Treating people like a resource, a machine to be timed, to be surveilled, to get the most out of in every given moment. So the phrase "getting jerked around" came from this, because people on the floor were jerked this way and that to do their job. And what's happened is because of the abilities that surveillance gives us, and always on internet, and databases, we're just turning
The two stoic concepts are apathea and ataraxia. It means to not be jerked around by internal forces and not be jerked around by external forces. So my definition of stillness is like how is someone steady even when the world is spinning very quickly around you, how
All that mattered was that he hadn't been caught. "Suddenly the woman's head jerked to one side, as if she smelled his relief. She spat a dry clot of glass out onto the floor and closed the cupboard door slowly, listening hard for something.
potentially blame is the Israeli Prime Minister, but then it makes it seem as if Trump wasn't in charge of his own policy. He's getting jerked around by the Israeli leader, which he would never which first of all was not accurate. Trump made the decision, but even if it was accurate, he would never admit that.
I like my men able to speak in full sentences. Second, this morning you jerked off to a website called Amazing Penetrations. And third--' Jeeves looked down at his hands-- 'do you have any Purell?' Toby was impressed, shocked even.
down and then it started coming towards us faster and faster. But then on this one day here like a day number 110 or so, it suddenly put on the accelerator and jerked at very high speed away from us again before repeating this whole pattern. So what is going on here? Why is this star behaving in such a strange
The taxi driver muttered something under his breath that sounded like a curse, put his foot on the brake, and pulled over onto the dirt shoulder. 'What's wrong?' The driver jerked his thumb behind them. 'Polícia.' She turned and looked out the rear window.
the drag-rope." This is the rope that hangs from the balloon so people can grab it and pull it back down to earth. "Bushes would be bent over, and rail fences jerked open with a degree of speed not common for the farmers." So, this balloon is being pushed by the wind. And there's an anchor on this thing and it's just tearing through everything in its path. "Chickens scampered for their lives, and sheep would run in every direction."
I resented the inadvertent romance. He touched my face when we fucked and said I was beautiful, and I jerked my head a little to dislodge his fingers. When he did it a second time, I put my hand around his chin and told him to shut up.
There's no getting rid of photography, so there's no bringing magic back. Tristan froze, and after a beat, jerked his head in my direction." "You're right. That's it. Where there is no photography, there could still be magic." "That's not quite what I said.
In the beginning of the journey, that first stage in dream, what they need is a moment of inspiration. The developers were very, very skeptical because they had been jerked around for a decade.
To our left was a chain link fence, and behind that a line of tall shaggy spruces that bounded the grounds of a grade school. When the light turned green, Snow gave me a diabolical look and jerked his chin at the sister's car.
He turned as, out of nowhere, a dozen white men had surrounded him. Before his eyes had time to flicker from one hard face to another, his head jerked back as someone seized him by the collar from behind. You are my property now, a voice shouted in Ball's ear.
Now that we have that cleared away, I'm having more range grasses start to come up. When I heard him 30 years ago, he really jerked my heartstring.
We had sex in the empty house that used to belong to his brother and his brother's wife and their children, all dead. We fucked in every room, including the hallway, where I couldn't bend my pelvis right on the hard floor and so I jerked him off in front of the bare linen closet. In the master bedroom, I caught my reflection in the vanity mirror as I rode him, and the lights were off and our skin reflected silver from the moon.