He waved back, then returned to the task of untying one of the strings.
Many books of pop psychology or pop philosophy try to contend straightforwardly with what ails our age; Alain de Botton's wonderful "How to Think More About Sex" comes to mind, an example of an intelligent person helpfully untying some of the knots that bind us.
With reduced work forces at many companies, there is more pressure on workers and executives to be efficient, said Patti Hathaway, the author of "Untying the 'Nots' of Change," which gives advice about handling changes at work.
And when all stock was stowed they stalled no longer, timing their untying with the turn of the tide; ships of all sizes ran up their sails, all unfurling at the moment of their monarch's command, and hands at the gunwales hauled up the great anchors, watermen wise to the ways of the waves.
Based in activity theory, the notion of knotworking, characterized as the tying, untying, and retying of separate threads of activity by loosely connected people, is rapid and partially improvised collaboration [ 12, 13].
"Even if our president is not directly involved in this ugly crime, he created an atmosphere of Stalinist-like times in the country, when he portrayed Nemtsov and other opposition politicians as enemies of the people, untying the hands of those lunatics who could have taken this call as a direct order for violence".
But now Democratic leaders see an opportunity to take aim at the judicial underpinnings of the laws by untying the hands of judges, who are often bound to mandatory minimum sentences even for less serious drug crimes.
When running Cold Spring Harbor, he was a successful groomer of donors, to the point of untying his shoelaces and mussing up his hair before one meeting.
To defeat ISIS, the world needs to hit the core of the group, and this means untying the shroud of knots surrounding it and cutting blood off from ISIS' heart.
I've also been guilty of untying nylon ropes that interrupt a lap length and of dripping in the elevator.
It was an early proponent of "untying" aid ie, scrapping wasteful, self-interested rules that make recipients spend funds on only the donor's goods or services.
