Sentences with phrase «piffle about»

Lu Over the Wall Charming, if overlong, piffle about a childlike mermaid who befriends a morose teenage boy in a rock band, and in the process threatens to ignite culture war between human and merfolk in a Japanese fishing village.

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There's scarcely a ripple when a rock is thrown in the Hayes pond, and all the conversations about working too much and not gathering rosebuds while ye may amount to so much piffle when everything turns out so well.

It paid a piffling $ 900 million fine, no one went to jail, and barely anyone talks about it anymore.

My position is the following: 1) the extent of past human interference with global climate is likely somewhat exaggerated, 2) the dangers of future human - induced climate change are greatly exaggerated (for example, I heard Ira Flatow a couple of weeks ago talking about the East coast being under water in 50 years — which is complete piffle), 3) the numerical global climate do a poor job of past reconstruction and are unlikely to be very reliable in predicting the consequences of future human activity.