Sentences with phrase «lunacy as»

But, there is a point at which we must say NO to such lunacy as these recent rulings.

Religion is thought disease that conditions the afflicted for acceptance of lunacy as justified or empirical truth.

Instead we've had such lunacies as the Mad Woman from the Met Office going on national TV to assure us that last years cold and snowy winter in the UK was a direct consequence of global warming.

Not exact matches

Damn the investors for making money on such lunacy, damn the paranoiacs who think the added fluoride in our public water systems is a mind - control drug, damn the Times for running a massive photo of a startup founder who thinks water «expires» and is described as «sitting naked and cross-legged on a hot spring, his long brown hair flowing over his chest.»

In a postmortem in April 2011, Forbes referred to Kozmo as «a bellwether for lunacy.»

Whether you experience the holiday period as a lull or utter lunacy, the key to carving out the time and headspace you need to actually celebrate the season is to think ahead, according to Hamill.

Hmm... I think they may be pointing out some of the craziness of religion, and as to «why» we should keep that «firewall» of separation of lunacy and government separate IMHO.

are people so simple they crave the misguided beliefs of others to feel better about themselves or are we triing to understand the lunacy of our citizens to believe something as pathic as a 3000 year old IDEA in order to act properly when voting in those who will run this country for the next 4 years a.k.a. voting in one who using rational thinking and logic to make choices!

This could happen only if the guilty person were by nature endowed with extraordinary stupidity, and presumably by shouting in antistrophic and antiphonal song every time someone persuaded him that now was the beginning of a new era and a new epoch, had howled his head so empty of its original quantum satis of common sense as to have attained a state of ineffable bliss in what might be called the howling madness of the higher lunacy, recognizable by such symptoms as convulsive shouting; a constant reiteration of the words «era,» «epoch,» «era and epoch,» «epoch and era,» «the System»; an irrational exaltation of the spirits as if each day were not merely a quadrennial leap - year day, but one of those extraordinary days that come only once in a thousand years; the concept all the while like an acrobatic clown in the current circus season, every moment performing these everlasting dog - tricks of flopping over and over, until it flops over the man himself.

«It would be churlish to point out that in a subsequent volume of autobiography Canon Phillips explained to his readers the nature of these «difficult circumstances» through which he was passing: depressions and nervous breakdowns so severe as to constitute periodic bouts of lunacy; churlish because irrelevant.

Bob... I wdn't say that belief in the «unverifiable» is the same as «lunacy» with respect to the content of most religious beliefs.

Most often, however, they dismiss anti-Enlightenment ideas that come out of humanities departments as erudite lunacy — the enemy of the quest for truth.

As you say, this is lunacy!

He secured the passage of the Lunacy Act of 1845, which for the first time treated the insane as a «person of unsound mind», rather than as a social outcast.

Striking a more literary note from Egypt, poet and playwright Ali Salem wrote after 9/11 an open letter of apology to Americans: «Extremism may claim God as its redeemer, but it's really the selfish product of lunacy....

For those who are not yet convinced of my lunacy, I'd like to finish with a word on the statement that, «Faith has always been used as an excuse to commit crimes against humanity...» I will grant you that at some points in history, humans have used faith «as an excuse to commit crimes against humanity.»

Your falling into one your chasms of seeing others» perceptualisms as being an alottment of sameness regarding one's stances is sheer lunacies on your part!

I could have responded to your collective lunacy with a reasoned and calm argument, but instead I decided to put just as much effort and rationality in my rejoinder as you did in your socialized stemgobbling.

God - talking lunacy = cult = religion, it's just a matter of degree and of which faiths cultures will define as «normal.»

It would be lunacy to get rid of Walcott so as to get Mahrez.

There is no way to respond to the kind of nonsense and lunacy that you try to disguise as serious analysis and commentary.

It is sheer lunacy to have let him leave as we are now left with an ageing Cech and an average Ospina and inexperienced Martinez.

To go from Vieira, Gilberto, Petit as shielding players to Arteta, Flamini, and possibly a washed up Diarra, is lunacy.

However, it would be lunacy to question Wenger's integrity, as the Frenchman will always be a part of the Arsenal folklore and, rational or not, should know what he is doing.

However, where I can never agree with Wenger, and what I see as complete lunacy, was not getting another DM.

Some parents see the sport as a path to a college scholarship; others fear that Gait's National Development Program will bring to youth lacrosse the travel - team lunacy of soccer and basketball.

over for a grossly over used word as legend adding Walcott's name to is the height of lunacy....

The risk alone makes it a mute point, we are doing just fine financially speaking, in fact we are doing great, as we keep hearing, so to put Arsenal in the hands of a mad man for all we know is just lunacy.

This points to them being good but not good enough and with every other side we class as competition building their ranks then it strikes me as pure lunacy NOT to address the two key positions we need to strengthen.

It is this sort of Lunacy that Wenger doesn't even deserve a second thought as to whether he leaves or not.Am just disgusted with him and it will serve us right if Everton pipe us for Champions league and that may atleast cause a paradigm shift at the Emirates.Otherwise it is just groundhog in our faces

It's lunacy of course — but it's the football world we belong to as fans and if we don't sign in to the asylum we're going to get left behind and always be dreaming of what might have been.

I sorely hope the talk about selling Sturridge is just hearsay, as it would be lunacy to let him go.

This was viewed as an act of lunacy and detrimental to the infant.

As for the recommendation to leave a child in an abusive situation and work on the abuser's sense of remorse at the same time — that is utter lunacy, irresponsible and unrealistic and if he actually did make such a suggestion in a professional capacity could be subject to discipline or legal action.

Obama Foodorama criticized the video, which was already going viral, as marking a new low in «unbridled hysteria and fear mongering,» and «a case study in Big Government conspiracy theory lunacy.»

The American networks are being cautious to the point on lunacy and here's what the Spectator has to say about the BBC's coverage: «The BBC could take a lead and forecast what is now a no - brainer; but its coverage is as timid as the US networks.»

In recent days he has been saying all sorts of outrageous things: tax cuts would encourage growth, increasing energy costs via green taxes is lunacy in a downturn and the Big Society doesn't really seem to have caught on as a concept.

Kinda feels like «The Lion King» but with much added lunacy and those cool penguins, the film wouldn't be half as good without those flightless little birds.

As always with Miike, coherence is sacrificed for the sake of stylistics brio and lunacy.

As he has proven on «Saturday Night Live» and multiple small film roles, he excels at loosy - goosey, dignity - free merriment and can deliver even the most average of punch lines with enough lunacy to merit a laugh.

Below is the new trailer to Hero Bank 2 and it features a load of new gameplay footage as well as colourful anime lunacy, a lot of shouting and a child being flushed down a toilet for good measure.

Shooting the movie as if it were a mix between sincere drama and gothic horror, Jensen finds just the right deadpan tone to deliver his sicko lunacy and also grounds things enough to sneak in some moving drama towards the end.

Greatness is often intertwined with insanity, and there's no way to describe the finale of First Reformed as anything other than a dual act of extreme devotion and inspired lunacy.

As Christian Bale goes all mopey and absolutely ruins his throat by rasping his dialogue as if he's a ten - pack - a-day smoker, Ledger steals, robs and plunders every scene he's in with a type of psychotic lunacy that deftly avoids villain clichéAs Christian Bale goes all mopey and absolutely ruins his throat by rasping his dialogue as if he's a ten - pack - a-day smoker, Ledger steals, robs and plunders every scene he's in with a type of psychotic lunacy that deftly avoids villain clichéas if he's a ten - pack - a-day smoker, Ledger steals, robs and plunders every scene he's in with a type of psychotic lunacy that deftly avoids villain clichés.

It's understandable, then, that The Muppets generated tons of goodwill last year due simply to its status as a reboot — an attempt to send some voltage through what had become a sad old carcass, whether or not it channelled the inspired lunacy and gentle chaos of an actual Henson production.

The story of any «Zoolander» movie shouldn't matter as much as the goofy inanity of its leads, and the constant irreverence that surrounds them, but nearly everything that worked in that regard the first time around registers as a retread; inspired lunacy is in short supply.

Though not as gleefully absurdist as Anchorman, the movie achieves at least a garden - variety lunacy.

Still, the lunacy of 8 - player Bomberman isn't a complete loss, as it's theoretically fully supported online.

Without so much as the faintest hint of anything that resembles a plot, The Neon Demon collapses in a gallimaufry of Salvador Dali - inspired lunacy in which the resentful models hell - bent on wrecking Fanning's career eat her instead.

But even I can only take so much when it comes to this sort of lunacy, and there were times where I felt the filmmakers were going out of their way to work every one of my last nerves almost as if I'd personally wronged them all somehow.