Sentences with phrase «much of a mirage»

And, as long as these non-unionized schools are funded by the likes of hedge fund operators, the Walton Foundation (Walmart) and the Broad Foundation, the likelihood that they will ever be teacher led will remain pretty much of a mirage.

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Again, too much of it is a mirage.

-- but my above post was more about clinging to the mirage that was Tony Romo who delivered ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to the fan base except a bunch of misplaced hope tantalizing mid season flashes... and moving onward with the future — and hopefully a much much better outcome.

It is shocking and mindboggling to know that, some perceived celebrated companies in Ghana and Africa with so much media hype and political patronization, were just nothing but a package of mirage.

Because of the fact that we disclose much more and require others to disclose more to us in an open online atmosphere, the mental mirage of actually liking someone more can actually be what's going on.

Among the other fiction films to look for in theaters or on VOD: John Michael McDonagh's Calvary, in which Brendan Gleeson gives a beautifully modulated performance as a dedicated priest who is no match for the disillusionment of his parishioners and the rage of another inhabitant of his Irish seaside village, determined to take revenge against the priesthood for the sexual abuse he suffered as a child; the desultory God Help the Girl, the debut feature by Stuart Murdoch (of Belle and Sebastian), all the more charming for its refusal to sell its musical numbers; Tim Sutton's delicate, impressionistic Memphis, a blues tone poem that trails contemporary recording artist Willis Earl Beal, playing a character close to himself who's looking for inspiration in a legendary city that's as much mirage as actuality; and two horror films, Jennifer Kent's uncanny, driving psychodrama The Babadook, with a remarkable performance by child actor Noah Wiseman, and Ana Lily Amirpour's less sustained A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, which nonetheless generates some powerful political metaphors.

«When I think about «She Loves You,» and how much I loved that song, how new it sounded, and how happy it made me feel to hear it, I think about how much it represented the mirage of a possible future, one that was more joyful and more interesting than my lonely and borderline - grim childhood,» writes New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast in the book's opening essay.

But the truth is, during a credit - driven boom (whether governmental, financial, or other), much of the supposed prosperity is a mirage.

The chibi characters and collectable monsters (called «mirages») are relentlessly adorable, and the inclusion of so many classic characters from the series» lineage in these forms is almost too much.

Even those of you with good, green intentions are being pretty much ineffective as you grope toward a hazy green mirage.

All they know is that: some star appears warbling; could be because of mirage, or too much ethanol or weed consumption; or both.

I am certain, however, that nothing has done so much to destroy the juridical safeguards of individual freedom as the striving after this mirage of social justice