of sorts

No one likes to be laughed at. It makes one feel inadequate and out of sorts.

This last one was cool because getting through the hoop requires a bit of planning and acts as something of a small puzzle of sorts.

Seems to be a brute of sorts which uses his impressive size and fists to inflict damage.

When late morning rolls around and you're feeling a bit out of sorts, don't worry; you're probably just a little eleven o'clockish.

Now one of the first tasks for fans' ­ favourite Kenny Dalglish will be to help an out-of-sorts Torres ­ recapture his form.

the breakfast table feeling a little out of sorts with herself and revolving a scheme which she had in her mind.

After that, anything can happen as it is bound to be against one of the big sides, but to get there would be an achievement of sorts.

The owner of an Amazon macaw came into my surgery, informing me that his beloved pet, Maracas, had become very moody and out of sorts.

Not finished with his response, he ferreted for a small piece of paper torn and yellowed in a scrapbook of sorts and presented it to us.

Hooked up to the heart rate monitor was a pale body, staring off into the ceiling, seeming like she was off in La La land of sorts.

Vergere took Jacen Solo as an apprentice of sorts, teaching him in her frustratingly indirect ways her unique philosophies.

From equipment exhibition in recent years made of cardboard display case of sorts for nails, its basically a very similar structure.

But it is progress of sorts, and at least the south is in a state of relative peace.

The surgeons reconstituted a hand of sorts from his feet parts, but Pauline's lame hand still slows him down.

Even so, some diplomats speculate that he may be preparing for a succession of sorts, handing over to his third son, Kim Jong Un.

Feeling embarrassed by his posts, Mr. Starr waited for weeks before posting an apology of sorts to his virtual friends.

These DNA bits would serve as a time bomb of sorts, deleting a critical piece of the gene when given a chemical signal.

In a reversal of sorts, Jaeger worked on 'Galaxy Quest', a spoof on Star Trek and considers it one of the best times he's had on a film.

One of the things they taught in the TESOL course was that the teachers should get the students to keep a journal of sorts.

Prussian nobleman, a revolutionary of sorts in his own country, once visited the United States seeking a commission in the Union Army.

The teenage mother has been out of sorts since the premature birth of her baby.

We also got a free lunch of sorts on the boat - random bean porridge slop and biscuits, also the compulsory free water.

As well as being a magician of sorts, Lester had been a drunk.

But with its larger budget and fully-scripted format, RPM Miami serves as an experiment of sorts for the limits of bilingual broadcasting.

Becoming a suicide bomber is a choice of sorts that gives some women a sense of being special, with a distinguished destiny.

They came limping, and hanging their heads; and we set out for home, sadly out of sorts, every one of us.

"Think of it as an opportunity of sorts because many of your competitors will scale back. "

If you find yourself in a dead end of sorts right now you probably got there because you were led along by others.

Another is "deferred pay" , whereby a top executive leaves some part of his salary in the hands of the firm, as a loan of sorts.

Beset by scandal, battered in a regional poll and split in an important state, Congress's leaders are out of sorts.

Often, the set of steps that defines a use case represents a dialogue of sorts between the application user and the system.

An epiphany of sorts overtook Packard when he watched the piles of his seed accumulate in his garage.

You may be out of sorts If you have been extravagant or have let children or friends take advantage of you financially.

She's been out of sorts since the birth of her baby.

You're out of sorts and like all women you think the world is consequently coming to the end.

But it is possible that Mr Clegg could exercise power of sorts without it.

In a prompted dialogue, developed from a prompt, a conversation of sorts took place between the computer and its users.

out of sorts The boss is out of sorts at the moment and you'd better not ask for trouble.

Besides being a propagandist, the Field Mouse was also a literary man of sorts.

Our understanding of hypnosis has advanced a great deal in the past century, but the phenomenon is still a mystery of sorts .

He gave me a piece of advice of sorts and then ended the conversation.

It has private businesses, a free market of sorts and a great taste for consumption.

Wow, you really sound like you're out of sorts about this.

It may have been a victory lap of sorts.

Pooh left feeling unsatisfied and a little out of sorts.

Kodak created in 1888 by George Eastman has been a modern day pioneer of sorts in cameras and photography for the masses.

But the young Serbian looked completely out of sorts as Safin, the hugely talented but infamously -erratic Russian, powered to victory.

"Nothing pleasant ever does happen in this family, " said Meg , she was out of sorts.

And for those who are rattling the cages to get out, an escape network of sorts has sprung up.

In front of the scrolls, I helped Mr. Li move a desk, which he cleaned dutifully before beginning the construction of an altar of sorts.

This visit was an icebreaker of sorts, but Zimbabwe's unity government still has an awful lot to prove.

Once a user has granted my web application permission to act on his or her behalf in Twitter, they'll be forwarded to a dashboard of sorts.

Linguists see the new vocabulary as an emancipation of sorts of men's fashion. And they're taking it seriously.

There is in the last few years a small revival of sorts inside China of Di Zi Gui, consisting mainly of teaching it to young children.

For the departing generals, privatisation looks to be a retirement plan of sorts.

I am not going to the party tonight, I feel a little out of sorts.

In April he set out a strategy, of sorts, for plugging the gaping hole in the public finances.

eg she was tired and out of sorts by the time she arrived home.

Even some of the more muted coverage has, more or less, characterized Amazon as a shopaholic or spendthrift of sorts.

Client connectivity for DB2 data servers has undergone an evolution of sorts over the last couple of releases.

With Aesop's help, Sappho founds a utopia using a Ten Commandments of sorts, in an amusing parody of the biblical account.

Just to spend time with Laurel, the men in her videos become artists of sorts.

There will be a Madonna- thon of sorts on MTV's networks over the next few weeks.

Like many important life events, it is a power struggle of sorts, and I'm not exactly sure where the balance lies.

A crisis of sorts has been averted at the White House. The email system is back up and running.

Tree models partition space of variables imported in a recursion way, and their aim to maximize evaluation function about purity of sorts.

Accounts of the Hazaras' dark history have been passed down through generations a cultural inheritance of sorts.

When Bryant demanded to be traded last summer, Jackson served as an ally of sorts.

Beyond the new collider's scientific potential, its inaugural run also represents a homecoming of sorts for physics in Europe.

I am not going to work today: I feel a little out of sorts.

TIME termed the results "a counterreformation of sorts in a Republican-led era that emphasizes deregulation and self-reliance. "

For some they may be making them feel out of sorts, but they are in no way unpleasant and once they settle down you will feel uplifted.

It is hardly unblemished (one ex-governor is appealing against a jail sentence), but it has produced a technocratic elite of sorts.

When the paperback version came out this year, Mr. Greenspan wrote an epilogue that offers a rebuttal of sorts.

There is very little free or fair about this election; but, all the same, it offers a path of sorts to political progress.

A miniature conquest of sorts, it was also an opportunity to sit and ponder away from the group.

Explicit definition of the threshold prevents the database manager from using excessive amounts of memory for large numbers of sorts.

There are several other Middle Eastern countries where secular dictatorships provide minorities with a protection of sorts.

The film is definitely of the wry and often none-too-subtle social commentary genre, but is still a comedy, of sorts, which is nice.

A time warp, of sorts, and a digital space warp too.

When all the decent and magnificent words faded away, surprisingly I actually didn't find myself out of sorts.

By the day of sorts, packed in front of the building, Xiao Shancou ge re nao would also like to open an eye-opener.

It is an electronic revolution of sorts, made possible by the marriage of television and computer technologies.

In the heart of California's wine country, this 400-acre preserve with 800 free-roaming animals is a Sonoma Serengeti of sorts.

Meanwhile, a parallel conversation, of sorts, is happening across the Pacific.

It was, I suppose in other words, an accomplishment. Of sorts. He was this.

I've been feeling a bit out of sorts lately.

Despite a recovery of sorts, the Nikkei is still 7% below its starting-point for the year.

Both Milan clubs are keen on signing out of sorts Real Madrid striker Ronaldo in January, according to the latest reports in Spain.

This was a revenge mission of sorts for United and they would have to achieve it without Roy Keane.

Sequencing the human genome will represent a closure of sorts for the revolution wrought by those two geniuses.

Life has a natural way of derailing even the best-laid plans, so experts recommend building a cushion, or a slush fund of sorts.

Many had a backdrop of posters, graffiti or billboards, which gave a commentary of sorts.

Austen's relative lack of interest in exterior appearance may itself be a clue of sorts.

Spielberg and Dreamworks put Bay through a what they call a " Transformers School" of sorts.

Upon the launching the app, Documents To Go shows a seven page manual of sorts to give users a crash course on using the app.

Slouched into work feeling tired , flat and thoroughly out of sorts .

For Mr. Obama, the visit offers a diplomatic breather of sorts, after a weekend of tense meetings with his Russian and Chinese counterparts.

Maybe he's thinking that this will be another Messiah, a false Messiah of sorts, that is, the antichrist.

Return at Your Puppy's Peril: Most pet stores do offer a warranty of sorts where you can bring the puppy back if he has problems.

Several years ago, Vergeer says, her dominance provoked a crisis of sorts: "I realized that I was playing not to lose, rather than to win. "

Given that I'm a working man (of sorts anyway), this is compelling stuff.

His mind fragmented so badly, that his trial is on hold in fact, he is of sorts too mentally ill to try.

We become the object of our own deconstruction protocols; an auto-cannibalism of sorts.

Actually, the protagonists are a celebrity couple, of sorts.

Steve Jobs began the news conference with an apology, of sorts.

An aristocracy of sorts evolved that consisted of two opposing ideologies.

The plan marks a reversal of sorts in a footwear industry that has flowed almost entirely from East to West.

I was afraid you might be out of sorts.

Still, the very next day, Wang received a reward of sorts when she helped a lost child find his parents.

I tell the students about a vision of sorts I had while I was running the company I founded before becoming an academic.

It's a favourable day for those who have either been unwell or out of sorts recently.

The traditional festival has become a Chinese Christmas of sorts, topping other occasions for giving or receiving gifts.

To us, your entire history appears as but a gesture of sorts.

There is a power hierarchy of sorts within the vampire world, and that will be dealt with in future books.

I'm out of sorts because I can't find the nincompoop who botched up the report.

That helped the Beatles create an image, a trademark of sorts, that set them apart from other bands of the era.

Mr. McElroy offers customers his own warranty of sorts.

I just think you're out of sorts today.

But that marks a stabilisation of sorts, with the deceleration in annual growth rates falling sharply.

In general terms, the website will be an online message board of sorts with two types of user - message leavers, and message vieweers.

Drivers use a joystick of sorts to steer and throttle the vehicle, which can spin in place and accelerates rather quickly.

TOTAL_SORT: Total number of sorts executed by the statement.

Don't worry too much if your honey is cranky or out of sorts.

Nato has bombed Col Gaddafi's oilfields, creating a level playing field of sorts, given the rebels can no longer afford to import petrol.

Guiding him into the Dream, she taught him much of its secrets and became a foster mother of sorts to him.

After Durant's release, Oakley opened negotiations with Aidid and eventually secured a truce of sorts.

We often blurt the "tired" comment when we get the sense that the other person feels out of sorts. So just ask.

A man living alone is a king of sorts. Unfortunately, his kingdom is small, with very few comforts.

Jacob thought Esau would harm him, so he sent gifts ahead as a peace offering of sorts.

Step 4: Keep talking to her when possible to build up a friendship of sorts.

I always recommend getting credit for the learning experience, a diploma of sorts.

Iceland is about to become a Kinakuta of sorts.

MxPlay is a music-sharing site of sorts, where you can discover, share and buy music as well as create video mashups.

Within short order a federation of sorts was sanctified with the promise of greater harmony.

There's a panic of sorts sweeping through European trading desks concerning all things Italian.

There's even a governing body of sorts, called China Polo Clubs, set up to 'develop and manage polo clubs in China. '

If you feel out of sorts , you may please yourself .

I really enjoy my work and if I miss it I am out of sorts .

Though some people praise his verse, he's really only a poet of sorts.

He's out of sorts because his favorite team lost the game.

He was out of sorts all morning, thinking about the speech.

They have also reinforced a belief in some quarters that America is already engaged in a cyber war of sorts, most notably with China.

This element helps to identify statements which are performing large numbers of sorts.

Luther didn't suggest repeating the Lord's Prayer , but using it as a model for petitions to bring before God, an outline of sorts .

Mangwan, and other such matters, such as heart out of the sky, all -black , cold, out of sorts.

The arrests themselves, in Mr Drucker's telling, represent an initial infection of sorts.

Experts who follow the auto industry see a silver lining of sorts in the rising prices.

Everything is out of sorts, somehow.

The other dancers viewed her as a mother figure of sorts, though she found it difficult to bond with them.

dbrun. snap - This script provides the number of sorts serviced and number of sorts rejected.

Cute: Everyone seems out of sorts today.

What follows, then, is a roundup of sorts of the top 10 Linux distributions today.

I notice that you're out of sorts.

If football authorities and social networks can turn into states of sorts, who needs a patch of sand?

The field creates a screen of sorts in its rotation that catches the dream.

It was a meal of sorts, but nobody enjoyed it.

The truth is when you daydream you are doing a visualization of sorts.

Cooper, himself a landlord of sorts, was convinced that a basic principle of property was at stake.

While the judges deliberated, each contestant was asked to respond to a question, a Table Topic of sorts.

In France, the Michelin Guide is regarded as a Bible of sorts for European restaurants.

m feeling rather out of sorts these days .

This paper may has reference value for embedded design of sorts of signal generators.

CouchDB's emit function works as an organizer of sorts.

If the performance of sorts is important in your environment, then create a separate buffer pool for work files.

At an amount roughly equivalent to 5. 2%-7. 9% of China's GDP, it's clear to us that this bailout of sorts is a big deal.

A rebellion of sorts may ensue and gay children of gay parents may struggle to come out.

Even Goldman Sachs, Wall Street's savviest and best-connected firm, is taking a hit of sorts.

The boss was out of sorts with the new clerk.

A soldier of sorts is diligently fighting the fight so you don't have to.

I read the book at night, to relax. That was a mistake of sorts.

The baby is out of sorts today. Perhaps he is cutting a tooth.

It was a homecoming(15) of sorts. The first Miss Universe pageant was held about 25 miles away in Long Beach, California, in 1952.

The Palestinian intifada of the late 1980s also ended in a draw of sorts.

I'm feeling rather out of sorts these days.

I lived with death on a daily basis, a companion of sorts, mute but tireless.

The course of social change has often been boiled down to poetic mantras-of-sorts.

I won't come out tonight; I'm feeling out of sorts.

Though low, the fees have introduced a market of sorts into higher education.

Nine years ago, President George W. Bush promised a Marshall Plan of sorts for Afghanistan.

For now, a chess match of sorts is playing out between banks and private investors.

For the past year, California has had its own bipartisan supercommittee of sorts.

So you're going have to create one . . . a ceremony of sorts.

It's best to just let people know that you haven't had enough sleep and that you feel both tired and out of sorts.

First Lady Michelle Obama is a superstar of sorts in South Africa today.

Nothing, I'm sorry, I'm just, I'm out of sorts.

But, with the decades, people develop a road etiquette of sorts.

The result is a traffic jam of sorts, which perpetuates the pump and slows recovery.

In our Manhattan apartment, we have a wine cellar, of sorts, that was built into a closet.

She sleeps fitfully at night, so she is a little out of sorts.

When she is imprisoned for life, they resume a relationship of sorts: he records himself reading stories and posts the tapes to her.

Re-arrange the rocks or use the stick as a pencil, of sorts.

Spiritual ceremony meets social insurance: it is a solution, of sorts.

He's always out of sorts early in the morning.

In the Arabian Sea off Mumbai's western coast, a miracle of sorts is taking place.

In fact, the injection of code for crosscutting concerns is a pattern of sorts.

You become an observer of sorts, watching your thoughts flow by.

A server is fisherman of sorts; it just sits and waits until a client bites.

That is a turning point of sorts, which has so far garnered little notice.

The monitor works as an aide of sorts to the teacher, passing out papers, etc.

Oh, that's my pet, Roger. . . Roger Radcliff, a musician of sorts.

On the very day the publishers agreed to set up their venture, record companies launched a Hulu of sorts for music videos in America.

In fact, obesity has become a marker of sorts for lower socioeconomic status.

A recovery of sorts began in the fourth quarter of 2009, when GDP grew by 0. 3% from its trough in the previous three months.

His new book, Social Intelligence, is a sequel of sorts.

That scream is tradition of sorts in Star Wars -- a sound effect affectionately called "the Wilhelm. "

A recovery of sorts will get under way in spring 2010, but over the calendar year national output will slip a further 0. 2%.

Make a list of everything you are happy about - What's odd about stress is that it's an illusion of sorts.

Basically, it fakes out Yahoo by being a middleman of sorts.

Despite having a democracy of sorts, Iraq has joined in too.

Mr Seymour too is an engineer of sorts.

These are backed up by domestic restrictive measures leading to a domestic recession of sorts.

Such statements may benefit from additional tuning to reduce the number of sorts, such as adding an index.

But in this school on 96th Street between 3rd and Lexington Avenues, a war of sorts is being waged between two community school districts.

He has kept going on public-sector pensions and this month won a victory of sorts.

If you are preparing to take the DB2 DBA certification exam 731, you've come to the right place -- a study hall, of sorts.

You must be out of sorts.

So they offer SASAC members a 'scholarship' of sorts: Students who come from SASAC companies pay 29, 000 euros.

I felt somewhat out of sorts because of last night's heavy drink.

Morning commutes became a triathlon of sorts for those who ventured a turn on the rail system.

HARRY. ; A man living alone is a king of sorts.

GEORGE BUSH junior publishes a memoir of sorts on Tuesday November 9th.

This counts as competition, of sorts.

That notebook became her holy grail of sorts.

He later received a vindication of sorts.

DB2 UDB has two basic types of sorts: shared sorts and private sorts.

m quite out of sorts.

At first there is a vibration of sorts, a jiggling, as the crust separates in various places from the core.

This full moon does mark a turning point of sorts.

He was out of sorts.

Chile is on a hotspot of sorts for earthquake activity.

Don't talk to him, he is out of sorts.

Interesting Fact: After the accident Everett became a celebrity of sorts.

This is why some beings you may see, are light and fluffy looking of sorts, some you can actually see thru them.

I am horribly irritable and out of sorts.

I think 2010 will see a recovery of sorts, a pretty anaemic recovery.

Their walk is a pilgrimage of sorts.

This act is a climax of sorts because it exposed the shortcomings of the whole field.

Geneva Global, a for-profit advisory based in Pennsylvania, for example, functions as an investment bank of sorts for donors.

Dev now has 20 Points (10 doubled) to create a "safety net" of sorts for Ran, and has many options.

In this lesson, you will add both types of sorts.

Are you feeling all right? You look a bit out of sorts.

They are both history painters of sorts.

the chief products have dinner sets , tea sets , west dinner sets , micro - wave oven ware and beer cup about 2000 kinds of sorts.

The flipside you must consider though is that the profiler is a "brute-force" profiler of sorts.

I'm a filmmaker, too, of sorts.

I'm making an antenna of sorts.

The film started with a banquent of sorts when Yao was still in China.

It is becoming a new literacy of sorts.

He offered us an apology of sorts and we accepted it.