Sentences with phrase «by vacuous»

Of course, over the years I watched publishing houses publish their fair share of garbage, culminating with the trend of publishing ghost written junk food by vacuous, empty headed, reality TV stars with absolutely nothing of value to say.

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.

An «agglomeration of foodies and educational reformers who are propelled by a vacuous if well - meaning ideology» — in other words, by unexamined assumptions that spending time in school gardens will give children a better chance at getting an education and a high - school diploma.

Trapped by my vacuous life.

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.

And it's a shift in the Liberals» approach to economic policy, which had become encumbered over the past decade by vacuous buzzwords like «champion sectors» and «innovation gateways» (Both found on a single - page in the 2011 election platform).

Not exact matches

If those who have most deeply entered into the contemporary situation find what is said dull or vacuous, it is not saved by the amount of evidence amassed for its conclusions or the tightness of its logical arguments.

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.»

Appropriately, Eslick writes: «It is likely the polemic against substance was originally motivated by Whitehead's reaction against mechanistic materialism, in which substances are inert, vacuous pieces of matter or stuff» (SCCW 504).

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.

Cartesian dualism and the notion of «vacuous actuality» are also among the several other doctrines or notions included by Whitehead under this heading.

In panexperientialist physicalism, by contrast, the universal stuff embodied in all individuals is not vacuous energy, but experiential creativity.

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.

Theresa May's «Brexit means Brexit» mantra was recently panned by Labour's Stephen Kinnock «the most vacuous phrase in modern political history».

And they will condemn the vacuous proposals put forward by May and Corbyn in the strongest possible terms.

By the time Miliband offered his vacuous but highly effective riposte, comparing George Osborne to «Norman Lamont with an iPod», Cameron was in a full - on defensive position, his body language protective and indignant.

«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»

However, given the adoption by the United Nations of the responsibility to protect, does he agree that the international community must decide whether that responsibility is to be a serious attempt to avert genocide or simply a rather futile exercise in vacuous moral posturing?»

The party, however, rejected the call by Chief Obasanjo for a third force saying that such would amount to repeating the same blunder that brought in the ideologically vacuous APC and the Buhari Presidency which had now wrecked havoc on the nation in its almost three years of governance.

However, the PDP said the Presidency has become so panicky that it effectively hijacked the functions of the leadership of its dysfunctional and ideologically vacuous All Progressives Congress (APC), by appointing people into partisan offices, outside its much - desired responsibility of governance.

After 10 years in a solid relationship and Marriage I was daunted with the prospect of meeting someone new in a club or bar, such vacuous places, but after 17 months on my own I searched the Web for a different approach, suggested by friends to get on line with the aim to meet someone.

Very typical of the post Gen X bullshit touted by self - proclaimed «arthouse» auteurs in the 90s, the biggest tragedy of this pointless load of self - satisfied yet irrelevant and vacuous drivel is the fact that there are now two wasted hours of my life I will never get back.

Well meaning but ultimately vacuous, though saved somewhat by a competent cast that delivers whenever verbal sparring needs materialize.

V for Vendetta, based on a graphic novel, is sabotaged by its second half, which is more like V for vacuous.

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.

Hoot isn't really trying to recapture a sense of nostalgia for these sorts of vacuous, sometimes - preachy little films, but it does appear to be made by people that haven't really matured past that era in terms of what they think of when they conceive of movies aimed at young adults.

The two semi-romantic leads, nicely played by Minnette and Rush, even manage to generate some sweetness to the mix that is surprising for a vacuous movie of this ilk.

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.

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.

Unfortunately, director Peter Hewitt, writers Alec Sokolow and Joel Coen (shame on you, Joel; you must have had a mortgage payment due, too), all led by the now - creatively vacuous Jim Davis, have used the memory of the real Garfield, Odie, Jon and Liz as kitty litter.

What it gets right on paper is immediately apparent: Casting hot - ticket stars against type as crestfallen romantics struggling to cope with mental illness provides two attractive but ostensibly vacuous mainstream celebrities (Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence) the enviable opportunity to prove their worth with conspicuously «revelatory» performances; meanwhile, the fundamental seriousness of their characters» respective arcs, with Cooper hoping to control the outbursts caused by his bipolar disorder and Lawrence attempting to overcome her grief over her husband's recent death, raise the emotional stakes considerably, elevating largely light material from rote comedy to overtly «adult» drama.

Two most vacuous films by a once great director: Song to Song (Terrence Malick, 2017) Voyage of Time: The IMAX Experience (Terrence Malick, 2016)

As someone who thought that I Am Love was attractive but vacuous, how could I have expected that I'd get sucked in by director Luca Guadagnino's follow - up — a frenetic remake of La Piscine set at the Mediterranean hideaway of a recuperating rock star?

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.

The intensive test prep and drilling utilized at charter schools is academically vacuous and, by many measures, a form of cheating itself.

But the media blurbs that followed the report's publication fail to dig into the flawed analyses and vacuous recommendations pitched by its authors, Professors Gary Orfield, Jongyeon Ee and Ryan Coughlan Guttman.

Firstly, some of the vacuous reasons behind judgements given by OFSTED inspectors during our inspection last November: That was an Outstanding lesson up until the moment the students turned on the computers when the pace of their learning dipped a little so it can only be judged as Good.

After all, any car that has humble origins yet places look - at - me style uppermost in its list of priorities runs the risk of being branded vacuous and superficial, at least by keen drivers.

Some strange moments are presented by the hanging, including sticking vacuous work by the staff favorite Jeff Koons next to Jasper Johns's genuinely thoughtful Racing Thoughts.

Noah Becker's paintings in ways reference and are inspired by known past and contemporary works and add a perverse insight to the critique of the human condition portrayed in vastly vacuous and ominous landscapes.

There was also a separate protest outside the gallery by a group of artists, calling themselves «The Stuckists», who said the shortlisted work was «pretentious and vacuous».

For Greenberg there were only two polarities of culture: serious high modernist art, such as Eliot's poetry or a cubist painting, versus the vacuous art preferred by the majority, including pop music and the paintings of Norman Rockwell.

Four key sections of Carlin's masterpiece, and indeed his central guiding premise, were lifted directly from an intellectually vacuous and misleading attack on the EPA on a blog run by a PR disinformation spinmeister with a long history of links to fossil fuel interests.