Sentences with phrase «as vacuous»

If you can not name even a single specific fact that supposedly supports your case, then your entire stream of groundless assertions is legitimately dismissed as vacuous.

Mere trolls, such as that vacuous first post, do not deserve all the attention they get.

Their arguments appear to be as vacuous as their resumes.

If «nature», as Quinn sees it, is as vacuous and cynical as these oversized boardroom ornaments, I despair for him.

All the while, assure them that their sense of self - worth never has to be tied to something as vacuous as social media.

As vacuous as it is innocuous, there is great irony in the title, as After the Sunset has come out a few too many years after much better heist flicks have had their time in the sun.

But it is wrong to caricature the Tory leader as vacuous.

Ok, maybe the role isn't as vacuous as it seems.

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.»

He scorns «mere» humanity in the name of a vitalism as vacuous in its rhetoric as it is vicious in its ethics:

It sees no promise in cosmic events, but instead reads natural history as a vacuous process leading only to eventual doom.

Fighting what he sees as the vacuous definition of marriage as a purely private relationship of love, Blankenhorn urges readers to work toward resurrecting marriage as a public institution designed to uphold what he believes is the birthright of every child — to have a mother and a father.

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Romney is a vacuous, two - faced liar who molds his opinions on the fly for the sake of political expediency, who has a long history of outsourcing American jobs overseas, who has lived a life of privilege and demonstrably does not understand that people who actually have to earn a living are just as valid as him and his show horse raising ilk.

I have no doubt that John, our choir director at one of the congregations where my father served, sincerely believed that «Whispering Hope,» a number frequently chosen by him as the choir's offertory piece, was a profoundly Christian hymn; but it was really an expression of vacuous hope without any substantive theological grounding: «Wait till the darkness is over / wait till the tempest is done / Hope for the sunshine tomorrow, after the darkness is gone / Whispering hope, oh, how welcome thy voice / Making my heart in its sorrow rejoice.»

If we conceive of the Word or Spirit as moving more and more fully into the body of the profane in response to the self - negation of God in Christ, then we can understand how the Christian God gradually becomes more alien and beyond, receding into a lifeless and oppressive form, until it finally appears as an empty and vacuous nothingness.

We must understand this whole movement as an atoning process, a forward - moving process wherein a vacuous and nameless power of evil becomes increasingly manifest as the dead body of God or Satan; but it is precisely this epiphany of God as Satan which numbs the power of evil, and unveils every alien and oppressive other as a backward - moving regression into the now lifeless and hence ultimately powerless emptiness of the primordial sacrality of God.

In addition, as in the last case, even if the subject's infallibility were not vacuous, that it is infallible is not necessarily information that is available to it: the theory stipulates only that the subject «perceive» what causally affects it, not that it know or be aware of what it perceives, much less that it know that it is perceiving real causes.

It may seem somewhat trite to invoke the freedom of creation as part of the works and ends of divine love, or to argue that the highest good of the creature — divinizing union with God in love — requires a realm of «secondary causality» in which the rational wills of God's creatures are at liberty; nonetheless, whether the traditional explanations of how sin and death have been set loose in the world satisfy one or not, they certainly render the claim that an omnipotent and good God would never allow unjust suffering simply vacuous.

Again and again, Wright asserts that there is no fossil evidence of intermediate forms between earlier primates and human beings; and, again and again, Dawkins attempts to disabuse her of this vacuous «mantra» (as he calls it) by pointing out that there certainly is such evidence and by directing her to it, but all to no avail.

Is transcendence, either as self - transcendence or as ontological reality, so chaotic in consequence, so formless as to its dimensions, so blind as to direction, so vacuous as to structure, that only as we return to the realm of the ordinary can we make sense of it, introduce criteria of truth or falsity, beneficence or evil into it?

Just as he's attempted to bring some cerebral quality into the often - vacuous world of young adult fiction, he's also pushing the boundaries of YouTube the world's most popular video - sharing site.

The first possibility would treat God the Father or the Godhead as some sort of vacuous actuality devoid of subjectivity; at any rate it would, like the second possibility, ascribe all divine subjective attributes to the subjectivity of Jesus (who can only have one unified subjectivity, not one divine and one human), which is both implausible and heretical.

The conference brought together traditionalist Christians from across the spectrum - all the sort that usually disdain ecumenism as debilitating and vacuous.

As indicated earlier, a vacuous marriage becomes more and more painful as the couple approaches the middle yearAs indicated earlier, a vacuous marriage becomes more and more painful as the couple approaches the middle yearas the couple approaches the middle years.

He defines «vacuous actuality,» «which haunts realistic philosophy,» as «the notion of res vera devoid of subjective immediacy.»

Like most great ideas, religion began as an agency to lift people out of ignorance, but planted another vacuous idea in people's heads, and they can't think for themselves now.

Neither law courts nor the Constitution will save us as long as we live in a celebrity - addled society that seems to think the vacuous postmodern piety of an Oprah makes her a credible presidential candidate.

We've all experienced the vacuous attempts to learn something together as a group without an expert present.

Unlike the Marxian future, as represented by the vacuous «Noch - Nicht - Sein» of Ernst Bloch, the absolute future of Teilhard de Chardin possesses an already existing reality whose personal character influences every phase of human development.

Nor will vacuous calls for outreach to the unaffiliated and disaffected, or for the establishment of new spiritual communities, be successful as long as the religious message of Conservative Judaism remains so cloudy.

As a celiac diagnosed in 1999, and as an indomitable perfectionist with a penchant for equality and fairness, this former domestic violence attorney was simply unwilling to accept the dry, gritty, vacuous foods that were the norm theAs a celiac diagnosed in 1999, and as an indomitable perfectionist with a penchant for equality and fairness, this former domestic violence attorney was simply unwilling to accept the dry, gritty, vacuous foods that were the norm theas an indomitable perfectionist with a penchant for equality and fairness, this former domestic violence attorney was simply unwilling to accept the dry, gritty, vacuous foods that were the norm then.

Remind me this vacuous article if Iheanaco really hit the same note as Messi or Ronaldo.

Actually, a mental switch works just as well in the face of vacuous political discourse as it does for media contortions.

As long as it stays at such a broad, vacuous level perhaps — it's hard to imagine the public turning against growth as a concepAs long as it stays at such a broad, vacuous level perhaps — it's hard to imagine the public turning against growth as a concepas it stays at such a broad, vacuous level perhaps — it's hard to imagine the public turning against growth as a concepas a concept.

So Theresa May has said since before she became prime minister, to the confusion of those who see the maxim as little more than a vacuous inanity.

«As if the palpable odium of intiating a vacuous criminal charge against a whistle - blower, no less a person than a distinguished senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria was not bad enough, the prosecuting authority, obviously urged on by the Inspector General of Police, threw pretension to adherence to democratic tenets of the rule of law when it sought from the court, albeit most illegally, to obtain summons against Senator Misau, while deliberately witholding service of the copy of the charge on the Senator, an obvious stratagem conceived to frame up all manner of false allegations tailored to suit the obvious purpose of yet another gestapo strategy to use state powers to swoop on the Distinguished Senator and keep him out of circulation»

Some of these «tasting notes,» as he wryly calls them, may sound profound and vacuous at the same time — «liking is learning,» says one; «do not trust the easy like,» warns another — but they do deliver a Zen Buddhist — like payload of unity and sense that, after ambling pleasantly but aimlessly along for 300 pages, I took as blessed relief.

Biology teacher Steve Stough noted that not only does ID not belong in the science curriculum, it is also «both vacuous and logically fallacious» as philosophy or religion.

Ben Haller dismisses as «silly and vacuous» the assertion that up to 80 per cent of our mental experiences are...

The most prominent characters include Haven Hamilton (Henry Gibson), a socially conservative, arrogant country music star; Linnea Reese (Lily Tomlin), a gospel singer and mother of two deaf children; Del Reese (Ned Beatty), her lawyer husband and Hamilton's legal representative, who works as the local political organizer for the Tea Party - like Hal Philip Walker Presidential campaign; Opal (Geraldine Chaplin), an insufferably garrulous and pretentious BBC Radio reporter on assignment in Nashville, or so she claims; talented but self - involved sex - addict Tom Frank (Keith Carradine), one - third of a moderately successful folk trio who's anxious to launch a solo career; John Triplette (Michael Murphy), the duplicitous campaign consultant who condescendingly tries to secure top Nashville stars to perform at a nationally - syndicated campaign rally; Barbara Jean (Ronee Blakley), the emotionally - fragile, beloved Loretta Lynn - like country star recovering from a burn accident; Barnett (Allen Garfield), Barbara Jean's overwhelmed manager - husband; Mr. Green (Keenan Wynn), whose never - seen ailing wife is on the same hospital ward as Barbara Jean; groupie Martha (Shelley Duvall), Green's niece, ostensibly there to visit her ailing aunt but so personally irresponsible that she instead spends all her time picking up men; Pfc. Glenn Kelly (Scott Glenn), who claims his mother saved Barbara Jean's life but who mostly seems obsessed with the country music star; Sueleen Gay (Gwen Welles), a waitress longing for country music fame, despite her vacuous talent; Bill and Mary (Allan F. Nicholls and Cristina Raines), the other two - thirds of Tom's folk act, whose ambition overrides constant personal rancor; Winifred (Barbara Harris), another would - be singer - songwriter, fleeing to Nashville from her working - class husband, Star (Bert Remsen); Kenny Frasier (David Hayward), a loner who rents a room from Mr. Green and carries around a violin case; Bud Hamilton (Dave Peel), the gentle, loyal son of the abrasive Hamilton; Connie White (Karen Black), a glamorous country star who is a last - minute substitute for Barbara Jean at the Grand Old Opry; Wade Cooley (Robert DoQui), a cook at the airport restaurant where Sueleen works as a waitress and who tries unsuccessfully to convince her that she has no talent; and the eccentric Tricycle Man (Jeff Goldblum), who rides around in a three - wheel motorcycle, occasionally interacting with the other characters, showing off his amateur magic tricks, but who has no dialogue.

The film reveals itself as something vacuous and cold, a bizarrely seductive pseudo-thriller lacking a thoroughly worked - out payoff.

That being said, it would be hard not to play it this way when the company she's keeping are as strong as they are: Tarantino's go - to man for dialogue delivery Samuel L. Jackson echoes Pulp's Jules Winnfield only this time his gun - running Ordell Robbie has less biblical monologues and more of a dangerous cutting edge; Bridget Fonda plays his vacuous beach blonde accomplice to perfection while Michael Keaton's doggedly determined ATF agent Ray Nicolette has the requisite cocksure arrogance.

Before the first American remake of Ju - On was released in 2003, I would often be heard referring to it as «The Drudgery», describing what a chore it would be to sit through another vacuous horror mood piece.

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.

The pacing could've been better, and the movie as a whole could've been improved by adopting some sort of a strong direction, instead of the vacuous feel it projects.

A wicked satire of our selfie and Instagram - obsessed culture, «Ingrid» features a knockout performance by indie comedy goddess Plaza as a woman who uses a $ 60,000 inheritance to move to LA and stalk an online celebrity (Olsen) with an equally vacuous existence.

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.

It has a long tradition of championing esoteric arthouse films by directors such as Lars von Trier and Pedro Almovodar, but also happily allows Hollywood to use the festival as a promotional vehicle for some of its most vacuous summer blockbusters.

Its entire cast save for a slumming Plummer (and that's really saying something) is a giant sucking vortex at the center of an already empty picture, and its screenplay is so rudderless and random that it might just as well have been written by the vacuous pre-teens who most likely comprise its key demographic.

He's concocted a plot just busy enough to distract from these worn cynicisms and a set of characters too enigmatic to dismiss as mere chess pieces off the bat, but by the end, Happy End reveals itself as something vacuous and cold, a bizarrely seductive pseudo-thriller lacking a thoroughly worked - out payoff.