Sentences with phrase «of the sideshows of»

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Outside of its devoted fanbase or the new ICO participants, the actual business of bitcoin is a sideshow for most of us.

A wave of confirmation bias, combined with an inattention to evidence of weakness in Clinton's support, mixed in with too much coverage of irrelevant sideshows like the Clinton email «scandal.»

That's why I think digital disruption is a sideshow to what's really happening in the mattress business, and more quietly in lots of businesses: To regain control of their time, consumers are signaling a willingness to exchange far more than we ever imagined.

As titillating as it might be to read Andreessen's text messages to Zuckerberg, however — in which the former quotes from a 1950's film noir with Burt Lancaster, remarking «The cat's in the bag and the bag's in the river» — the whole thing feels like a bit of a sideshow.

This classic disturbing thriller, which highlights a group of circus sideshow acts who take vengeance on their leader when a beautiful trapeze artist does him wrong, was banned in the UK for 30 years and wasn't available in the country until a home - video version was approved in the early 1990s.

Much of the early coverage of Trump, and even well into his campaign, treated him as a joke, as entertainment, as a sideshow.

Small, concentrated districts like the Scillies and Gibraltar will report before then, as may the City of London (which has very few inhabitants because it's all office space), but these are sideshows to the main event.

That's a lot of clowns, dancers, musicians, sideshow performers — OK, you get the idea.

To that end, we asked veteran Parliament Hill correspondent Kathleen Harris to step away from the sideshows and rhetoric to offer a comprehensive analysis of the top five economic issues in this campaign (page 38).

He pushed back strongly against fresh Republican criticism of the administration's handling of last year's deadly Benghazi attacks, calling it a political «sideshow.»

However, many of the on - demand companies who have recently re-classified their independent contractors as employees — or who began doing business by only hiring so - called W2 employees — say blaming legal reasons is just a sideshow.

«The whole issue of talking points, frankly, throughout this process has been a sideshow,» Obama said.

But be careful of dismissing him as a sideshow.

Fortunately for CNOOC, Long Lake is actually something of a sideshow: most of Nexen's assets lie outside Canada — in the U.K., Yemen and the U.S.

In a sense — as even the young journalist himself admitted — this was a sideshow compared to the real event: a university administrator stepping down under pressure because of his failure to act on repeated racist incidents on campus.

Donald John Trump accepted the Republican presidential nomination here Thursday, completing a stunning rise from billionaire sideshow to standard bearer of a major American party.

All of this would be a comic sideshow if innocent people weren't at risk.

While Alberta's previous Senator - in - Waiting elections quickly became quirky sideshows that attracted a crowd of unknown partisan insiders, the candidates lining up for the 2012 election may bring a higher level of seriousness to the contest.

From the get - go, the story of Stormy Daniels has been treated as a sideshow at best, a joke at worst.

Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass.

Which is why for many viewers, this is a movie that resembles a celebration of what makes us different, rather than a mean - spirited sideshow.

Like the Pharacees of Jesus time, They become a sideshow and worthless for the kingdom.

More of the CNN sideshow to distract from the continuing problems of their messiah, Obama.

It is the price Wilson pays for regulating religion to a corny sideshow of Kendrick's socio - political life.

With the dramatic expansion of the Church on other continents, it became evident that American Catholicism, while not exactly a sideshow, is certainly not front stage centre.

Apart from that, the entire process is a dumb sideshow which will only result in more hemorrhaging of membership as well as professionals from «mother church».

Tebow has become more of a sideshow than an NFL quarterback.

While specifically Anglican conundrums are shown to have broader cultural and ecclesial analogues (they are no «sideshow»), the question of what inter-Christian and inter-ecclesial communion could come to marks the final interrogation, which largely goes unanswered, save by welcoming «slow, cautious, critical» cooperation.

In the mid-sixties, most of the proponents of the civil rights movement segued into the anti-Vietnam war movement, then into the more generalized counterculture, with all of its continuing sideshows of radical feminism, gay advocacy, and so forth.

He's not about running sideshows trying to convince you of anything.

Just an endless bunch of sideshows to entertain cranks.

But it should be a respectful opportunity for millions of Americans to hear the message of an important moral leader concerned about the «common good» of all Americans, without it being played out in the media as a divisive political sideshow.

Part of the reason OG is likely to be sideshow with maybe Alexis and Walcott out wide.

The incorporation of this defeat into the evidence for the prosecution is just another sad tumble around the carousel of hysterical drivel that must be kept spinning, spinning, spinning away, lest anybody get a chance to look beyond the savage and dispiriting sideshow of jerked knees, pointed fingers, and baseless, spittle - flecked invective, to the dark and rotting brand below.

As much as I really like David Luiz, he's not called Sideshow Bob just because of his looks!

«How can you spend in excess of # 250m (figure according to The Telegraph) at a club like Manchester United and turn them into a boring sideshow?!

This love for the odd side of the road led him to create the two - person sideshow act Numbskull, the Human Blockhead in collaboration with Jennifer Ann Coffeen, which the pair has performed throughout the midwest.

What is for Romans a deeply felt form of self - expression, Americans view as a kind of sideshow entertainment, a vicarious experience to collect.

The Polo Grounds were, in fact, more like a state - fair grounds, full of ridiculous sideshows and carnival - midway games that diverted attention from the Mets games themselves.

«Now it's kind of gone to that sideshow thing,» says McKinnie.

There is only one possible name for such a sideshow, of course, and Mr. March has hit upon it: Tennisarama.

Luiz does have his qualities but being a disciplined defender is not one of them and if the Gunners go with the pace and movement up front of Alexis Sanchez, Theo Walcott and our new Spanish striker Lucas Perez I can see Luiz getting in such a mess that he will look even more of a clown than his cartoon lookalike «sideshow» bob from The Simpsons.

When Bellamy shoots, it opens the whole tent up to three rings instead of offering just a backcourt sideshow.

But his legacy is quickly losing steam (in my eyes) and becoming something of a sideshow.

It's not often the Rome derby creeps up on you, but after Tuesday's history - making comeback against Barcelona and the subsequent drawing of Liverpool for Roma's second - ever Champions League semifinal, Sunday's massive clash with Lazio almost feels like a sideshow.

Football was always going to be a sideshow when Bengaluru FC travelled to one of the world's most restrictive countries for an AFC Cup away match.

At the risk of the return of Didier Drogba to Stamford Bridge turning Chelsea hosting Galatasaray into a sideshow, the Blues go into this fixture having come off a bad defeat at Aston Villa.

Everything else is just a sideshow (regardless of real world consequences) and no one in this is holy.

While the economy is mentioned, it isno more than a sideshow to his and the audience's main focus of ire: politicians.

Mr Clegg continued: «The Labour party is terrified of an open debate, whilst David Cameron's Conservatives are focusing on the sideshow of a referendum on the technical details of the Lisbon treaty.