Sentences with phrase «pulled out of thin air»

These dubious assumptions, which are pulled out of thin air, are laundered by being passed through these complex black boxes we call climate models and suddenly the results are somehow scientific proof of AGW.

It is a number, pulled out of the thin air.

Nonsense, the 1/2 is pulled out of thin air.

You admit that the predominantly subjective range of values 99 - 100 % number is a «best estimate» (in plain English, they pulled it out of thin air and so it carries almost as much weight as thin air).

Want a number that isn't pulled out of thin air?

Nor were they pulled out of thin air either.

I suspect the day is approaching when science will by law become policy, policy pulled out of thin air at the very edge of catastrophe.

It is a metric he pulled out of thin air based on nothing but assumptions.

Saving 15 % or 20 % of your income each month will go a lot further in the long run than some arbitrary number pulled out of thin air.

Remember, your score is based on the information found in your credit reports — it's not pulled out of thin air.

Also, I would love to see examples of marketing plans that aren't all jargon, or based on concrete numbers that seem to be pulled out of thin air, or featuring tactics that look like they're more for selling non-fiction than fiction.

The list is not something she pulled out of thin air.

But the reviewer, who hated it, makes the book out to sound like every idea is pulled out of thin air thoughtlessly.

Put your money where your mouth is, and make sure that your facts are real and not opinions and quasi-numbers pulled out of thin air from some blog on the internet that has no real basis because I will check.

Racing gas can be pulled out of thin air.

Sometimes the very best works are derived from log lines pulled out of thin air.

As the final act veers off once again into confounding territory pulled out of thin air, the boat has long since sailed on this disappointing effort.

For instance, there's a reference to militant Ulrike Meinhof pulled out of thin air, that eventually becomes a catalyst for a character's thirst for revenge.

I have not just pulled this out of thin air either, because even though Manchester United were widely reported to have tried, and failed, to sign the prolific player this summer with some hefty offers, Muller has this week admitted that the money washing around the top flight of English football is hard to ignore, as reported by Sky Sports.

I doubt he pulled them out of thin air, as you seem to imply.

Having recipes wasn't the problem — it's that they just seemed so mysterious, pulled out of thin air somehow.

All I need is just switch on my PC and all the pages flow so fast, pulled out of thin air through the magic of Wifi.

Your 95 % of the data is apparently pulled out of thin air.

Stories can not be made up or be pulled out of thin air.

Also, $ 250 and $ 500 per barrel are numbers pulled out of thin air, and may seem a bit sensationalist.

In fact, rounded, even numbers should be avoided altogether — too phony sounding, as if the final figure was pulled out of thin air or something.

You throw numbers around you pull out of thin air and like Goebbels think of I keep lying enough some dumb fool will be won over.

Quirkiness is a quality many directors try for in their movies, but it's rather a lost cause — like many cinematic qualities, either it's there or not; you can't just pull it out of thin air.

Boy, I don't know how you come up with these, but you keep pulling them out of thin air and providing lots of useful and interesting reading.

The Autobots and Decepticons do battle over the mysterious Dark Spark: a device that allows the developer to throw in every inane plot twist it can pull out of thin air without explanation.

That's something that YOU came up with using guesswork and ill - informed assumptions and back - of - the - envelope scribbling and «axioms» that you pull out of thin air, and now you want to pretend it was «my claim» and demand that I back it up.

Not exact matches

Zero Mass Water's premise is both incredibly simple and incredibly ambitious: It pulls clean drinking water straight out of thin air.

Although many of us just pull a percentage out of thin air, professionals use software to calculate the optimal equity percentage based on a given time frame.

I didn't pull these numbers out of thin air.

You don't just pull a number out of thin air.

They did not pull these ideas out of thin air.

He pulled Gawd out of thin air.

It sounds like you're pulling this crap out of thin air and you have no idea what the Bible really says.

While it's too late to get Anupama partial credit for her guess, it's an amazing coincidence that a Marcus Allen exists in the Rockies» organization at all after Anupama pulled that guess out of thin air.

However, we're not just pulling out these feelings out of thin air.

I pull sh1t out of thin air do I??

When some tabloid paper pulls a rumor out of thin air that we'd like to have Sterling as part of the Sanchez deal, that's called BS.

Luckily I'm a mother, and I consistently manage to pull «mom so hard» out of thin air, put on a full face of «hide the undereye bags,» and plan some epic shindigs.

Marden Wagner, then at the WHO, pulled the 15 % number out of thin air.

I hope to fill this void, apply a scientific eye, and impart credence to therapeutic nutrition and holistic medicine by substantiating all my claims with high quality scientific data — instead of pulling statements out of thin air, which sadly is commonplace with headline - grabbing, yet substantive discussion - lacking online articles.

Watching people pull visions out of thin air or reading about interior choices fascinates me.

This is brilliant, challenging and rewarding as you pull impossible stunts out of thin air; but it's hard to get excited about another game in the series with fundamentally the same gameplay so soon.

(It's equally disturbing to know that the MPAA has concluded, by giving this flick a PG - 13 rating, that people burning or exploding into clouds of blood and flesh is more suitable for children than one too many utterances of the work fuck, which is always enough to earn an otherwise innocuous movie an R.) And to indulge in an ending that is quite literally pulled out of the thinnest of air.

«Senator Alexander said he didn't think the General Assembly pulled the numbers out of thin air, and figured they probably relied on the help of some kind of education expert,» said McDade.

In reality though, I might as well as pulled those figures out of thin air, since the economy of a PHEV depends dramatically on how you drive it and, more importantly, on how much you charge it.