Sentences with phrase «into inanity»

Then with a fine sense of historical irony he describes how the development of a party system, which embodied the very «factionalism» that Washington above all felt would bring down the republic, gave the nation «a mechanism of... self - criticism and self - correction» that, for all its descent into inanity, has somehow served the cause of republicanism well.

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While modern science, history, geology, biology, and physics have failed to convince you of the deep inanity of your silly faith, some priest doing magic hand signals over grocery store bread and wine is enough to convince you it is thereby transformed into the flesh and blood of Jesus, because of the priest's magic powers (or «sacred powers» if you prefer the more euphemistic term).

While modern science, history, geology, biology, and physics have failed to convince you of the deep inanity of your silly faith, some priest doing magic hand signals over bread and wine is enough to convince you it is thereby transformed into the flesh and blood of Jesus because of the priest's magic powers (or «sacred powers» to the extent you see a difference).

Goofily funny, and silly, and in many ways follows the currents of contemporary comedy into the gulf stream of inanity.

Audiences who go to see The American expecting a conventional Hollywood spy thriller will no doubt be disappointed to find out they've stumbled into an art - house film — and an unrelentingly grim one at that — but those seeking relief from the inanity and bombast of the summer movie season will be pleasantly surprised.

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 while it drifts into saccharine inanity at times, it's mainly enjoyable and funny.

Alas, Gutierrez's script doesn't do her performance justice, especially the final scenes, which are an excursion into ham - handed inanity, unraveling in the most cliché of ways until even most viewers who may have been reeled in by the thriller elements will lose interest, having traveled down this road enough times to not be surprised.

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.

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.