Sentences with phrase «more of a red herring»

The lack of local links is more of a red herring.

Not exact matches

My dream is to see more, better quality, better - funded community programs addressing at - home food and nutrition for families of ALL socioeconomic means; only when we comprehensively deal with every source of calories and nutrients in the child's diet will things like the chocolate milk debate be exposed for the red herrings they actually are.

Paterson's veto message cited concern about incurring more expenses in a time of budget deficits, but Ward considers that argument a red herring.

The creepy doll from the prologue of The Conjuring was nothing more than a red herring.

Whether he is throwing us off guard with a haunting image that zooms out to reveal it is little more than a portrait, acting as a red herring, or simply greeting the audience with a disturbingly visual parade of naked flesh in the opening sequence, you leave this movie thinking about the imagery.

For as ridiculous as the premise may be (and it becomes even more so as the story progresses), «Non-Stop» does a good job of building suspension by throwing an almost endless barrage of red herrings at the audience.

After more than a year of speculation, red herrings and outright denials, the true identity of Benedict Cumberbatch's villain in Star Trek Into Darkness may have just been revealed by Entertainment Weekly.

It's not as entertaining as X-Ray, but it does sport a more competent cast and plot, with enough red herrings to choke an actual school of herrings.

There's also a young woman dying of leukemia who has been shoehorned into the plot, but she's nothing more than a red herring.

But from episode six, as the shape of the Russian conspiracy to sabotage the turbulent presidency of Elizabeth Keane (Elizabeth Marvel) started becoming clear, Homeland finally pulled clear of the amorphous plotting and vague red herrings that had bedevilled it, and began to look much more like a tough and pacy political thriller.

He exists only to yell at the kids and be a red herring for a non-existent, more interesting version of this film.

Louise Penny's A Great Reckoning (Contemporary Novel); The Reek of Red Herrings by Catriona McPherson (Historical Novel); The Semester of Our Discontent by... Read more»

so it might make more sense to compare apples to apples (results to results) rather than what I continue to see as the red herring scare tactic of «extra risk» being thrown around with regard to Smith.

But this, my friends, amounts to nothing more than a red herring... A true growth stock always seems to be over-valued, yet its share price can subsequently look astonishingly & ridiculously cheap after the business / stock somehow manages to scale up by hundreds or even thousands of percent.

The authors write that SarbOx was «a bit of a red herring» because «[online] brokerage and decimalization were significantly more damaging to the IPO market.»

The title of this exhibition is derived from naturalistic fallacy, which is part of a more widely referenced family of logical gaffes such as the red herring, ad hominem and false cause.

Then not only would the demonization of CO2 be a red herring, it would be even more fishy.

IMO, Hydrogen as a viable alternative fuel is a red herring, because as James said, «what's unreal is a source of H2 that doesn't produce more CO2 than the same car burning gasoline.»

I suspect because probably they know that there is a strong prevalence of agreement among experts that continued and increasing aCO2 emissions pose a potential threat, but they find that «consensus» to be politically inconvenient because they don't want to accept the political associations with accepting that threat, so instead they focus on a red herring of a more politically convenient target of whether expert climate scientists agree that «CAGW» is «settled science»

What I find particularly insidious in the largely manufactured debates over hockey sticks, Climategate, and similar red herrings, is the attempt to portray the real scientific issues as merely matters of opinion, as though choosing to believe Wegman vs. Mann, or Hansen vs. Lindzen, has no more objective validity than one's choice of favorite sports teams (I was going to use political parties, but that's another argument).

You can wave the red herring of «those that call it like it is are just big meanies» trying to bully those that are more interested in buying into bad methodology to support their own bias confirmation... but that just confirms for me that your argument is in itself a distraction from relevant facts in evidence.

It would be a tragedy if AGW is a red herring that is drawing all the attention while our energies might be more usefully directed towards improving ways of dealing with severe weather events that have always happened and always will.

The blog post observes that an alternative hypothesis may be that large firms, which often opt for the stability of size in exchange for lower PPEP, are more advanced in their use of a non-equity partner tier, and that the correlation of NEP tier with declining PPEP may be a red herring.

As I read it, MacEwen's musings boil down to this: For all of the griping that enormous associate salaries generate, when viewed under the harsh light of rigorous economic analysis, associate «green» is nothing more than a red herring.

The name Lust has turned out to be somewhat of a red herring thus far, with the show less about overtly sexual topics and more about the moral compromises people are willing to make to get things they want.