Sentences with phrase «more hollow»

I found that none of the settings significantly affected audio quality; however, disabling Dolby altogether made the music sound even more hollow.

Let them worry about the factories in China, the $ 40K magazine ads, the celebrity freebies, the politics involved with getting Bloomingdale's to carry their lines, their ever - more hollow methods of trying to convince the uneducated that their stuff is the real deal.

The more effort I put into it, the more Hollow Knight rewarded me with thrilling challenges and beautiful, storied caverns to discover.

On the other hand, we wonder if the news that the first couple of chicken dinner wins were earned on the bodies of bots won't make those wins feel a bit more hollow.

The wave is not as long as it used to be, but it's more hollow and with many...

The wave is not as long as it used to be, but it's more hollow and with many peaks all along the shore line, Now Sandino has around 04 different peaks each wave has a certain particularity.

For the beaches in Latitude 10's front yard, the waves are bigger and more hollow than Playa Carmen.

If the surf is too big and more hollow than you prefer you can take a 15 minute walk up the beach and find more playful waves at Panga Drops.

-- Testing critic Bob Schaeffer of FairTest said the administration didn't go far enough: «Now, is the time for concrete steps to reverse counter-productive testing policies, not just more hollow rhetoric and creation of yet another study commission,» he said.

«Unlike many of its more hollow predecessors, «Black Panther» has real, honest - to - goodness stakes.

We don't get this movie until next week in the UK but I can't imagine it being any more hollow or kitsch than Star Trek Into Darkness, which I saw last night.

But the farther down the virtual rabbit hole Cooper goes, the more hollow the plot twists become, ultimately adding up to nothing.

Instead, we just get more of the same — more extreme violence, more excessive bloodletting, more hollow characters who state the obvious political points the movie tries to make, more running and hiding and shooting, more people in masks jumping into frame to do terrible things.

Taking the 1983 Vacation and thrusting it into the modern age of high - octane raunch comedy, Vacation (2015) is pretty much the result most would expect: Still filled with laughs, but ultimately a cheaper and more hollow echo of the original film, despite some inspired comedic performances from the cast.

Here's why: whenever you die in Dark Souls 2, you become a little more Hollow.

It's when you step back and take a look across the studio's many movies that they start to feel a little more hollow, a little more like an adolescent understanding of complex emotions that a teen would just barely be starting to grasp (which may be one reason the character of Peter Parker has been handled genuinely well across several different movies).

«Louise has raked in millions from big labor and extreme liberal special interests, rendering her cries of conspiracy even more hollow than her failed, 26 - year record in Congress.

He said the pessimist in him mocked his receipt of a degree in law when «law is ever more a hollow word, resonant but empty, in a world increasingly dominated by force, by violence, by fraud, by injustice, by avarice — in a word, by egoism»; when civil law permits «the progressive and rapid increase of oppressed people who continue being swept toward ghettos, without work, without health, without instruction, without diversion and, not rarely, without God»; when under so - called international law «more than two - thirds of humanity (exist) in situations of misery, of hunger, of subhuman life»; and when agrarian law or spatial law permits «today's powerful landowners to continue to live at the cost of misery for unhappy pariahs»; and whereby «modern technology achieves marvels from the earth with an ever - reduced number of rural workers (while) those not needed in the fields live sublives in depressing slums on the outskirts of nearly all the large cities.»

«We've got to start turning this tanker around, otherwise London is going to be even more hollowed out than it currently is,» he told Politics.co.uk.

Not exact matches

There's the hollowing out of domestic manufacturing economies and the middle class they supported; ethno - nationalist backlash to the forces of globalization; sprawling culture wars over «identity politics» and far more.

To these companies, there's much more to social marketing than peddling their brand story as bait for hollow likes, re-pins and re-tweets.

When Merkel has been obliged to discuss Europe's economic future, she has typically relied on hollow phrases about the need for «more Europe» and vague warnings about how «the failure of the euro would mean the failure of Europe.»

The claim by many that Kim can not be deterred by military means is not merely hollow, but also ignores the history of more than 60 years of Kim family rule.

The Merkur MK38C is not at all difficult to assemble or disassemble, but this hollow handle does require some more attention when it comes to fully drying and cleaning the surfaces in order to avoid rust.

The same things you probably stress about when you see your kid staring into an iPad screen, mesmerized — cyberbullying, exposure to age inappropriate content, the crowding out of more beneficial activities by screen time, and the danger of developing an addiction to the devices» hollow pleasures.

«My concern is that every time you do this, you hollow out the tax base a little more.»

How then, to foster more reader - driven competition, when Big Media with big money seems intent on drying it up, and hollowing it out?

The Federal Reserve and many Wall Street economists have been saying for months that an economic slowdown in the first part of the year would soon give way to faster growth, but their predictions have begun to sound hollow in the face of ever more dour economic news.

Booming coin offerings face more oversight and many ring hollow.

Investors have every reason to be confused, given Harper's stance in favour of more openness to foreign takeovers during the 2008 election campaign, and the supposed influence on his policy of the Red Wilson panel, which basically dismissed fears that corporate Canada was being «hollowed out.»

«Love the sinner — hate the sin» I thought was what Christianity pushed, but as we can see from this priest's actions Christianity is nothing more than hollow rhetoric when it comes to love and compassion.

The hope one might have once placed in comparative advantage global capitalism and the internet / cell - phone wiring of all, began to look increasingly hollow, as Walmarts filled with cheap Chinese goods, real jobs went missing, real skills became rare, and the internet became known not so much for an Army of Davids shoring up our common commitment to liberty, but for mobbish comment swarms, porn, The Social Network, diversion all - the - more addictive for being personally tailored (see: the fictional fat - slobs of Wall - E, or the perpetually downward phone - gaze of our «dumb» millennials), and unprecedented possibilities for spying, defamation, and demagogic manipulation for those with access to big data.

Gay marriage undermines true marriage in a different and much more dangerous way: It hollows out its very essence, applying the word to something else entirely, a relationship that itself has no potential to generate children, and so can not itself (without help from the law or from outsiders) form a family.

Faith in the Gospel, i.e. the coming and death of Christ, glorifies God and expresses His worthiness more than the hollow hosannas of enthusiasms.

I grew up in a big church, always full and beautiful from the outside, but empty and hollow inside, filled with the ghosts of a much more authentic spirituality.

They know the alternative amounts to little more than hollow sentimentalities, sugar - coated falsehoods: sweet to taste, deadly to human happiness, fatal for the common good.

But it didn't work.The hollow fellowship of wishful thinking, adolescent impatience and naieve utopiansim broke on the rocks of a sterner and more enduring fellowship — the fellowship of sin.

When you land in the gutter, you learn way more from others who have been there for decades than you ever learned in hallowed (or hollowed) halls of higher eduction.

Obama's 2008 election promise to reform immigration became hollow by 2012 and is now seen by some as evidence that the vow was nothing more than a vote - mongering ploy by Clinton's party.

What followed became a watershed moment in my life when I finally recognized that most all of the «rules» of legalism were nothing more than the personal opinion of stuffed shirts (and seemingly hollow heads) who apparently had their panties in a knot.

Reno's «Empire of Desire» (June / July) was much more prophetic and prescient, while Scruton's concerns rang hollow and irrelevant.

on Gays... he said, «Well the «Scripture» says...» on the death penalty he got the phony smile and said... «Well other people know lots more than me... so I don't have an opinion»... The guy is completely hollow... I hope he helps the poor but I doubt it... he is a RIGHT WINGED Fundamentalist in T V «clothing»... he would be the first to show up at a town hanging and grin... and pass the hat...

Why on earth would I care to leave that to someone who threatens me, asks me to to put blind obedience in him in front of everything else, and provides nothing more than an even GREATER hollow promise of some amorphously - defined eternal life?

Bake for 20 minutes more, or until golden and sounds hollow when you tap its base.

To make them, I mixed the M&M brand spinach, artichoke and cheese dip with more cream cheese to thicken it, and stuffed it into a hollowed out baguette before baking it with olive oil, Parmesan cheese and red pepper flakes.

Return the filling to the hollowed - out spaghetti squash, and top with a few more dollops of cashew mozzarella.

Whereas the egg waffle looks like a hollow egg (hence its name) and it's crispy on the outside and soft and chewy on the inside, the waffle has more texture.

So that's where my inspiration came for this salad... except I added a little more substance with some whole - wheat couscous and hollowed out some beefsteak tomatoes to serve as the «salad bowls.»

First, choose a squash with a fairly hollow core as this will allow you to put more broth in it.

* The first time I made this, I did not have a squash with a particularly hollow core, so when I dumped the bread crumbs into the squash along with the cheese, it solidified into a cheese ball... So, if you choose to roast one giant pumpkin, you can serve it with the broth, just put in no more than 1/2 c of breadcrumbs and 1/4 c of cheese per cup of broth.