Sentences with phrase «on fatuous»

However, such scenarios are mostly dubious and artificial, and often rest on fatuous assertions, such as the claim that robots can make use of sensors not available to humans (as if humans can not make use of radar or infrared imagery, etc.) or that robots can take more risks (as if remotely operated robots can't do the same).

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau jumped on the fatuous rule - of - law bandwagon, tweeting yesterday from Saskatchewan, «Canada is a country of the rule of law, and the federal government will act in the national interest.

All based on fatuous, thought - inhibiting computer models.

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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.

To suggest, as Prof. Cole does, that Yoder and Reinhold Niebuhr look on Jesus in the same way is fatuous.

On and on it goes, and back and forth you scurry, from one true love to the next, each fatuous infatuation clutched fleetingly to your hyperventilating bosom before being thrown charmlessly aside for the next in linOn and on it goes, and back and forth you scurry, from one true love to the next, each fatuous infatuation clutched fleetingly to your hyperventilating bosom before being thrown charmlessly aside for the next in linon it goes, and back and forth you scurry, from one true love to the next, each fatuous infatuation clutched fleetingly to your hyperventilating bosom before being thrown charmlessly aside for the next in line.

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.

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.»

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.

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.

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.

A fatuous based - on - true life tale from Man on Wire director James Marsh, it casts Colin Firth as Donald Crowhurst, an amateur sailor who disappeared while competing in a solo round - the - world yacht race in 1968.

There is something deeply ugly and crass in director Antoine Fuqua's fatuous drama - thriller, based on the 80s TV show with Edward Woodward.

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.

At any moment the whole «Abscam,» within a scam, within a scam feels like it's going to implode, but this script just won't let go, taking yet another screwy turn into murky, mafioso - infested waters, while micro relationships brew among the four leads threatening to boil over, and Louis C.K. propels a run - on fable about ice fishing into deeply fatuous waters.

Clearly, in his movie - within - a-movie, he wants to riff on crime movie clichés, point out that Hollywood is a fatuous land and pay tribute to Martin Scorsese and Quentin Tarantino.

Factor in a bodyshell, aerodynamics and suspension all extensively reworked to generate more grip, and Lamborghini's argument that the SV actually needs its four - wheel drive to make good on the extra potential doesn't seem quite so fatuous.

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.

[Response: Because it will be extremely difficult for future readers to see where the discussion leads to — fatuous statements that are now printed will be quoted for a long time, while their rebuttals (on blogs, or future papers etc) won't be.

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.

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.

The global - warming doomsayers have been in full throat since Sandy, and a carbon tax — a disincentive to use fossil fuels allegedly responsible for global warming — has suddenly become a real possibility, on top of all the other fatuous taxes already exacted from the American public.

A recurring theme of the green argument for «urgent» and «strong» action on climate change — usually also an argument for circumventing the democratic process — is the claim that «science says... -LCB- insert fatuous pseudo-scientific statement here -RCB-».

Alarmingly the only mention to previous work on tribunals is to the Gibbons Review of 2007 — a piece of matchless political expediency — which told the world what it already knew (that the statutory procedures introduced in 2004 were a disaster) and produced the fatuous proposal that «employment law should be simplified» without giving one suggestion of how this was to be done.

On mistakes It is fatuous to think that you will never make a mistake somewhere along the way, much less a costly one.