Sentences with phrase «faddishness of»

In a world trying to make it on fitful sound bites and the faddishness of seasonal obsessions, is there a better gift we can offer than abiding, he in us and we in him?

He displays ambivalence about both the kitschy faddishness of some destinations and his own resistance to conversion.

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It seems to me that, absent this, any religious movement, regardless of its rhetoric and sentiment, substantively untethers itself from the intellectual discipline of religious tradition and easily becomes prey to whimsy, faddishness, or simply adopting the values of the greater society in which it finds itself.

When a social group or political party embraces a position and maintains its commitment to it beyond a threshold of faddishness, when a cause becomes permanently entrenched within a group's self - understanding, a likely explanation turns to moral and philosophical grounds, not an embrace born and preserved out of expediency.

Putting aside the value question (my answer: timely provocation), I wonder whether the number of abandoned blogs is a good proxy for «enthusiasm» (or faddishness, or popularity, or whatever the blog - academic - metric is).