Sentences with phrase «so hollow»

These words ring so hollow and dubious especially as developed countries are abandoning their mitigation obligations under the Kyoto Protocol or the ad - hoc working group on Long Term Cooperative Action (LCA) and or are offering no meaningful and ambitious emissions reductions in the elusive second committment period of Kyoto.

While I'm sympathetic to the development strains of an indie MMO, it's puzzling to have gender equality locked behind a stretch goal — especially after Ubisoft's excuses for why no playable women were in Assassin's Creed Unity rang so hollow.

It's a crying shame that you end the game feeling so hollow and let down, because what you've played and experienced to that point has largely been very enjoyable.

As a longtime Zelda fan, I wanted to like this game, but it's just so hollow.

The characters end up being one of the main reasons behind this movie feeling so hollow since none of them assist in grabbing your attention.

I have the same problem with her that I did with Jamie Foxx in «Ray» — they play the part, but both performances felt so hollow and weak.

Although this remake of the 1962 classic is beautifully shot and acted, it's so hollow and bleak that it leaves us cold.

Spielberg is the master of spectacle, so there is plenty of eye - popping action to look at, it's just so hollow, and the characters so shallow, and the world so unexamined that RPO never gets off the ground.

Or perhaps even mumbo jumbo — never has the eastern - western pop psychology of the franchise rung so hollow.

Everyone, BHO's contention that raising 40 % of his funds from small donors is «like» public financing does not make a good sound bite because it is so hollow.

I cheated — not really deliberately but stumbled into a relationship because I was feeling so hollow.

Sorry Steve... that fundamentalist dogma just rings so hollow.

I cant imagine what its like to be so hollow.

The muslim rhetoric would not ring so hollow if they had been loudly and publicly speaking out against the extremist and calling for them to stop the aggression around the world.

These award shows seem so hollow.

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

Not exact matches

The hypodermic needle made a splash on the medical stage in the 1850s by combining two key inventions: the conventional syringe (eventually converted from metal to glass so that users could better measure doses) and sharp, hollow needles.

Tinkering over months, White perfected and patented what has become known as his All Day Heels technology: The secret is hollowing out the shoe sole and injecting it with Poron so that every square inch contains 1,000 air bubbles.

So while the debate rages about whether Canada should be welcoming foreign ownership of companies or fearing and rejecting it on the grounds that it will «hollow out» the country, the video game industry has cast a giant «who cares?»

The message to Syrians living in opposition - controlled areas, Hof added, would be the same as it always has been: «So long as we kill you, maim you, terrorize you, and drive you from your homes with ordnance that is not chemical in nature, that which is left of a hollowed - out West will do nothing to protect you.

Complaints about not getting a plane ride to an event, or being ditched so the president - elect can have dinner with friends, ring a little hollow even if you don't care for Donald Trump.

It's a word that is somehow so conveniently vacant that it manages to be profound and profoundly hollow.

It turns out that even those who stress particular negotiation behaviors and attitudes see those things not as hollow gambits but as the natural performance traits of the smarter negotiator you must become — by way of better preparation, rational thinking, and so on.

Almost always the public pressure becomes so intense companies eventually break down and offer some sort of response, but by that point the damage is done and even the best crafted public message rings hollow and appears forced.

In the first half of the novel, we follow Saeed and Nadia through the door of migration — and it is telling that these pages are so emotionally hollow.

The hope one might have once placed in comparative advantage global capitalism and the internet / cell - phone wiring of all, began to look increasingly hollow, as Walmarts filled with cheap Chinese goods, real jobs went missing, real skills became rare, and the internet became known not so much for an Army of Davids shoring up our common commitment to liberty, but for mobbish comment swarms, porn, The Social Network, diversion all - the - more addictive for being personally tailored (see: the fictional fat - slobs of Wall - E, or the perpetually downward phone - gaze of our «dumb» millennials), and unprecedented possibilities for spying, defamation, and demagogic manipulation for those with access to big data.

Oliver's sentimentality ignores reality, and so the joy she finds in the tree rings hollow.

Gay marriage undermines true marriage in a different and much more dangerous way: It hollows out its very essence, applying the word to something else entirely, a relationship that itself has no potential to generate children, and so can not itself (without help from the law or from outsiders) form a family.

I don't believe in that god, no offence, so any oath ending in «so help me god» becomes hollow and meaningless.

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?

If God is definitively to enter into us, he must in some way hollow us out, empty us, so as to make room for himself.

He said the pessimist in him mocked his receipt of a degree in law when «law is ever more a hollow word, resonant but empty, in a world increasingly dominated by force, by violence, by fraud, by injustice, by avarice — in a word, by egoism»; when civil law permits «the progressive and rapid increase of oppressed people who continue being swept toward ghettos, without work, without health, without instruction, without diversion and, not rarely, without God»; when under so - called international law «more than two - thirds of humanity (exist) in situations of misery, of hunger, of subhuman life»; and when agrarian law or spatial law permits «today's powerful landowners to continue to live at the cost of misery for unhappy pariahs»; and whereby «modern technology achieves marvels from the earth with an ever - reduced number of rural workers (while) those not needed in the fields live sublives in depressing slums on the outskirts of nearly all the large cities.»

No other power could so effectively have dispelled the austere, hollow - cheeked stoicism, the tolerance of bad food in inadequate amounts, the thin sour beer, watered to help the war effort, the national motto of «mustn't grumble.»

I am not an empty hollow person, and your mind is so full of imaginary BS you just don't get it.

There may be precedent, it's just that in this case it looks pretty stupid because gay and lesbian adults know who they are and have biology and psychology on their side, so these backwards nuts won't get a lot of takers for their hollow «welcome».

So complaints such as «well, the Bible does nt tell us such - and - such about whatever ring hollow, because that was never the primary aim.

So, if we're missing that, all that talk of the crucified ego is just a hollow thing.

Could it be that their lives are so bitterly disappointing and hollow that they are seeking something that they are missing?

Attenborough aims to persuade first through the detail and intimacy of his account of insect life: the female bumble bee's patient construction of the chamber in which she lays her eggs; the cooperative relationship between African acacias and the ants that make «mansions» in the «bloated and hollow» bases of the tree's protective spines (and sting the muzzles of grazing predators, driving them away); the cunning design of the mole cricket's burrow, which amplifies the male's mating song so that, «on a windless night, he can be heard from nearly half a mile away.»

Without the fruits, the truth of Christianity sounds as hollow as any other so - called truth.

on Gays... he said, «Well the «Scripture» says...» on the death penalty he got the phony smile and said... «Well other people know lots more than me... so I don't have an opinion»... The guy is completely hollow... I hope he helps the poor but I doubt it... he is a RIGHT WINGED Fundamentalist in T V «clothing»... he would be the first to show up at a town hanging and grin... and pass the hat...

At 112 - feet tall, this steel and concrete «Christ of Peace» towers over the city with arms outstretched, tiny windows dotting his hollow body so that tourist inside can peer out into the world.

Hollow shells are the worst because it could be so many things!

Hi Trang, I'm so happy to hear they worked for you and you don't have hollow shells!

So that's where my inspiration came for this salad... except I added a little more substance with some whole - wheat couscous and hollowed out some beefsteak tomatoes to serve as the «salad bowls.»

I was so happy to receive a sample of all - natural, sugar free, gourmet toppings from Nature's Hollow!

* The first time I made this, I did not have a squash with a particularly hollow core, so when I dumped the bread crumbs into the squash along with the cheese, it solidified into a cheese ball... So, if you choose to roast one giant pumpkin, you can serve it with the broth, just put in no more than 1/2 c of breadcrumbs and 1/4 c of cheese per cup of brotso when I dumped the bread crumbs into the squash along with the cheese, it solidified into a cheese ball... So, if you choose to roast one giant pumpkin, you can serve it with the broth, just put in no more than 1/2 c of breadcrumbs and 1/4 c of cheese per cup of brotSo, if you choose to roast one giant pumpkin, you can serve it with the broth, just put in no more than 1/2 c of breadcrumbs and 1/4 c of cheese per cup of broth.

Managed to remove 1 cup of mostly wheat before realizing it was a lost cause, so I just added 2.5 cups of AP and had some mixture left over...) I also had no instant read thermometer, but read on the comments that one can «knock» the bread for a hollow sound?

It isn't very difficult to hollow out the zucchini and you are going to cover it up with stuff anyway so they don't have to be perfect.

Squashes vary in terms of how large a hollow they offer for stuffing, so no worries if you have more of the rice pilaf than what they'll comfortably hold — you can simply use any that remains as a yummy side dish.