Sentences with phrase «in vacuous»

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.

However, given the adoption by the United Nations of the responsibility to protect, does he agree that the international community must decide whether that responsibility is to be a serious attempt to avert genocide or simply a rather futile exercise in vacuous moral posturing?»

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And it's a shift in the Liberals» approach to economic policy, which had become encumbered over the past decade by vacuous buzzwords like «champion sectors» and «innovation gateways» (Both found on a single - page in the 2011 election platform).

Everyone has a right to believe that there is a God or not, but the name calling and bitterness is a reflection a vacuous mentality.Many people believe that there is a God and no one can convince them otherwise because it is a matter of faith based on experiences and in the bible.

Mr. Marr cites the Randian definition of «altruism» in the abstract, but it is an absolutely vacuous definition.

Sending himself up in the process, he sets about unpacking how ultimately vacuous that idea is, and even begins to explore what might replace it instead.

In the same interview, he tells Jeremy Paxman that «celebrity in itself is utterly, utterly vacuous; [after becoming famous] you realise you need nutrition from a higher source»In the same interview, he tells Jeremy Paxman that «celebrity in itself is utterly, utterly vacuous; [after becoming famous] you realise you need nutrition from a higher source»in itself is utterly, utterly vacuous; [after becoming famous] you realise you need nutrition from a higher source».

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.»

If we conceive of the Word or Spirit as moving more and more fully into the body of the profane in response to the self - negation of God in Christ, then we can understand how the Christian God gradually becomes more alien and beyond, receding into a lifeless and oppressive form, until it finally appears as an empty and vacuous nothingness.

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.

And we should certainly dread whatever rough beast it is that is being bred in our ever coarser, crueler, more inarticulate, more vacuous popular culture; because, cloaked in its anodyne insipience, lies a world increasingly devoid of merit, wit, kindness, imagination, or charity.

In addition, as in the last case, even if the subject's infallibility were not vacuous, that it is infallible is not necessarily information that is available to it: the theory stipulates only that the subject «perceive» what causally affects it, not that it know or be aware of what it perceives, much less that it know that it is perceiving real causeIn addition, as in the last case, even if the subject's infallibility were not vacuous, that it is infallible is not necessarily information that is available to it: the theory stipulates only that the subject «perceive» what causally affects it, not that it know or be aware of what it perceives, much less that it know that it is perceiving real causein the last case, even if the subject's infallibility were not vacuous, that it is infallible is not necessarily information that is available to it: the theory stipulates only that the subject «perceive» what causally affects it, not that it know or be aware of what it perceives, much less that it know that it is perceiving real causes.

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.

Appropriately, Eslick writes: «It is likely the polemic against substance was originally motivated by Whitehead's reaction against mechanistic materialism, in which substances are inert, vacuous pieces of matter or stuff» (SCCW 504).

It may seem somewhat trite to invoke the freedom of creation as part of the works and ends of divine love, or to argue that the highest good of the creature — divinizing union with God in love — requires a realm of «secondary causality» in which the rational wills of God's creatures are at liberty; nonetheless, whether the traditional explanations of how sin and death have been set loose in the world satisfy one or not, they certainly render the claim that an omnipotent and good God would never allow unjust suffering simply vacuous.

In this sense the metaphysics of process theology is not empirically vacuous, because it does rule out many worlds that philosophers have thought to be possible, in fact actuaIn this sense the metaphysics of process theology is not empirically vacuous, because it does rule out many worlds that philosophers have thought to be possible, in fact actuain fact actual.

It sees no promise in cosmic events, but instead reads natural history as a vacuous process leading only to eventual doom.

He scorns «mere» humanity in the name of a vitalism as vacuous in its rhetoric as it is vicious in its ethics:

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.

All occasions are «psychic» in the negative sense that they are not, to use Whitehead's term, «vacuous.»

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.

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.»

The result of this systematic evisceration of religious claims is almost always the adumbrating of a set of vacuous claims upon which, it is supposed, all religious persons can agree; and such claims are usually expressed in a language and with a tone that is more appropriate to the nurture of an infant than to the intellectual challenge of an adult.

Is it not at least equally likely that if you keep telling people that they lead meaningless lives in a meaningless universe you might just find yourself with — at best — a vacuous life and a hollow culture?

Indeed when we come to discuss the reformed subjectivist principle connected with Whitehead's proposed solution to the problem of modem philosophy, we shall see that it stands in direct contradiction to both Cartesian dualism and the notion of «vacuous actuality.»

In fact, the call to repentance is vacuous, entirely lacking in contenIn fact, the call to repentance is vacuous, entirely lacking in contenin content.

Is transcendence, either as self - transcendence or as ontological reality, so chaotic in consequence, so formless as to its dimensions, so blind as to direction, so vacuous as to structure, that only as we return to the realm of the ordinary can we make sense of it, introduce criteria of truth or falsity, beneficence or evil into it?

I live in NYC & often think of how vacuous & self absorbed this city is; but at the same time we always have an opportunity to answer the question: what would Jesus do??

That is, given the distinction that I am making between physicalism and materialism, the latter formulation would mean that «vacuous actualities,» devoid of experience, exert all the causal efficacy in the world (which is one of the basic points that led Kim into insuperable difficulties in affirming the reality of the mental).

In panexperientialist physicalism, by contrast, the universal stuff embodied in all individuals is not vacuous energy, but experiential creativitIn panexperientialist physicalism, by contrast, the universal stuff embodied in all individuals is not vacuous energy, but experiential creativitin all individuals is not vacuous energy, but experiential creativity.

Moreover, substance in the sense of a divine substratum in which three persons inhere is just that sort of vacuous actuality devoid of its own subjectivity that Whitehead rejects.

Then Rodrigues finds in the waves constantly crashing on the shore a vacuous monotony that suggests Japanese martyrdom is an absurd leap into emptiness.

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.

Neither law courts nor the Constitution will save us as long as we live in a celebrity - addled society that seems to think the vacuous postmodern piety of an Oprah makes her a credible presidential candidate.

I do not believe we Christians are obliged» or even allowed» to look upon the devastation visited upon the coasts of the Indian Ocean and to console ourselves with vacuous cant about the mysterious course taken by God's goodness in this world, or to assure others that some ultimate meaning or purpose resides in so much misery.

A potency to develop into neural tissue was a simple concept, but it was in fact totally vacuous since it could not be analyzed into anything else.

Excluded also are the views that occasions can be directly intuited or given to contemporary occasions and the view that data may in some cases be bits of mere matter or merely material processes, «vacuous» of any internal life, feeling, or value.

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.

If you want avert your eyes from the many hours of vacuous Super Bowl pregame programming, there will be real, live golf also played in Phoenix on Sunday afternoon.

Leaving the oftentimes vile and vacuous stereotypes seen on television and at the movies aside, these single moms, (mostly African - American in my nomadic experience) overcame obstacles created solely to crush the human spirit.

An «agglomeration of foodies and educational reformers who are propelled by a vacuous if well - meaning ideology» — in other words, by unexamined assumptions that spending time in school gardens will give children a better chance at getting an education and a high - school diploma.

Theresa May's «Brexit means Brexit» mantra was recently panned by Labour's Stephen Kinnock «the most vacuous phrase in modern political history».

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

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

And they will condemn the vacuous proposals put forward by May and Corbyn in the strongest possible terms.

By the time Miliband offered his vacuous but highly effective riposte, comparing George Osborne to «Norman Lamont with an iPod», Cameron was in a full - on defensive position, his body language protective and indignant.

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.

Biology teacher Steve Stough noted that not only does ID not belong in the science curriculum, it is also «both vacuous and logically fallacious» as philosophy or religion.

A vacuous entity that wouldn't be out of place in a post-apocalyptic zombie horror film.

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.