Sentences with phrase «own inanity»

The San Francisco — based company announced it's partnering with Katy Perry to create a new mobile game featuring the singer, threatening to produce a black hole of inanity powerful enough to swallow us all while generating a lot of revenue for Glu Mobile.

Since its inception 10 years ago, the Miami Beach iteration of the annual Art Basel fair has become a must - hit item on any globetrotter's social calendar — a bonfire of inanity that's ostensibly about art, but increasingly about social - status peacocking.

So the apostles got it all wrong, and one or two lines plucked entirelly out of context is enough to base the most ridiculous inanities.

We atheists should be embracing it as a sure sign of the deep inanity of the Christian faith.

Such fevered inanities, which would be dismissed as the ravings of a madman had they issued from the likes of the Reverend Jimmy Swaggart, suggest why O'Brien is a poor guide to understanding the millennium now closing, or to assaying the human and democratic prospect beyond the year 2000.»

Listen: there may or may not be some force that created the universe... we haven't figured that out yet... but it is not this god of bronze age foolishness that is so concerned with what people do while na.ked and so concerned that we praise him all day long and tell him how wonderful he is and so concerned with suppressing science and so concerned with meting out punishment and so concerned inanities like what you can eat and what days you can work on and what cloth you wear and who you can marry.

Occasionally, empathy compels her to descend to inanities: «My heart's in my throat.

The juxtaposition of the third sentence with the second just highlighted the inanity of the entire enterprise.

I think nonbelievers should talk to nonbelievers more often here, instead of just pouncing on the latest inanity from believers.

Will Sarah Palin grace us a tweet against this bonfire of the inanities?

This kind of well - meaning but finally destructive inanity is entirely typical of what goes on under the rubric of «interreligious dialogue,» whether sponsored by the multinational religious bureaucracies or a local university.

No, this is the kind of inanity those who want to believe in a moral absolute try to artificially place on those of us who see morality for what it is.

What a drab and repulsive topic that is, for example, a doting old fellow who stands with one foot in the grave, obsessed with foolish fears, his limbs trembling, his toothless mouth hanging open in the inanity of «second childhood»: but see what the writer has done with it in the twelfth chapter of Ecclesiastes, running on to a culmination that is of the pure essence of poetry!

While modern science, history, geology, biology, and physics have failed to convince you of the deep inanity of your silly faith, some priest doing magic hand signals over grocery store bread and wine is enough to convince you it is thereby transformed into the flesh and blood of Jesus, because of the priest's magic powers (or «sacred powers» if you prefer the more euphemistic term).

But at this point only silence ensues; and the decision goes toYahweh, not by default, but by the demonstration of the complete powerlessness and inanity of the others.

While modern science, history, geology, biology, and physics have failed to convince you of the deep inanity of your silly faith, some priest doing magic hand signals over bread and wine is enough to convince you it is thereby transformed into the flesh and blood of Jesus because of the priest's magic powers (or «sacred powers» to the extent you see a difference).

But some theists responding here apparently think it's a bigger deal if some atheists are not pleased with the way they push their inanity on others by way of legislating Bronze Age morality.

At best it is way - station, a place between inanity and possibility.

(How else am I to interpret such inanities coming from you?

Definition of PLATITUDE an idea or expression that has been used by many people Synonyms banality, bromide, chestnut, cliché (also cliche), groaner, homily, platitude, shibboleth, trope, truism Related Words conventional wisdom, party line, routine; inanity; generality, generalization, simplification; adage, proverb, idiom, saw, saying; old wives» tale, stereotype Near Antonyms profundity

Thus they are not the standard fare of either moral conservatism or more liberal attacks on the inanity of most of TV's mind - wasting exercises (Newton Minnow's «vast wasteland»).

«concerned with inanities like...» = > again all was meant for your salvation and to bring about very good.

Why do you devote so much print to a sensible, balanced response by a Republican to an obvious setup question and ignore crazy uncle Joe Biden's almost daily inanities?

there may or may not be some force that created the universe... we haven't figured that out yet... but it is not this god of bronze age foolishness that is so concerned with what people do while na.ked and so concerned that we praise him all day long and tell him how wonderful he is and so concerned with suppressing science and so concerned with meting out punishment and so concerned with inanities like what you can eat and what days you can work on and what cloth you wear and who you can marry.

Then with a fine sense of historical irony he describes how the development of a party system, which embodied the very «factionalism» that Washington above all felt would bring down the republic, gave the nation «a mechanism of... self - criticism and self - correction» that, for all its descent into inanity, has somehow served the cause of republicanism well.

The Wall Street Journal inveighed against it as educational inanity: if not exactly corrupting the youth, then at least leading them astray and squandering their tuition....

(How, I wonder, would Father Milward explain that inanity of the «greatest of English Catholics» to the many English Catholics, including his brother Jesuits, who courageously suffered martyrdom for their faith?)

It's not always their fault, as explained here, but they have a penchant to compound the weirdness with inanity and more weirdness.

You must listen all the time to the inanities and clueless fluff they come up with.

Given the overwhelming evidence that Marlins ownership is being terrible to fans and to a star the organization could actually get to agree to give the franchise a shot, MLB commissioner Rob Manfred spoke up in its defense with some inanity.

Walking with him in practice rounds or the most competitive rounds, it's clear that little time or effort is wasted on the inanities that might surround him.

Those who stutter, utter inanities or lose their train of thought suffer the fate of Tim from Anaheim, who molders on hold for two hours and 40 minutes, then speaks for 12 seconds before Rome presses a button that sends him plunging through an imaginary trapdoor.

This is typically a CBS event, but with the Super Bowl and the hours of attendant pregame inanities slotted for that network on Sunday, they will yield to the tour's other major network partner.

And with some of the more witty Twitterers some of the inanity is can be amusing and entertaining.

Any self - respecting government would balk at such inanity.

«F) ar too many candidates clearly want to keep our state exactly the way it is — they benefit from the corruption, the dysfunction, the inanity that defines Albany and they clearly don't want to do anything about it,» Koch said in a press release.

For starters, avoid over-simplifying the problem, just because such inanities thrive in the heat of the moment.

So Theresa May has said since before she became prime minister, to the confusion of those who see the maxim as little more than a vacuous inanity.

These self - aggrandizing, self - appointed avengers think they win by screaming inanities louder than we can talk, believing they win when we throw our hands up in disgust.

Which might mean the inanity portion of the program is winding down.

One aspect that lifts the Cell stage above Pac - Man inanity is how it represents microscopic life.

Exactly right about the inanity of ARM.

The animation here impresses more than in the equally defunct Madagascar, but everything else smacks of an easy money - making exercise of such dimwitted inanity even the youngest kids will see through it.

Hokey doesn't begin to describe the inanity, the tedium, the utter lack of originality in Dean Pitchford's script.

This is Transformers - level inanity.

Using the audio from the radio episodes and then supplying a sort of 1960s - style Hanna - Barbera wash of cheap animation to more fully illustrate the inanity of their conversations, Gervais has landed on something quite special that can be scorchingly funny.

The inanity of Mr. Stone's script, written with Christopher Kyle and Laeta Kalogridis, works a similarly palliative effect, since it lays the gory bill for Alexander's plundering at Olympias's feet.

The entire production is just so wrong - headed and listless; I can't even work up a good dose of bile to proclaim its utter inanities.

Purposely not operating by the rules of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, director David Leitch and crew up the ante for the second outing of the Merc with a mouth, and yet despite the complete inanity of the concept, there are surprisingly some moments of pathos and meaning to be found among the ballsy big budget antics.

Goofily funny, and silly, and in many ways follows the currents of contemporary comedy into the gulf stream of inanity.