Sentences with phrase «how hollow»

As a contribution to legal thinking it is incoherent and unprincipled, but nevertheless perhaps worthwhile: for sometimes it takes an explicit statement of the orthodoxy to reveal quite how hollow it is.

Reflection on Americans» daily consumption of poppy seed bagels and muffins along with their morning coffee shows how hollow and baseless law enforcement's arguments are against industrial hemp.

If Frances Stark's work resolved the question of ethics around the Schutz controversy, Alice Neel's show at Zwirner demonstrates how hollow the Whitney curators» defense of the work rings.

The most fascinating response was that of Philip Guston, who seemed to come out of the other side of abstraction into an alternative world of figuration, ironic, often amusing, but at heart deadly serious about human failure, and how hollow the pose of artistic heroism had become.

I was always excited to see where they came from, to see how Hollow Bastion looked before all the chaos began, when it was known as Radiant Garden.

Sadly the amount of backtracking that missions insist on prove detrimental, as the time spent in hubs and smaller locations reveal their weaknesses, highlighting how all the NPCs are static and how hollow everything actually is.

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.

The other thing that has made our little world strange in recent days has been the litany of developments suggesting just how hollow the last administration's agenda turned out to be.

At times, it seems like the story has become a parody of itself, replacing any sense of interesting plot choices with silly effects that only show how hollow this journey has become.

But it is a decadent Hollywood estate party featuring the likes of Antonio Banderas, Joe Manganiello, Fabio and others that cuts to the marrow of how hollow Rick's life has become.

While he fuels the fun side of the film, as the drama settles in, you are left realising how hollow the character has become, having nothing to look forward to outside of the parties.

With a killer score, a killer performance, a killer aesthetic it is surprising how hollow the whole film ultimately feels.

Precious — great performances and touching on a superficial level but when you think about it for a few minutes, you realize how hollow and manipulative it really is.

By following five Atlanta - based couples, the film wants fervently to incorporate all its character's diverse fluff into one sitting, but such hopes are subverted to an emptily - flat experiment that pairs audiences with familiar faces acting out a weak script, while the experimenters stand back and pray that the audience doesn't notice just in fact how hollow it all really is.

After a truly dazzling opening act it wanders through a mid-point malaise before gradually gaining momentum as Megamind recognizing how hollow and meaningless his existence is without a worthy adversary with which to spar decides to literally manufacture one.

«This issue has now gone beyond Stephen Hester, this is about a prime minister who promised to rein in excess and says to the country in a time of austerity, when his economic policies have choked off growth, that we are all in it together - how hollow is his rhetoric in light of what we have just seen today.

I mean how hollow and pathetic is it to use such meaningless and pitiful platitudes such as «I won't settle for anything less than PL title» as evidence for being the superior supporter.

We create our own meaning and significance... do you know how hollow this sounds.

That's hard to believe, given how hollow the secular commitment to tolerance has proven to be.

Even as Hamilton succumbs to Reynolds's charms, he reflects bitterly on how hollow the whole affair is: «This is the last time / I said that last time / It became a pastime.»

It's not difficult to see how this hollowing out of the party, (much accelerated by Better Together), is problematic.

Not exact matches

When Merkel has been obliged to discuss Europe's economic future, she has typically relied on hollow phrases about the need for «more Europe» and vague warnings about how «the failure of the euro would mean the failure of Europe.»

In a recently resurfaced 2016 article from The Atlantic, award - winning director Ava DuVernay talked about how diversity goals that simply focus on increasing the number of employees who don't identify as straight, white, and male can ring hollow for members of underrepresented groups with their own unique identities.

How then, to foster more reader - driven competition, when Big Media with big money seems intent on drying it up, and hollowing it out?

It's easy to see how similar incremental changes could be beneficial until eventually evolution results in wings and hollow bones.

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.

The connection between freedom and time (and between them and selfhood or personal identity) appears clearly in Sartre's insistence that the good novel present a self shaping an open future, not a puppet ruled by the past whose end is contained in his beginning: «But in order for the duration of my impatience and ignorance to be caught and then moulded and finally presented to me as the flesh of these creatures of invention, the novelist must know how to draw it into the trap, how to hollow out in his book, by means of signs at his disposal, a time resembling my own, one in which the future does not exist.

Ummm, Les Hollowed how can U say its her idiocy when in fact U believe in the same invisible being in the sky that watches over

Whatever course forward First Things adopts, it must begin with a sober realization of how truly heathen and hollow the prevailing culture has become.

I decided to stuff my hollowed - out zucchini with shredded chicken (simple how - to directions below).

Any thoughts on how well it would hold - up inside a hollow cake for about 12 - 15 hours?

At least I know how the squash is hollowed out and stuffed.

Squashes vary in terms of how large a hollow they offer for stuffing, so no worries if you have more of the rice pilaf than what they'll comfortably hold — you can simply use any that remains as a yummy side dish.

Place it into the hot oven and bake for 65 - 75 minutes (depending on how high you pack it) until golden on top and hollow sounding when tapped (you shouldn't need to cover it so it doesn't over-brown but do watch it if things are browning too quickly).

One thing that irates the fans however, is how Wenger keeps recycling the same hollow sayings, usually after a disappointing result.

As we roll through coal country hollows long since tapped out, Bobcats coach Larry Hunter explains how the MAC hopes to model itself after the Atlantic 10, which grew from mid-major shoot into big - time flytrap during the 1990s despite being in the shadow of the Big East.

It all seems a bit hollow though, given how quickly replaced the Italian at Chelsea in 2004.

In addition to concerns over privacy, there is an urgent need to address how the public realm is being hollowed out by corporate interests and advertisers.

Any further proof of how these characters have re-shaped the house in their hollow images?

Across the river in Sleepy Hollow, Westchester County Executive and Cuomo's gubernatorial challenger, Rob Astorino, said commuters on both sides of the bridge need to know how much tolls will increase.

«There are a lot of big challenges that our country faces, whether it's still the impact of globalisation in hollowing out the labour market, or demographic change, like the OBR tell us that the biggest challenge to our financial stability as a country is demographic change, an ageing population and how we deal with that.

How will he refresh and re-energise Labour, which left office after 13 years demoralised, fractious and hollowed out?

Many rocks are covered with circular hollows that look like honeycomb, and now we may finally understand how these strange formations come into existence

Over the next few years, he co-published papers on performing emergency throat incisions with a hollow plastic spike; the discovery of a large, birdlike dinosaur; the defensive behavior of moth larvae; and how to hum to make your jugular vein more accessible.

How can a tube as flimsy as a mosquito's proboscis be stiff enough to act as a hollow boring tool?

In their article, the teams describe how they used the process to etch patterns of hollow channels like those used to direct the flow of liquids, such as a blood sample, in a microfluidic device, or lab on a chip.

While previous research had shown that TTLL7 modifies microtubules (hollow tubes that transport cellular components and act as highways and scaffolding in the cell) by adding one or more molecules of the amino acid glutamate, exactly how has remained a mystery.

You know what I'm talking about — those shady hollows under your eyes that are a dead giveaway for how many hours of sleep you got (or more likely, didn't get).

In this video, you'll learn how to do a Hollow Hold Leg Lift with fitness expert Lauren Williams.

The hollow boy rock is the most effective core exercise that will teach you how to keep the ribs tucked down.