Sentences with phrase «inanity when»

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.

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These self - aggrandizing, self - appointed avengers think they win by screaming inanities louder than we can talk, believing they win when we throw our hands up in disgust.

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.

It's that time of year again, when we can all grouse about the inanity of the Oscars: how the Academy ignores blockbusters or ignores indie films or ignores people of color.

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.

I'm made distinctly queasy by uttering that sacral American surname when referring to this empress of inanity, so let's use her real name, Erika Leonard.

This includes correctly identifying the extreme dividend growth and capital appreciation awaiting Visa shareholders in general during its rise from $ 50 to $ 130 per share over the past four years, Schwab investors during Brexit when the stock was at $ 25 before rising to $ 60, or pointing out the inanity of paying $ 71 per share for classic blue - chip staple General Mills in the summer of 2016 (triggering my only ever «short» article for a blue - chip stock in my history of writing).

I remember being out at some party at a golf course in Philadephia in 1996, when our best salesman uttered the inanity, «Let the stock market pay your employees.»