Sentences with phrase «of farfetched»

The complete lack of chemistry is evident, so we're forced to endure the machinations of the farfetched and judicially questionable plot.

Abstract: From moon landings to mobile phones, many of the farfetched visions of science fiction have transformed into reality.

From moon landings to mobile phones, many of the farfetched visions of science fiction have transformed into reality.

However, rightwingers come up with all sort of farfetched notion about why the two aren NOT similar, like «the trial something the state is organising for its own purpose in the first place.»

Silicon Valley is the home of farfetched ideas, and executives are finding greater mental clarity, concentration and resistance to disease through an age old practice — fasting.

Not exact matches

As instances of obesity, diabetes, cancer and other chronic illnesses are on the rise, a subculture where eating less is prized can seem farfetched and against the grain.

Meanwhile, Trump can legitimately claim — as opposed to all his farfetched boasts — that he's got himself into the mother of all presidential sex scandals.

It is not farfetched to suggest that the depletion of spiritual capital accounts for the breakdown of moral standards in our society.

It would not be too farfetched or inaccurate to say that Darwinism in its deeper and persistent effects, as these became manifest in science and industry of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and, through them, in other cultural disciplines and activities, contributed to, if in fact it did not create, a new ethos in Western society, dedicated to the task of dealing with the immediacies of existence in their practical aspect.

We detect instances of self - deception when people interpret to us the meaning of their behavior in ways that seem farfetched or skewed.

If this seems farfetched, note the following letter from a girl who had been brought up on sermons which assumed the unfailing efficacy of prayers made in faith.

Though Heidegger makes quite a number of positive public references to Hitler and to Nazi ideas, Richard Rorty's statement (in reviewing Safranski's book) that the images of Hitler and Heidegger «blend into one another» is farfetched.

I will admit you have real farfetched idea about the God of Bible as portrayed by that same Bible.

Attorney Rogers calls that argument «farfetched»: «American common law and statutes that protect the sanctity of the dead and the sensibilities of the living apply with equal force, irrespective of the religion of the deceased or of the next of kin.»

The idea that the entire course of civilization for over half of the globe could have its fate changed and turned upside - down by a nutcase, for me, that's farfetched

I guess I can still somewhat imagine the existence of god, but even that seems farfetched these days.

That led to a rapid - fire array of arguments, those just listed, some looking rather farfetched, which separately or together do not overwhelmingly make the point.

Like, on the level of excuses, it's as crazy and farfetched as «my dog ate my homework» but on the practicality level, it's totally a «I have a migraine and it's making me stabby.»

It sounds farfetched, and yet here we are, at the outset of an age of cannabis, with people like Turley poised as shepherds.

It may seem a bit farfetched, but I remember a certain Man United manager in the last year of his contract signing a 29 year old striker, and he ended up retiring with League winners medal.

They have two of the best prospects in baseball, and it's not farfetched to think one or both might force their way into the majors.

Liverpool are poised to make an offer for Juventus midfielder Andrea Pirlo and striker Carlos Tevez with the duo set to be made available at the end of the season — in what is perhaps the most farfetched transfer gossip on the grapevine at present.

Navas remains optimistic that his side can produce what would be a sensational — and rather farfetched — turn around at the top of the table, and clinch their second successive title.

Unfortunately for the Reds, former player Luis Garcia's prediction of competing for the title this year was just a little farfetched.

Power of suggestion is not that farfetched.

The premise was not all that farfetched: long - standing players in the race relations world bemoaning the relative lack of progression made by black politicians.

But the National Organizer of the NDC, Kofi Adams says the former minister's assertions is not farfetched.

The Pringles treatment might sound farfetched, but it has worked in the past, albeit in a sample of one.

And expanding that to a greater range of cancers in the future is not farfetched, he says.

It doesn't mean I believe what, you know, that Usher's theory needs to be taken seriously, but I'm saying if you dismiss it just because it sounds farfetched then you're basically dismissing something like two - thirds of the activity that goes on in Shakespeare scholarship today.

But some of them are, you know, some of them are a little more, yeah, farfetched I would say.

Jack McDevitt, author of the Nebula award - winning «Seeker» and the upcoming «The Cassandra Project» (Ace, Nov. 6), agrees with Robinson that traveling to other stars is farfetched.

Fiction, of course, but it turns out the notion is not so farfetched.

«The idea that you're going to be able to stick your finger on the camera of your smartphone and get an accurate blood pressure reading is pretty farfetched right now,» she told Reuters Health.

Although the statement of get laid for free may be a little farfetched with the Gold membership package you could easily be having regular casual sex through Adult Friend Finder.

Even though much of this revolves around some very farfetched ideas, and the antagonist is outrageous, it's Cameron at his most divisive and calculated.

It's true that the disorientation produced in the collision of Igorrr's frenetic style - mashing and Dumont's unadorned long - take aesthetic ensures that the film feels remarkably distinct from prior cinematic adaptations of Joan of Arc's life, but it's also hard not to wonder how this particular story might have played without the farfetched musical conceit grafted atop it.

But then again, there probably isn't any ending to the film that really wouldn't be farfetched in some form or fashion, the cinematic equivalent of being painted into a corner, so it would have been a miracle not to disappoint.

It takes a great deal of trickery to make such a farfetched premise fly, so credit director Tony Scott (Spy Game, Enemy of the State) for keeping the action and drama moving at a brisk enough pace to keep out minds engaged more in the events as they unfold on the screen, only realizing that, in the end, it doesn't quite hold up to close analysis.

Even horror - fantasy elements are mixed in, as if the very common occurrences within the film are the result of witchcraft or meddling supernatural forces, further diluting an already farfetched film to the breaking point of absurdity.

While the premise might seem to be over the top, it isn't too farfetched when one thinks of sensational real - life news items like the Amy Fisher or Tonya Harding cases.

While the subject matter is the stuff that good films are made of, and the quality of the direction and acting are worthy of admiration, where The East fails is in the contrivances involved in the farfetched plotline and the unevenness in the thriller elements (such as a scene in which the cell dresses up to the nines to infiltrate a party for pharmaceutical bigwigs that would feel more at home in a Mission Impossible movie) that undermine what could have been a chilling and realistic story of corporations run amok.

With such a farfetched plot already in place, this is the sort of film that could have easily degenerated into a muddled farce with a one - note stand - up comic as the lead, but with a good comedic and dramatic actor like Kline at the forefront, he is able to keep the tone of the comedy and drama appropriate to each scene.

«Baywatch» takes a few amusing stabs at satire — Efron declares that the group's adventures sound like «a really entertaining but farfetched TV show» — but, in the end, director Seth Gordon and a cargo ship full of writers use the beachy setup as little more than a vehicle for generic hard - R and gross - out gags.

It's a lot of loudness in a movie that's crying out for a softer, quieter touch, and the idea that every gorgeous woman finds him irresistible, as presented in this film, seems grossly farfetched.

As farfetched for a man without the ability to walk to become President is, so too is the probability that a made - for - cable film to be one of the year's best films.

Although about the humble roots of hip hop and b - boyism, the makers of the film have a more grandiose spectacle for its subject matter in mind, featuring some manufactured melodramatic elements, culminating in a farfetched song - and - breakdance concert featuring Melle Mel and the Furious Five (recently broken up with Grandmaster Flash) and future Rolling Stones back - up vocalist Bernard Fowler's gospel chorus entertaining a packed hall of enthused aficionados.

Most of it is a bit farfetched, but within the context of the set - up, it holds to to the fantastical premise.

Here, cyber-terrorism is at play, and it makes for a really solid, troubling setup in an age when someone blowing up parts of a major city in the United States doesn't seem farfetched anymore.

Enlisting the aid of his model girlfriend (Kelly, Dial M for Murder), nurse (Ritter, Birdman of Alcatraz) and policeman friend (Corey, Sorry Wrong Number), it seems the more he digs into his theory the more farfetched it becomes, but he is convinced he is right.