Out of Due Time spurns dogma and is full
of flabbiness and muddled thinking.
Holmer, obviously irritated by what he took to be a tone of
intellectual flabbiness, said, «You get the feeling we're all a lot of hothouse plants just crying for attention.
Ellul's response to such
incoherent flabbiness is spelled out in this book, and can be summed up in his words: «Anyone wishing to save humanity today must first of all save the word.»
Writing of Wilfrid Ward, Scotti unwittingly hits the nail on the head: «Like his father, his mind was firmly grounded in dogma and first principles; he
disliked flabbiness and muddled thinking.»
But then again, if you're a politician that isn't at least a little hypocritical, that's usually taken as a sign of some kind of
moral flabbiness that should be avoided at all costs.
This endemic
intellectual flabbiness is no doubt primarily the fault of the source material, but Newell's film is not without a certain retro charm.
If you have such a variant, are you doomed to a life
of flabbiness?
Why did it have to be Christianity with its meekness and
flabbiness?»
In 1984 James Gustafson, in his eminent Ethics from a Theocentric Perspective, jolted religious professionals with a blast against «ecclesiastical moralizing» and «intellectual
flabbiness»: in church «pronouncements.»
If we do not harden ourselves by stretching ourselves to reach upward to these not wholly attainable ideals, we slump down and settle into
flabbiness and footlessness and boredom...
Focusing on triceps won't get rid of
the flabbiness — it will just tone up this area.
In terms of
the flabbiness, this isn't muscle, it's fat.
Where you can find legitimate people who was then rejected due to
flabbiness but now praised for having a body figure every man and woman envies.
When first starting out, the light, 2,600 - pound Cimarron feels oddly heavy, but the weight apparently is that of substance rather than of
flabbiness.