Sentences with phrase «make disingenuous»

«What this says about the council is they will make disingenuous statements and empty promises with no substance in them.»

Critics, including Hyperallergic's Jillian Steinhauer, think the sculpture makes a disingenuous statement.

That makes you disingenuous for pretending that she agrees with your preferences.

This brings up more carbon to the surface to be burned, making it disingenuous to regard such projects as mitigation solutions.

Not exact matches

Political marketing is so hollow and disingenuous, it makes hawking cereal seem like a higher calling

When you attempt to sweep real issues under a rug of disingenuous and delusional positive thinking to create a Utopian version of reality, it keeps you from accurately assessing situations, making smart decisions and taking effective action.

The passive language used here is all the more disingenuous given that Google made a conscious choice in recent years to start endorsing certain search results over others.

It's disingenuous for Jim Prentice to criticize Rachel Notley for saying it's time to move on from Northern Gateway when he himself had the file for two years and couldn't make any headway.

L4H that is a very disingenuous, cowardly statement that you just made, and you are being unethical in making it.

Your admonition to read them makes it apparent you are either being disingenuous or just incapable of conceiving that someone can reach a different conclusion than you.

God will never be destroyed yet only misconstrued and communionally hated by constrained aptness of willing distracters made to benefit only the id or ego of the disingenuous placards of lamentiveness!

I also think that, given that there is current, on - going litigation the call by some for mediation is at worst disingenuous and at best mis - guided as so much has to happen before I personally would feel comfortable sitting across from those that have hurt you and then make myself vulnerable to them once again.

I'm sure there is a case to be made for this type of vouchers, but trying to make historical claims and claims to limitation of educational choice is disingenuous.

I guess that makes what you said to be «disingenuous and nonsense».

It's rude, intellectually disingenuous, and undercuts any actual point you might be trying to make.

Also, isn't it a bit disingenuous to ridicule a religion because it's different from «mainstream Christianity» when the religions that make up «mainstream Christianity» differ from each other?

By wearing his religion on his sleeve, it seem artificial and disingenuous and ironically making it all about him, not about God.

I think it's a little disingenuous when your guy makes it pretty clear over and over that he's a christian and believes in God and Jesus, to say he doesn't just because you'd have to admit that all the mocking you've done of republicans for their belief in God applies to your hero as well.

I personally find most cooking blogs a turn - off for the reason / question you pose; it feels very disingenuous to constantly see blogs which make the tiniest adaptation and then say «inspired by» or «adapted from» such and such.

It's disingenuous for him to make that statement.

Not only is this framing strategy disingenuous, it is a failure since it has not made any difference in breastfeeding rates.

Suggesting otherwise is disingenuous, and makes mothers, mothers COMMITTED to breastfeeding, who are doing EVERYTHING they're told by the people who are supposed to be helping, feel like they are failures when they experience the TOTALLY NORMAL pain and are informed that if they were doing a better job, it wouldn't happen.

Not only would it be a bit disingenuous and hypocritical to host ads on my website (advertising, of course, is the fashion industry's henchman), but I simply do not make money from hosting my content online.

Yes, it does matter when you make such comparisons especially when you are trying to make the case that someone else is being disingenuous with their statistics.

Now, most moms absolutely aren't like this, but I think it's disingenuous to pretend it doesn't happen and isn't challenging when trying to make new friends.

(2) is pretty far from my thinking and certainly I wouldn't call it nonsense; just because a theory was crafted doesn't make it wrong or even disingenuous.

Then get a transplant,» was but the first of various interventions he made during the party's protracted leadership campaign — interventions that weren't just counter-productive, but also rather disingenuous.

To me that makes Franks «Uncle Tom» comments totally justifiable (although I personally prefer «Auntie Tom's) and Gay Inc's scrambling for political correctness and support of the Log Cabin Republicans disingenuous and spineless at best.

The Greens — part of the coalition to pass the legislation in NYC — also said that plastic bag fees work and that the arguments made by State Senator Simcha Felder and his cosponsors were disingenuous to the public and their actions harmful to the environment.

«To suggest that because the transfer of ownership from the federal government to Mr. Banire is yet to be finalized makes him a mere tenant on the property he has acquired is not only disingenuous but is an attempt that is subtly fraudulent.

The disingenuous aspect of his «fight - the - establishment» shtick didn't go unnoticed, with many pointing out how he didn't manage to veto the anti-immigration vans because he wasn't «asked» making him appear as weak, and others finding his approach a little ironic considering he broke promises made to his own voters:

We'll try to make this as clear as possible so that even these disingenuous Democrats can understand the facts — Sue Serino voted against the energy tax because her hardworking constituents couldn't afford it, and saying anything else is patently false.

«Dennis Skinner finds himself as Labour's new poster boy (at least in Barnsley) Main Nigel Adams MP: Help make Labour pay for their negative, backward - looking, disingenuous campaign in Barnsley Central»

Keeping banging on about it makes one look silly and disingenuous.

«It's very disingenuous to the people to say that here we are five years later and we haven't been able to make a decision,» Sampson said.

Nigel Adams MP: Help make Labour pay for their negative, backward - looking, disingenuous campaign in Barnsley Central

«Nigel Adams MP: Help make Labour pay for their negative, backward - looking, disingenuous campaign in Barnsley Central Main Boundary Commission confirms that seat reductions will be greater in Labour - dominated regions»

Come up to Barnsley Central and help out James Hockney's campaign in the final push to the close of polls at 10 pm tomorrow, and make Labour pay for their negative, disingenuous campaign.

November 2016 — Claims made by the Catholic Church that «canon law» prevents it from opening schools under the 50 % cap are exposed as disingenuous and misleading by Humanists UK, which briefs MPs.

Chris Grayling was disingenuous on today's Any Questions when supporting Kitty Usher and Menzies Campbell in wanting to tamper with one of the cornerstones of the Post Civil war Settlement - he did not tell the audience he was a Catholic in favour of a measure to benefit Catholics - one with constitutional implications (it is the basis of the 1707 Act of Union with Scotland)... that was very disappointing and makes Chris Grayling suspect in a way David Davis was not

The Feb. 11 resolution went on to say that the legislators felt that part of the SAFE Act was «thoughtful,» in its attempt to «reduce instances of gun violence involving New Yorkers,» but that they believed other aspects of the act were «knee - jerk reactions made without the benefit of appropriate contemplation at best or, at worst, disingenuous fee grabs, cloaked as security measures.»

And while that sentiment can often feel a bit disingenuous, it turns out that practicing gratitude can actually make you happier, more effective, and smarter!

I think it's disingenuous for you to paint him as someone just looking to make a buck, whether or not you agree with him.

I love reading about the children of others and I'll admit that it feels somewhat disingenuous as someone who is pretty open about most things to not include information about this creature who astounds (and challenges me) constantly, but it's a decision that I made and I'm sticking to it (for at least right now).

You can ensure you're making a good first impression by avoiding common mistakes, such as clinging to your phone; drinking too much; putting down or fighting with your boyfriend in front of his family; dressing inappropriately, appearing judgmental, fake, or disingenuous; lying; showing up late; commenting on his ex; and being culturally insensitive.

While I have no doubt that he believes this fiction (in spirit if not particulars, perhaps), Brashear's story — even in its big - screen dilution — is so manifestly about long - term, institutionalized racism, that such a comment appears patently naive, even disingenuous (the movie even makes the case, somewhat ironically, that the Navy's greatness is proved by the fact that someone so exceptional as Brashear would want to be part of it).

Too often movies of its ilk take their subject too seriously, in turn making the story feel schmaltzy, pruned and disingenuous.

There are a few on - target jabs at the music industry, but in the end, Dreamgirls is blind and empty glorification of that most disingenuous of businesses masquerading as art (although the argument could be made that they don't even try to fake the art function anymore).

Taking Infernal Affairs (which is pretty awesome) or Let the Right One In and remaking them and then patting yourself on the back because you made a good movie is simply disingenuous — and personally speaking, annoying.

That it stuck to its guns as an offbeat arthouse fantasy message film without becoming cartoonishly absurd was the thing I most admired about it even though, at the same time, that was what made it so tiresome and disingenuous and left me feeling this was more about Hollywood's bogus take on reality than an actual depiction of real - life.