Not all single women want to be married. Not all boys like football. Not all homemakers like to cook. Not all messy people are lazy. And not all the obese are gluttons. There are glands and diabetes and a dozen conditions you never heard of that may account for things. Put your sermon through the counter-stereotype sieve.
The world is full of abundance and opportunity, but far too many people come to the fountain of life with a sieve instead of a tank car... a teaspoon instead of a steam shovel. They expect little and as a result they get little.
When facing the public, politicians constantly filter their ideas through a political sieve. 'How will this affect the environmentalists, labor, management?' Sometimes the sieve gets so clogged by political taboos that no new ideas pass through.
Making a film is like putting out a fire with sieve. There are so many elements, and it gets so complicated.
They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.
Boy, you know, it's amazing how your brain can turn into a sieve, and you can literally forget episodes that you have shot.
His answer trickled through my head like water through a sieve.
The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.