Sentences with phrase «seem hollow»

That victory is going to seem a hollow, distant memory when the next Katrina rolls in... whatever the magnitude of A in AGW.

It might seem a hollow, too - clever trick, but the necessity to cram the frame — comparatively speaking, of course — gives the proceedings a lot of comic tension, as the actors are rarely more than a foot away from each other, and complements Anderson's tableau form of narrative shorthand — such as the proper introduction to one villain with a shot looking down at the weapons arranged on his desk — incredibly well.

47 Ronin could have been a landmark of sorts in the advancement of Asian actors in the Hollywood mainstream beyond token and sidekick roles, but when the material they're given is as third - rate and lifeless as this, such gestures toward progress can't help but seem hollow at best.

Even the terrorist's motive is kept hush - hush until the last few moments, making his crusade and incentive seem hollow.

Though people are materially well off, they're discovering that their lives seem hollow and meaningless.

But when it's virtually in every other sentence, it can seem hollow and irritating.»

The language of liberation, with its salvation history themes, seems hollow and hypocritical in our mouths, bespeaking a new form of American theological triumphalism.

The result is a film that achieves the dubious distinction of seeming both hollow and bloated at the same time.

It is important to note, though, that there is a first time for everything, and that an eventual recovery in 10 years seems hollow to someone whose portfolio tanks just before retirement.

Not exact matches

Political marketing is so hollow and disingenuous, it makes hawking cereal seem like a higher calling

How then, to foster more reader - driven competition, when Big Media with big money seems intent on drying it up, and hollowing it out?

These award shows seem so hollow.

So when viewed from this perspective, the claim that God knows what it is like to lose a son seems rather hollow, does it not?

All my hollow hopes suddenly seemed worthless, and with unbelievable intensity my heart burned with longing for the immortality that wisdom seemed to promise....

Farther out there are other, numerous sects and fellowships up the dirt roads of the hollows, but the doctors and lawyers and dentists of the town, the professors who teach at the local Methodist college, all seem to come here.

People with pleasant personalities are moving in the right direction but until they start sharing with others in a way that meets real tangable needs, all the niceties seem a bit hollow.

Their words seem to have a hollow sound.

I half expected him to offer some hollow words of comfort or press a coin into my palm without quite looking me in the eye like a few others had done.Instead he looked at me and seemed to understand — not just my loss but it almost seemed like he knew how utterly alone I felt.

While some might argue this designation is hollow, millennials seem to be finding meaning in unorthodox ways and using otherwise secular activities to mimic religious ritual.

But the smaller berries always seems to need to be hollowed.

When I was a kid I used to make these incredible ginger, crunchy, hollow biscuits that everybody seemed to love, including me.

One of the tomato plants» fruit seemed to acquire all of the properties of the bell pepper — hollow inside, with the seed cluster in the middle, towards the top — but it was still a tomato.

McIlroy seems to have turned the corner this year and has crushed it historically at Quail Hollow and the PGA Championship.

It all seems a bit hollow though, given how quickly replaced the Italian at Chelsea in 2004.

It seems that Qaddafi's most lasting legacy was the further hollowing out of a state that was never quite so solid to begin with — filling it with the vital organs of a healthy state and strong ligaments to bind the Libyan people together will be an enormous challenge, but a not insurmountable one.

At first it seems as if Langone agrees, as he says he has personally warned the AG his expected gubernatorial win could be a «hollow victory» if he doesn't stop slamming Wall Street — the economic engine of New York.

Some economic liberals have sought to hollow out the party's values too such an extent that the party seems to resemble a liberal version of New Labour devoid of any progressive soul or sense of purpose.

She said it seems like a hollow ordinance and that education, advocacy and incentivizing people to throw away less would be a better use of energy than «heavy - handed» enforcement.

The hollow bones of pterosaurs are notoriously poorly preserved, and larger animals seem to be preferentially preserved in similarly aged Late Cretaceous ecosystems of North America.

Going from bowl - shaped floats to predicting what happens to buildings in liquefied soils seems like a stretch, but in Rorres's virtual world it requires only two minor modifications: turning the paraboloid upside down (to make it domelike) and giving it a density typical of buildings, which are mostly hollow.

One other thing that might be happening but I'm not sure, is it seems like the area around my eyes looks hollow, like I've lost fat or skin thickness there.

It posits a truly awful antagonist in Hollow Face — a thing that wants to steal faces to present as his own — and it seems that only Owen's father character and the daughter he's trying to protect are able to see it.

It's not that simple, but the trailer seems to lean heavily on insisting that it is, just showing how everyone is existentially hollow inside because of their phones.

Under the Sun may seem slow and hollow at times, but her emotions appear to be quite spontaneous.

He seems to have a natural affinity for the Gothic, and his live - action «Legend of Sleepy Hollow» (also with Johnny Depp) remains one of the most visually beautiful films I've seen.

Sent to Sleepy Hollow to investigate the Headless Horseman (Christopher Walken), Ichabod falls in love with Katrina Van Tassel, played by Christina Ricci, who seems as if she was born to play in a Tim Burton movie.

Hollow Knight's deep gameplay seems perfect for portable play as much any TV or PC monitor, and I'm sure its fluid animations and vivid colors will pop on the Switch's screen.

But more often that not — like with the ill - received Ram truck Super Bowl ad that used a sermon from Dr. King — the messages are not only hollow, but also seem to only acknowledge past contributions in the African - American community.

But the hollow film doesn't seem to have much to say about life's realities, let alone shed any light or hope on them.

Gosling's characters are shades of humans — often too hollow or meaninglessly brooding to deliver any actual impact - whereas his overarching feminist conceit seems truly lost in the woods here.

Films which seemed to be impressed by their high - profile literary and theatrical pedigrees were famously described by Manny Farber as «white elephant art», technically accomplished but fundamentally hollow spectacles, «films that do not actively use their visual register to produce meaning» (18).

The Hollywood shooting match is an incestual Moebius strip, it seems, and for who was once the best action director in the United States to find himself a hollow shade of not only his past glory, but also Bay, is depressing beyond words.

But even those moments seem winning compared to the half - dozen attempts at faux sentimentality that rings nothing but hollow.

If so, he has succeeded, but his film's universe is hollow and trashy and impossible to engage with, so much so that the staging of elegant ritualistic acts of violence seems to become Only God Forgives» sole and overriding purpose.

The «mirror scene» seems designed to make us feel uncomfortable with our attraction to a robot as it coldly layers a human veneer onto it's hollow shell.

This revelation, if true, sort of makes Konami's claim that the farewell party from being fired from the company was just a wrap party and that he was merely going on a sabbatical after working for years on the game seem a bit hollow.

At times, it seems like the story has become a parody of itself, replacing any sense of interesting plot choices with silly effects that only show how hollow this journey has become.

This seemed like a hollow attempt to revive Cold War fears, given that there was no military adversary comparable to the Soviet Union.

It seems that Roger's pants are on fire — as soon as we're rolling, the rear of the Jag dips, there's a hollow, insistent roar from its quartet of tailpipes and its chunky rump is gone.

It may have just 252bhp, but the 3.0 - litre VTEC V6's gloriously hollow, resonant bark still sends a tingle down the back of your neck, while the power delivery seems virtually open - ended.