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151 Sentences With "ruffling"

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"I don't care about ruffling feathers," Lee tells me pointedly.
As such, Cooper's presence at the DNC is ruffling feathers.
He's just ruffling the feathers of people that are powerful.
Now he's ruffling feathers at the Department of Homeland Security.
New Taylor is here, and she's okay ruffling a few feathers.
Not just in our bedroom, but ruffling through our underwear drawer.
But the ruffling of feathers makes it harder to move forward.
So far, The Town Hall Affair has avoided ruffling any feathers.
But the upside — seeming inclusive — outweighs the risk of ruffling feathers.
The West Wing reversals are clearly ruffling some feathers in the base.
Prefer to drink your breakfast, ideally with a breeze ruffling your hangover?
Lizarde loved to rile up his nephew by ruffling his thick black hair.
They are known for fiercely guarding their independence and, at times, ruffling feathers.
Jimmy Fallon's hair-ruffling sycophancy, on NBC's "Tonight Show," was becoming a turnoff.
But it is "ruffling more than a few feathers" in the tech industry.
The Hindu-bead controversy is not the only one ruffling feelings among Indo-Trinidadians.
But former officials say the FBI's moves are clearly ruffling feathers within the administration.
Cardi B isn't ruffling feathers at Paris fashion shows ... she's just flaunting 'em now.
In 2019, it just looks like the company is scared of ruffling any feathers.
An Indonesian minister's remarks about the LGBT community is ruffling feathers in the Muslim country.
Also during the polo event, Savannah was spotted ruffling George's hair when he wasn't looking.
For such an avowedly political filmmaker as Lee, success necessarily means ruffling some public feathers.
It's ruffling more than feathers in a town where the fox is the unofficial mascot.
Lamb, who is Catholic, was able to delicately navigate that issue without ruffling any feathers.
Their conversation concluded with Mr. Fallon fulfilling his longstanding wish of ruffling Mr. Trump's hair.
Jason has been ruffling feathers since returning to Rosewood to serve as Alison's court-ordered caretaker.
And as Instagram commenters have shown, it's ruffling feathers more than any wacky viral brow look.
" She said Assange has been "wrongly accused" after "ruffling the feathers of people that are powerful.
Once, seeing a young man ruffling through garbage, he thought: I am steps away from that.
There are ways for guests to save, experts say, without ruffling etiquette feathers or looking cheap.
A lot of CEOs haven't heeded that and are afraid of ruffling their relationship with Trump.
She has also worked hard to avoid ruffling feathers, according to some current and former employees.
Sudden, like the curtain that in its ruffling closure marks the finale, sends the spectators home.
As her body is carried away, Burgle stands over it with the Minnesota wind ruffling her hair.
WILLINGBORO, N.J. — The peacocks were rooting around in the bushes, strutting and pecking and ruffling their trains.
They'll also seek to avoid ruffling the feathers of other committee members out of fear of retaliation.
For his part, Mr. Trump has shown little concern about ruffling feathers in his exchanges with leaders.
Wolf went after Trump and his top aides during her comedy set on Saturday, ruffling some feathers.
What has distinguished him is a relaxed approach to ruffling feathers and a growing taste for ideological flexibility.
This type of language has reaffirmed Francis' reputation as a progressive leader unafraid of ruffling a few feathers.
And silence as a protest tactic is being used to make a point without ruffling too many feathers.
Though beautifully rendered in fur-ruffling style, their characters are thoroughly human, with human voices and human concerns.
AND IS THERE A WAY TO BE A TOUGHER NEGOTIATOR WITHOUT MAYBE RUFFLING THE FEATHERS QUITE AS MUCH?
For this is fashion, after all, and the next feather-ruffling iteration is always, always just around the corner.
Good comedians aren't afraid of ruffling the feathers of the rich and powerful, and Hasan Minhaj is no different.
But among the old-school tweeds, ethereal ruffling, and complicated knotting, tying, and layering was Karl's version of emoji.
Yet, shortly after sitting down with NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg on Wednesday morning, Trump began ruffling transatlantic feathers — again.
In a predictable effort to avoid ruffling feathers, the Weber study doesn't call out many specific examples of activism.
But on Tuesday evening, as the British motion was discussed, Brett Mason, Australia's representative, mocked concerns about ruffling feathers.
The lavish nuptials are ruffling some feathers, with a petition demanding the British government refuse to foot the bill.
His latest ruffling of feathers comes from work that predicts what a person will look like from their genetic data.
As political intrigue ramps up in the lower house, the interim president has also been ruffling feathers for his controversial cuts.
Since then, he's tried to deliver on the promises that came with it, launching companies and ruffling feathers along the way.
Ilhan Omar ... who've been in the news recently for ruffling feathers within the Democratic party and butting heads with Speaker Pelosi.
The brown and green branches of one tree were stirring, as if a slight breeze was ruffling the dun-colored leaves.
The show has lampooned a number of cultural touchstones, but also isn't afraid of ruffling feathers whenever it feels like it.
Mr Grenell is ruffling feathers at a delicate time for the German-American relationship, which was exceptionally harmonious under President Barack Obama.
Henry McMaster, Trump railed against all three comedians, especially NBC star Fallon, who was criticized by liberals for playfully ruffling Trump's hair.
Never shy of ruffling feathers, Kanye West was booed Thursday night after he told concertgoers he would have voted for Donald Trump.
More than that, be clear about what you want, then ask for it kindly and directly, without worrying about ruffling anyone's feathers.
The framework released Wednesday for the bill is already drawing criticism from Democrats and ruffling feathers among fiscal conservatives in the party.
In part, Didi wanted to avoid ruffling Uber's feathers so soon after the company acquired its China assets, according to several sources.
The problem is that since taking office again in 2010, Prime Minister Orban has dared to defend Hungary's national interest, ruffling some feathers.
"I think the thing that is ruffling feathers in Washington and Sudan is that it feels very rushed and very uncoordinated," he said.
But the decision to set up shop in New York City is likely ruffling more feathers than just about any other possible outcome.
In his Tonight Show monologue, Fallon didn't directly reference the hair-ruffling saga, but he did poke fun at the president's Twitter confrontation.
But the reaction to her speech about the future of work, which entirely avoided ruffling any feathers, was much more muted than expected.
Whole Foods says eat real food ... but one man's now ruffling feathers with a lawsuit, claiming the grocery store sold him chicken with rocks.
"I started playing with these concepts, stripes and ruffles, giving the antique approach to pleating and ruffling and shapes, A-line shapes," Frenken said.
Do you think this is the time to be ruffling their feathers, while we&aposre dealing with something far bigger for the time being?
This early in the season, the temperature, onshore and in the water, was just under 60 degrees, with brisk winds ruffling the beached seaweed.
After a campaign filled with tough talk on China and some post-election ruffling of diplomatic feathers, President-elect Donald Trump Wednesday tapped Iowa Gov.
Bolton ruffling feathers Traditionally, the role of the national security adviser is to give the President unbiased information and to enforce what the President wants.
Donald Trump has been ruffling diplomatic feathers since he was elected by casually talking to world leaders without first getting guidance from the State Department.
Read more: Goldman Sachs's push into private equity is ruffling feathers at Blackstone — and it might be a sign of big client skirmishes to come 
But film, as always, is slower to adapt, Despite the positive press surrounding the film, there is one aspect of Wonderstruck that is ruffling some feathers.
Merkin describes them holding hands and Allen ruffling Previn's hair, and the two being forced to sneak away from paparazzi by way of penthouse roof walks.
It unfolded like a ballet: The dancers shuffled around on the open-air stage — the roof of the coops — ruffling their feathers as if warming up.
Denmark's Margrethe Vestager will hold onto the competition tsar role in which she has already spent five years ruffling feathers on both sides of the Atlantic.
And, of course, she would delight in ruffling the feathers in Berlin, because she would not allow the Germans to boss France around by using Brussels bureaucracy.
But it's worth noting that not since the days of Melanie C has pop music seen a newcomer who's managed to come stateside without ruffling any feathers.
And the star's dramatic white gown, complete with voluminous, wing-like shoulder ruffling and a plunging, silver-trimmed neckline, was fully meant to be completely awe-inducing.
Early morning, I was on a sleep cloud, tucked in on a pillowed four-poster bed, a slow ceiling fan ruffling a pinned-up muslin mosquito net.
Beyoncé is ruffling some feathers in a sexy and short purple dress in a series of newly released images shared on her website and social media accounts, Saturday.
A "chicken crisis" is ruffling feathers in the UK and Ireland, after a shortage of chicken prompted most of its 900 KFC branches to close for the day.
Fed Chairman Jerome Powell has a tough job ahead of him, as he will have to avoid ruffling both markets and the White House during his briefing Wednesday.
In the footage, the mom of two is first shown ruffling a little red dress before giving her best runway walk through a hallway and on a balcony.
It is disgruntled by South Korea's agreement with America to host THAAD, a missile-defence system, and has been ruffling feathers in the South and East China Seas.
Yet, Western leaders still seek to save the nuclear deal after America's withdrawal, circumvent U.S. sanctions on financial transactions with Iran, and otherwise avoid ruffling feathers in Tehran.
Samsung had emerged as the dominant player among Android phone makers, and Google didn't need to worry as much about ruffling feathers of other, less-powerful phone makers.
Nights that, for one night only, check your ID to see that you're under the limit, before ruffling your hair and letting you through their gilded double doors.
After ruffling through her purse, which couldn't be larger than a box of Animal Crackers, she's finally able to yank it out and toss it across the room.
The New Jersey native and in-real-life bartender relied on her skills as an observer and attentive listener to zero in on tribal divisions and avoid ruffling feathers.
There were a few unhappy campers, people who walked out in a huff, but part of my job description is ruffling feathers, so I took their displeasure in stride.
Over the past decade, Chakrabarti and her colleagues published a few other papers that backed up the hypothesis of an undiscovered galaxy ruffling up the edge of the Milky Way.
Ruffling feathers in Japan "This was a big shift for Takeda and not without protests from Japan," said Peter Feldinger, a former senior executive at Takeda and now a consultant.
Kevin Hart's been ruffling feathers lately with his cheating scandal but Thursday it was him who got his feathers ruffled while hilariously dressed in a chicken costume for his new flick.
What's ruffling feathers: The search for a vaccine is hampered with this decision, and any research group that wants to prove a vaccine works will want to conduct large human trials.
Mr Barton uncannily replicates BoJo's behavioural tics—the hair-ruffling, the bumbling gait, the posh speaking-voice and the ums and ahs—but he is given little else to work with.
There's wind gently ruffling their hair, and Pride and Prejudice levels of romantic, scenic countryside despite the fact that (151-year-old spoiler alert!) the two characters never actually get together.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads NORWICH, England — Ravens at night, a vacant city center, and silence broken only by ruffling feathers, talons scratching the pavement and those bone-chilling screeches.
The sense of isolation in Sepuya's work is countered by the sensuousness of naked bodies and evidence of recently departed visitors — the ruffling of bed sheets, the bouquet of red roses.
But as she was rising to fame with her popular English-American new wave act in their '80s punk heydey, Hynde is just as unapologetic about her oft-feather-ruffling opinions today.
But in recent weeks Cattaneo has engaged in a heated exchange with Italian Industry Minister Carlo Calenda and other government officials over the ultrafast broadband rollout across Italy, ruffling feathers at Vivendi.
And in case you've really got to keep your Cheeto-eating on the DL, there's a fuzzy "Sound-Muffling Muffler" that stashes bags of Cheetos so nobody can hear the plastic ruffling.
"She will make sure Meghan is as happy as she can be without ruffling feathers," a source said of the Australian-born courtier, who is well liked by both William and Harry.
The cumulative effect of these works is a sense of kinetic friction, a ruffling of the picture plane that allows Le Parc's two-dimensional shapes to seemingly take flight from their page.
"She will make sure Meghan is as happy as she can be without ruffling feathers," a source says of the Australian-born courtier, who is well liked by both Prince William and Harry.
In her new home in Thailand, she made friends with local street dogs and learned the pleasures of riding on the back of a motorcycle taxi, the wind ruffling her beard and eyebrows.
After ruffling feathers with Erotica, Madonna slowed things down on her 1994 follow-up Bedtime Stories Her smooth, R&B-tinged single "Secret" was co-written and co-produced by TLC collaborator Dallas Austin.
Even before assuming office, Trump has already succeeded in ruffling Beijing's feathers by questioning the long-held "one China" policy, proposing steep tariffs on Chinese imports and appointing vocal China critics to his administration.
The Cameroonian seven-footer is as fleet-footed as he is quick-witted, and the lethal combination is ruffling feathers of opponents as he brushes past them en route to claiming his superstar status.
One of the avatars that looked like an accountant started ruffling pages as though it was making a big business decision; another smirked and smiled like it was trying to get to know me.
On a March visit, Oli cosied up to China with a deal to use its ports for trading goods with third countries, ruffling feathers in India, which controls landlocked Nepal's main overland trade route.
The birds, considered an invasive species in Spain, are noisy, messy, and are certainly ruffling the feathers of local residents, who have already filed 197 complaints about the birds this year, and 209 in 2018.
The play makes minimal effort to probe the man's inner life, or question how affected these habits are (the hair-ruffling, it has been reported, is one of his ways of cultivating a disarming charm).
But the one moment that continues to haunt Fallon dates back to before the election, when, during a September 2016 show, he finished a softball interview with then-candidate Trump by ruffling Trump's famous hair.
I can't get over the ruched detailing at the top of her dress and the soft ruffling from her back to the train (that went on for days) which gave her look a magical, girly touch.
The couple separated not long after Caitlyn came out as transgender in 2015, and now her tell-all book, The Secrets Of My Life, is already ruffling some feathers — and it hasn't even been published yet.
Mr Stiglitz has won a Nobel prize, served as a feather-ruffling chief economist for the World Bank and written several books with a fair claim to prescience, notably, "Globalisation and Its Discontents", published in 2002.
Goodwin is a no-nonsense reformer who takes over New Amsterdam Hospital and immediately starts ruffling feathers and making big changes — but he's also got a big secret, one he's only comfortable really sharing with Sharpe.
While trying to be dominant in East Asia, China has no interest in ruffling Russia's feathers, especially with Mr. Putin in an election year and Russia as a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council.
Euwyn Poon said now that it has locked in a Series A round, Spin will ramp up hiring and embark on negotiations with different municipalities to bring its bike-sharing service across the country without ruffling feathers.
One would assume that doing so at the expense of ruffling the feathers of a regional alliance or the desires of an outside power, like Saudi Arabia, would be logic an "America First" President Trump would understand.
That came after Tusk, a former prime minister of Poland, came out strongly against "ineffective" and "highly divisive" obligatory refugee quotas, ruffling the feathers of those states that back them as well as the executive European Commission.
The podcast to listen to if you feel like ruffling some feathers:Unladylike is hosted by Cristen Conger and Caroline Ervin, and they tell "stories from rule-breakin' ladies" and include "a solid dose of delightful feminist rage."10.
Up until now, they achieved global dominance by avoiding ruffling political feathers and hiding behind the fiction of "neutrality"—that 'neutral' metrics, sorting 'fairly' by what we liked and shared the most, would result in the ultimate democracy.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg opened the company&aposs Q4 earnings conference callwith some thoughts for the new decade, stressing that the social network would focus on better communicating with the public, even if it means ruffling some feathers.
Steve Harrington—now the chief of police at only 21, as Hopper retired to raise Eleven, Will, and Jonathan with new wife, Joyce Byers—smiles as he heads off for work, his feathered hair ruffling gently in the breeze.
Now there's a little wind on it, ruffling the surface, and it looks more like a great ocean wave that happens to be the color of French roast—perhaps the best California point break on the best day in history.
And as we reported last night, President Trump gave an interview with the London Sun newspaper and he said British Theresa May&aposs approach to Brexit could put a trade deal with the United States at risk, talk about ruffling some feathers.
Black metal is so set in its ways and it can be hard to innovate without ruffling feathers or deviating a little too far from the core concept, so it makes sense that open-minded people are responding so well to this album.Thanks!
This is an exceedingly silly viewpoint, of course, as Costa gets away with the vast majority of the awful shit he does, and it's usually the person he's just punched in the bollocks who gets sent off for ruffling his hair, or something.
It ended with Mr. Fulmer conducting Dai Fujikura's "Ice," a rapturous, intricately orchestrated chamber orchestra piece that, as the conductor said in a spoken introduction, explores unorthodox sounds, including ruffling seashells, and exoticism, reflective of Ligeti's work, but in a fresh, personal way.
Zooming through the wide, sunny streets of Los Angeles, warm wind gently ruffling my light sweater — what could be a more idyllic alternative to lurching through the bowels of New York City in a screechy, rickety subway car packed with irritable commuters?
"Find a home where the bones work and you're merely changing things on the inside," said Jonathan Scott, a contractor and the brother who's often seen wearing a tool belt and ripping out a gross toilet without ruffling his carefully coifed black hair.
It's easy to find an article that declares Meghan is bossy with her staff, petty with sister-in-law Kate Middleton, and perpetually ruffling feathers in the royal family with her undignified decisions — such as her choice to have a pricy American baby shower.
Keep in mind, what happened was I got into a position where I was knocking on doors and pitching away to have a responsible conversation, and it worked, but it took me almost a year, and it took me ruffling a lot of feathers.
The Army's training centers in California, Louisiana and Germany are now including more scenarios that replicate Russian forces, even if scenario planners there, and here, are careful to give the opposing forces fictitious names to avoid ruffling diplomatic feathers even more between Washington and Moscow.
To help you get out of these formal engagements without ruffling feathers, we've consulted Katie Balmer, wedding planner at The Balmoral, a Rocco Forte hotel and a leading wedding expert in Scotland, on how to say "thanks, but no thanks" in the most graceful way possible.
Given that Ms. Bumiller herself later refers to pockets of discontent surrounding this resolution, one has to wonder, were the women on that call satisfied by that decision — or did they worry that they couldn't question it without ruffling the feathers of the powers that be?
Mr. Lewis and Mr. Martin cobbled together a routine based on their after-hours high jinks at the Havana-Madrid, with Mr. Lewis as a bumbling busboy who kept breaking in on Mr. Martin — dropping trays, hurling food, cavorting like a monkey — without ever ruffling the singer's sang-froid.
Thrown out of three private high schools as a teenager, she still managed to get into the prestigious Oxford University at the age of 16, becoming a journalist and ruffling the feathers of the British establishment before moving to New York to edit Vanity Fair at the age of 20163.
It is also iconic for ruffling a few feathers and catapulting her career into something far more tangible than her prior work as Backup Singer for P.O.D. Though she did also make the song "Ur So Gay," which cracks the thin veneer of her pro-LGBTQ views so dock one point.
He's also helped Trump in his mission to disrupt Washington, ruffling feathers with the secretive way in which he helped lead the White House release of its temporary immigration ban from seven Muslim-majority countries late on Friday with little to no input from the government agencies tasked with implementing the vision.
Read more: Goldman Sachs' push into private equity is ruffling feathers at Blackstone — and it might be a sign of big client skirmishes to comeTouch screens, like those on mobile phones, will be viewed a decade or two from now as "humorous" and "not a natural way to interact with technology," he said.
The whole fatherhood issue and the fact that he at one point in his career was very committed and was actually, you know, ruffling a lot of feathers in terms of encouraging black fathers in this country to take responsibility and do not abandon your children and to make sure that they are raised in homes with two parents.
Harbaugh has not assured victory this time around — "I made a guarantee a long time ago, and I've learned from that," he said at his introductory news conference in 2014 — but in virtually every other respect, he is the same cocky gunslinger: aiming warning shots on Twitter at rivals; ruffling feathers with his nationwide satellite camps; elevating college football to show business.
It is difficult to reason with the enraged, but I think it necessary to analyze these arguments, rather than giving them credence by recirculating them, as the press does; smugly deflecting them, as museum personnel is trained to do; or remaining silent about them, as many black arts professionals continue to do in order to avoid ruffling feathers or sullying themselves with cultural nationalist politics.
She opted to go with a Givenchy gown for her May 19 nuptials (a subtle nod to Claire Waight Keller's history-making appointment as the first female artistic director of the French fashion house); she has been outspoken about being a feminist and broke royal protocol recently by speaking out about abortions; and her "ultra-liberal" perspective is reportedly ruffling a few feathers amongst more traditional royal circles.
Here are 13 that showcase the trends that will dominate 2020Read more: Goldman Sachs&apos push into private equity is ruffling feathers at Blackstone — and it might be a sign of big client skirmishes to comeRead more: &aposSome of the conversations we had in 2006 we are having again&apos: Bain and Carlyle are teaming up in rare deal that private equity has been reluctant to do since the financial crisisRead more: Private equity giants like Blackstone and KKR are loading up on industry specialists to help squeeze out returns, and that&aposs creating a new power dynamic inside the firms

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