Sentences with phrase «so much hoopla»

hmmm what should i say to so much hoopla??

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There is so much for all of us that hides Jesus from us — the church itself hides him, all the hoopla of church with ministers as lost in the thick of it as everybody else so that the holiness of it somehow vanishes away to the point where services of worship run the risk of becoming only a kind of performance — on some Sundays better, on some Sundays worse — and only on the rarest occasions does anything strike to the quick the way that little girl's cry did with every last person who heard her realizing that Jesus didn't show for any of them — the mystery and miracle of Jesus with all his extraordinary demands upon us, all his extraordinary promises.

Not with all the commercial hoopla of people rising before dawn the day after so they can shiver in dark parking lots to be in line for some amazing - never - to - be-offered-again deal on a big screen TV, thank you very much.

So it was not surprising that much hoopla among scientists surrounded Obama's inaugural promise to «restore science to its rightful place.»