Sentences with phrase «sort of pandering»

If any of chief legal officers from large organizations are reading this column, I want to be very clear that I'm thinking about real and sustained influence — not the sort of pandering or special one - off treatment that a big legal budget secures from external firms.

With this sort of pandering, this Jesus could make a successful run for office.

Not exact matches

The Wildrose had all sorts of fun pandering to their base, but I suspect it helped solidify urban and center voters seeing the Wildrose as the nut bars they are.

One of the things I fear about our modern Christian «leaders» so many put on a pedestal, is their political pandering on these sorts of topics.

By pandering to all sorts of minorities in the quest to be seen as «Inclusive» Cameron risks losing his core support who may either abstain or support Right Wing Parties such as UKIP or BNP.

The difference between American Splendor and Ghost World is that with two solitary figures in search of completion, there is the possibility for recognition of sameness — but with two figures (underground comic book writer Harvey Pekar and his wife Joyce Brabner (Hope Davis)-RRB- who have found in one another a sympathetic orbit, a partner in life and lo, with a child dropped willy - nilly into their midst to tie up loose ends, there is instead a sort of alien, island of lost toys exclusion that makes for a further alienation of the very alienated audience to which Pekar's comic so appealed and, eventually, took for granted and pandered.

While British films can sometimes be regarded with great affection at home, they rarely do well abroad — unless they happen to be the sort of strait - laced Bonham Carter historical dramas or soppy Hugh Grant contemporary rom - coms that pander to comfortable stereotypes for a foreign market.

I don't hate the film, it panders to me like a MFer, but it is not without its charms, just that the schtick wears thin after a while, it gets its points across pretty much after the first act, then it dawdles its way to a sort of silly finish.

Immediately after viewing Jurassic World I turned to my viewing partner, a look of disgust forming on my face, to discover that she and almost everyone else in the theater were high on some sort of flashy, merchandised, nostalgia - pandered fairy dust.

This is sort of representative of the franchise as a whole, which has attempted to grow up with its audience, to mixed results, and mainly through fairly pandering designs for female characters.

Apart from your partisan sniping at «leftist loons» who «are too dumb» to warrant your attention, you don't engage in the same sort of demagoguery and blatantly xenophobic pandering to the alt - right wingnuts that he does.

Pandering is some sort of unusual activity involving lobbyists and lobbying, best not carried out in lobbies, right?