Sentences with phrase «grandiose claims»

I know of only three or four people looking at this, but they're not well - known because they don't make grandiose claims of looking for a theory of everything.

«It's trendy for businesses to make grandiose claims about how important design is to them,» she said.

At first glance, it might seem that we are making grandiose claims for these sacramental rites.

It isn't difficult for fraudulent practitioners to make grandiose claims with little retribution, due to the lack of regulation.

It's approaching the convergence point of film and video game which David Cage, despite grandiose claims and endless disappointment, has never quite managed to achieve.

Or that living free of heart attacks is too grandiose a claim.

So is it uncharitable to point out that Clegg's grandiose claim seems somewhat, well, implausible?

In the 30 years I've been writing about investing, I've learned to take grandiose claims with a good - sized shaker of salt.

Grandiose claims notwithstanding The American Century: Art and Culture 1950 - 2000, is dreadful.

When ZTE unveiled its new foldable phone, the Axon M, yesterday at Duggal Greenhouse, it made some pretty grandiose claims, saying that it was «creating a new smartphone category.»

Ripple is being promoted more as a service for international payments instead of being marketed with more grandiose claims, like trying to make fiat currency obsolete.

The rumpled combine, with its gestural smears and dribbles of oil paint, also made wry fun of the sometimes - grandiose claims for the Abstract Expressionist paintings of the generation that preceded him.

As we have extensively documented in, Roy Spencer has a propensity for performing curve fitting exercises with a simple climate model by allowing its parameters to vary without physical constraints, and then making grandiose claims about his results.

The company has lost credibility after many months of failing to back up its grandiose claims that revolutionary products are just around the corner.

He's concerned that grandiose claims might one day trigger questions about the fairness of some athletes using technology to stimulate the brain, which has been referred to as «neuro - doping.»

The memo begins by making a grandiose claim: The FBI's use of surveillance power under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) during the 2016 campaign was «a troubling breakdown of legal processes established to protect the American people from abuses related to the FISA process.»

But later the motto slipped from use, its grandiose claim mocked by rising crime rates, a hostile civil service,...

Losing 20 kg in 10 weeks simply isn't healthy or realistic, so ignore the grandiose claims of weight loss centres and set yourself sensible, achievable goals.

For the purposes of this article, we're going to ignore the supplement cocktails, and suggest that people ignore their grandiose claims as well.

The few phone calls i had with one guy, were punctuated with good 5 -10 minute silences, bad english / bad grammar and 2 grandiose claims - of cooking food better than any chef and being drooled over by models.

Yes - what I like about this is that Mr Wilkins makes no grandiose claims to revolutionising education or educating for the twenty - first century.Instead, the digital delivery day confronts a real problem (the grand prix) and simply offers a creative solution.

Technology vendors tend to make grandiose claims about the usefulness of their programs.

Despite the grandiose claims, differences are limited to mild revisions of suspension settings.

The title makes grandiose claims, and then there is not enough in the book to back them up.

Either he will be right, and this will be the definitive videogame take on the Dark Knight, or he will be wrong, and all his sweeping, grandiose claims will turn on him like a razor sharp batarang to the face.

Once the politicians started making grandiose claims and issuing apocalyptic scenarios, climate change became — in the minds of the public — a political excuse for social engineering and taxation.

Once the politicians started making grandiose claims and issuing apocalyptic scenarios,»

While man can take positive steps to improve some aspects of his natural environment, we must be wary of today's grandiose claims that appear to be nothing more than a smokescreen for the intrusion of government on private property rights and the exploitation by special interests that stand to financially gain from government largess.

Of course most scientists don't like the grandiose claims that imply they have been stupid and that's the point — good science can be and is rejected only because it implies that the orthodoxy has been stupid.

My central point is not too complex: the building's owners made grandiose claims about the building being good for the environment, claims like «most sustainable» and «most environmentally responsible.»

In the vast majority of cases, people back away from their grandiose claims as they can't carry the story to interview, and of course, once they realise that the story they have while not «superhuman» status, is a good, solid and real representation of who they are and what they did, then we're cooking — and its true!