Sentences with phrase «rather than platitude»

Kate Plays Christine movingly posits acting as a metaphor for the search for connection, through visceral texture rather than platitude.

That said, what we might expect of a project so invested in the stultifying effects of poverty is a better sense of what's eating its characters, rather than platitudes arguing that to be poor and male in Northern England is to be a bat - wielding tyrant whose empty rage extends even to canines.

As the Australian Labor Party launches a national Indigenous caucus of Federal, state and territory MPs following another disappointing Close the Gap statement from the government, Yorta Yorta man Daniel James argues new attitudes rather than platitudes will drive meaningful change.

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Too often, Klaff sees small - business owners speak in platitudes rather than specifics when talking about their competitive edge.

Even when democratic ideals are still affirmed, they often appear to be dull platitudes rather than energizing aspirations.

BTW I'm a pastor and I'd rather have a congregation of people who are out there taking on the difficult issues with the love of God than a huge congregation of people who like to sit around blessing each other with their songs of platitudes waiting for God to yank them away by the hair.

Rather than address the deep problems we cling to platitudes of Jesus will make it better and completely reject any offer of help that Jesus makes.

So all you have is more empty platitudes, assertions, and reiterations rather than actually demonstrating anything you say is even likely to be true.

This is neither a sentimental platitude nor a rigid doctrine, but a plain observation regarding the material and social economies that make it possible for us to live in a fully human, rather than bestial, way.

Evil must be confronted rather than masked by grinning platitudes.

Our defender did at least admit that the team was hugely disappointed to have missed the chances on offer throughout the season so far, but the rest of his comments sounded like just more empty platitudes to me, the sort of thing he thinks he should be saying rather than the truth, that the Gunners are in a bad way and are starting to really worry about losing our place in the top four.

Remarkably, the conference spurred some specific promises from political leaders rather than just vague platitudes.

Here, rather than a helpful guide, we have a set of de haut en bas platitudes, a treasure - hunt of banality that leads everywhere except to the art itself.

Beginning with the risk of losing a client like Wal - Mart (which recently bounced a firm for its oh - so - white ways), the duo offers gentle but specific hiring advice that, to the careful reader, distills a real to - do list rather than managerial platitudes.

He goes on, through his FT and personal blogs, as well as through his Twitter account, to challenge readers to find some example in living memory (or even earlier) where an English court, or a court in a jurisdiction in which received English law forms or has formed part of the law, has treated the words as law, rather than as platitudes or symbols.