Sentences with phrase «so vacuous»

Thing that's interesting about «The Simple Life» is that it's as worthless and worthy of derision as Nicole and Paris, products, both, of a fast, facile culture that favours beautiful people so vacuous that as soon as the wind shifts, the destruction of them is brought to pass with zero effort in zero time.

Johnny Suede seems in every way a pale imitation that is so vacuous and self - consciously hip that it just fades into nothingness.

Journalist and author Peter Hitchens said the magic of Mr Blair was that he was «so vacuous», and how David Cameron's attempts to be a «second Tony Blair had not worked».

Is transcendence, either as self - transcendence or as ontological reality, so chaotic in consequence, so formless as to its dimensions, so blind as to direction, so vacuous as to structure, that only as we return to the realm of the ordinary can we make sense of it, introduce criteria of truth or falsity, beneficence or evil into it?

Not exact matches

So China's threats of this type of retaliation make good media soundbites but are ultimately vacuous.

Note also that the oath insists on the duty to avoid «business practices harmful to society,» which is so painfully vague it borders on the vacuous.

I assumed that Sarah would feel vacuous / empty while under the burden of so much grief.

There is, we know in our sanity, an anguished connection between our vacuous homes and homelessness, between our fearful craving for repression and the violence so close to policy.

I simply do not see that the problem so cast takes into account the problems relating either to dualism or to the notion of «vacuous actuality.»

I do not believe we Christians are obliged» or even allowed» to look upon the devastation visited upon the coasts of the Indian Ocean and to console ourselves with vacuous cant about the mysterious course taken by God's goodness in this world, or to assure others that some ultimate meaning or purpose resides in so much misery.

The claim that genes for leopard's spots helped conceal the leopard and so contributed to its survival is vacuous unless the genes are detected, which never happens.

Nor will vacuous calls for outreach to the unaffiliated and disaffected, or for the establishment of new spiritual communities, be successful as long as the religious message of Conservative Judaism remains so cloudy.

And it's rarely a vacuous giggle-fest of dumbass cliches that offer nothing like so many pre - and post-game shows.

So Theresa May has said since before she became prime minister, to the confusion of those who see the maxim as little more than a vacuous inanity.

It is much healthier than the sorts of vacuous, worthless, so - called «positive» campaigns that promise the earth but can never deliver.

However, the PDP said the Presidency has become so panicky that it effectively hijacked the functions of the leadership of its dysfunctional and ideologically vacuous All Progressives Congress (APC), by appointing people into partisan offices, outside its much - desired responsibility of governance.

«Now it is clear that Governor Udom Emmanuel seems to like our vacuous Senator so much, we would be much obliged if Akwa Ibom will take him off our hands for good.

The most prominent characters include Haven Hamilton (Henry Gibson), a socially conservative, arrogant country music star; Linnea Reese (Lily Tomlin), a gospel singer and mother of two deaf children; Del Reese (Ned Beatty), her lawyer husband and Hamilton's legal representative, who works as the local political organizer for the Tea Party - like Hal Philip Walker Presidential campaign; Opal (Geraldine Chaplin), an insufferably garrulous and pretentious BBC Radio reporter on assignment in Nashville, or so she claims; talented but self - involved sex - addict Tom Frank (Keith Carradine), one - third of a moderately successful folk trio who's anxious to launch a solo career; John Triplette (Michael Murphy), the duplicitous campaign consultant who condescendingly tries to secure top Nashville stars to perform at a nationally - syndicated campaign rally; Barbara Jean (Ronee Blakley), the emotionally - fragile, beloved Loretta Lynn - like country star recovering from a burn accident; Barnett (Allen Garfield), Barbara Jean's overwhelmed manager - husband; Mr. Green (Keenan Wynn), whose never - seen ailing wife is on the same hospital ward as Barbara Jean; groupie Martha (Shelley Duvall), Green's niece, ostensibly there to visit her ailing aunt but so personally irresponsible that she instead spends all her time picking up men; Pfc. Glenn Kelly (Scott Glenn), who claims his mother saved Barbara Jean's life but who mostly seems obsessed with the country music star; Sueleen Gay (Gwen Welles), a waitress longing for country music fame, despite her vacuous talent; Bill and Mary (Allan F. Nicholls and Cristina Raines), the other two - thirds of Tom's folk act, whose ambition overrides constant personal rancor; Winifred (Barbara Harris), another would - be singer - songwriter, fleeing to Nashville from her working - class husband, Star (Bert Remsen); Kenny Frasier (David Hayward), a loner who rents a room from Mr. Green and carries around a violin case; Bud Hamilton (Dave Peel), the gentle, loyal son of the abrasive Hamilton; Connie White (Karen Black), a glamorous country star who is a last - minute substitute for Barbara Jean at the Grand Old Opry; Wade Cooley (Robert DoQui), a cook at the airport restaurant where Sueleen works as a waitress and who tries unsuccessfully to convince her that she has no talent; and the eccentric Tricycle Man (Jeff Goldblum), who rides around in a three - wheel motorcycle, occasionally interacting with the other characters, showing off his amateur magic tricks, but who has no dialogue.

Its entire cast save for a slumming Plummer (and that's really saying something) is a giant sucking vortex at the center of an already empty picture, and its screenplay is so rudderless and random that it might just as well have been written by the vacuous pre-teens who most likely comprise its key demographic.

He has a breezy, goofy charm, the sort of overt earnestness that feels so out of place in New York, but he is not some one - dimensional Prince Charming or vacuous boob.

In those moments I would expostulate with myself about why my life at school seemed so ruinously vacuous, why I was so interminably miserable, why acts of creativity, and why displays of ingenuity and wit seemed to be off - limits and treated by so many teachers as unjudicious, as a type of impolitic epistemological breach.

Firstly, some of the vacuous reasons behind judgements given by OFSTED inspectors during our inspection last November: That was an Outstanding lesson up until the moment the students turned on the computers when the pace of their learning dipped a little so it can only be judged as Good.

I say surprised not only because I am disposed to a cynical suspicion about now - ubiquitous international contemporary art biennales and fairs, which somehow manage to be both bloated and vacuous, but also because, as a historian who works on postwar art of the not - so - distant past, my relationship to «the contemporary» and «contemporary art,» both in regards to my teaching and scholarship, has felt rather tortured of late.

Meanwhile, with fewer vacuous comments to read through Andrew can get on with reporting what the scientists are saying / publishing so that those of us who are following the science without a priori convictions on who is right or wrong can learn more about what is going on on this planet.

If you are not willing to actually read the primary literature, work the math, and understand the scientific evidence, all your «skepticism» is just so much vacuous complaining.

The point was that we can only have observations of the past for any physical process, so Spencers comment was vacuous and misleading.

Failing to do so leaves open the possibility of them being vacuous truths that contradict each other.

That is to say, as we have in the past, that science is a last - resort of vacuous politics: it fails to make a persuasive case on its own terms, and so borrows authority from «science».

Even if he accurately quoted the one little factoid he is so exercised about, it is one little token of data taken out of context and misused to bolster a vacuous argument.

Maybe that's why so many large firms resort to vacuous taglines: because they've lost their vision.»