Sentences with phrase «of magic pixie dust»

«It has become a kind of magic pixie dust for some proponents.»

They just sound lawyerly, which is one reason lawyers keep using them — they think clients view them as part of the magic pixie dust that lawyers sprinkle on contracts to prevent future problems.

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If this were an old Disney movie made while Walt was at the controls, this would be the moment in the story when a little bit of magic would appear — perhaps in the form of a fairy godmother or some pixie dust — to make things right.

Spent too many years enduring a passionless marriage to a Jesus - first type — the notion that God - obsession somehow results in a healthy marriage through the magic of faith and other assorted pixie dust is a crock of shit.

These are the people with whom I feel a connection of the kindred - spirit and bosom - friend type, this doesn't require much commitment because there is magic and pixie dust here.

His one season with the Blue Jays was a revelation, showcasing a long, skilled player doused with that magic pixie dust of upside.

For the past few years markets have risen on the «magic pixie dust» of quantitative easing (QE).

It is all rooted in the idea of telling people fantasies, telling them that price does not matter, that there is some magic pixie dust that is going to make it all work out this time.

And yes, you can make the «well, government enabled it» standard argument and say the the solution is to sprinkle magic Libertarian pixie dust and make everyone into Randian supermen, but in the real world where we have billions of people who need to coexist in a functioning society with legacy social structures we need solutions that work, not philosophical wankery.

/ blockquote > See my comment about finding that the sky is blue and attributing it to magic pixie dust: That the sky is blue or that the vast majority of papers (even by critics) affirm the basic message that «the Earth is warming, and humans are playing a role in that warming» are not novel results.

The big difference between this scenario is that the radiation from the lamp AND the radiation from the glass originate in materials at significantly higher temperatures than the gases and hence heat IS transferring from HOT to COLD unlike the fanciful «back radiative greenhouse effect» which truly defies the laws of Physics relying instead on pixie dust magic!