Sentences with phrase «like vacuous»

That's amazing... that's misleading, like a vacuous, attention - grabbing headline:

Which might sound like vacuous new age nonsense, the sort of thing which you might find at the head of a thousand Facebook postings.

«Now it is clear that Governor Udom Emmanuel seems to like our vacuous Senator so much, we would be much obliged if Akwa Ibom will take him off our hands for good.

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And it's a shift in the Liberals» approach to economic policy, which had become encumbered over the past decade by vacuous buzzwords like «champion sectors» and «innovation gateways» (Both found on a single - page in the 2011 election platform).

Is this going to make a non financial entrepreneur like a versatile manager (goal), or a vacuous goof (potential)?

Statements like these may appear banal or merely pious, but if we view them against the backdrop of our own theological history, they are far from either banality or vacuous piety.

The first possibility would treat God the Father or the Godhead as some sort of vacuous actuality devoid of subjectivity; at any rate it would, like the second possibility, ascribe all divine subjective attributes to the subjectivity of Jesus (who can only have one unified subjectivity, not one divine and one human), which is both implausible and heretical.

The vacuous - brained evangelical sheep will be lead like a compliant simpleton to do whatever the latest slick - talking leader tells them they should.

Like most great ideas, religion began as an agency to lift people out of ignorance, but planted another vacuous idea in people's heads, and they can't think for themselves now.

And it's rarely a vacuous giggle-fest of dumbass cliches that offer nothing like so many pre - and post-game shows.

Some of these «tasting notes,» as he wryly calls them, may sound profound and vacuous at the same time — «liking is learning,» says one; «do not trust the easy like,» warns another — but they do deliver a Zen Buddhist — like payload of unity and sense that, after ambling pleasantly but aimlessly along for 300 pages, I took as blessed relief.

If irresponsibility and a lack of trust or deep caring between anyone is the grounds for good humor, then Bojack Horseman does it infinitely better (The difference is that in a cartoon show about vacuous Hollywood types there are characters who feel like subjects who can care rather than just targets for cynical jokes).

V for Vendetta, based on a graphic novel, is sabotaged by its second half, which is more like V for vacuous.

The most prominent characters include Haven Hamilton (Henry Gibson), a socially conservative, arrogant country music star; Linnea Reese (Lily Tomlin), a gospel singer and mother of two deaf children; Del Reese (Ned Beatty), her lawyer husband and Hamilton's legal representative, who works as the local political organizer for the Tea Party - like Hal Philip Walker Presidential campaign; Opal (Geraldine Chaplin), an insufferably garrulous and pretentious BBC Radio reporter on assignment in Nashville, or so she claims; talented but self - involved sex - addict Tom Frank (Keith Carradine), one - third of a moderately successful folk trio who's anxious to launch a solo career; John Triplette (Michael Murphy), the duplicitous campaign consultant who condescendingly tries to secure top Nashville stars to perform at a nationally - syndicated campaign rally; Barbara Jean (Ronee Blakley), the emotionally - fragile, beloved Loretta Lynn - like country star recovering from a burn accident; Barnett (Allen Garfield), Barbara Jean's overwhelmed manager - husband; Mr. Green (Keenan Wynn), whose never - seen ailing wife is on the same hospital ward as Barbara Jean; groupie Martha (Shelley Duvall), Green's niece, ostensibly there to visit her ailing aunt but so personally irresponsible that she instead spends all her time picking up men; Pfc. Glenn Kelly (Scott Glenn), who claims his mother saved Barbara Jean's life but who mostly seems obsessed with the country music star; Sueleen Gay (Gwen Welles), a waitress longing for country music fame, despite her vacuous talent; Bill and Mary (Allan F. Nicholls and Cristina Raines), the other two - thirds of Tom's folk act, whose ambition overrides constant personal rancor; Winifred (Barbara Harris), another would - be singer - songwriter, fleeing to Nashville from her working - class husband, Star (Bert Remsen); Kenny Frasier (David Hayward), a loner who rents a room from Mr. Green and carries around a violin case; Bud Hamilton (Dave Peel), the gentle, loyal son of the abrasive Hamilton; Connie White (Karen Black), a glamorous country star who is a last - minute substitute for Barbara Jean at the Grand Old Opry; Wade Cooley (Robert DoQui), a cook at the airport restaurant where Sueleen works as a waitress and who tries unsuccessfully to convince her that she has no talent; and the eccentric Tricycle Man (Jeff Goldblum), who rides around in a three - wheel motorcycle, occasionally interacting with the other characters, showing off his amateur magic tricks, but who has no dialogue.

In the hands of a cynical genius like Billy Wilder or a wily craftsman like Steven Soderbergh, Gringo might've become a satire for the ages, a mordant document that people of the future could study to understand this morally vacuous moment in the life of our republic.

Despite playing a vacuous agent of chaos in You Were Never Really Here, he brings to the role a sense of fatalism, a notion that violence is, like breathing, inevitable.

In the end, American Dreamz is like the snake that eats its own tail, a victim of its own watered - down tendency to strive for a glossy commercial product to draw the appeal of the masses, as guilty of being vacuous as the targets it sets in its sights.

Like his work on Interstellar, Hoytema's photography for Nolan's Dunkirk renders epic - scale sets and a high stakes story with gentler beauty, using colour to find emotion in the frame, rather than Pfister's harsh, vacuous lighting.

The latter is obviously rather vacuous compared to the objective - based games, essentially consisting of close - quarters run - and - gun and demanding little in the way of class support skills like healing or vehicle repair.

That may seem like a simple statement, but given the state of contemporary art — with its endless carnival of art fairs peddling vacuous abstraction, celebrity - hyped artists, and conceptualism - light — the fact that Borremans paints the kinds of pictures he does is actually a radical proposition.

Each signifier in Benjamin Brett's paintings operates like a MacGuffin, a red herring, a vacuous placeholder.

And who like to utter vacuous gnomic riddles?

It's like the equally vacuous claim that funding for biologists.

Many of the principles of good writing — conciseness and «show, don't tell» — are just as important to resume writing as not padding or using vacuous words like «experienced

If the vacuous Shiny Pony with nice hair and teeth likes it, it must be good... no?

Talking head Realtors, like many vacuous politicians, towing the party line, continue to give Realtors at large a bad name in the public's consciousness, and it is the public's opinion at large that counts, and not yours.

The turbidly self - important treatment of these vacuous college graduates, each one a «type», is like a TV sitcom without jokes.