Sentences with phrase «of a red herring though»

This is a bit of a red herring though — what you really want to focus on is the last paragraph of my answer (tax rate now vs. in retirement).

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I don't pull out the «religion caused the deaths of millions» even though it has, except as a response to your red herring.

Her sarcastic, chain - smoking resentment (though she doesn't inhale), like her folks» guilt and despair over what a screw - up their darling daughter turned out to be, amounts to a protracted red herring, as the family heads up to Gatlin Lake, a trailer park full of rolling hills and orangey street lamps.

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.

What little dialogue there is tends not to be very helpful, consisting either of a series of red herrings or irrelevancies — though deciding which of these applies is quite a challenge.

Other flaws are evident as well — a religious subtext that is never adequately developed, a red herring the size of a blue whale, etc. — though they are minor by comparison.

Nothing at home happens with action - packed aplomb (though the director sets up tense red herrings to lure the audience into a sense of unease), and yet the stakes are painfully real.

Even though David Archer has written a book full of mysteries, there is, alas, no final scene where a Miss Marple figure assembles all the suspects in the drawing room, dispatches all the red herrings and finally unmasks the perpetrator: It was you, Professor Milankovitch, on the Continental Slope, with the Clathrate Gun!

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).

The impact of all this on the question of whether or not you should use the cloud, though, is a red herring.

The site also features a picture of a pineapple upside - down cake, which is an obvious hint that the next version of Android could borrow that name, though it could just as easily be a red herring.

The Mountain View, California - based tech giant has been dropping Oreo - related hints for a long while now, though the company has a history of serving users with red herrings and has just recently done so by shipping one of the earlier developer previews of Android Oreo with an interactive Easter egg designed to imply that Android 8.0 will be called Android Octopus.