Sentences with phrase «by fatuous»

Set in the filmset futurism of the LBS savings bank HQ, its impressive assemblage of corrugated metal panels and slender black pipes is undercut by a fatuous three - video installation of digitally generated figures fighting.

Then there is the appalling acting — although to be fair to the performers, they were left floundering by the fatuous script.

The only edge in the movie is represented by Russell Brand, who actually lived the lifestyle, but he's muzzled by a bad Liverpool accent and a gay subplot that's as insincere as the swaggering anthems by fatuous hacks like Foreigner, Starship and Journey.

Not exact matches

By 721, when the Northern Kingdom of Israel fell to Assyria, any hopes of political existence independent of Assyria were simply fatuous.

18) The fact that there is a later punk - driven attempt to democratize rock fame (and not in the fatuous way that Andy Warhol's «15 - minutes of fame» comment suggested) or that pop / disco artists like Michael Jackson and Madonna will pick up on Bowie's fame - playing and image - emphatic example, in Madonna's case overtly subordinating the music to the prerogatives of notoriety, do not alter what ALMOST FAMOUS is showing us, that rock can be thought of as a social phenomenon / scene that one might belong to («you're too sweet for rock and roll» is said not by a musician to a musician, but by a groupie to a rock writer), that is as fame - focused as it is music - focused.

Is it not unwise and fatuous for us Christians to think and speak as though those who are not Christians can understand, apart from an informed faith, what we mean by life and death?

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Without the possibility of non-coercive self - disclosure, which is vitiated by unfettered intrusion, such relationships are fatuous.

Whatever possessed the fatuous FA suddenly and belatedly to charge John Terry with «making a racist remark» to Anton Ferdinand hot on the heels of Terry being acquitted by the Westminster magistrate.

What I'm interested in is Next Labour,» which he defines as «Labour listening», by which he means Listening Labour, presumably along the lines of the fatuous Big Conversation.

In their place, voters will have to endure even more fatuous communications by politicians on social media, ever more empty of content and thought, ever more full of false friendship and spurious empathy.

That was the fatuous explanation offered by the former Liberal Democrat MP, Lembit Öpik, upon the resignation of his friend, the ex-chief secretary to the Treasury.

She struggles to make sense of Oliverâ $ ™ s unconvincingly oblivious mother, whose attraction to the fatuous New - Age guru Graham (played by Considine) never scans.

In congressional debate pro-slavery Democrat Fernando Wood declaims that to make blacks equal to white men is «an insult to natural law» — to which the powerful, acid - tongued Republican abolitionist Thaddeus Stevens, played by a well - cast Tommy Lee Jones, retorts, «Slavery is the only insult to natural law, you fatuous nincompoop.

Is it about exposing the rich and fatuous represented by crooked American land speculator Sanderson (Aaron Eckhart) and his trophy girlfriend (Amber Heard) or enjoying the trappings of same?

Referencing as backup the Brooklyn Museum's past refusal to pull The Holy Virgin Mary (1996), a work by British painter Chris Ofili involving elephant dung — a case of apples and oranges on a 10 - to - one scale — only made the paper of record look fatuous.

You present a fatuous assertion by claiming «continued warming» (which is not happening) «is potentially hazardous» but everything is «potentially hazardous» including getting out of bed in the morning.

Compare this to the fatuous analogy offered by Bill McKibben in today's LA Times in which he finds the tactics deployed by OJ Simpson's defense team comparable to those of climate skeptics.

The idea that temperatures for my area should be set by a thermometer at an airport some 60 km away reading say 18 degC is fatuous and misconceived.