Sentences with phrase «for vacuous»

This blog has long argued that the climate is a proxy issue for vacuous politics.

When the addictively chic French magazine Purple first appeared in 1992, editors Olivier Zahm and Elein Fleiss seemed to be reacting against the»80s proclivity for vacuous maximalism.

Charles Thomson, who heads the Stuckist Movement that stages demonstrations every year against the Turner, said Abts work «deserves a prize for vacuous drabness».

Illusionism may be an integral component of the art of painting, but when it's put forth as style — denatured, slick, and wholly self - referential — it can make for vacuous going.

Now twenty - seven, Ludo works for a vacuous «communications company» that markets unwanted, unaffordable products aimed at the very underclass into which he was born and from which he escaped.

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.

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

May went to the country for a mandate for vacuous stability and the country has thrown it in her face.

Nor, in Mansfield Park, does she have much use for the vacuous religiosity of Dr. Grant, who is a pastor only in name and not in fact.

Not exact matches

Romney is a vacuous, two - faced liar who molds his opinions on the fly for the sake of political expediency, who has a long history of outsourcing American jobs overseas, who has lived a life of privilege and demonstrably does not understand that people who actually have to earn a living are just as valid as him and his show horse raising ilk.

For my part I can scarcely credit how intelllectually vacuous they are.

I immediately saw the vacuous but tempting trap that was being set for me.

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.»

When all evil and nothingness pass into the faceless epiphany of a total Antichrist, then the ultimate ground of chaos will be dissolved, every inherent sanction for all alien and compelling demands will be removed, and every opposing other will stand revealed in a lifeless and vacuous form.

Unfortunately, this interpretation would yield a vacuous infallibility for CE, since it would be a matter of definition that under it the subject's perceptions in the mode of CE would be of (ale the actual causes operating on it.

At the same time, the notion that truth means «correspondence with reality» is vacuous, for truth does not submit to intentional definition or informative equivalents.

With the year anniversary of the Triple Disaster (i.e., Fukushima) coming up next week, there will be plenty of vacuous Economist - grade quick commentary pieces out there for your consumption, but for real analysis of what the disaster has revealed about Japan's people and politics, you'll want to be going to Ampontan.

There is, we know in our sanity, an anguished connection between our vacuous homes and homelessness, between our fearful craving for repression and the violence so close to policy.

Claiming miracles in the debris of a summer storm is as vacuous as praying for a four to come up on each of six - hundred times you roll a die, and then claiming that god answered your prayers «about a hundred times.»

A minister who characteristically preaches intellectually vacuous sermons will have few «takers» for counseling appointments, no matter how torrid his heart.

Like most great ideas, religion began as an agency to lift people out of ignorance, but planted another vacuous idea in people's heads, and they can't think for themselves now.

The claim that genes for leopard's spots helped conceal the leopard and so contributed to its survival is vacuous unless the genes are detected, which never happens.

Nor will vacuous calls for outreach to the unaffiliated and disaffected, or for the establishment of new spiritual communities, be successful as long as the religious message of Conservative Judaism remains so cloudy.

As a celiac diagnosed in 1999, and as an indomitable perfectionist with a penchant for equality and fairness, this former domestic violence attorney was simply unwilling to accept the dry, gritty, vacuous foods that were the norm then.

Actually, a mental switch works just as well in the face of vacuous political discourse as it does for media contortions.

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.

«Now it is clear that Governor Udom Emmanuel seems to like our vacuous Senator so much, we would be much obliged if Akwa Ibom will take him off our hands for good.

It is jaunty, matey and, judging from the groans emanating from the press seats, likely to be criticised for being vacuous and a bit patronising.

Some of these «tasting notes,» as he wryly calls them, may sound profound and vacuous at the same time — «liking is learning,» says one; «do not trust the easy like,» warns another — but they do deliver a Zen Buddhist — like payload of unity and sense that, after ambling pleasantly but aimlessly along for 300 pages, I took as blessed relief.

Pop musicians and plumbers were ideal for a quick fling, while even journalists somehow made it with their vacuous promises of easy living and expense accounts.

But the recommendations for robust public engagement and debate feel a bit vacuous and vague, aspirations untethered to a concrete framework.

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.

If irresponsibility and a lack of trust or deep caring between anyone is the grounds for good humor, then Bojack Horseman does it infinitely better (The difference is that in a cartoon show about vacuous Hollywood types there are characters who feel like subjects who can care rather than just targets for cynical jokes).

The trial is compelling enough, even if this section is light on proper scrutiny, and then we're off to Greece for a final episode of revenge (involving that country's far - right Golden Dawn party) which is extremely hard to swallow and borderline vacuous.

The most prominent characters include Haven Hamilton (Henry Gibson), a socially conservative, arrogant country music star; Linnea Reese (Lily Tomlin), a gospel singer and mother of two deaf children; Del Reese (Ned Beatty), her lawyer husband and Hamilton's legal representative, who works as the local political organizer for the Tea Party - like Hal Philip Walker Presidential campaign; Opal (Geraldine Chaplin), an insufferably garrulous and pretentious BBC Radio reporter on assignment in Nashville, or so she claims; talented but self - involved sex - addict Tom Frank (Keith Carradine), one - third of a moderately successful folk trio who's anxious to launch a solo career; John Triplette (Michael Murphy), the duplicitous campaign consultant who condescendingly tries to secure top Nashville stars to perform at a nationally - syndicated campaign rally; Barbara Jean (Ronee Blakley), the emotionally - fragile, beloved Loretta Lynn - like country star recovering from a burn accident; Barnett (Allen Garfield), Barbara Jean's overwhelmed manager - husband; Mr. Green (Keenan Wynn), whose never - seen ailing wife is on the same hospital ward as Barbara Jean; groupie Martha (Shelley Duvall), Green's niece, ostensibly there to visit her ailing aunt but so personally irresponsible that she instead spends all her time picking up men; Pfc. Glenn Kelly (Scott Glenn), who claims his mother saved Barbara Jean's life but who mostly seems obsessed with the country music star; Sueleen Gay (Gwen Welles), a waitress longing for country music fame, despite her vacuous talent; Bill and Mary (Allan F. Nicholls and Cristina Raines), the other two - thirds of Tom's folk act, whose ambition overrides constant personal rancor; Winifred (Barbara Harris), another would - be singer - songwriter, fleeing to Nashville from her working - class husband, Star (Bert Remsen); Kenny Frasier (David Hayward), a loner who rents a room from Mr. Green and carries around a violin case; Bud Hamilton (Dave Peel), the gentle, loyal son of the abrasive Hamilton; Connie White (Karen Black), a glamorous country star who is a last - minute substitute for Barbara Jean at the Grand Old Opry; Wade Cooley (Robert DoQui), a cook at the airport restaurant where Sueleen works as a waitress and who tries unsuccessfully to convince her that she has no talent; and the eccentric Tricycle Man (Jeff Goldblum), who rides around in a three - wheel motorcycle, occasionally interacting with the other characters, showing off his amateur magic tricks, but who has no dialogue.

That being said, it would be hard not to play it this way when the company she's keeping are as strong as they are: Tarantino's go - to man for dialogue delivery Samuel L. Jackson echoes Pulp's Jules Winnfield only this time his gun - running Ordell Robbie has less biblical monologues and more of a dangerous cutting edge; Bridget Fonda plays his vacuous beach blonde accomplice to perfection while Michael Keaton's doggedly determined ATF agent Ray Nicolette has the requisite cocksure arrogance.

Ryan Gosling and Denzel Washington get uncontroversial nods for their performances in La La Land and Fences but at the risk of being churlish I am yet again baffled that Viggo Mortensen gets a nomination for his supremely supercilious performance in the vacuous and overpraised Captain Fantastic.

Anderson is a vacant, vacuous vessel for the febrile fantasies of hard - up men, but a total, talentless turn - off once she starts talking.

The word potiche is a slangy analog to the American «trophy wife,» a role too vacuous for Suzanne once she tasted responsibility in the wider world.

To Die For — Nicole Kidman plays a vacuous TV reporter who wants to be famous.

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.

In the hands of a cynical genius like Billy Wilder or a wily craftsman like Steven Soderbergh, Gringo might've become a satire for the ages, a mordant document that people of the future could study to understand this morally vacuous moment in the life of our republic.

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.

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.

In the end, American Dreamz is like the snake that eats its own tail, a victim of its own watered - down tendency to strive for a glossy commercial product to draw the appeal of the masses, as guilty of being vacuous as the targets it sets in its sights.

Like his work on Interstellar, Hoytema's photography for Nolan's Dunkirk renders epic - scale sets and a high stakes story with gentler beauty, using colour to find emotion in the frame, rather than Pfister's harsh, vacuous lighting.

Dating a vacuous bimbo advice columnist, Cindy (Richards), who promptly drops him when an insider - trading scheme lands him on the unemployment line, Ryan assumes Cindy's identity at Page's (Harmon) little newspaper for the paycheck.

After combing through the listings of franchise - fatigued superheroes now clogging big screens everywhere, I've come up with a list of well - made, challenging, and engrossing films for folks as sick of vacuous action adventure as I am.

My only slight bugbear is the slight cynicism of the ending which too obviously paves the way for a potential sequel, and left me a little unsatisfied, but with a cover price of less than a vacuous throwaway magazine there's still plenty here for your fiver.