Sentences with phrase «grandiose claims for»

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.

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Or make grandiose statements, claiming that bad things «always» happen or that it would take a miracle for their misfortune to change?

It is therefore grandiose to claim that there are lessons here for the «whole church».

Comparable to this heresy are the musings of a thinker who relates his search for evidence on which to base the grandiose claims of orthodoxy, but all he found was emptiness and his own frustration.

According to a report by the Boston Magazine, Guerrero has repeatedly been investigated by the Federal Trade Commission for making grandiose and false claims.

Claims for it have certainly been grandiose.

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

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

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.

They push the human race forward...») The grandiose comparisons created an aura of excitement around Apple's new products, and now that they're competing directly with the iPad, maybe Amazon's now trying to claim some of that same gravitas for themselves.

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

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.

But having also searched through it, (using the helpful «search» facility) for keywords like «strategy», I found no help in understanding the plan that was going to help us do the grandiose things that you claim are just around the corner.

2 — There is no penalty for making bogus assertions or dishonest claims about their product's «benefits,» so each successive contention is more grandiose than the last.

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.

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.

In no particular order, there are the Leftist economists for whom global warming represents a supreme example of market failure (as well as a wonderful opportunity to suggest correctives), UN apparatchiks for whom global warming is the route to global governance, Third world dictators who see guilt over global warming as providing a convenient claim on aid (ie, the transfer of wealth from the poor in rich countries to the wealthy in poor countries), Environmental activists who love any issue that has the capacity to frighten the gullible into making hefty contributions to their numerous NGOs, Crony capitalists who see the immense sums being made available for «sustainable» energy, Government regulators for whom the control of a natural product of breathing is a dream come true, Newly minted billionaires who find the issue of «saving the planet» appropriately suitable to their grandiose pretensions, Politicians who can fasten on to CAGW as a signature issue where they can act as demagogues without fear of contradiction from reality or complaint from the purported beneficiaries of their actions.