Sentences with phrase «of fatuous»

Although it's well - intentioned, this campaign, for me, is the last straw (so to speak) in the mounting pile of fatuous green campaigns.

«All of these fatuous figures are pulled out of the air to support the IPCC ideologies and not based upon any statistical analysis or science.»

As the comments below Ms Szweda Jordan's question and Dr Mann's response suggest, this kind of fatuous pap has few takers these days.

Billy Lynn catches the eye of a fatuous cheerleader (Makenzie Leigh) who immediately falls for him and wants to make out with him.

A considerable chunk of the first act is dedicated to their troubled schooldays; we endure long minutes of fatuous Skype conversations, and a seemingly endless scene in which the lads buy ice - cream in Venice.

If you are a crusty and you fancy having some sort of fatuous demonstration about something that's got on your nerves then what you've go to do is notify the police six days before the event with the date and the time and the proposed route and the police will look after you.»

What I'm interested in is Next Labour,» which he defines as «Labour listening», by which he means Listening Labour, presumably along the lines of the fatuous Big Conversation.

This realism would not have meant the abandonment of dreams, but only the relinquishment of fatuous hopes.

This is such a load of fatuous non-sense.

Orlando is, unambiguously, a champion of an imperiled Christendom; his stories certainly can not be resituated (in the manner of contemporary Arthuriana) in a realm of fatuous New Age pantheism.

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«It is fatuous for the Europeans to blame the United States for the failure of the WTO to arrive at negotiated outcomes in Buenos Aires,» Lighthizer said.

-RRB- is a smug, self - serving, fatuous little how - to tract for successfully pandering to popular taste in the name of communicating the gospel.

But all this is nothing more than a fatuous rationalization for a selfish way of life if we do not have a commitment above all to live faithfully, to deal with the challenge of right relationship with God and neighbor.

By 721, when the Northern Kingdom of Israel fell to Assyria, any hopes of political existence independent of Assyria were simply fatuous.

18) The fact that there is a later punk - driven attempt to democratize rock fame (and not in the fatuous way that Andy Warhol's «15 - minutes of fame» comment suggested) or that pop / disco artists like Michael Jackson and Madonna will pick up on Bowie's fame - playing and image - emphatic example, in Madonna's case overtly subordinating the music to the prerogatives of notoriety, do not alter what ALMOST FAMOUS is showing us, that rock can be thought of as a social phenomenon / scene that one might belong to («you're too sweet for rock and roll» is said not by a musician to a musician, but by a groupie to a rock writer), that is as fame - focused as it is music - focused.

It is imagined this way: In Jesus» passion God is present among us in the midst of our suffering as — in Alfred North Whitehead's fatuous phrase — «the fellow sufferer who understands.»

By 721, when the Northern kingdom of Israel fell to Assyria, any hopes of political existence independent of Assyria entertained by smaller neighboring states were simply fatuous.

Without the possibility of non-coercive self - disclosure, which is vitiated by unfettered intrusion, such relationships are fatuous.

He despairingly lists some of the improper or fatuous reasons sometimes put forward in favor of such candidates, like their wealth, family connections, their being recently converted from the other side, their fashionable large - mindedness, their ecclesiastical pu11.32 But basically, the reluctance of the high - minded to be elected bishop was their own extremely high view of the office and the spiritual dangers it involved.

The irony of ironies, given their spate of yellow and red cards, is they had only been admitted under the fatuous Fair Play qualification rule.

This club has never paid a dividend to shareholders, making your claims of money going out as fatuous as most of your contribution.

Whatever possessed the fatuous FA suddenly and belatedly to charge John Terry with «making a racist remark» to Anton Ferdinand hot on the heels of Terry being acquitted by the Westminster magistrate.

As for the coaching programmes of the ineffable Charles Hughes when disastrously in charge at the FA, the fatuous emphasis was all on the long ball and no midfield.

His finest hours came with his awe - inspiring demolition job of the Government's fatuous annual report, one the finest Parliamentary performances of recent times — and just maybe the moment when the nation began to see the truth about New Labour.

«The Bruges Group's press release will no doubt serve its purpose and attract some screaming headlines - but many of its claims are fatuous.

Interesting in that context to note how Richard Reeves simply sleepwalks through this sort of issue in the course of his introduction, conjoining Darling's fatuous, managerialist comments about «vision» with Wilson's concept of purpose.

In their place, voters will have to endure even more fatuous communications by politicians on social media, ever more empty of content and thought, ever more full of false friendship and spurious empathy.

That was the fatuous explanation offered by the former Liberal Democrat MP, Lembit Öpik, upon the resignation of his friend, the ex-chief secretary to the Treasury.

What was left was a series of observations of steadily diminishing value right down to the fatuous «morality» stance of the vomit - inducing Bercow.

Debate is becoming fatuous and divisive: yes indeed, articles such as this one, that are based on a complex web of half - truths, spin and downright lies, really don't help.

Rather than change his position, Edison issued fatuous warnings about AC's «greatly enhanced risks to life and property» and became involved in a smear campaign that began with the public electrocution of dogs, horses, and cattle — experiments purporting to demonstrate the lethality of AC.

Of the many inane arguments that are made against taking action on climate change, perhaps the most fatuous is that the projections climate models offer about the future are too uncertain to justify taking steps that might inconvenience us in the present.

When you combine the fire of passionate infatuation and the bonds of commitment but don't intimately like who the other person is, you get fatuous love.

She struggles to make sense of Oliverâ $ ™ s unconvincingly oblivious mother, whose attraction to the fatuous New - Age guru Graham (played by Considine) never scans.

Youth, beauty, and death have long been Gus Van Sant's recurring motifs, but in this terminally whimsical tale of romance between morbid cuties, the elements don't so much flow together into a stirring whole as coagulate into fatuous prettiness.

Saying that all of the performances in Equilibrium are fatuous and inane is moot — better to note that Emily Watson (howlingly awful as a doomed love interest), between this, Red Dragon, and Punch - Drunk Love is now one - for - three for 2002; that Christian Bale is starting to remind me a little of the lost promise of Gary Oldman; and that dimwitted films that use poetry as a means toward sublimity (Red Dragon and Blake, Blue Car and Rilke, Equilibrium and Yeats) would probably be better served to leave the pretension to those able to carry it off.

Watch his face in the early scenes as Chris navigates the fatuous pleasantries of Rose's parents (Bradley Whitford and Catherine Keener, both excellent), and then the bro - ish thuggery of Rose's brother, and then the condescending appraisals of the friends who all seem like they are on their way to the yacht club.

Is it about exposing the rich and fatuous represented by crooked American land speculator Sanderson (Aaron Eckhart) and his trophy girlfriend (Amber Heard) or enjoying the trappings of same?

Just to make sure we get the point, another fatuous businessman (Tim Blake Nelson) tries to strike up a conversation with the unit, a representative for all clueless business people who know nothing of war but don't own a football team.

Like the anti-Duncan measure, many of the items had a fatuous air that suggests why teachers unions are losing favor with parents, Democrats and even many teachers.

In the kind of methodologically sophisticated, intellectually fatuous study that has become all too common, Chetty, Friedman, and Rockoff claim to have found long - term economic benefits for students whose teachers have higher «value added» scores.

I see the same fatuous counter arguments placed against the existence of indie publishing again and again.

She doesn't speak a word of dialogue, but reminds me strongly of that other heroically fatuous It Girl of our time, Adventure Time's Lumpy Space Princess.

Referencing as backup the Brooklyn Museum's past refusal to pull The Holy Virgin Mary (1996), a work by British painter Chris Ofili involving elephant dung — a case of apples and oranges on a 10 - to - one scale — only made the paper of record look fatuous.

Set in the filmset futurism of the LBS savings bank HQ, its impressive assemblage of corrugated metal panels and slender black pipes is undercut by a fatuous three - video installation of digitally generated figures fighting.

Like the Dada - collagist Hannah Höch before her; Kruger's work has a feminist leaning, and is not afraid to bite the hand that feeds it through subversive slogans that often attack the very nature of the institution; including the white cube that displays the artist's work, or at least those who inhabit it — with «Fatuous fools, bloated egos» and «Doers, artists, air kissers» sprawled across Modern Art Oxford's gallery floor.

Of the many inane arguments that are made against taking action on climate change, perhaps the most fatuous is that the projections climate models offer about the future are too uncertain to justify taking steps that might inconvenience us in the present.

Oh — and this sort of Lord of the Flies bullying is both fatuous and un-Australian.

Sorry, Joshua, I was only made aware of your comment recently and I was, perhaps, to quick to be fatuous, as we all can be.

Your site, Spiked and a few others are very good at exposing the fallacious and fatuous logic of the Warmists» arguments on CO2 and trends, and in revealing the strong links between politicizing scientists and global warming.