Sentences with phrase «empty talk of»

Groups that spent decades urging the country toward higher academic standards worry about returning to empty talk of self - esteem, accepting low achievement as long as students feel good.

Not exact matches

One day as the morning sun pours through the windows of a conference room at headquarters, Smith leans back in an office chair and swivels the empty one to his right with a free hand as he talks.

Constrained by a lack of capital after the strike, we found a former shoe shop on Oxford Street in London, and we talked the owner into letting us use the empty space.

Many of them you may have heard before, including simply paying closer attention to how you talk to yourself and using a journal to empty out and examine all those exaggeratedly negative thoughts.

And a time of contemplation, and that they need to look at their inner selves to allow oneness with all things... My take on the Eastwood empty chair, was only intended to signify the People Speaking but the leader not hearing them, hence talking to an empty chair.

Your rants on how we're talking to «imaginary friend» is just an empty chatter of someone who's just running their mouth about something they know nothing about.

Early on, having admitted the difficulty of speaking of ultimate mystery at all, he adds, «This does not mean that it is not worth saying, that it is just empty talk... I do have some things to say, but... I want it understood from the outset how problematic all of this is, how uncertain; but however uncertain, these are matters worth attending to, worth trying to understand as well as we can.»

They have been talking about it for hours, rehearsing the possibilities, arguing about the details, sparring with one another about the theological nuances of an empty tomb.

Yeah, let's all talk about Chick - Fil - A and the religion of our President and his empty suit opponent instead of how Romney is getting thrashed by the British media for being «more dense and unqualified than Sarah Palin.»

If a person is sitting at a table alone and is talking to an empty chair across from them, what are we to think of that person?

Respect for rules of conduct has been lost in the deafening and essentially empty rights - talk of our age.

But even they show that the contrary is the case, as Altizer himself demonstrates when he claims that he is talking about the absolute immanence or «presence - in - this - world» of the Word or Spirit, in consequence of the radical kenosis or self - emptying of the transcendent deity usually denoted by the word «God».

He was invited to «talk with his father» whom he was to fantasize as sitting in the empty chair in front of him.

I know that many elders and churchgoers don't like the idea of their building becoming an office complex or dance club, but from God's perspective, is the building really accomplishing its purpose by sitting empty six days of the week, or being a place that Christians dump thousands and millions of dollars into every year just so they can have a place to talk about the Bible?

Talk of a new covenant in business, of course, can be just one more sign of the way in which religious symbols are easily coopted and emptied of meaning.

[PM] While a great secular therapist would show love to their client's wounds — say, date - rape — and help them talk to an empty chair, pretending like the abuser is there and can be told - off in an act of «role playing» intended to bring «closure,» a Christian therapist takes the issue forward through God.

So, today, we're not going to talk about India because doing so would require me to a) make everyone feel glass - half - empty or b) force a sugar - coated version of our trip that isn't at all representative of my experience there.

With no meaningful sponsors to talk of they filled the empty spaces with enticing phrases like «This is a cool spot» and «Your logo here».

I actually find this kind of talk empty and useless.

If you want to talk mediocrity look at other teams other then Man U even Chelsea and you will understand what mediocrity is Morons like you will never appreciate what Wenger has done for Arsenal football club Certainly more then the current plastic moronic fanbase at Arsenal I've been a season ticket holder since 1976 and this is the worst fanbase I have seen in that time BeforfNs start saying we pay top money my answer is don't come t the ground we don't need stupid fans better to have half empty stadium full of real fans then morons taking out their real frustrations of failure on the team Just ask spuds fans who seem to back their team even though they have only won 2 trophies in 30 years and only been in the cl 4 times as opposed to the cabinet Full of trophies that Wenger has delivered plus a new stadium and works class stars that have played for us in his tenure.

With pre-match talk involving disgruntled supporters planning a unique protest during the game, by applying rubbish bags on empty seats, the club managed to still attract 59643 supporters, despite the underground Victoria Line shutting down, which initially preponed the fixture by a couple of hours.

Moments later, as I drove through the empty streets of our Cleveland suburb waiting for AP to stop grunting behind me, I finally understood what the veteran dads in my class had been talking about.

Actually, it's a common misconception that the breast can be completely emptied as people often talk about the effectiveness of a pump as correlating to how well it empties the breast.

Fill them with different amounts of water and talk about concepts like, full, fuller, empty, heavy, heavier, light, lighter, little and much heavier etc..

Talk about and compare things that illustrate concepts of full and empty (volume) and light and heavy (weight).

Gause is one of 25 «Grandma, Please» volunteers, who will be honored Monday in a 10 a.m. awards ceremony at the Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E. Washington St. Started 10 years ago as a service for senior citizens by the Uptown Center Hull House Association and supported by the Chicago Community Trust, the program handles at least 800 calls a month from youngsters who come home after school to an empty house and want to talk to a grownup.

In 2017, Elle started a blog — Feathering The Empty Nest — where she talks about grief, baby loss and adjusting to life again with the help of renovating their home.

We would practice filling up one side and keeping the other empty, and talk about how it would feel if someone else had all of the ice cream and we had none.

What was revealed to be vapid and empty last night was the endless, often cable tv - driven spouting of impression and prediction — when did political talking heads suddenly gain the ability to accurately foretell the future?

Talk of «hard - wiring fairness» by Clegg in the interview seems like empty rhetoric.

NOW WE CLEARLY UNDERSTAND THE EXTENT OF DEMENTIA IN AMERICA Dale Benjamin Drakeford 8-31-12 When Clint Eastwood, a self - proclaimed «conservative» (who has lived more like a Joseph Smith liberal spurning nine children with four different women, sporting a clinch fisted personae in his private exenterates over public exhibitions) talks vulgar to an empty chair, Marco Rubio (a small government advocate who loss his roots somewhere between caffeine - free tea and a caffeine rich Cuban cigar) slips Freudian to advocate «large government» in a failed attempt to wax brilliant but came off bane (pun intended) to the capitalization of the nation, Paul Ryan can lie and demonize his role against the truth until his nose is a foot long and not one member of his audience will notice, and Mitt Romney can anecdote on his personal family, business and church goings on as oppose to his solutions for unemployment, banking corruption, housing displacement, militarism, planetary illness and international human rights unrest, we can clearly understand the extent of dementia in AmericOF DEMENTIA IN AMERICA Dale Benjamin Drakeford 8-31-12 When Clint Eastwood, a self - proclaimed «conservative» (who has lived more like a Joseph Smith liberal spurning nine children with four different women, sporting a clinch fisted personae in his private exenterates over public exhibitions) talks vulgar to an empty chair, Marco Rubio (a small government advocate who loss his roots somewhere between caffeine - free tea and a caffeine rich Cuban cigar) slips Freudian to advocate «large government» in a failed attempt to wax brilliant but came off bane (pun intended) to the capitalization of the nation, Paul Ryan can lie and demonize his role against the truth until his nose is a foot long and not one member of his audience will notice, and Mitt Romney can anecdote on his personal family, business and church goings on as oppose to his solutions for unemployment, banking corruption, housing displacement, militarism, planetary illness and international human rights unrest, we can clearly understand the extent of dementia in Americof the nation, Paul Ryan can lie and demonize his role against the truth until his nose is a foot long and not one member of his audience will notice, and Mitt Romney can anecdote on his personal family, business and church goings on as oppose to his solutions for unemployment, banking corruption, housing displacement, militarism, planetary illness and international human rights unrest, we can clearly understand the extent of dementia in Americof his audience will notice, and Mitt Romney can anecdote on his personal family, business and church goings on as oppose to his solutions for unemployment, banking corruption, housing displacement, militarism, planetary illness and international human rights unrest, we can clearly understand the extent of dementia in Americof dementia in America.

«Instead of empty rhetoric we need straight talking on immigration, we need action not empty promises.»

But, surely, Wee Dougie Alexander deserves some sort of Bad Context Award (like the Bad Sex Award but without any risk of seeing a belly - button) for this: «Constant talk of vetoes, a tendency to empty - chair those meetings that seem to be on the periphery of our interest.»

Just yesterday, Cuomo was at Tryon talking about the «ridiculous» waste of keeping an empty facility open because state law requires a long lead time prior to closing it down (largely to protect union jobs).

For many trade unionists, the government's refusal to allow them to use electronic voting shows that the talk of higher turnouts for strike ballots is just empty rhetoric.

«I see a lot of empty platitudes and (Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee) talking points,» she said.

Before we talk about how to get six - pack abs, the right way, we must re-program your hard drive and empty the trash can of garbage you have been fed.

Now, it might be exaggerated when the media constantly paints a picture of a dystopian future where school classrooms are empty and civilians stride through the streets hastily while wearing face masks and talking to no - one.

The effectiveness of HCG diet drops is no empty talk.

These photos were shot on the dreamiest place of all: the empty beach I talked about in my last post.

And if you're looking for something quieter, find an empty patch of sand and read, talk, or tan in peace and relaxation.

i really find it uncomfortable talking about my self, because i believe empty barrel makes the loudest noise.However this is the few i can say about my self, I am a widower and i'm self employed, i will never cheat or betray my woman.Relationships are a necessary part of healthy living, but there is no

Seeds are sown in rows, tools level up quicker, you can walk through crops, gifts provide visible feedback so you aren't left trying to interpret bad translations, your rucksack doesn't need constant emptying during a harvest, you don't have to take each item out of your rucksack individually when shippiing, you don't have to talk to a person AND give them a gift (giftgiving resolves both in one action) so redundnat conversation is minimized etc..

But it might all be worth it for the car - chase / crash / exploding sequence featuring giant barbells getting scattered across a freeway and wreaking vehicular havoc that is a veritable orgy of destruction — it may well be the Michael Bay - iest thing Michael Bay has ever shot, so empty and so pointless and so hilariously excessive that it says more about Michael Bay than it does anything else... not that he ever appears to have anything else to talk about than his own obsession with luxuriating in cartoon violence.

There are a lot of reasons this game is garbage, I could talk about how its stuffed full of 3rd wave feminist and liberal propaganda, I could talk about the world that feels empty of content.

The conceit of this sequence is fairly compelling, with Ananya ultimately serving as the first person to give Brad a genuine talking to about just how empty his head really us.

So, you had Phil Morrison, the director of «Junebug,» talking about the static, empty interior and exterior shots he «lifted» from Ozu, as a way of giving his movie some breathing room.

And let me be clear, this isn't Oscar - snubbing talk — like I think «Mudbound» and «The Florida Project» are better than a totally competently made movie like «Darkest Hour» — this piece of hagiography is completely empty of form and substance.

Of course all this would just be empty talk if we didn't keep detailed data on our support performance.

In her own approach to writing and reading, Feinberg is clearly attuned to children's love of making things up, imagining that animals can talk, turning empty boxes into special places for stories that flow from children's daydreams and flights of fancy.