptist we cannot assume a posture of patting ourselves on the back, but continue the conversation.
They still face discrimination and stereotyping, even though Hollywood is patting itself on the back for making strides.
Place the funnel in the basin, and spoon in your espresso (not coffee) grounds, lightly patting them down.
For my daughter Ellie, one thing that always seems to do the trick is gently patting her back.
Despite footage of police officers patting armed white shirts on the shoulder, the police arrested only six men.
"We stamp it down so it does not come out," he said, patting the ground with his boot.
It's never as simple as just patting on some foundation or swiping on lipstick straight from the tube.
"No, the fact that you approached them means you did," Mr. Cui said, patting him on the back.
Another brief video clip shows Trump casually patting Putin on the back as they stand side by side.
If they're patting themselves on the back and saying, "I saw 'Moonlight,' therefore, like, I've accomplished something," no.
"All the self-congratulatory back-patting Hollywood's been doing over Wonder Woman has been so misguided," he said.
There are a lot more questions, more patting down and checking inside my waistband when I'm by myself.
I remember looking back at my Mum as we got out the car, patting my pocket to reassure her my 3510 was charged, patting the top of the car because I'd seen grown-ups do it on TV, and then slamming the door shut and disappearing into the adult world.
One screener apparently missed a fake bomb that had been strapped to an agent's back, despite patting him down.
Neighbor Sam Hunt took quick notice and couldn't resist patting the rump – obviously ignoring Bryan's no-butt-grabbing rule.
"All of the self-congratulatory back-patting Hollywood's been doing over Wonder Woman has been so misguided," he said.
The party footage also shows Trump grabbing one of the women by her waist... ...and then patting her behind.
The children led their pet dogs around the grounds, with Mia affectionately patting her boxer, Spey, on the back.
If you're patting yourself on the back for minuscule efforts to save, you might want to rethink your strategies.
Jacques Chirac used to spend whole days at the fair drinking and speaking with farmers while patting their cows.
Blend the green into your skin by gently patting it with your ring finger until it disappears into skin.
I was astonished to see the adjacent home owners coming out and patting him on the back for this.
Their reflexive back-patting felt mostly like P.R. — efforts to claim the mantle of disruptive change without actual disruption.
Remember the Trump head-patting incident, in which he palled around with our soon-to-be autocrat in chief?
When he's travelling, it enables him to find light switches and remote controls without patting down entire hotel rooms.
Just spitballing here, but if season 6 is all about devil-worshippers, we're totally patting ourselves on the back.
"Patting someone on the butt," as Matt Damon recently put it, may or may not do lasting psychological harm.
Organizers, assisted by the Austin police, bolstered security, patting down fans and conducting searches as people neared the grounds.
He now hides when visitors arrive, and his favorite game is patting down and shackling "migrants" with plastic cuffs.
A member of the staff was seen patting the back of K. Sivan, the director of India's space program.
There's been a lot of discussion lately about professional standards of workplace contact: beware hugging, patting or any touching.
After the shoulder-patting incident, Rubio continued speaking to reporters, but then a staffer said he had to go.
Trump kept his remarks brief, although he couldn't resist patting himself for having studied "every aspect" of his nominee's life.
"A very simple machine, and a very troublesome one," said Mr. Hecht, patting a sewing machine on a recent afternoon.
As for meeting her daughter for the first time, Kotb says "she fit right here," patting her bent left arm.
They began patting one another on the arm, scratching a wrist, grasping a hand and waiting for an answered grip.
Then we all share what we found with our like-minded social networks, creating closed-off, shoulder-patting circles online.
They're their own microcosm of shit, retweeting and back-patting in an endless orgy of sub-Family Guy tweet-skits.
He'd be fully autonomous, but in a way we'd be patting him on the back, pointing where he should go.
Mr. Meenan described the priest — who had been drinking — rubbing and patting the sides of his body over the blankets.
Before the full psychological implications could reverberate, Djokovic was curled over in embarrassment and reassuringly patting Federer on the back.
"I don't think the State Legislature should be patting itself on the back" for closing the loophole, Mr. Norden said.
"She went through a little rough patch, but she's doing great," Mr. Trump said, patting his wife on the hand.
But with fires having ravaged California, this corridor of celebrity back-patting might have appeared to be in bad taste.
"Hi Janelle, sit down here," she said, patting the bed, and Janelle knew right away that something was off. Mrs.
"It's logical once you get it, but at first it's like patting your head and rubbing your stomach," she explained.
To her credit, Thurnberg has shown no fear, nor any sign of being assuaged by authority figure's head-patting patronage.
" Whitmore: "President Trump's handshake is solid and genuine, but adds an extra 'gesture' by patting underneath President Putin's right arm.
At other times he seems to be blotting his work, like a parent patting a baby dry after a bath.
Tied up and waiting for their owners to return, while you contemplate patting them to help them with their separation anxiety.
He was seen patting Durant on the back before yelling "f—" over and over again, per a video posted by ESPN.
The government report from 22018 noted that patting down passengers slows security lines and may increase costs by requiring extra screeners.
In recent years, his midsection has relaxed a bit, but he assured me, while patting it, that it remains quite firm.
I'll still double cleanse and smear snail mucin on my cheeks, to my roommate's horror, before patting on my daily moisturizer.
Kimora's husband Tim Leissner can be seen sweetly patting Aoki on the back as Kimora screams "Yay" loudly in the background.
That's just the question: How far do you extend the zone of security before you're wanding everyone and patting everyone down?
Kneeling down, Rodriguez began massaging his bats and meticulously patting them down with a rosin bag, ready to go to work.
The biggest clown must be White House "correspondent" Jim Acosta, who will likely need rotator cuff surgery for excessive back patting.
You should use a patting motion rather than a wiping motion to prevent anal tears, and steer clear of baby wipes.
If you can't access a bidet, be sure to use a patting motion when you clean up to prevent anal tears.
Patting yourself down to check that you have everything becomes impractical, unless you want to fumble around like an old fool.
And this brings us back to his inability to resist patting Gingrich on the back for his verbal tirade against Kelly.
"You made it," one colleague called out as a group of senators circled him, grinning and patting him on the shoulder.
Coat all the pieces of steak with a generous layer of salt on all sides, really patting it into the flesh.
For example, do such individuals protest to the policeman who is patting down an African-American teenager on the subway platform?
"Good to see you, man," Biden said, patting the shoulders of a guy in a Boston Bruins cap near the entrance.
A general was seen distributing 1,000-rupee notes to demonstrators and patting them on the back: Are we not with you?
"I can tell," Liz said, patting me on the back before scrambling past in her full-length dress, apron and bonnet.
Even if they feel small, remember that your more privileged colleagues likely wouldn't think twice about patting themselves on the back.
"They were patting us down like there was another shooter," said Melody Dorward, 22, of Ohio, who walked the railroad tracks.
" — STEPHEN COLBERT "Tomorrow you'll be patting, rubbing, and stuffing your turkey, while today, the T.S.A. did all of that to you.
Mr. Trump, dressed in a tuxedo, basked in the attention as he walked through the tables, shaking hands and patting backs.
The president needs to disable his Twitter account, stop patting himself on the back and start showing leadership, solutions and results.
Of course, you can also expect the ceremony to hit its traditional beats, with plenty of celebration and Hollywood back patting.
Prepare to hate-watch an amalgamation of slinky gowns, teleprompter fumbles, and white guys literally patting each other on the back.
"All of the self-congratulatory back-patting Hollywood's been doing over Wonder Woman has been so misguided," he said in the interview.
I hate the idea of patting myself on the back by putting a song out and yelling, 'look at my deep art!
The iPhone's 10th anniversary launch was today, and Apple's arms are just about to fall off from patting itself on the back.
In a recent Instagram post, we can see her patting a cotton round on her eyes (is that micellar water, by chance?).
In Let's Go, however, Eevee consistently defaults to this "eh-vie" version, whether you're patting its head or tossing it into battle.
"There's a difference between patting someone on the butt and rape or child molestation, right?" he told ABC's Popcorn With Peter Travers.
"I tell you one thing, he has one hell of a good marriage going," the president said, patting Pence on the shoulder.
The organization even sent a later tweet patting itself on the back for awarding "12 Nobel Medicine Women" in all 116 years.
To keep your backside happy, Goldstein recommended using a patting motion rather than a wiping motion and being as gentle as possible.
Patting Juba was seen as a black thing, even if there were Irish and Scottish tinges, so Diamond performed it that way.
Maybe they don't care, or maybe these revised numbers tally better with their internal metrics and they're patting themselves on the back.
It's almost like having a black president and patting yourself on the back and saying, 'Oh boy, aren't we a wonderful country?
"This thing takes more abuse than the space shuttle," said Kelvin McGee, the sub's stout, irrepressible operations manager, patting the side proudly.
The paragraphs that followed described a meeting in which engineers were patting themselves on the back for giving users such "meaningful" experiences.
"It was very emotional because it was Janko's last," Zimonjic said, breaking down as Djokovic tried to help by patting his leg.
Twenty minutes into the speech, he's still said absolutely nothing, and spends most of the time simply patting himself on the back.
It's not like we're sitting around patting ourselves on the back all the time, it just ... Why does it make it better?
So they, typically, make everything all about themselves and lose sight of the real tragedy in the face of their own back-patting.
My uncle Eggie would come upstairs from the basement and lie on the hardwood floor in the living room, patting his round belly.
It was a big deal for much of 1003 and 2014, accompanied by a lot of flag-waving bombast and back-patting bravado.
Possibly the most wholesome entry on this list, this trend involves patting your cat to the beat of "Flamingo" by Kero Kero Bonito.
Cops asked if anyone has anything on them but no one admits to the weed and that's when cops start patting them down.
And I can't ignore Amazon's knack for patting itself on the back even after being pressured by outside forces to do something good.
Even as the virus spreads across the country, Trump is insisting it's all contained and patting himself on the back for his efforts.
There was the wailing 2-year-old in the dark, barely higher than the knees of the border agent patting down her mother.
He explains in his back-patting new memoir that he specialized in keeping clients happy by identifying and then fulfilling their wildest dreams.
"You're basically patting them on the head and saying don't do that again," said Anthony Thornton, 22016, the leader of the tenants' association.
I quickly dissuade one of our cats from stretching out over the puzzle, instead patting an area next to me for her siesta.
A video of the mother-son moment showed Flaherty patting his mother on the back during their long embrace as the crowd cheered.
Some told me they thought it was a method of national back-patting — especially some of the non-indigenous writers I spoke to.
The leaders shook hands heartily when Mr. Trudeau arrived at the White House, patting each other on the shoulder with their free hands.
However, in a performance of the most liberal cliché, the show also spent way too much time patting themselves on the back about it.
A video clip showed Trump outstretching his hand to Putin as officials gathered around a table, then patting Putin's elbow as both men smiled.
It's not a perfect series and it has a way of patting itself on the back for being an oh-so-progressive social critique.
Rihanna showed fans how easily you can use it by patting the Fairy Bomb ball all over her chest to reveal a shimmery glow.
Often laughing, patting each other on the back and sharing tidbits of the script's writing process, the long-time friends reprised their roles perfectly.
Perhaps you missed Trump patting himself on the back for, essentially, not being sued for discrimination in Palm Beach when he opened a club.
In Payne's video of the incident, a female TSA officer can bee seen patting down the 10-year-old's arms, torso, legs and waist.
But that back-patting isn't as aggravating as the fact that Sorkin seems to view Molly's story as largely one about fathers and daughters.
Each time you got a good grade, it was like the teacher was patting you on the head and calling you a good boy.
"There's a bit of pressure going down there!" she says, patting his back, implying that his body weight has enough force to demolish garlic.
Educators and lawmakers should stop patting themselves on their backs for creating policies that allow only a few kids to slip through to success.
"THIS HAS PRINTED OVER THREE 'UNDRED DOCUMENTS FOR ME, THE BEAUTY," he'd say, while patting it affectionately in front of the board of directors.
In the neat, stylized ensemble dances with their primly patting hands, Mr. Taylor suggests both the tamping down of feeling and a robotic conformity.
Mr. Hallyday arrived onto a pop scene that was dominated by well-spoken musicians in neckties, pitter-patting out songs full of saucy wordplay.
They spread their arms wide and embraced at length, the rabbi patting the pastor rhythmically on the back as the pastor drew him close.
He showed outward relief when Judge Matsumoto said he was not guilty on count seven, mouthing "Yes" and patting Mr. Brafman on the back.
I'm not ashamed to admit that it was unadulterated, pure bragging-rights, puffed-up, patting-myself-on-the-back, social-media-post-worthy-pride.
The scene at the airport was just like the emoji she'd sent, of the big character patting the small one as they both cried.
I started by rubbing the product in with my hands, but quickly switched over to patting it in with a bodyblender to avoid shiny palms.
Trump then shifted into his favored back-patting posture, citing both isolated and abstract points about job creation in the automotive, pharmaceutical and defense industries.
" He added, "I do believe there's a spectrum of behavior … There's a difference between patting someone on the butt and rape or child molestation, right?
The two leaders looked like they were having a great time together, repeatedly patting each other on the back and pointing to things in parade.
Authorities in Rio really showed Ryan Lochte and his teammates who's the boss -- just ask Rio authorities, who are patting themselves on the back ... hard!
She posted a video on Facebook of a TSA agent patting him down, and people are still writing outraged comments, mostly in support of Williamson.
He steps into it and he starts grabbing the President's hand and pulling it in, patting him on the back for both dominance and support.
Merrick Garland's nomination expired on Tuesday and Mitch McConnell wasted no time in patting himself on the back for doing absolutely nothing for ten months.
It turns out the answer doesn't matter much, because the Paris Agreement was little more than another exercise in United Nations self-congratulatory back-patting.
The Duke of Sussex gave Goodall what's known as a "chimp greeting" by bending down and patting her on the head before the two hugged.
I felt like patting him on the shoulder and telling him that everything would be O.K. In his hand I noticed a priority mail envelope.
Progressiveness and diversity themselves have become commodified as yet another fad that the web of global media can exploit while patting itself on the back.
This disparity is ultimately infantilizing of female athletes, patting them on the head for off-field stories, as if their on-court accomplishments aren't enough.
" Speaking on ABC News in December, Mr. Damon had said there was "a difference between patting someone on the butt and rape or child molestation.
But this presumption has become part of Mr. Trump's narrative in patting himself on the back for reaching out to North Korea to make peace.
" It's Matt Damon saying, in defense of Al Franken, that "there's a difference between, you know, patting someone on the butt and rape or child molestation.
It looks like Luckey is trying to keep that idea alive while simultaneously patting himself on the back for taking a dig at Facebook and Oculus.
Once she finished her eyes, she added even more brightness to the under eye region by patting on some of the KKW Beauty brightening powder ($18).
The day began with Trump patting Kim on the back and placing his hand on the North Korean's shoulder as they walked into their first meeting.
Like rubbing your tummy while patting your head, water bottle flipping is one of those magical activities that requires minimal coordination while achieving maximum time wasted.
After 30 seconds of washing and rinsing, my skin was baby soft; and after patting dry, every pore looked tighter and my complexion was noticeably even.
The rugby boys proved by far the most raucous group on the dancefloor, patting each other on the back and palling around like real house lads.
As soon as agents finished patting down Mr. Gabriel to ensure he was not carrying weapons or drugs, he rushed to his family and embraced them.
He used to love playing with Minions, the impish characters from "Despicable Me." Now his favorite game is patting down and shackling "migrants" with plastic cuffs.
In effect, Mr. Ryan and his colleagues are patting themselves on the back for lowering health insurance premiums by taking away people's access to medical services.
A man named Boone Scheer said his mother-in-law was patting Mickey to show her young grandson that he shouldn't be afraid of the character.
An aging blond bombshell strolls by in a low-cut blouse, giving the protesters a leisurely finger, blowing them kisses, patting one of her large breasts.
I mean, they're still around — but as part of back-patting nostalgia (in concert or on HBO) or hosting the Grammys or cooking with Martha Stewart.
While Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visited the White House in February, Trump shook his hand for 19 seconds, patting it several times and drawing it closer.
She pushes the breakfast things to one side, fills the colander with dead frogs from the fridge and starts rinsing and patting them dry on kitchen towels.
For seasoning the turkey, I like the dry-brine method, patting a mix of salt, herbs and aromatics onto the turkey a day or two before roasting.
The officer ordered Callaway to put his hands in the air and not move before patting down Callaway, who told the officer his gun is in Florida.
The executioners tried to comfort Mr. Campbell as they searched for a way to execute him, The A.P. said, by patting him on the arm and shoulder.
Westbrook bent over and calmly spoke to a man nearby and the child, patting him on the knee and shaking his hand before returning to the game.
There's some similar back patting in "Nassim," which is directed by Omar Elerian, but this work is smaller and gentler and a lot more moving for it.
There is no telling how many lives could have been saved had the federal government been aware of the carnage rather than patting itself on the back.
Specific scenarios such as the lap-patting relative or lollipop-offering stranger can be good to mention, but it's most important to instill an understanding of consent.
It&aposs, like, a fine line between letting it dry too much and letting it be just enough dry for you to start patting that glitter in.
Facing growing right-wing hostility, the best they could offer was patting the backs of 200,000 people who probably would have been better off knocking on doors.
He says a couple more unnecessary sentences about nothing really, before patting Complex's Nadeska Alexis on the shoulder in a super condescending way when she calls Thugger brave.
"I think it's a great sport, I was really sporty when I was little, less so now that I've got lots of babies!" she said, patting her belly.
You are going to have people who are patting you on the back, and you are going to have people who are gunning for you no matter what.
And we're going to have to figure out what — you know, there's a difference between, you know, patting someone on the butt, and rape or child molestation, right?
Amidst such consummate head patting, however, critics have yet to offer an in-depth analysis of some of the more beguiling choices Zayn makes on Mind of Mine.
While Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visited the White House in February, Trump shook his hand for 19 seconds, even patting it several times and pulling it closer.
Scores of passengers lost domestic flights after authorities began patting down travelers and checking their luggage after passing through metal detectors, screening previously required only for international flights.
Mr. Booker lead the audience in a standing ovation, as Ms. Turner-Barnes made her way to her seat, wiping away a tear and patting her heart. video
"It doesn't feel right to be patting ourselves on the back that night like we would normally do," Margaret Comeaux, the show's executive producer, said in an interview.
The decision said Ramirez had taken about 10 photos of male border officials inspecting and patting down female travelers, before his camera was confiscated and the photos deleted.
"You can't buy this type of handmade cloth at the market," Ms. Yang said, patting a bolt of gleaming indigo-colored cloth with her wrinkled, navy-stained hands.
That can be done by patting the meat dry or, as a longer-term strategy, salting meat a day in advance and letting it dry in the refrigerator.
Mr. Trump singled out Mr. Comey from across the Blue Room and summoned him, pulling him in and patting him on the back as the two shook hands.
" Thomas added: "Honestly, it's hard for me to even pat myself on the back without patting the people around me on the back, because they've helped me tremendously.
"When I was Speaker and having a rough week, I could always count on Donald calling me, patting me on the back and cheering me up," Boehner said.
I could see them patting themselves on the back, that we're thinking of I can just ... It's like an episode of "Silicon Valley" in a lot of ways.
Patting someone's hand in this way pretends to be an affectionate gesture of approval, but its real purpose is to remind the other person who's actually in charge.
She starts by patting a small chicken (a spring chicken, if you will) dry with paper towels, then salting the heck out of it, both inside and out.
But you would not be able to tell that as the G-7 leaders were patting each other's back in Japan last week by praising their collective economic achievements.
But before we start patting ourselves on the back for appreciating world history, it might be a good idea to look at our own country's role in its destruction.
The girl uses both hands and continues to pull at her, reaching around her mother's neck and trying to pull her head up; grabbing her chin and patting it.
"It was cracking me up because I found myself soothing her just like a human baby, rocking her, patting her gently, 'shushing' her quietly when she wiggled," Wright said.
"We ain't feeling too much of all that economic growth that I heard was going on, patting themselves on the back," said Ralph Kingan, the mayor of Wright, Wyo.
"I don't mean to be patting ourselves on the back, but my singers don't do the usual sort of choral programs," he told The New York Times in 21969.
And the last time he made statements about immigration and white birth rates, he told the Hill that his colleagues were "patting me on the back" for the comments.
Anything bulkier would've been easily recognizable by the guards, who were patting us down, one by one, as we made our way through the gate into Folsom's inner compound.
Conor McGregor fueled Rita Ora dating rumors on Wednesday night ... shouting her out at the club while patting his heart BEFORE showing love to his baby mama, Dee Devlin.
I think the readers we've heard from, and the discussion on social media, raise good questions about why there's a platform dedicated to patting a president on the back.
If you search for dog food on Amazon, you'll probably find a bag with a picture of a woman perched on an ocean cliff patting a fluffy, golden dog.
But strolling along the quay at Kastellorizo on Tuesday, patting a few toddlers and listening to their parents' gripes about island life, Mr. Tsipras appeared to have other ideas.
I often think about these two schools of thought, a brand of harsh honesty versus a knack for patting on the back, even when you aren't quite on board.
The best practices include washing your tattoo every night (gently, with a fragrance-free soap), patting it dry with a paper towel, and applying a thin layer of ointment (Dr.
So–STOP IT." In August, Cameron called the film "a step backwards," claiming "all of the self-congratulatory back-patting Hollywood's been doing over Wonder Woman has been so misguided.
That's not to say that men can't be feminists — but patting yourself on the back for being an ally, rather than lifting up the voices of women, is not feminism.
But on Boris weeks, the regulars are still "vaguely Slavic, vaguely paunchy," as Charles Kramer, a 248-year-old lawyer and a regular for decades, described it, patting his belly.
Fisher has recently done a little self-back-patting over the Rams' current success, saying in a recent interview he feels at least partly responsible for the team's unbelievable turnaround.
"I think for most people who do a couple different jobs on their shows … I think that you never have a feeling of patting yourself on the back," she said.
Bear guide David De Meulles was leading a small polar bear watching expedition through North Star Tours, when he spied one of the bears patting a dog on the head.
"We're going to have to figure — you know, there's a difference between, you know, patting someone on the butt and rape or child molestation, right?" he said in the interview.
"The relationship has developed to the point where I'm wearing Gary's clothes right now, because Swiss Air lost my bags," Damon said while laughing and patting White on his knee.
And on Friday Trump struck again, this time shaking, gently patting, and violently pulling Shinzo Abe's hand for several seconds, to the increasing consternation of the Japanese prime minister. Pres.
There's no makeover montage, but the resulting footage of the new and improved Pierre, suggesting improvements for his estates and patting children on the head, might as well be one.
Annie Colao, 18, said she wasn't "patting myself on the back" for being there during spring break but actually "feeling guilty for not having stepped up" against gun violence sooner.
Other than patting itself on the back for killing Sea Year, the leadership was completely silent on any real-world proposals to protect our midshipmen at sea or on campus.
"There are a lot of things I'm unhappy about in this bill," he said, patting the more than 2,000 pages of the legislation stacked on a purple box beside him.
When he resisted, Officer David Mercado punched his face and then pressed his right forearm against the teenager's throat for half a minute while patting him down, the teenager testified.
If you want to try that, Benefit Cosmetics Global Brow Expert, Jared Bailey, suggests patting high-coverage concealer over the outside hairs before setting them with matte highlighter or powder.
The Terminator director made his thoughts known in a recent interview with The Guardian: All of the self-congratulatory back-patting Hollywood's been doing over Wonder Woman has been so misguided.
It is unclear why the dolphin was initially removed from the water, and the new video cuts off after the dolphin is laid on the sand and people are patting it.
While Zuck is busy patting himself on the back for finally admitting a reality heretofore obvious to everyone but him, it's the rest of us that are left holding the bag.
More mellow afterwards, he would lounge in his white cap and dishdasha on the sofa, picking his teeth and patting his stomach while his wife served up his glass of coffee.
I have no problem rubbing and patting her back to comfort her, but it becomes a problem when her eyes would pop wide open the second I take my hand away.
"James came into the green room and every producer was patting him on the back, saying, 'Hey champ,'" said Alix Basden, who came in second to Holzhauer on his 16th game.
The U.S. track and field team (and its Nike-controlled deep state) are patting themselves on the back because they decided not to sue other athletes for wearing off-brand sneakers.
So it's maddening to see world leaders posturing in the spotlight and patting themselves on the back while doing so little to tackle humanitarian crises that they themselves have helped create.
However, Monday night's "Week 6, Part 1" proves the reality show has more of a reason to keep the their best queer pairing in Sayulita than patting itself on the back.
Rogers deploys several original samples, drawn from recordings of a mourning dove, found conversations from a marketplace in Morocco, finger snaps, and the patting of her own thighs through her jeans.
Of the three dozen men in his unit, Mr. Ross may well be the most buoyant, the one patting other inmates' backs with encouragement as they discuss their hopes and struggles.
"There is just so much space," Ms. Weber said, patting their horse, whose sole purpose is to eat the grass, so that neither she nor Mr. King needs to cut it.
Their male superiors — shrewd, but nowhere near as forward-thinking as their younger, female subordinates — dismiss their pushback or even just basic questioning by almost literally patting them on the head.
It starts with a Scottish man tentatively raising a shot glass to his mouth, and ends five seconds later with panicked yelling and someone frantically patting fire out of the guy's shirt.
I ran through the list of the things I might possibly leave behind (chargers, printed tickets), and the things that always reside in my pockets (patting for my wallet and cell phone).
Combining mind-boggling mouse movements and light keyboard use, the experience of maneuvering Mr. Hand lands somewhere between rubbing your stomach while patting your head and saying the alphabet backwards in German.
The soldier, Weeraphon Sukudom, can be seen performing traditional CPR on the baby, including patting its back to force out some of the water, and even mouth-to-mouth at one point.
The outspoken Iowa lawmaker claimed in an interview with The Hill that some of his colleagues were "patting me on the back" over his comments, which a handful of House Republicans condemned.
HILLMAN: I'm not patting myself on the head but I know this record opened the flood gates and all of us put an emphasis on country, west coast, three-part harmony music.
He claimed that the actor climbed over walls during his pursuit, ultimately grabbing the guy by the scruff of his neck, patting him down for weapons, and placing him under citizen's arrest.
Feeding and cleaning the horse fill her health and stamina cores, and patting the horse increases her bond with Arthur, all of which affect the quality of the horse as a tool.
" Riot police are visible in one picture speaking to two masked men holding metal bars and patting one on the shoulder before leaving, according to the Times, which the lawmaker called "unbelievable.
" It all started when Cameron gave an interview to The Guardian last month and said, "All of the self-congratulatory back-patting Hollywood's been doing over 'Wonder Woman' has been so misguided.
"The administration doesn't want some kind of explosion and they think they'll avoid that by placating these students and patting them on the head," political science professor Harvey Klehr told the site.
And peeking onto the House floor, the chaotic scramble of people huddled closely, laughing, shaking hands, patting each other on the back -- touching each other, that thing we're not supposed to do!
Everyone in Hollywood is patting themselves on the back for exiling Harvey Weinstein, but this week The Hollywood Reporter raved about 'Daddy's Home 2,' proclaiming, 'Mel Gibson is once again family friendly.
There they were, blaming China, hoping for warm weather, patting themselves on the back when they could have been getting tests out and laying the groundwork for a health system under strain.
To the Editor: I expect to see President Trump wearing a shoulder sling after patting himself on the back so many times since failing the people in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria.
The script's self-important, back-patting, "Women can be warriors too!" attitude around that plot point matches very oddly with its frankness everywhere else about how Hamilton and Davis handle their fights.
CNBC's couldn't resist patting himself on the back for his prediction that if Friday's job results were strong, they would embolden President Donald Trump to intensify his administration's trade war with China.
Now, the hope is that neural networks can also help automated systems read body scans with greater accuracy, so checkpoint workers can spend less time pulling passengers aside and patting them down.
Police Chief Michael Street said that Officer Herrington had found a plastic bag of cocaine on Mr. Sanders while patting him down, and that Mr. Sanders then snatched the bag and swallowed it.
As we take these first, incremental steps toward dismantling the culture of sexual assault and workplace abuse, no one wants to see celebrities patting themselves on the back for doing the bare minimum.
The collective powers that be on Black Twitter and Tumblr are still patting themselves on the back after the movie of their dreams has come to fruition simply because they asked for it.
Stay away from wet wipes and use a patting motionThe products you use to wipe after going number two are also important if you want to keep your rear in tip-top shape.
Technically, its maintenance is supposed to be minimal in order to preserve the oil coating; experts recommend merely scraping off the dirty bits, giving it a quick rinse, and gently patting it dry.
But a greyhound found with drugs in its system is not entirely out the blue, whatever his trainer may say about people "patting it on the head" after handling money contaminated with cocaine.
There's no denying that for some women, swiping on mascara, patting on blush, or styling their hair a special way can make them feel more confident at work — which in turn impacts performance.
As for their annual dinner... hmm, strangely insecure of intelligent people to spend time patting each other on the backs for having social skills and getting pretty girls to have dinner with them.
"If we were able to hire nine of the 10 engineers that we were targeting, we wouldn't be patting ourselves on the back for the nine out of 10 we got," he said.
So there I was, happily solving a very smooth puzzle by Mr. Walden, patting myself on the back for having such an easy go of it when normally I struggle with his grids.
Footage of the press conference shows Wallen's parents sitting next to Tessier and even holding his hand and patting him on the back at certain points as he pleads for Wallen to come home.
As Pence attended events and visited county fairs -- patting horses and meeting first-place-winning steers in his campaign for re-election as governor -- the question of who Trump would pick continued to grow.
While it weirdly felt like an awards ceremony at times—with Hollywood A-listers patting themselves and Apple on the back for doing great things—some of the new Apple services look pretty cool.
LaVar hasn't said anything since the move became official on Sunday -- but, if there's anything we can count on, it's Ball weighing in soon ... and definitely patting himself on the back for the prediction.
Mr. Trump may not have purposefully snubbed black neighborhoods — he rarely plunges into any community to tour businesses, sample local cuisine or spontaneously engage in the handshake and back-patting rituals of everyday campaigning.
In the end, I usually just go to a trusty hair tie and throw my hair up so I don't have to deal with constantly patting it down to make it look less unruly.
The speech was thus in character for Trump, who has spent much of his presidency patting himself on the back, lying about his political opponents, and refusing to acknowledge the crises unfolding around him.
Before leaving the apartment — and often several times after I do — I'll check my stove's knobs repeatedly and wave my hand over each burner, patting them softly to ensure I don't sense any heat.
He's holding his fans and patting the turf, but the blow seemed only a glancing one, and the referee seems pretty confident in his opinion that the challenge that dropped him was a nothingburger.
A video of the exchange captured by broadcaster Eurosport was later posted on the ATP's twitter account, and shows the 2009 champion smiling and patting the first official on his shoulder before walking away.
I apply this serum, which also contains vitamin B5 (a humectant that attracts water), to a damp face so that it can draw that moisture in, patting rather than rubbing it into the skin.
With a restored internet and the gruesome pictures and videos of the protests already surfacing, the last thing the Trump administration should be doing is reacting with glee and patting itself on the back.
While there was no written permission for the party on Sunday, there was no ban and police provided security at the front door, patting down guests to search for weapons and blocking those without invitations.
Adding to his turmoil, the audience doesn't really care — they're so in awe of his celebrity presence that they still enthusiastically cheer at its conclusion, patting him on the back for a job well done.
" But no action was taken against King, who claimed to The Hill following pushback from a handful of fellow GOP lawmakers that "my colleagues have generally been coming by and patting me on the back.
"The problem is that there is a list of things Lynx can do, and once you've gone through them all, it gets boring," Fiona said, perfunctorily patting Kuri on its head to elicit a purr.
The settlement sparked a flurry of internal back-patting among enforcement officials in the days that followed and, unusually, drew applause from other banks, according to internal emails published following a Freedom of Information Request.
" And just last week, Coulter appeared to be patting herself on the back for causing Trump to flip on the issue, noting that Trump had been seemingly losing his way but "we've reeled him back.
So while progressive readers are patting themselves on the back for supporting the First Amendment, it may also be necessary to temper expectations that the current torrent of civil unrest will yield a course change.
None of this is to mention that these expressions of grief, in their nature and frequency, are beginning to veer towards the performative, patting-ourselves-on-the-back variety that undermines the entire process altogether.
The anise-y, licorice flavors of fennel seed meld nicely with good Japanese whiskey for a cocktail you can sip on after the plates are cleared, patting yourself on the back for a meal well served.
But as far as diversity goes, any back-patting is premature, because although Hollywood made sure more Black voices were heard this year, it still has a major diversity problem: the lack of Asians and Latinx.
The meaning of Trump's overnight tweetstorm, on The Daily David Chalian Mere moments after leaving the debate stage Monday night, Trump was already patting himself on the back for not going there in the first contest.
So many metal magazines fail when they do a "women in…" issue because they either focus on the artists' hottest-ness or spend half the time patting themselves on the back for not focusing on that.
The game and the country broke arms patting themselves on the back for taking down the old WHITES ONLY signs, but the work of clearing those signs from our minds has yet to be fully embraced.
Because let it be known: Whether you're a man or a woman, good-natured rear-patting of someone you aren't 100% sure would welcome it is never as good-natured as you might like to believe.
After the Preakness, while others on Justify's team celebrated nearby, Luna was hard at work in his stall, picking the victor's feet, wrapping his legs and patting him on the back for a job well done.
In the distance smoke plumes from brick kilns, where men, women, and children spend their entire lives on their knees under the sun, cooling, patting, stacking, and packing red bricks that are sent across the country.
Since the early 2000s, as the number of required childhood vaccines was increasing, a generation of parents was becoming hypervigilant about their children and, through social media, patting each other on the backs for doing so.
He talked about his business acumen and did some back-patting, but he didn't spend five minutes talking about how big his buildings were, how nice his houses were or how everyone wanted to be him.
Speaking softly to the pigs, Tin Nyo bent down and stroked their heads and backs, at times rhythmically patting them up and down their spines, a kind of swine-massage that calmed them into virtual silence.
Feast your eyes upon exhibit No. 1: Here's a gentleman who is politely high-fiving his fellow Yankees fans, celebrating what will surely be a W, filming himself patting a bereft A's fan on the back.
I have no doubt that there was a lot of back-patting and handshaking going on a while back when New York Governor Andrew Cuomo released his proposed cyber security regulations for banks and other financial institutions.
Security is most certainly "an ongoing effort," but being "one of the first companies" to offer 2FA for smart home products doesn't mean we should be patting Nest on the back, either—it's a basic security measure.
"I'm a little concerned with hearing about, how, (they're) kind of patting themselves on the back for decreasing opioid prescribing rates," LaBelle, now at the O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University, said.
A quick dip in seasoned flour and beaten egg makes the crumbs adhere to the chicken, but it's a good idea to sprinkle additional crumbs generously, patting them into the meat's surface, for the ultimate crisp coating.
"  "The bailout is another example of President Trump lighting a fire and grabbing the nearest thing off the shelf to douse it and then patting himself on the back as to what a great guy he's been.
I try to keep that temperament involved in the equation so we don't just start thinking—start poking your chest out and almost break your arm patting yourself on the back, and you end up 26th again.
There's a big misconception where people thinking winning or success comes from everybody putting their arms around each other and singing kumbaya and patting them on the back when they mess up, and that's just not reality.
Donald Trump is patting himself on the back this morning -- giving himself much of the credit for landing the 2026 World Cup in North America ... and admitting he got advice from the man who owns the Patriots.
Instead of patting itself on the back for hosting a thematically vague exhibition of women artists, shouldn't the gallery be a little embarrassed that it's taken 30 years to make a concerted effort to embrace gender diversity?
You have the people who need to hear the message on one side not necessarily hearing it because their followers or the people they follow are all essentially patting each other on the back with the same message.
I call them magic potions in a bottle: They're packed with so many nutrients, usually have a beautiful aromatic scent to them, and the process of slowly, methodically patting them into my face has become a meditative experience.
Feeling squeaky clean after patting my face dry, I was expecting some redness and irritation, but I noticed my skin had the same kind of shiny, glowy brightness it gets after I do a really good glycolic peel.
Whenever he shakes a person's hand, he tends to yank on their arm with a strange shoulder-jerking motion while simultaneously patting them with his free hand as if to reassure them that what they're experiencing is normal.
Check out all of PEOPLE's 2018 Emmys coverage here For all the self-congratulating and patting on the back the #EMMYs is doing tonight about how "diverse" it is, all the winners have been pretty monochromatic so far.
Bryan: You mentioned that moment when Negan first walks out of the trailer, and utters the line from the comic, and I couldn't help but feel that was Robert Kirkman (and Gimple) smugly patting themselves on the back.
The women were coquettish and flirty but in a way that read as safe and bordered on head-patting -- a kind of condescending flirtation with which many women who have had to appease inappropriate bosses are surely familiar.
The conference—with its overweening acronym, EPIC—managed to be a vivid example of a self-regarding security-state elite patting one another on the back for their shared accomplishments, while gesturing phonily toward the public they serve.
HBO execs are probably patting themselves on the back for the record-breaking figures, but it probably doesn't hurt that fans were basically ready to break down a wall of their own to get new GoT episodes. E!
It's not as easy as, say, simultaneously rubbing your belly and patting your head, but you can learn to do it, too: 1D: A "Spin out on the ice?" sounds dangerous, like a car gone out of control.
After months of back-patting over "progress" in the trade talks between the United States and China, President Trump abruptly raised tariffs on $200 billion of Chinese imports to 25 percent from 10 percent, effective 463:01 a.m.
He suggested brining thin fillets of fish in a solution of salt and sugar for about 10 minutes, then patting them dry and grilling them gently on one side over gas on a hot, clean, lightly oiled grill.
As the delightful video accompanying the announcement suggests, if you just can't get the hang of it, you can just keep the thing on as you act out your rope tugging and wall patting in a public park.
For the first two weeks, you're advised to use a few drops of the lotion applied to a dampened cotton pad, patting across the face, neck, and décolleté (without rubbing or passing over the same area more than once).
It's always important to lay a solid foundation for your work — by carefully patting primer over your lids and under your eyes, or consistently eroding the basic notion of truth — before moving into the next steps of this process.
According to Sarah Lee, K-beauty expert and co-founder of retailer Glow Recipe, the 7 Skin Method is a technique that involves patting seven layers of toner onto your face, one right after the other, in a sitting.
If you choose not to use a bidet or don't have access to one, just be sure to use a patting motion rather than a wiping motion to prevent creating too much friction and causing anal tears, Goldstein said.
"They walked out arms locked, like they knew each other for fifty years, hugging and patting each other," D. told me, adding that the agents could tell from the body language that Boyaco would be willing to meet again.
They bang on about the same shit they always do, every single time; his boyfriend, your job, her dad's midlife crisis—patting the same people on the back for the same one good thing they did six months ago.
After all, a trillion single-use plastic bags are used annually (2 million A DAY) but all the noise and effort by corporate America is patting themselves on the back about how they are getting rid of some straws.
During their early vlog appearances together, Paul plays up Majlak's supervising role, at one point even patting himself on the back for not doing something brash and irrational in front of Majlak, like kicking a ball inside of a store.
It's important to start with clean skin to prevent transference of bacteria or other irritants before patting on light moisturizers geared toward sensitive skin, says dermatologist Dendy Engelman, MD. For dermatologist Elizabeth Tanzi, MD, it's all about picking your battles.
I use it like I would a toner: by pumping it onto a cotton square and patting it on my face once or twice a week after a shower, which always makes me feel like I'm getting a super-deep clean.
At Taste of Samarkand, this is achieved by slapping and patting dough around the inverted underbelly of a kazan, a high-sloped Uzbek frying pan akin to a Chinese wok, then baking it over the stove until hard and crisp.
Eight days after canceling the unprecedented summit, citing Pyongyang's "open hostility," Trump welcomed North Korea's former intelligence chief, currently under punitive U.S. sanctions, to the White House Oval Office, afterward exchanging smiles and handshakes, patting his arm in a friendly gesture.
The controls also take a bit of getting used to: while moving the character around is simple enough, doing so while also twisting your body in strange ways is a bit like patting your head and rubbing your stomach simultaneously.
One snippet shows Rabbi Klein, the gray-bearded principal of the yeshiva's third, fourth and fifth grades, his legs around a pupil who appears to be about 8, patting the boy and kissing his cheeks, and rocking him for several seconds.
The funk-tinged R&B pop star opened up the 2017 BET Awards with a tour de force performance of "Perm," which boasts some very Black references to hair sheen, curl activator, and patting the hell out of your mane.
Teixeira hugged Austin and the rest of the players on the infield, doffing his cap to the crowd and patting his chest with his glove, and he exited to a receiving line of embraces from his teammates outside the dugout.
All too often we find ourselves patting each other on the back and bigging up the inclusiveness which is a pivotal part of club culture—whatever that means in 2016—while ignoring the fact that, largely, it's a pretty exclusive world.
The men are identically dressed in camouflage polar fleece, though one, Peio Amestoy, has added a dapper silk foulard tied ascot style and a loden green beret, patting after-shave on his cheeks after freshening up with a straight razor.
It's easy to feel good about yourself when you're patting yourself on the back for your inability to never fail to take the moral high ground, which everyone who agrees with you reinforces and enables, one Facebook "like" at a time.
As expected, Stephen Colbert's first time hosting the Emmy Awards featured swipe after swipe against President Trump, as well as digs against those in the room, whom he mocked for having another night dedicated to patting themselves on the back.
In January during a ceremony at the White House to honor law enforcement officials, Mr. Trump singled out Mr. Comey and called him over, shaking his hand and patting him on the back while whispering something inaudible in his ear.
Unfortunately, it also appears your skillset will be severely limited as your routine will end up consisting of nothing but wall patting or rope pulling instead of, say, fighting the wind or pantomiming writing a Motherboard article on a virtual keyboard.
You can occupy temporarily this character's mind, and understand his behavior, but there's no vindication—unlike so many other games, including recent entries in the GTA franchise, Grand Theft Auto isn't consistently patting the player on the back, telling them to keep going.
In the press release itself it came off as a bit of hand-patting — reassurance that these sort of things happen all the time, so nobody should get too upset — but Hollywood has had to deal with this kind of situation before.
And if you look closely, you can see the wheels in motion -- the conservative pundits setting Mueller up to be knocked down, the congressional Republicans nodding along, Trump's Cabinet members patting him on the head and assuring him he's been a good boy.
Whether you're awkwardly patting a naked stranger's shoulder as they monologue about their ex, or you're the one with mascara streaking down your face in an unfamiliar bed, having sex for the first time after the end of a relationship can be tough.
But when I share that assertion with many parents I know, they often respond by patting me on the head and telling me to get back to them when my 10-year-old has a phone and all her friends do, too.
McIlroy, the third-ranked golfer in the world, said, "I feel like the officials were patting themselves on the back for getting golf in," instead of treating the sport's inclusion in the Olympics as the first step in a marathon of planning.
These and the many other men against whom allegations have been made -- some quite a bit more serious than patting "women's rears" -- are all ambitious, smart, powerful men -- surely men whom one would think might know better than to behave in this way.
On the other hand, you're patting the woke bae on the head — because, while his intentions may be in the right place, he's often toward the bottom of a very steep learning curve, not fully appreciative of how far there is to climb.
If Adams always seems to be patting himself on the back for being a genuine, bow-tied lexicographer who is completely, 100 percent O.K. with cursing, well, that's the kind of thing you can get away with in the Age of Profanity.
"It's enough of patting us on the shoulder and saying, 'You are our brothers, we love you,'" said Shadi Nasraldeen, 45, a native of Daliyat el-Karmel whose brother, Lutfi, an Israeli soldier, was killed during the last war in Gaza, in 2014.
He recently survived bowel cancer — "Now I have a bag," he said, patting where it was on his stomach — and in recent video works such as "Contrapposto Studies, i through vii" (2015-16), he walks gingerly, his body split across multiple screens.
The Mickey Mouse costume wearer claims she received neck injuries from a grandmother patting the character&aposs head, although she doesn&apost believe the woman intentionally hurt her, and the family of the woman says she "barely" touched the head of the costume.
No. 250, I don't want to be viewed as arrogant, patting myself on the back, so I said, "If we do it, we'd better have a very light touch to the branding," like we didn't even have the word "Airbnb" or anything.
Many are livid over a now-viral video of Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officials patting down a 96-year-old woman in a wheelchair at Washington Dulles International Airport in a six-minute screening being described as "totally disgusting" and "uncalled for" on Facebook.
After a 10-second handshake, a closed-door negotiation, and plenty of grinning photo ops, the two leaders took a brisk stroll around the summit venue (taking turns patting each other on the back) that at one point even the translators dropped away from.
"Diversity is definitely a hot topic right now, but companies are still celebrating quantitative data (posting numbers, stating goals, then patting themselves on the back and calling it a day) without doing much else in terms of qualitative research or decision making," she says.
But it helped set up the battle lines that were drawn after Pence's attendance: that Hamilton, regardless of its racial diversity, is a symbol of a Democratic cultural elite too busy patting itself on the back for being inclusive to care about real Americans.
"There are a lot of people patting themselves on the shoulder and saying the deal worked, the people have stopped coming: but there's more to it than that," Melissa Fleming, spokeswoman for the UNHCR, said on the sidelines of the world's first humanitarian summit.
And inside this building, with its high, small windows, there is, of course, another line, and more soldiers, who are sometimes a little disgusted by the smell, and sometimes a little pissed off, sometimes bored, patting their gunstocks impatiently because you are anxious and slow.
She took the reports to members of the workshop's executive board on behalf of the women, who, according to the faculty member, described a range of misconduct from unwanted comments about their bodies and appearances to unwelcome touching, patting of the hair, and sexual propositions.
"If every person in every neighborhood around the country took a little bit of responsibility for patting these folks on the back, all the problems that we hear about with regards to veterans not getting services or falling through the cracks would disappear," he says.
They cuffed him and put him in the back of their car, presumably patting each other on the back and muttering variations of "good-ass job, everybody," until they looked over and realized that, uh, both the prisoner and the cop car were gone.
As a wealthy American, I'm accustomed to my friends' patting themselves on the back for making the world a better place, without taking a second to consider the structural inequality that gives them access to huge amounts of money that they can spend on philanthropy.
"I'm certainly not patting them on the back," said Ted Halstead, chairman and CEO of the Climate Leadership Council, a group backed by Republican elder statesmen like former Secretaries of State George Shultz and James Baker and oil giants like BP and Royal Dutch Shell.
Senators craned their necks from their seats to catch a glimpse of Mr. Graham's reaction to having his words used against him, but he was not at his desk or indeed in the chamber at all, and his seatmate was left patting his empty chair.
If you look at all the outrage and the backlash it has inspired, it's not hard to see how taking a stand for one side or the other could be read more as performative back-patting than an effort to advance gay rights or Christian doctrine.
An oral vote after the back-patting party debate was all yea and no nay, but the official vote was put off until the end of other business so a proper tally could be done and the broad bipartisan support of the bill put on the record.
For one, we wish that the part of the umbrella shaft that rests on the shoulder had a bit of patting of some sort, because the idea of the "black electrostatic steel shaft" pressing into our collarbone sounds like it might not be the most comfortable thing.
Twice during a one minute stretch during the second half with Toronto clinging to a 1-0 lead, Rooney forced TFC's Quentin Westberg to make spectacular saves, later patting the keeper on the back as he walked away shaking his head and looking towards the heavens.
" She added, "At public radio, there is a lot of patting yourself on the back for efforts to be more diverse, but at BuzzFeed it was a revelation: we should make podcasts for people who haven't had podcasts made for them, because it's good for business.
" Many critics agreed, but not all; in The Guardian, Hubert Adjei-Kontoh wrote that "the play may simply give white people yet another platform to gaze on black bodies exposed to physical and sexual violence while simultaneously patting themselves on the back for 'surviving' the experience.
" Many critics agreed, but not all; in The Guardian, Hubert Adjei-Kontoh wrote that "the play may simply give white people yet another platform to gaze on black bodies exposed to physical and sexual violence while simultaneously patting themselves on the back for 'surviving' the experience.
But later, he also playfully teased the top Democrats in the House and in the Senate, Representative Nancy Pelosi and Senator Chuck Schumer, the type of back-patting and banter that amasses chits on Capitol Hill and that Mr. Obama viewed with a whiff of contempt.
For example, Fox's upfront, held just hours after NBC's, featured just as much bluster and back patting and ad jargon as NBC, but the network still went out of its way to lay out the details of its schedule to give ad buyers a clear picture.
On top of being a reality star and dancer-singer, she just wrote a tell-all memoir, Pretty Mess, and now she's lending her "patting" power to help launch the latest Beautyblender product, the Beautyblender "Swirl", a pink and white tie-dye shade of everyone's favorite beauty tool.
"If every person in every neighborhood around the country took a little bit of responsibility for patting these folks on the back, all the problems that we hear about with regards to veterans not getting services or falling through the cracks would disappear," he said at the time.
ROSTOV-ON-DON, Russia (Reuters) - Croatia continued their impressive World Cup campaign by beating Iceland 2-1 to finish top of Group D but coach Zlatko Dalic warned his side against patting themselves on the back and urged them to focus on their last 16 tie against Denmark.
For Officer Nero's trial, Ms. Mosby's team of prosecutors tried an unusual legal theory: that he and Officer Miller exceeded their authority by handcuffing, moving and searching Mr. Gray without first questioning and patting him down, as the law requires — essentially turning a lawful detention into an unlawful arrest.
Meyers did a far better job of juggling the push-pull of Hollywood back-patting and issues of social justice than his NBC colleagues emceeing the pre-show, who looked determined to keep the banter as frothy as possible while still acknowledging the elephant on the red carpet.
Another thread of criticism directed toward Carney has been a broader call, one often repeated by Sanders and numerous other Amazon critics, that the company does not pay its fair share of taxes and so should not be patting itself on the back for raising its minimum wage.
Similar to the criticism of U.S. President Donald Trump by American comedians, Morrison has been ridiculed on social media, portrayed as a deformed creature sitting in a burned out forest on Christmas Day patting a lump of coal he calls "precious" to a flying superhero called "Bullshit Man".
Large crowds visit the shrines of Hussein and his half-brother Abbas in Kerbala, where they were killed in a revolt against the Umayyad ruler Yazeed in the 7th century A.D. Upon arrival in Kerbala, the pilgrims paid their respects, patting their heads with their hands as a sign of grief.
Kicking off the latest flurry of back-patting leading up to that crowning event, the Globes -- which air Sunday -- have chosen to stick with a host, while trying to foster a sense of danger around Gervais, in an encore to his four prior appearances from 2010-12 and again in 2016.
Amy Sedaris, the celebrity contestant, runs around in a helmet breaking a glass ceiling, romping with a male nurse on a "Grey's" patient's deathbed, crawling through an N.A.A.C.P. Image Award ball pit, and running a gantlet of white people patting themselves on the back for embracing a black leading lady.
So now, if you're incapable of the Daliesque feats of imagination needed to imagine yourself patting your hands against an invisible wall or pulling an invisible rope, you can slap on a Oculus Rift and let the magic of modern technology serve up virtual ropes and walls to get you started.
Specifically, he compared Wonder Woman to his heroine Sarah Connor, and sided with his own interpretation of how to write a female hero, while dismissing Wonder Woman's Diana Prince as an "objectified icon": All of the self-congratulatory back-patting Hollywood's been doing over Wonder Woman has been so misguided.
The cynical side says that, even after all the back-patting the candidates and CNN provided themselves, the ratings will come in low, because average working Americans don't have seven hours to dedicate to anything, let alone a Ken Burns–length C-SPAN sort of offering with slightly better lighting and graphics.
In fact, the comment offered a useful peek into the president's psyche: When he imagines a deceased veteran gazing down from heaven at his widow, the president and the assembled Congress, he sees that veteran measuring the length of his own ovation, and patting himself on the back for breaking a record.
The Wolf of Wall Street and Gordon Gekko make for interesting characters, but no one would suggest that Jordan Belfort or Martin Shkreli — famous for profiting off the misery of others while patting themselves on the back for being the smartest guys in the room — display the character we want in our commander in chief.
But even once the song was over, it didn't take long before Colbert ditched the more straight-up Emmy jokes about Hollywood's self-indulgence ("I didn't know you could applaud while patting yourself on the back at the same time") to return to the man of his every late-night hour: President Donald Trump.
When she sang You make me feel like/A natural woman, head arched proudly back, one hand patting her hair, she was singing to God, just as when she screamed out her passion as a sinner cleansed by the blood of the Lamb: When my soul was in the lost and found/You came along to claim it.
With more corporations patting themselves on the back for profit-led partnerships wherein celebrities take selfies in rainbow apparel, and with buzz that Marvel Studios is preparing to debut their first gay character in the upcoming Eternals movie, there is an urgency to discuss the realities of creating queer pop culture in a hostile or ambivalent environment.
I had a great year last year, went to the Super Bowl and all that, and I took note that some of the same people that were patting me on the back and telling me how great I was— players and coaches included—were some of the same people who turned their backs on me in my darkest days.
Where, on regaining her No. 1 ranking, she promptly posted a message on Instagram to her unborn child ("You gave me the strength I didn't know I had" and "I am so happy to share being number one in the world with you … once again today") along with a photo of her smiling and patting her tiny tummy.
" Practically patting Mr. Trump on the head, Senator Lamar Alexander, Republican of Tennessee, said, "If he pays attention to people like General Kelly when he's doing a travel restriction and if he appoints people like Neil Gorsuch when he's making appointments, he'll be rewarded for that by all the praise, and maybe he'll do more of it.
So no matter how much the Grammys seemed to be patting itself on the back for including this "incredibly powerful and relevant performance," as host James Corden cringingly called it afterward, Kesha was explicitly outspoken about the abuses she has suffered within the music industry for years before awards show attendees were inspired to sport pins and white roses.
Watch the end of the "...Baby One More Time" video, as Spears holds her face with boredom and smirks at the camera, her pigtail braids secured with feather scrunchies, and witness the spark: it's not the dumb hand of the market patting her head with approval, nor sex and its dumb compulsions, nor even the dumb intelligence that is satire or critique.
But just leaving Libya, Syria and parts of Iraq and Yemen ungoverned, and spewing out refugees, has led to a flood of migrants hitting Europe and stressing the cohesion of the European Union; that refugee flood could very well lead to Britain's exit from the E.U. President Obama has been patting himself on the back a lot lately for not intervening in Syria.
According to a Wall Street Journal article from two years ago, "thousands of daters have turned to big cats to help them catch the eye of potential mates," though after the law made "hugging, patting, or otherwise touching" tigers at state fairs and circuses punishable by up to $500 in fines, they'll now have to pose with regular house cats instead.
As JJ Rich wrote for the Reason Foundation last year, Transportation Security Administration agents patting down children and making us all take off our shoes and belts has less to do with effective security practices and more to do with making us feel secure — in effect, curtailing civil liberties and making flying a more challenging experience purely for our feelings.
Still to come is a deal with President Suharto, of Indonesia, and his playboy son, plus a fur-patting encounter with a tiger, not to mention Kenny's acceptance of the Golden Pickaxe from the Gold Prospectors Association of America, before a late twist—familiar to anybody who followed the real Bre-X scandal—yanks the rug from under our feet.
First second of this is like: "You are going to have to pick up a lot of the slack of this handshake, my friend, because I have arms short and tiny like a Tyrannosaurus"; Second move is… kind of… I mean, he is patting him like you would a good boy, a good dog boy, just a good dog boy who, sadly, you have to put down.
McIlroy, who fell out of the top three in the world rankings this week for the first time in 23 months, alluded to the scheduling morass in May when he said, "I feel like the officials were patting themselves on the back for getting golf in," instead of treating the sport's inclusion in the Olympics as the first step in a marathon of planning.
That veto threat, which Trump eventually backed away from, stunned congressional Republicans who had already left Washington patting each other on the backs for keeping the government open and funded The reality for Ryan was -- and is -- this: He had hoped that the election of Trump would be a seminal moment for the rise of his ideas on taxes, deficit reduction and everything else under the sun.
After patting itself on the back for "eliminating speculators" (in reality only those with pals in the central bank had access to cheap dollars they could sell for a quick profit on the black market) and stoking domestic production (manufacturing contracted by 7% in the 12 months to March), the central bank explained that it would introduce a "flexible interbank exchange-rate market" starting on June 20th.
CNN's John King, reporting from a source close to Trump, that the reviews that Pence did better then he did won't go over well with Trump Trump adviser on debate after Pence passed up opportunities to defend him: "Pence won overall, but lost with Trump" The broad consensus around Mike Pence's debate performance rests on two premises: Trump might respond by patting Pence on the back.
I'VE BEEN ABLE TO DO IT. THERE ARE VERY FEW PEOPLE -- AND I'M NOT PROUD -- I'M NOT PATTING MYSELF ON THE BACK FOR THIS BUT VERY FEW PEOPLE HAVE THE POWER TO DO WHAT I DO. YOU KNOW, HAVING THE MONEY AND THE CAPABILITY TO GO IN AND SAY TO THE CEO, IT MAY TAKE ME FOUR YEARS OR FIVE YEARS, THAT'S WHY HEDGE FUNDS HAVE DIFFICULTY BEING ACTIVISTS.
What a sad state we're all in, when we've accepted this as normal from our leader -- and when, worst of all, Republicans go right along with the madness and the lies, patting our little boy President on the head and telling him he's doing a good job, that his words are the best words, that he doesn't need to do big boy things like take responsibility for his actions quite yet.
Lahren has been milking this for all it's worth this week in a desperate plea to stay relevant, devoting three different segments to it: one patting herself on the back for turning Beyoncé down, another complaining about having her social media accounts "swarmed by Beyoncé's so-called Beehive or Beyhive or whatever the hell they are," and a third where she basically just angrily airquoted some nonsense about a Lemonade segment on The View.
President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE and top HHS officials are patting themselves on the back following Pfizer's announcement that it would delay a price hike on some of its drugs, but a top Senate Democrat is wondering if it's all a PR stunt.
"I'm a big fan of applying face sprays and mists after makeup is complete, and The Dewy Skin Mist leaves the most perfect natural glow on the skin," explained the pro of how he originally fell in love with Tatcha's option, These days, when Dedivanovic uses the brand's new Dewy Skin Cream in tandem with the mist (spritzing it on a sponge then gently patting the completed look) he says it creates a truly luminous finish.
Sykes says it was like the former first lady was patting the queen down as if she slid into home plate: 2011: Seth Meyers sent Donald Trump, then flirting with a presidential run, to the burn unit (this is really strange now that Trump is now president): 2016: Here is Larry Wilmore's controversial monologue from Obama's last WHCD as president: People call the WHCD "Nerd Prom" because, more often than not, journalists are (or like to think of themselves as being) deeply nerdy, dorky, weird, wonky, etc.

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