Sentences with phrase «leap of logic from»

Now here she was, somehow making the cosmic leap of logic from dead flora in a pot to living fauna in the pet classifieds.

How you made that wild leap of logic from the (questionable) statement that 62 % of adults have trouble falling asleep (perhaps a percentage of them are co-sleeping, no?)

Buddy... how do you make the leap of logic from a creator to a god?

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The CIA's leap in amoral logic was elucidated by testimony from E. Howard Hunt, in charge of the CIA's U.S. publisher contacts in the late 1960s, who said that domestic fallout may not (in the report's words) «have been unintentional.»

It is a great leap of logic to go from the possibility of a creator to the existence of a soul, or heaven, or hell

I happen to believe that drawing any spiritual conclusions from quantum mechanics is an unfounded leap in logic — but if someone out there in the world is willing to pay someone # 1 million for pondering the nature of reality, that's a world I'm happy to live in.

The plot itself means very little — characters make massive leaps of logic and we scoot from location to location all in an effort to get to the next action set piece.

But following Nixon, a misguided conspiracy - laden exercise in paranoia which took even greater leaps of logic and history than his fantasy version of Jim Garrison's investigation of the assassination of JFK, Stone decided (wisely) to take a break from politics and (unwisely) chose to rehash well - worn noir terrain by adapting author John Ridley's neo-noir Stray Dogs.

On top of everything else — the preposterous leaps in logic, the treacly score from Mychael Danna, the numerous scenes where unattended children get way too real in conversations with an elderly man — Remember's final minutes lay on its audience the kind of silly, overwrought twist that Charlie Kaufman's brother in Adaptation would devise.

While the original is something of a pedant's paradise, filled with continuity errors, leaps of logic and one grating reference to UNIX, it is still a hugely effective ride from a master movie maker.

The problem with the film isn't in its placement in the realm of science fiction films as much as its placement in the real world, where the plot necessitates a triple - jump for every leap in logic to get us from point A to Z. For instance, the film pushes forward the notion that scientists don't give any thought or research whatsoever to the ramifications of their inventions before unleashing them on the world at large.

I can sort of see the logic: the pressure it applies to the back of the neck could go badly wrong, as could the slamming of someone's face into the mat, but I'm not convinced that's any more dangerous than something like the Brogue Kick or Finn Balor's Coup De Grace which involves leaping from the top rope and bringing both feet down on the opponent's chest.

Equally, the motif of the hare, that would occupy Flanagan for much of the rest of his career (not to mention bringing him fame and fortune), came from his perennial attentiveness to the world of literature — Jarry's logic of the absurd simply being superseded by George Ewart Evans and David Thompson's «The Leaping Hare», a book exploring the hare's mythical attributes through history.

inferring support for energy policy from the DoD interest in the above stated risks associated with climate variability and change requires a big leap of logic.

It's a leap to go from global warming to taxes but the Left has been getting away with your money using that kind of logic for years and whether they're sporting a fraudulent «hockey stick» or worrying about the demise of polar bears or Rhode Island - sized glacier named Aunt Bee calving off Antarctica, Western academia just winks and counts the cash.

The plaintiffs also employ wild leaps of logic divorced from reality: «By hiding what they knew about, and affirmatively misrepresenting the dangers of unabated fossil fuel use, the Defendants protected fossil fuel demand, and obstructed the changes needed to prevent or at least minimize the impacts of climate change.»

This leap of logic is far from true in many cases, but that doesn't stop insurers from using a bad credit score to their advantage.