Sentences with phrase «inanity on»

Finally, you want to polish off your resume so it gleams among the stacks of inanity on an employer's desk.

But some theists responding here apparently think it's a bigger deal if some atheists are not pleased with the way they push their inanity on others by way of legislating Bronze Age morality.

Not exact matches

Since its inception 10 years ago, the Miami Beach iteration of the annual Art Basel fair has become a must - hit item on any globetrotter's social calendar — a bonfire of inanity that's ostensibly about art, but increasingly about social - status peacocking.

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.

I think nonbelievers should talk to nonbelievers more often here, instead of just pouncing on the latest inanity from believers.

This kind of well - meaning but finally destructive inanity is entirely typical of what goes on under the rubric of «interreligious dialogue,» whether sponsored by the multinational religious bureaucracies or a local university.

No, this is the kind of inanity those who want to believe in a moral absolute try to artificially place on those of us who see morality for what it is.

What a drab and repulsive topic that is, for example, a doting old fellow who stands with one foot in the grave, obsessed with foolish fears, his limbs trembling, his toothless mouth hanging open in the inanity of «second childhood»: but see what the writer has done with it in the twelfth chapter of Ecclesiastes, running on to a culmination that is of the pure essence of poetry!

Thus they are not the standard fare of either moral conservatism or more liberal attacks on the inanity of most of TV's mind - wasting exercises (Newton Minnow's «vast wasteland»).

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.

Walking with him in practice rounds or the most competitive rounds, it's clear that little time or effort is wasted on the inanities that might surround him.

Those who stutter, utter inanities or lose their train of thought suffer the fate of Tim from Anaheim, who molders on hold for two hours and 40 minutes, then speaks for 12 seconds before Rome presses a button that sends him plunging through an imaginary trapdoor.

This is typically a CBS event, but with the Super Bowl and the hours of attendant pregame inanities slotted for that network on Sunday, they will yield to the tour's other major network partner.

Using the audio from the radio episodes and then supplying a sort of 1960s - style Hanna - Barbera wash of cheap animation to more fully illustrate the inanity of their conversations, Gervais has landed on something quite special that can be scorchingly funny.

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.

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).

The film is strongest when it deals with some of the darker aspects of the story, including the reticence to spill the beans on the code - breaking for fear of being exposed, but this too is needlessly simplified to the point of inanity.

The film is strongest when it does deal with some of the darker aspects of the story, including the reticence to spill the beans on the code - breaking for fear of being exposed, but this too is needlessly simplified to the point of inanity.

On the negative, that would have also made the film lose its only redeemable element, which is Applegate's valiant effort to give an actual performance amid all the inanity of all the slapstick and the tedium of a forced romantic subplot between André and the gardener next door (Tara Reid).

«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.

, Wiseau's bizarre performance belongs on an American soap opera, pivoting from laughing inanity (oh boy, that laugh) to impersonations of chickens.

Ross stated, «Sen. Ron Johnson is a tour de force of wrong on the student loan debt crisis with his ignorance, indifference and inanity.

It sees Twisted Pixel in top form, capitalizing on its unhinged zeal for inanity that it seems to barely be able to keep in check while deftly handling the challenge of working with the Kinect.

New York art gallery owner Edward Winkleman wrote in 2006 that he had never heard of the Stuckists, so he «looked them up on Wikipedia», and stated he was «turned off by their anti-conceptual stance, not to mention the inanity of their statement about painting, but I'm more than a bit interested in the democratization their movement represents.»

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.

On the other hand, a few minutes of mind - numbing boredom or inanity can be torture worse than weeks slaving on the chain ganOn the other hand, a few minutes of mind - numbing boredom or inanity can be torture worse than weeks slaving on the chain ganon the chain gang.

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.

However, Lie (a Los Angeles representative) and DeSaulnier (from Contra Cost) are in Democratic Party «safe seats», so they don't have to worry about the adverse impact their inanity will have on issues important to their citizens (i.e., jobs and energy costs).

Once informed on the subject news stories suddenly became propaganda pieces; I was and still am flabbergasted by the sheer inanity of it all.

Tim Curtin springs to the defense of inanity over at Deltoid and criticizes Eli's take on the good Diplom Beck.

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

I'd venture to say every skeptic on this blog sees the profound inanity of this statement.

Could Judge Carton return to the bench to rule on the inanities that will surely arise next week?

There is blame all around for the utter inanity of these hearings on the issue of the actual work of judging.

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.»