Sentences with phrase «of a red herring in»

We're still to be convinced by this Blackburn & Steve Kean relationship, while we're deeply concerned with the unrealistic targets the club's owners has set for the team, but if they can conjure wins from out of nowhere, as they did during the week at West Brom, then they will remain something of a red herring in betting terms.

The ambiguity over the definition of ice - free is not really important as far as the strong albedo feedbacks magnifying the warming of the region, so is kind of a red herring in the discussion.

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Still, the question remains whether the Obama administration scrubbed the talking points and used the video red herring in order to cover up the fact that they failed to prevent a planned terrorist attack that killed four Americans on the anniversary of September 11.

Yet talk of panic capital flight from China is a red herring, in my view.

In case we need a red herring to suggest that the end is nigh, last week saw the debut of a little Denver fertilizer company, which promptly jumped 58 % above its IPO price on its first day of trading.

It shows that assertions questioning the capacity of the FEDERAL government to pay for programs, usually prefaced with the call for â $ ˜â $ ˜adult conversationsâ $ ™ â $ ™, and couched in terms such as fiscal sustainability, solvency, and unfunded liabilities, are red - herrings that will lead to needless reductions and privatizations of public programs in health care, elder care, pensions and so on.»

So the usurping thing is really a red herring when we speak of having female teachers in our churches.

Many, if their worldview doesn't hold up under scrutiny and they feel the lack of support for something that is sacred to them, simply resort to repet.itious circular statements, name calling, diversion, red - herrings and such in order to justify it to themselves.

they shpow hjigh degree of accuracy in the transmission... the Gospel of Mary is a red herring on your part

@HawaiiGuest «For one, there's the red herring in the whole «coincidence being the last refuge of the atheist» implying that atheists use it to deny evidence of the supernatural, when perfectly natural evidence is right there.

For one, there's the red herring in the whole «coincidence being the last refuge of the atheist» implying that atheists use it to deny evidence of the supernatural, when perfectly natural evidence is right there.

The elimination of a red line proved to be a red herring at the Olympics because Team Canada and Team USA often acted as if it really were in play, rejecting the impulse to go deep and sticking primarily to zone - to - zone passes, playing a familiar brand of small hockey that effectively shrunk the international rink.

BMI is only one indicator, and not an entirely sound one, of health in children; and I think that using it as a measurement of good nutrition work in schools is a red herring.

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.

In an interview with Myjoyonline's Austin Brako - Powers, Mr. Karbonu said the press conference was «one of the greatest red herrings I have seen in recent times» adding, «it does not even address the issues.&raquIn an interview with Myjoyonline's Austin Brako - Powers, Mr. Karbonu said the press conference was «one of the greatest red herrings I have seen in recent times» adding, «it does not even address the issues.&raquin recent times» adding, «it does not even address the issues.»

Cuomo also said he's standing firm on ethics reform, and called debate over the inclusion of policy proposals in the budget a «red herring.»

Those who don't view it as a red herring want a drastic change in our lifestyles, and want to decrease the amount of co2 we pump into the air.

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

A recurring red herring in the current presidential campaign is the verity of President Barack Obama's birth certificate.

The scale doesn't factor in things like body fat loss, so it's really a bit of a red herring.

RED HERRING — Apr 19 — Privately held Facebook received $ 25 million in its second round of venture financing to help expand features for sharing information.

Director Brad Anderson throws in a red herring or two as he comments on Eurotrash and the greed - fueled lawlessness of the former Soviet Union, but he ultimately makes an even stronger statement about the dark side of female empowerment.

In addition, the skillful use of compounded red herrings and misdirection (yes there's that term again) ensure that when the moment of truth comes, it dawns on us suddenly that Leterrier's been telling us what it will be the whole time.

Ever since The Bird with the Crystal Plumage in 1970, Dario Argento's thrillers have been moving away from conventional narrative into plots of increasing absurdity, often full of red herrings, that gratify the director's delight in stylistic excess.

The plot is bogged down by inevitable revelations and throwaway characters, and even director Roger Donaldson seems exasperated keeping track of the whole thing (There's a scene in which a villain is revealed by name, and Donaldson stages it with Devereaux holding up a photo of two suspects so that the accuser can point out which one isn't the red herring).

Though Boyle masks a lot of the script's problems with some nifty visuals and the same kinetic energy prevalent in his other films, the frantic pace only lasts so long before the story grinds to a halt, suffocated by a never - ending series of twists and red herrings that makes it almost impossible to discern what's real.

Not unlike whodunit slashers «Scream,» «Urban Legend» and «Valentine» where the whole cast is a suspect, Scott Lobdell's script toys with audience expectations in terms of who just might be a red herring and who is actually behind the mask, holding the knife / baseball bat / half - shattered bong.

It's a funny moment of honesty, a genius of sorts buoyantly owning up to his flaws, but it's a red herring in the end.

Aligning itself with a CIA official (Jessica Chastain) whose decade - long pursuit of bin Laden calls on vast reserves of courage and resolve, Zero Dark Thirty goes deep into the shadow world of «enhanced interrogation» and black sites, details the many leads and red herrings that finally brought investigators to a compound in Abbottabad, and executes the raid itself with stomach - turning verisimilitude.

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.

And strange things start going snap in the jungle.From the beginning, we know writer - director Twohy intends on taking us for a ride, because of his purringly seductive filmmaking style and red herrings galore.

This sugary - sweet lovey - dovey couple seem blissfully ignorant of the fact there's a psycho killer on the loose, and faster than you can say «red herring» they're introduced to a variety of vaguely suspicious tourists, most notably a wild - eyed war veteran, Nick (Timothy Olyphant), who makes a big deal out of the metal plate in his forehead and the fact that he might be missing part of his brain.

But it's not merely an intellectual exercise (in fact, the obscurity of the clues (its title at once revealing the identity of the killer and referring obliquely to the red herring of The Maltese Falcon) makes deciphering the procedural improbable at best)-- rather, it's the visceral nature of the exercise that delights.

Moreover, Cannes can often identify red herrings — contenders that, come nominations in January of the next year, are passed over or have disappeared from sight.

Absurd coincidences, dubious motivations, Dark Family Secrets, a series of red herrings — it's all in there, and compressed to the point that one can't help but wonder what was left on the cutting - room floor.

Suffice to say that in the end this critic felt cheated to have the complicated mystery resolved by a rabbit - out - of - the - hat revelation that had little to do with the misleading series of red herrings that I'd invest over two hours in.

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.

Casting Bruce Willis as a reluctant time - traveler sent back to the 1990s in order to stop the spread of a virus that has come to virtually eliminate human life, 12 Monkeys puts Marker's vision into wild motion, complete with a red herring for the ages and Brad Pitt as a twitching mental patient.

Tom Hardy's villainous Bane in retrospect seems like a solid adversary / red herring and if his turn didn't reach the heights of Heath Ledger's Joker, perhaps that was necessary so that the focus of this final instalment could go back onto Christian Bale's Batman / Bruce Wayne.

Villeneuve's film clocks in at a sizeable 153 minutes, which, while it does maintain an interest level throughout, in retrospect, is probably 30 minutes too long given the amount of lengthy scenes of brutality, loose ends, and needless red herrings that exist throughout the film.

Director Dominique Othenin - Girard resorts to frenetic camera work several times, but most of «5» is like its predecessors: a lot of stalking and red herrings, the sort of psycho foreplay that ends in bloodshed.

The site also hints that the rumors about Chris Pine circling the role of Steve Trevor in «Wonder Woman» was actually a red herring and the «Star Trek» star is actually in talks for Hal Jordan.

At least one of these red herrings offers a bittersweet moment, in which an old man with a neurodegenerative disorders looks back at the happiness and loss of his life.

Basically a riff on Agatha Christie's Ten Little Indians template, Five Dolls exploits the mounting paranoia as a group of emotionally and morally promiscuous rich folks are trapped on an island with a killer (with various red herrings tossed in for protracted plots twisting).

Now this could be all another round of Kojima misdirection, like the whole Phantom Pain / Joakim Mogren / Moby Dick Studios red herring that surrounded the reveal of the game now known to be Metal Gear Solid V. Hayter may still be involved in MGS V but as a different character, and it may be that he wasn't technically asked as it was mutually understood that he'd be involved.

It features all the classic markings of a quality film noir (dark shadows, red herrings, a detective protagonist and a femme fatale) and plops it smack down in the middle of the unlikeliest of places: high school.

It's to Howard's credit that he is able to keep the momentum always breathlessly moving forward, but at some point, possibly due to the lengthy run time, you wish for a break in the action in order to have people actually talk to one another in a way that's not just a furthering of the plot or a red herring.

Does the sinister whirlpool of Devil's Kettle play a role in the proceedings or is final reel discovery of a certain murder weapon mean it's just a scientific red herring?

So when critics or advocates of the «charter movement» emerge, the broad brush betrays either a lack of understanding or deliberate red herring - ism, and in either case it stagnates us in a meaningless debate about something that does not exist.

None of these questions necessarily indicts the Common Core, so it's important not to make a red herring of it: these are questions about the cultural context in which the Common Core is operating.