Sentences with phrase «many fatuous»

That's unfortunate because they are usually specious, self - serving, and fatuous.

When I tell people about avoiding flying, people consistently reply with three specious, fatuous responses they know they're just lying to themselves about to sleep better.

Many had derisively called him the Most Interesting Man in the World, in reference to the satirically fatuous spokesman for Dos Equis beer.

«Famous among friends» is a fatuous, inarticulate boast at best.

«It is fatuous for the Europeans to blame the United States for the failure of the WTO to arrive at negotiated outcomes in Buenos Aires,» Lighthizer said.

-RRB- is a smug, self - serving, fatuous little how - to tract for successfully pandering to popular taste in the name of communicating the gospel.

But all this is nothing more than a fatuous rationalization for a selfish way of life if we do not have a commitment above all to live faithfully, to deal with the challenge of right relationship with God and neighbor.

Orlando is, unambiguously, a champion of an imperiled Christendom; his stories certainly can not be resituated (in the manner of contemporary Arthuriana) in a realm of fatuous New Age pantheism.

By 721, when the Northern Kingdom of Israel fell to Assyria, any hopes of political existence independent of Assyria were simply fatuous.

18) The fact that there is a later punk - driven attempt to democratize rock fame (and not in the fatuous way that Andy Warhol's «15 - minutes of fame» comment suggested) or that pop / disco artists like Michael Jackson and Madonna will pick up on Bowie's fame - playing and image - emphatic example, in Madonna's case overtly subordinating the music to the prerogatives of notoriety, do not alter what ALMOST FAMOUS is showing us, that rock can be thought of as a social phenomenon / scene that one might belong to («you're too sweet for rock and roll» is said not by a musician to a musician, but by a groupie to a rock writer), that is as fame - focused as it is music - focused.

This is such a load of fatuous non-sense.

It is imagined this way: In Jesus» passion God is present among us in the midst of our suffering as — in Alfred North Whitehead's fatuous phrase — «the fellow sufferer who understands.»

I do take exception to the claim that my argument about the similarities between John Howard Yoder and Reinhold Niebuhr is «fatuous.»

To suggest, as Prof. Cole does, that Yoder and Reinhold Niebuhr look on Jesus in the same way is fatuous.

It is fatuous to say that throughout all society there ought to be glad, voluntary co-operation; the fact is that there is not!

Is it not unwise and fatuous for us Christians to think and speak as though those who are not Christians can understand, apart from an informed faith, what we mean by life and death?

This realism would not have meant the abandonment of dreams, but only the relinquishment of fatuous hopes.

By 721, when the Northern kingdom of Israel fell to Assyria, any hopes of political existence independent of Assyria entertained by smaller neighboring states were simply fatuous.

Without the possibility of non-coercive self - disclosure, which is vitiated by unfettered intrusion, such relationships are fatuous.

He despairingly lists some of the improper or fatuous reasons sometimes put forward in favor of such candidates, like their wealth, family connections, their being recently converted from the other side, their fashionable large - mindedness, their ecclesiastical pu11.32 But basically, the reluctance of the high - minded to be elected bishop was their own extremely high view of the office and the spiritual dangers it involved.

What a fatuous article to pose this question as a serious one.

On and on it goes, and back and forth you scurry, from one true love to the next, each fatuous infatuation clutched fleetingly to your hyperventilating bosom before being thrown charmlessly aside for the next in line.

The irony of ironies, given their spate of yellow and red cards, is they had only been admitted under the fatuous Fair Play qualification rule.

This club has never paid a dividend to shareholders, making your claims of money going out as fatuous as most of your contribution.

Whatever possessed the fatuous FA suddenly and belatedly to charge John Terry with «making a racist remark» to Anton Ferdinand hot on the heels of Terry being acquitted by the Westminster magistrate.

As for the coaching programmes of the ineffable Charles Hughes when disastrously in charge at the FA, the fatuous emphasis was all on the long ball and no midfield.

«The belief that regulation always implies costs is equally fatuous — something that's obvious to Liberal Democrats, who have never taken the view that the market is always right,» Mr Huhne said.

What I'm interested in is Next Labour,» which he defines as «Labour listening», by which he means Listening Labour, presumably along the lines of the fatuous Big Conversation.

Now that you have been made aware do you really still think that this is all to do with mediocre students choosing fatuous courses at third rate institutions or are you merely populating the discussion with ill equipped straw men?

His finest hours came with his awe - inspiring demolition job of the Government's fatuous annual report, one the finest Parliamentary performances of recent times — and just maybe the moment when the nation began to see the truth about New Labour.

If you are a crusty and you fancy having some sort of fatuous demonstration about something that's got on your nerves then what you've go to do is notify the police six days before the event with the date and the time and the proposed route and the police will look after you.»

«The Bruges Group's press release will no doubt serve its purpose and attract some screaming headlines - but many of its claims are fatuous.

Interesting in that context to note how Richard Reeves simply sleepwalks through this sort of issue in the course of his introduction, conjoining Darling's fatuous, managerialist comments about «vision» with Wilson's concept of purpose.

Ministers would just call you fatuous.

In their place, voters will have to endure even more fatuous communications by politicians on social media, ever more empty of content and thought, ever more full of false friendship and spurious empathy.

There was a time when it served a useful purpose — but that time has gone when «human rights» embraces so many fatuous cases as we have witnessed over the last decade.

That was the fatuous explanation offered by the former Liberal Democrat MP, Lembit Öpik, upon the resignation of his friend, the ex-chief secretary to the Treasury.

FACT — the debate is already becoming fatuous and devisive all round.

What was left was a series of observations of steadily diminishing value right down to the fatuous «morality» stance of the vomit - inducing Bercow.

Debate is becoming fatuous and divisive: yes indeed, articles such as this one, that are based on a complex web of half - truths, spin and downright lies, really don't help.

I am more interested in winning the election, and for that to happen we need to avoid creating fatuous Aunt Sallies, and bring back Clarke.

Colourful fulminations about his fatuous peers filled his many letters to Louise Colet, the French poet who inspired his novel Madame Bovary.

Rather than change his position, Edison issued fatuous warnings about AC's «greatly enhanced risks to life and property» and became involved in a smear campaign that began with the public electrocution of dogs, horses, and cattle — experiments purporting to demonstrate the lethality of AC.

Of the many inane arguments that are made against taking action on climate change, perhaps the most fatuous is that the projections climate models offer about the future are too uncertain to justify taking steps that might inconvenience us in the present.

Whirlwind celebrity marriages and the clichéd quickie Vegas wedding can often be described as fatuous love, as can any ardent, committed connection built without much substance behind it.

When you combine the fire of passionate infatuation and the bonds of commitment but don't intimately like who the other person is, you get fatuous love.

The only edge in the movie is represented by Russell Brand, who actually lived the lifestyle, but he's muzzled by a bad Liverpool accent and a gay subplot that's as insincere as the swaggering anthems by fatuous hacks like Foreigner, Starship and Journey.

A considerable chunk of the first act is dedicated to their troubled schooldays; we endure long minutes of fatuous Skype conversations, and a seemingly endless scene in which the lads buy ice - cream in Venice.

Well actually, the fatuous quotes about being deeply shocked and heartsick... are yours, Dean Adams?

But Bernard Cribbins brings some useful virility to his fatuous role.