Sentences with phrase «about vacuous»

I've decided I grudgingly admire Taylor Swift for forcing me to care about her vacuous life.

If irresponsibility and a lack of trust or deep caring between anyone is the grounds for good humor, then Bojack Horseman does it infinitely better (The difference is that in a cartoon show about vacuous Hollywood types there are characters who feel like subjects who can care rather than just targets for cynical jokes).

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Sending himself up in the process, he sets about unpacking how ultimately vacuous that idea is, and even begins to explore what might replace it instead.

With the year anniversary of the Triple Disaster (i.e., Fukushima) coming up next week, there will be plenty of vacuous Economist - grade quick commentary pieces out there for your consumption, but for real analysis of what the disaster has revealed about Japan's people and politics, you'll want to be going to Ampontan.

Claiming miracles in the debris of a summer storm is as vacuous as praying for a four to come up on each of six - hundred times you roll a die, and then claiming that god answered your prayers «about a hundred times.»

Those who do care about politics, and who lead populist movements, tend to be theologically vacuous, tied to populist «God and country» appeals that seem simultaneously idolatrous and angry to younger Christians.

I do not believe we Christians are obliged» or even allowed» to look upon the devastation visited upon the coasts of the Indian Ocean and to console ourselves with vacuous cant about the mysterious course taken by God's goodness in this world, or to assure others that some ultimate meaning or purpose resides in so much misery.

12:23 - McNulty tweets back: «Cameron pathetic if he thinks quoting me talking about EdM's pmq performance is a serious attack on EdM - really weak and vacuous attack»

Thing that's interesting about «The Simple Life» is that it's as worthless and worthy of derision as Nicole and Paris, products, both, of a fast, facile culture that favours beautiful people so vacuous that as soon as the wind shifts, the destruction of them is brought to pass with zero effort in zero time.

Alas, the production runs out of gas as it approaches the final half hour, which is filled with the usual bits of soul - searching angst we've grown accustomed to from films about decadent parties full of vacuous people.

Yet we're supposed to care about this hateful, hideous woman when the action shifts from the boat to a deserted island, where Amber and the main target of her vacuous venom, the yacht's first mate Giuseppe (Adriano Giannini, who more resembles an Italian version of Aidan Quinn than his he does father, Giancarlo — who played the role in the original), end up stranded.

This roster makes it all the more baffling just how vacuous this romantic comedy is, in which none of them are particularly likable while in a universally recognizable story about what music means to others.

Her Billie Jean King is a cipher who mouths platitudes about «equality» when what she really means is that she's a vacuous narcissist who steamrolls everyone trying to help her in a movie that is in fact as woman - hating as the men it sets up as straw... well, men.

Also, while we learn a lot about Mort and the other characters, everyone still comes across as somewhat vacuous and underwritten.

In those moments I would expostulate with myself about why my life at school seemed so ruinously vacuous, why I was so interminably miserable, why acts of creativity, and why displays of ingenuity and wit seemed to be off - limits and treated by so many teachers as unjudicious, as a type of impolitic epistemological breach.

Her family life is vacuous and she is left to wander about the forest - even getting to school and what goes on at school is of little or no interest to her parents.

To find out more about him and how Vacuous came to be, continue reading below for my recent interview with him.

I say surprised not only because I am disposed to a cynical suspicion about now - ubiquitous international contemporary art biennales and fairs, which somehow manage to be both bloated and vacuous, but also because, as a historian who works on postwar art of the not - so - distant past, my relationship to «the contemporary» and «contemporary art,» both in regards to my teaching and scholarship, has felt rather tortured of late.

Meanwhile, with fewer vacuous comments to read through Andrew can get on with reporting what the scientists are saying / publishing so that those of us who are following the science without a priori convictions on who is right or wrong can learn more about what is going on on this planet.

Even if he accurately quoted the one little factoid he is so exercised about, it is one little token of data taken out of context and misused to bolster a vacuous argument.

You could make equally vacuous statements about any other plant improvement method and it'd make as much sense.