Sentences with phrase «inanities like»

If you have nothing to say — why do you sit there mumbling inanities like some mad crone on ice.

But then does someone who buys a Beemer bother about such inanities like mileage?

there may or may not be some force that created the universe... we haven't figured that out yet... but it is not this god of bronze age foolishness that is so concerned with what people do while na.ked and so concerned that we praise him all day long and tell him how wonderful he is and so concerned with suppressing science and so concerned with meting out punishment and so concerned with inanities like what you can eat and what days you can work on and what cloth you wear and who you can marry.

«concerned with inanities like...» = > again all was meant for your salvation and to bring about very good.

Listen: there may or may not be some force that created the universe... we haven't figured that out yet... but it is not this god of bronze age foolishness that is so concerned with what people do while na.ked and so concerned that we praise him all day long and tell him how wonderful he is and so concerned with suppressing science and so concerned with meting out punishment and so concerned inanities like what you can eat and what days you can work on and what cloth you wear and who you can marry.

Not exact matches

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.»

Like its predecessor, «London Has Fallen» is content to dumbly relish in the inanity of Mike's rampage.

Like Antoine Fuqua's predecessor, Babak Najafi's London Has Fallen is content to dumbly relish in the inanity of Mike's rampage.

«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.»

It doesn't help that he's forced to spout inanities («I want to write plays about human life»), but his line readings are so earnest and overly pronounced that it feels like he's just joined a small - town am - dram company and this is his first performance.

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.

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.

I do not know whether to laugh out loud at the inanity of your suggestion or accuse you of slander in what appears like an attempt to fabricate a strawman argument.

Sophistry, inanities, misdirection, half - truths, et al are like loud, explosive expulsions of lit gas from alarmists neither regions.