Sentences with phrase «hollow words of»

Until you do, your premise is just the hollow words of a doomsday cultist, who «believes» the IPCC «dogma» (or «concensus position») that AGW COULD be catastrophic for humanity and our environment.

I half expected him to offer some hollow words of comfort or press a coin into my palm without quite looking me in the eye like a few others had done.Instead he looked at me and seemed to understand — not just my loss but it almost seemed like he knew how utterly alone I felt.

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@ lionlylamb: per rightly dividing the word... the video below is what Paul was talking about (focusing on Christ), not philosophical abstractions... «See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the elemental spiritual forces of this world rather than on Christ.»

Your words of understanding to, say, a person suffering from cancer would ring a bit hollow unless they came from a place of personal knowledge.

«They are at present being treated with the utmost contempt - despite the soft words from our hierarchy which ring hollow when there's no physical manifestation of any support.

He said the pessimist in him mocked his receipt of a degree in law when «law is ever more a hollow word, resonant but empty, in a world increasingly dominated by force, by violence, by fraud, by injustice, by avarice — in a word, by egoism»; when civil law permits «the progressive and rapid increase of oppressed people who continue being swept toward ghettos, without work, without health, without instruction, without diversion and, not rarely, without God»; when under so - called international law «more than two - thirds of humanity (exist) in situations of misery, of hunger, of subhuman life»; and when agrarian law or spatial law permits «today's powerful landowners to continue to live at the cost of misery for unhappy pariahs»; and whereby «modern technology achieves marvels from the earth with an ever - reduced number of rural workers (while) those not needed in the fields live sublives in depressing slums on the outskirts of nearly all the large cities.»

I remembered all the well - intended and heartfelt things that people had said to me at the time of my father's unexpected death, words that sounded hollow at best and callous and counterproductive at worst.

Reach then and therefore upon those vines of contentment (s) and tally yourself away from embittered strains of conjured semantics hollow words.

But Emmert's words about the Olympic model ring hollow because they allow him to look progressive while hiding behind the cocoon of the NCAA's structure.

Cash is a word name and also a diminutive of Cassius meaning «hollow.»

«The shadow chancellor has wrapped up public sector cuts, public sector pay freezes, a rise in retirement age and reduced pension rights in warm words that will ring hollow with Britain's army of public sector workers.»

Today the Chairman of the Police Federation criticises David Cameron for using «hollow words».

Well the words are still terrific, but they ring hollow without his direct intervention in getting Sheldon Silver out of the Majority Leadership post.

«Teachers will find the words of praise and talk of freedoms in the classroom very hollow indeed.

His address should be praised for bringing class — always a loaded word in this country — back into mainstream discussion, at a time John Prescott's claim that «we're all middle class now» looks increasingly hollow to a lot of voters.

The scene of the Weasley twins» revolution should be a joyous celebration of teenage rebellion; instead it's curiously workmanlike and hollow — and those are the words I'd use for the feel of the film overall.

-- Sleepy Hollow The word «Halloween» is never uttered once, but this is undoubtedly one of the greatest «Halloween time» movies ever made, drenched in the seasonal atmosphere.

These are words NO ONE should have to use in relating a film based upon one of the true classics of English literature like «Alice In Wonderland,» but Burton, who has directed some of my favorite films («Batman,» «Beetlejuice,» «Sleepy Hollow,» «Ed Wood,» «Edward Scissorhands») somehow manages the impossible.

The Hollywood shooting match is an incestual Moebius strip, it seems, and for who was once the best action director in the United States to find himself a hollow shade of not only his past glory, but also Bay, is depressing beyond words.

But as a means for empathy and a way to understanding the human cost at each step of an international heroin trade, it does far more than hollow words and shallow promises.

Christine Blower, general secretary National Union of Teachers, said: «This is yet another example of how hollow the coalition government's words are about protecting schools» budgets.

When most people hear the words «Reef Break» they immediately think of a hollow and powerful wave similar to Pipeline in Hawaii.

In other words, Hollow Knight echoes a lot of what I like.

It is rather against him who did not expect it that people have protested...» These words ring hollow in the face of such outright affronts to public sensibility as Déjeuner sur l'herbe [4] or Olympia.

My friend Kathy Noble actually also kept describing my hollow sculptures as orifices... It seemed right that the word should appear in the title of the show, as it was an aspect of my work that I wanted to explore further.

This tendency culminated in The Sun (1997), in which seven hollow segments of a column, arranged horizontally on the Tate gallery's floor, created a series of ray - like shapes around, in Fabro's words, «a nucleus of geometric emptiness».

The shape of these stools is inspired by «trobos», a Spanish word that describes beehives made from hollow logs, commonly seen in the North of the country.

These words ring so hollow and dubious especially as developed countries are abandoning their mitigation obligations under the Kyoto Protocol or the ad - hoc working group on Long Term Cooperative Action (LCA) and or are offering no meaningful and ambitious emissions reductions in the elusive second committment period of Kyoto.

Their religious beliefs in Grizzly Bear Spirit would become entirely devoid of religious significance, and accordingly, their prayers, ceremonies, and rituals associated with Grizzly Bear Spirit would become nothing more than empty words and hollow gestures.»

Some of the words for the resulting heaps and hollows are unusual and, so, attractive for that reason.

Hence the letters were, in the words of our Supreme Court, «hollow threats of litigation.»»

Our claim is not supported by hollow words but by the number of quality drivers that have been trained at our school.

developments, the words of Dimon and others from the old guard of banking seemingly appear hollow.

They're not a company of shallow words and hollow promises; they're a company that really does what they say they're going to do,» says Baris.

I've been clinking lots of glasses in celebration of the season, but the words feel hollow.