Sentences with phrase «inanities as»

No time is spent in such inanities as character and plot, while the usual pitfalls of this variety of knock - off (racism, misogyny, homophobia) are handled with an extremely light touch and a modicum of self - awareness.

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We atheists should be embracing it as a sure sign of the deep inanity of the Christian faith.

Such fevered inanities, which would be dismissed as the ravings of a madman had they issued from the likes of the Reverend Jimmy Swaggart, suggest why O'Brien is a poor guide to understanding the millennium now closing, or to assaying the human and democratic prospect beyond the year 2000.»

The Wall Street Journal inveighed against it as educational inanity: if not exactly corrupting the youth, then at least leading them astray and squandering their tuition....

It's not always their fault, as explained here, but they have a penchant to compound the weirdness with inanity and more weirdness.

So Theresa May has said since before she became prime minister, to the confusion of those who see the maxim as little more than a vacuous inanity.

For the 100 minute running time, we get to see such highlights as one boy urinating on another's face, a masturbation nightmare involving crazy glue, a trumpet rammed into the rectum of one of the characters, and many other such inanities that may have you wincing more than you are laughing.

And in the time since, as devotees continue to plumb the mysteries of its mesmerizing inanity, the audience has taken ownership of it: They throw spoons.

The story of any «Zoolander» movie shouldn't matter as much as the goofy inanity of its leads, and the constant irreverence that surrounds them, but nearly everything that worked in that regard the first time around registers as a retread; inspired lunacy is in short supply.

The restraint in his performance marks something of a diversion for Rudd, taking on a more dramatic persona here (though he's not completely sullen — just think more stoic, as in Perks of Being a Wallflower and dial the infectious inanity of Anchorman down to 1).

But T'Challa's boasts about Wakanda's fanciful independence from other nations and its rich deposits of vibranium (a magical ore used to make weapons as well as Panther's invincible suit) merely seduce Marvel fans into accepting a new brand of exoticized inanity.

This is the show that introduced the mockumentary format that has defined so much of American sitcoms, but plays it differently: Everyone forgets about the camera but Brent, who can't help but bray and play to his audience, mouthing off inanities while he pontificates as the voice of wisdom.

«The dialogue is relentlessly fancy without being witty, and the specious moralizing of the plot looks like it was tacked on to appease square adults; the real narrative force behind this movie is nihilist camp, as in Roger Corman's 1966 The Wild Angels but without the same degree of filmmaking skill... its inanities and glib pretensions are so thick that it mainly comes across as tacky and contrived.»

When failed concert promoter Uncle Sweetheart (John Goodman) asks down - on - his - luck folk singer Jack Fate (Dylan) about the importance of Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin to American rock - and - lore, the inanity of the answer (and the evasiveness of Dylan's demeanour — «Well, it matters to someone, I guess») isn't mysterious so much as inane and disingenuous; even the evocation of social phenomena as important and galvanizing to roots rock and the inner city as the myth of Stagger Lee is tossed off with a wry flick of the hand.

Rock explores the insanity and inanity of celebrity culture vs. artistic integrity with Top Five, and while his previous two directorial efforts, Head of State and I Think I Love My Wife, never really connected with audiences (though I do like the latter), he's a more natural fit here essentially satirizing aspects of his daily existence as a comedian and actor.

Some can try to rationalize this kind of inanity if they wish, but I see it as mindless, dangerous, and destructive.

Female Figure is sure to seem out of date and cheesy as soon as the next technological iteration comes along; this figure looks at us in a mirror, her eyes following us wherever we walk, gyrating, music blaring, intermittently uttering inanities or profundities, like, «My mother is dead, my father is dead, I'm gay, I would like to be a poet, this is my house» — Wolfson somehow crept in and turned the inside of my head into his house.

Feminism in all its varieties looked best of all, as if bouncing back from the inanity of «Global Feminisms» the year before — thanks not just to «WACK!»

Addressing inanities, profanities and vanities in the contemporary world of art, the first section is an «open letter to the art world»; the second a meditation on the art fair phenomenon; the third is about «naming things in the face of no names»; the final section addresses what the artist regards as «a paucity of poetics.

In an art world that prefers its environmental art either as Kumbaya social practice or Rain Room — style inanities, «The Fifth Season» had the rare bravery to insist that whether you depict the world or engage it, you first have to accept that we're going to burn.

As I noted in my recent EPA - update post, President Donald Trump's pen inked out Barack Obama's climate change inanity when he signed a sweeping executive order focused on energy independence.

There won't be much (I'm not dignifying troll inanities with the term «refutation» — they are just amusing or annoying as the case may be)....

200 Profuse as this author's flames, profanity, and comments explicitly or implicitly impugning the motives of others, and erroneous, specious, or otherwise misleading assertions may be, he remains too much of a bore for celebration in a blog chronocling idiocy, inanity, ideology and horsefeathers in the Climate Wars.

As Chair of FAIR, some might claim you have an obligation to get your facts right, not spout inaccurate inanities.

Two young women serving out their military service as office workers on a remote desert army base play out the inanity and insanity of military bureaucracy in tyro Israeli helmer Talya Lavie's aptly titled black comedy» Zero Motivation.»