Sentences with phrase «passing fad»

Some wind up being passing fad diets, while others prove surprisingly on point.

I don't think its going to be a fast passing fad.

Do you think that computers and word processing are just passing fads until the true epiphany of the typewriter can finally dawn on people?

A few popular concepts may have a greater impact, but others will likely be remembered as passing fads.

Simulation is not just another in the long line of passing fads (or short - term opportunities) in educational technology.

If the iPad Fails does this mean that the slate industry will be just another passing passing fad in the great scheme of the mobile computing market?

Yet the spiritual outrages being committed in the name of Christ can not be dismissed as mere passing fads.

The overall look is that of a muscular but nimble worker unspoiled by passing fads.

Is Whitehead just one more passing fad, or does his philosophy provide a solid, durable basis for understanding and interpreting the Christian faith?

I think it's fair to say that Twitter can no longer be dismissed as a trivial passing fad.

You might be tempted to dismiss the idea of the «future ready teacher» as just the latest bit of shallow jargon or the newest passing fad...

It's the only one they are going to discuss because, duh, indies and small presses are just passing fads and we will soon realize how we are polluting the publishing pool and go back to throwing our writing under our beds, never to see the light of day.

At the same time, though, beware of passing fads.

For those skeptics who were convinced that green building was a mere passing fad, a new survey by National Real Estate Investor and its sister publications may prove otherwise.

In other words, it feels more like a real room because it hasn't been obsessively over-thought or reconsidered or diminished by passing fads.

Based in tiny Burlington, Vt. — population 45,000 — Burton was a private company whose fortunes were tied to a fringe sport some still thought of as a passing fad.

One of the easiest ways to look foolish is to start making predictions about the future — just ask those who said online shopping was a passing fad.

More from the South China Morning Post: China's bitcoin crackdown raises cryptocurrency demand as they move to peer - to - peer platforms Bitcoin's all the rage with millennials but it's certainly no passing fad Bitcoin bubble embodies our bipolar year of optimism and doubt

No one suggests cloud computing is a passing fad, but it will require not just technical but cultural changes to fulfil its promise.

Is this his next big thing, or just a passing fad?

Or is this trend just another one of tech's passing fads?

Projecting their results to some far out point in the future is an incredible stretch, especially for an activity that has all the hallmarks of a passing fad.

The brand that started in the 1990s with playing cards and video games exploded in popularity again with the release of the augmented reality game Pokemon Go last summer, which momentarily catapulted Nintendo stock, though the game proved to be mostly a passing fad.

But imagine if a company like Starbucks had been dismissed as a passing fad.

If they've heard of it, most casual observers think bitcoin is a passing fad, a good speculative investment, or the (distant) future of money.

A successful small business is not just one that takes advantage of a passing fad or offers a cheaper product or promises faster service.

But if you believe — as I do — that cryptocurrencies are on the road to producing a series of distinctive (as in different use cases) transformative technologies based on the blockchain, then you also must believe that this is no passing fad.

Will the cryptocurrency prove its mettle, or is it just a designer currency that is a passing fad?

More than a passing fad, mobile tech is an ecommerce retailers» dream.

«This suggests that this isn't just a passing fad but a market that's sustainable in every sense of the word.»

It has sometimes been said that process theology is only a passing fad which will make no lasting contribution to the Christian world.

At best it would have been a passing fad lasting 50 years or less.

If it was excessively fearful, it did not cave in to every passing fad from the secular culture.

Converts speak of growing tired of a refashioned Christianity that seems at the mercy of each passing fad.

I will say only in passing — since it is a comment on a passing fad — that recent attempts to make Niebuhr into the guru of neoconservatism leave me both sad and angry, for I believe they betray both the man and his thought, particularly on this crucial point of the need for self - criticism.

That's because the associations of water with life, death and cleansing was not a passing fad of their society, Jesus chose a symbol that had always and would always retain it's meaning.

To trivialize the faith by rushing to the defense of every passing fad from transactional analysis to the frustrations of bourgeois housewives in their search for freedom is to evidence the middle - class sentimentality which is the source of much liberal theology.

«The organic segment of the food industry is not a passing fad, it's part of a healthy lifestyle that millions of consumers are trying to maintain,» Feinberg notes.

As the idea gained popularity, however, Gel Spice determined green operating techniques were more than just a passing fad.

Butttt, this whole strawberry - roasting thing isn't just a passing fad, or at least it isn't for me.

I am continually amazed by the amount of people I speak to who believe organics is nothing more than a passing fad — akin to MC Hammer pants, mullet hairstyles or Cabbage Patch Kids — championed by people on the fringe of society.

Hello I am continually amazed by the amount of people I speak to who believe organics is nothing more than a passing fad — akin to MC Hammer pants, mullet hairstyles or Cabbage Patch Kids — championed by people on the fringe of society.

Passing fad?

Are tongue and lip ties just a new «passing fad» within the breastfeeding community or is it a real challenge that has a solution?

The notion that babywearing is a passing fad and that moms are only picking up slings so they can emulate Angelina and Julia is an example of that Western - centric thinking that earns us contempt around the globe.

If your child wants to ignore his curfew, go to a concert the night before a big test, or expects you to shell out money for the latest gadget that you know will be a passing fad, then it's your job to draw the line where it needs to be.

OrganicMania: Some pundits dismiss women's interest in the environment as just a passing fad.