Sentences with phrase «as mindless»

The NRA characterized the student protesters as mindless pawns doing the bidding of «gun - hating billionaires and Hollywood elites.»

Samsung's recent run of television commercials depicted iPhone owners as mindless hipster sheep who line up for days just to get their hands on a boring incremental update.

The Huawei Watch 2 still uses a set of pins to charge, so making the connection isn't as mindless as it is on the Apple Watch or LG Style.

Johnson: This is all hypothetical, of course, and we don't want to come across as mindless cheerleaders.

But, as both the book and the thesis make clear: That is not the same as mindless repetition of a task.

Upon learning of this, it struck me as a mindless approach to social media.

Sometimes, in the most egregious instances, they act as the mindless lap dogs of powerful rulers.

It is easy to criticize this approach as mindless, and it is true that they have not tackled the big questions, but in my view they have indeed produced food for thought.

So this isn't about «denying global warming» as the mindless mind - reading WHT seems to think.

By the mid 1970s, conservative economic and ideological interests had joined forces to combat what they saw as mindless eco-radicalism.

So prove me and countless others wrong and address the issues presented by Jo, Salby, TQ and Spencer or continue to be known as a mindless warmbot, the choice is yours.

It's fun to squash that crap, as my mindless variation of playing sudoku.

Like the video games we play, «fairy tale» is fraught with misconceptions, perceived by many as mindless frivolity aimed at children and adolescents.

Combat is as mindless as combat gets, with enemies launching themselves at the protagonist and swinging manically while the player is expected to do the same.

Agents of Mayhem is pretty fun as a mindless pickup and play game.

So it's just as mindless and repetitive as playing by yourself.

He believed motion pictures should sever their formal ties to theater and literature (which he saw as mindless immersion) and develop a language all its own - one that leverages the unique powers of film to do more than simply make audiences forget they are watching a film.

Doom 3 succeeds as a mindless shooter that achieves limited depth through it's useless busy work PDA mechanic, but after a couple of hours I was just going through the motions.

Link ventures forth into the Room of Rites and fights Twinrova, defeating her.Twinrova then sacrifices herself and Ganon is revived as a mindless beast, and defeated by Link.

Sakaguchi and Horii defined an entire fucking genre with their work and gave us such loveable and time - honored game mechanics as mindless grinding, random encounters, useless potions and skills, and severely padded story lines with lots of fetch - questing, back - tracking, menial labor... okay it wasn't all positive... in fact fuck all their other games.

So their influence on the marketplace shrinks as the mindless passive herd of buyers grows... and experiences less and less pushback from more rational actors in the marketplace.

On behalf of Android users everywhere who are tired of being stereotyped as mindless idiots like you, knock it off.

We were derided by some academics and cultural pundits as mindless, entitled brats.

Some can try to rationalize this kind of inanity if they wish, but I see it as mindless, dangerous, and destructive.

In Short: At times it feels like a reanimated corpse itself, but as mindless and predictable as it may be Dead Rising 4 is as much fun as the series has ever been.

The two nerds are too intimidated to actually make a move on her and as the story progresses, you realize that they're learning a little bit about how to treat real women (i.e., not as mindless sex objects) through the tutelage of the one they created themselves.

The premise, concocted by Will Ferrell, Adam McKay and John C. Reilly is about as mindless and simplistic as your typical Adam Sandler flick.

The class discomfort is basically identical to the first movie; Vaughn caricatures politicians as cynical opportunists and the people who elect them as mindless mobs, while his camera bends down to lick the dirt off his posh old - money conspirators» black leather Oxfords.

The games of the late 80's and early 90's could be crowned as mindless time wasters.

The Mummy Returns isn't so much an homage to the classic horror flicks of the 1930s so much as an attempt to play oneupsman to all of the summer blockbusters to have been released in the interim years after 1998, and in so doing, it exists only as mindless fodder for strict popcorn movie fanatics.

As far as mindless entertainment goes, you'd think that it would at least be considered a guilty pleasure action flick since it has such a talented cast, but even this world class -LSB-...]

Combo's rightwing ideology gradually begins to seep into the film and makes its mark on young Shaun; but Meadows is careful not to paint Combo as a mindless thug, instead allowing him flashes of intelligence and articulacy, which in many ways makes him even worse.

However, the ape community is riven with internal dissention, centered in no small part on its policy toward humans, who, on this planet, are treated as mindless animals.

So beyond the silliness and clichés and overall cheesiness, how is The Scorpion King as a mindless action movie?

You're not getting one of the greatest movies of all - time, but you're being offered a chance to be entertained in a way that may be considered as mindless fun to plenty of people.

I just wish that Stallone would look for something deeper to work on and not simply settle for stories as mindless and humdrum as this.

It's as mindless as any of the zombie enemies but good for a quick burst of combat and chuckles.

Best thought of as a Johnny Depp vehicle to be savored as a mindless, mildly scary escape.

Thinking of a judge (Candice Bergen), a successful founder of a luxury hotel (Jane Fonda), a strong, independent wife (Mary Steenburgen), and the fluttery widow (Diane Keaton) as reinventing themselves as mindless dates is wacky.

Zombie movies work quite well as mindless and bloody entertainment, and also when they are tied into larger social commentaries (such as in Romero's original Dawn Of The Dead and 28 Days Later).

But it's immediately obvious that as mindless as it might have been, the old system of defending and attacking fortresses at least kept things relatively focused.

Not even Jai Courtney, an actor I have not yet seen deliver a convincing performance and yet I can't fault the fact his character comes off as a mindless drone.

Besson expects us to take his tour of time and space seriously, even as it's juxtaposed with something as trivial as a mindless shootout.

At times it feels like a reanimated corpse itself, but as mindless and predictable as it may be Dead Rising 4 is as much fun as the series has ever been.

Unfortunately the movie is drained of all humanity, so whatever goes down seems like play acting and can be easily excused as mindless entertainment for the masses.

We know the subject matter is huge robots thumping other huge robots, but it doesn't have to be as mindless as this.

There has been a backlash against what some perceive as mindless overconsumption.

It's not as mindless as I thought it was going to be.

Eating while focused on something else, otherwise known as mindless eating, can bypass fullness switches, leading to uncomfortable physical sensations of fullness.

Just as mindless eating plays a big role when it comes to weight gain, mindless «thinking» — that negative downward spiral of thoughts that trigger self - criticism and feelings of failure, regret, or shame — can just as powerfully give you momentum toward disaster.