Sentences with phrase «failure of imagination»

We are currently suffering from a profound failure of imagination.

We've had a national failure of imagination when it comes to what our schools can and should be.

But they also represent a staggering failure of imagination.

Maybe the motion stuff is just failure of imagination on our part, but we're a lot more excited about biometrics as an input method.»

A whole host of tech companies, from Apple to Google to Microsoft to Samsung, may very well eventually offer smart watches, but unless I'm having a total failure of imagination, such devices will quickly be forgotten as curiosities.

The Cupertino company hasn't been a victim to regulation so much as a victim of its own failure of imagination.

Perpetuating vicious cycles... It's massive intellectual failure and it's massive failure of imagination at work.

This speaks to Winchester's overall failure of imagination - it's the sort of forgettable movie that could have been a memorable one.

The main sticking point with Ghostbusters 2 is the ending, a conspicuous failure of imagination that operates on that hoary sequel principle that you want the same thing you liked the first time, but more.

Mrs. Caldwell eventually finds happiness in the everyday, and who can really tell whether this achievement is commendable or, as her friend scathingly puts it, a real failure of imagination.

For all the old - school Diablo smarts in Torchlight 2, it suffers from a few failures of imagination when it comes to failures.

Somehow there has to be a way to bring legal consumers of all kinds to this council or it will, I fear, be doomed to ongoing failure of imagination and over-reliance on precedent.

(I think I need to print that chart out and stick it on my refrigerator for those days — and there are many — when I have a total failure of imagination.)

Australia's leaders either misunderstand or wilfully ignore these risks, which is a profound failure of imagination, far worse than that which triggered the global financial crisis in 2008.

But as the good doctor tells Fortune's Erika Fry, there is another infectious disease that's even more dangerous to humanity — and that's the «failure of imagination.»

Tyler chipped in that those who can't see Bitcoin's potential are suffering from a «failure of imagination.»

Meanwhile, Tyler Winklevoss told CNBC that people who fail to see Bitcoin's potential suffer a «failure of imagination.»

What went wrong in 2016, Zuckerberg said, was in part a failure of imagination.

And it's important to prick that bubble, because I find that a failure of imagination often fuels the urge to gamble in people.

At one point, Tolkien countered Lewis» objections by saying, «Your inability to understand stems from a failure of imagination on your part!»

Maybe lack of faith is really a failure of imagination?

A failure of imagination was at work in this excision.

What I witnessed in Atlanta, and what we are seeing today in Albany, is a failure of imagination.

But students aren't the only victims of the failure of imagination we are now witnessing among Albany school officials and Jewish leaders.

basically, it's a failure of imagination.

This is a failure of imagination as much as it is a failure of understanding.

Above all, this is a failure of the imagination, and of the theological imagination — a failure truly to open theological thinking to the dynamic actuality of biblical faith and language.

The memorial thus represents a failure of the imagination.

This is why the «embellishments» of James Frey and Greg Mortenson represent not merely moral failures, but failures of imagination.

«Perversion,» he writes, «is a failure of the imagination, a failure to pay adequate attention... There's always more to a person — more stories, more life, more complexities — than we know... Perversion is a way of managing, getting down to business, getting a handle on people as if they were things.

Since in many ways this is itself a failure of the imagination, it is difficult to convey faith this impression by argument alone: it is something that you have to come to see, and which, once seen, can not be forgotten.

Sometimes when I face those two empty lunch boxes every morning I have a total failure of imagination (or advanced preparation) and it's at those moments that I find myself reaching for the more processed foods.

This is an elitist error and one which suggests a failure of imagination on the part of his supporters.

The real problem in this town is failure of imagination and a very bureaucratic culture of mediocrity and cynicism.

«I think that there are a lot of advisers out there who suffer from a failure of imagination in two ways: One, they can't imagine a life outside of academics; and two, if they can imagine a life outside of academics, they don't have the resources or information required to help their students find that place.»

«Waste is a failure of the imagination.»

Annaud and his collaborators have got all of the physical details just right, but there is a failure of the imagination here; we do not sense the presence of real people behind the attractive facades of the two main actors.

In other films, the flat portrayal of women seems like a failure of the imagination.

The meat - and - potatoes style of Sacco and Vanzetti seems less a failure of imagination than a means of putting in the foreground its intriguing subject matter.

There are limitations to Disney's naturalistic style, but for every failure of imagination there is a triumph of craftsmanship.

In Scent of a Woman (which is much less serious than the other two, intended to do little but elicit the predigested emotions necessary to acquire Oscars), omitting the lovemaking between a blind, retired lieutenant colonel (Al Pacino) and the call girl he visits not only registers as a failure of imagination but leaves us wondering — without any benefit to the drama — whether the session was as «successful» as the lieutenant colonel claims afterward.

Though disappointing, this failure of imagination does not entirely negate the promise of the earlier mise - en - scène.