Sentences with phrase «silly notions»

This is such an utter non-story — amounting to no more than «NSIDC have another year's worth of winter Arctic ice data» — that the only reason we can see for the BBC giving it the time of day is to guard against the possibility that people start filling their pretty heads with silly notions that the extent of summer Arctic sea ice varies from year to year, and that while it seems to have been reducing a bit over the last few decades, it hardly follows that it spells the end of the world as we know it.

Spot on and thorough in debunking so many of the silly notions that have grown up around indie publishing.

I was intrigued to learn about the sumo culture — it erased my silly notions based on stereotypes — and the art of creating Noh masks.

These folks have never seen a standardized test they didn't think could unlock the secrets of the universe, and they are just not having any questions about silly notions of «validity,» «reliability,» or «appropriateness» of these tests.

As children, most parents were taught some silly notions about mistakes: that they were bad.

And then I sprang up with a howl of pain and terror, fully convinced that these «treacherous Mexicans» had assassinated me by quick poison — for I had very ignorant and silly notions in those days about Mexicans, as most of us are taught by superficial travelers who do not know one of the kindliest races in the world.

But I also don't make silly notions like all Capricorns are illogical and irrational and need me to come in with my self logic and reason and fix the world through spreading my wisdom on Capricorn Message Boards.

The World would be far better off, if we gave up silly notions of a sky daddy.

Along with that type of god concept comes a whole bunch of other silly notions.

If we get away from silly notions of a spatial transcendence, in which God is (so to speak) «out there» and which is in effect the God of eighteenth - century Deism, we shall be able to maintain with the Old Testament that God is «the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity,» yet is also near to us, with us, in us, and for us.

dennis and Bruce: All your silly notions come from man.

But science is not required to take your silly notions into consideration when it goes about its business.

Scientists that cling to those silly notions should take care to keep them far from their scientific work.

The more you grasp at these silly notions the more I realize how much grasping you are willing to do in order to convince yourself of your superiority.

So, take your silly notions of what color they are and stick in your fake Kwanzaa candle holder!

He called for an end to the «silly notion» that large tech start - ups should stay private, comparing private start - ups to college football, rather than NFL.

Your entire argument, and in fact your entire religion, hinges on the silly notion that there is a god.

To the Catholic faithful: you support mass murder, a Nazi youth Pope, and continue to perpetuate the silly notion that there is an invisible man in the sky that will only punish you when you die.

Your silly notion of simply assuming I only ignore the passages that don't fit my beliefs is also very typical of pharisees... er... fundamentalists.

This is based on the silly notion that poor people are poor because rich people are rich.

Get over your silly notion that electing a Republican will somehow make all these issues go away — this is the 21st century, not 1950.

What a silly notion.

The requirement of faith is a silly notion that is completely unnecessary and just a construct to explain why he is not «here» and not intervening.

I had this silly notion that if I made GF pizza dough, I could just let it rest a bit and it would be malleable and stable to form into complex arrangements like stromboli.

It was always a silly notion that the Cubs and White Sox wouldn't deal with each other, but that doesn't mean the extra shame and regret from a failed trade isn't real.

It's all rather a good advert against that most overrated of ideas: direct democracy - the silly notion that encouraging everyone to shout as loudly as they can won't result in the domination of the weak by the strong (or by those who are able to effectively bamboozle the majority).

You've got a great storyline you're working on, something that sounds rather implausible, like the idea of devolved UK regions or the silly notion that a Tory / UKIP pact would ever be seriously mooted, but then you open up a blog (or a newspaper - remember those?)

There is enough science to know RS gets to the colon and this silly notion you have that retrograde starch is more powereful, or whatever, is just stupid or fucktarded, but it's irrelevant to understand which.

It's just a silly notion perpetuated by society and I don't put much stock in it

Listed below are just a few of the many reasons why intimacy gets better with age, so forget the silly notion that sex is all downhill once you hit the big 4 - 0, and start looking forward to the prime of your life!

As can be expected, flashes of blood and violence never seem appropriate or compatible amidst the sillier notions of promiscuity with a celebrity or embarrassing stories of adolescent experimentation.

The self - conscious obviousness of its metaphors give The Future a strong grounding in reality, rendering even July's silliest notions — such as a series of helium - inflected monologues from the cat himself (the only neglected «victim» in this scenario), waiting for his loving masters to return — deeply affecting. - IP

Donald Trump and his silly notion that Obama has a secret deal to lower oil prices in order to get elected.

The silliest notion is clinging to X number of shares — look to the (rising) monetary value of your holdings instead.

Despite our silly notion that other dogs would treat him differently, they never noticed he was «different.»

I'd never say I'd fall in love with a place without having experienced it (sorry, but despite that romantic quote floating around, I think it's a bit of a silly notion)-- but now that I know more of what I like in a destination, I'm quite looking forward to San Francisco.

Loot boxes should end because they're a bad practice that takes advantage of people, not because of some silly notion that it's gambling.

Thankfully, the silly notion of «Indie games aren't really games» is dying down now that there are more AAA games releasing, but it was those very indie games that provided us with memorable gaming experiences during the PlayStation 4's inaugural year.

... except that's an incredibly silly notion because games already started on the computer.

Michael Pachter speculates that Activision strongarmed Nintendo into developing a conventional Wii U controller, a silly notion for multiple reasons.

It's not lost on me how silly that notion is for an entertainment product.

you guys persist in the silly notion that understanding the past is necessary to prediction.

So you guys «persist» in the silly notion of CAGW, from 150 year granularity, in attempting to understand the relationship of CO2 to 1.5 degree global warming is all that's necessary for prediction using crappy models.

Let me begin this review by dispelling a silly notion: Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate is not a port of Monster Hunter Tri for the Wii.

Not exact matches

Some, like the scientists that have gone on to win Nobel Prizes, demonstrate that the notion of just believing «god did it» is silly.

So it's silly to try to push this notion that white Romans, white Germanic people are of the same group as the Jews who are what... a hundred miles from black Egypt??

It isn't true that scientists are trying to change the beliefs of others, but rather they are observing and testing natural phenomena with tomes of evidence telling the rational person that the notion of a deity as a NATURAL being rather than SUPERNATURAL one is absurd and silly.

When I have used it in the past, it is to dismiss this silly implied notion that theists are some fringe, fan atical minority.

Now those notions are considered silly.

The notion that the bible supports your statement (EXPLICITLY you claim no less) is frankly, silly.