Sentences with phrase «than the platitudes of»

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That's because the spirit of collaborative innovation Musk so admires amounts to little more than a platitude in the business environment in which most people operate.

But just as no one here would accept my testimony of how much the Great Pumpkin loves me and cares for me (Peanuts 3:16), I will not be able to accept such platitudes as anything other than empty emotional outbursts.

Most of us know that these kinds of statements do more harm than good, so we play it safe and refrain from offering any encouragement at all because we don't want it to come out like a robotic and unsympathetic platitude.

BTW I'm a pastor and I'd rather have a congregation of people who are out there taking on the difficult issues with the love of God than a huge congregation of people who like to sit around blessing each other with their songs of platitudes waiting for God to yank them away by the hair.

Rather than address the deep problems we cling to platitudes of Jesus will make it better and completely reject any offer of help that Jesus makes.

No, I haven't cast aside the primacy of the Word in exchange for platitudes, and my reading of the Scriptures was no less than on any given Sunday.

Witness we must, by word and deed, if the gospel is to mean anything more to the world around us than an inherited body of moral platitudes, eminently respectable but of doubtful practicality.

In an age in which we are so much at the mercy of the «repressive triviality» of the secularists, I incline toward an irenic attitude with regard to all, or nearly all, reaffirmations of transcendence: I would much prefer to live in a temple of Astarte than in a global Skinner Box, and I'll take the poetry of William Blake over the dreary platitudes of positivist philosophers any day.

The preacher inside is spouting liberal platitudes: «We know more than the Bible did about science,» «We can't make an idol of scripture,» and «We have to see beyond the letter to the meaning!»

Our defender did at least admit that the team was hugely disappointed to have missed the chances on offer throughout the season so far, but the rest of his comments sounded like just more empty platitudes to me, the sort of thing he thinks he should be saying rather than the truth, that the Gunners are in a bad way and are starting to really worry about losing our place in the top four.

The problem in drawing such parallels is that Yao's quote sounds less like Eastern philosophy than the kind of team - first platitudes that have echoed through locker rooms for decades.

... Delight in smooth - sounding platitudes, refusal to face unpleasant facts, desire for popularity and electoral success irrespective of the vital interests of the State, genuine love of peace and pathetic belief that love can be its sole foundation, obvious lack of intellectual vigour in both leaders of the British Coalition Government, marked ignorance of Europe and aversion from its problems in Mr. Baldwin, the strong and violent pacifism which at this time dominated the Labour - Socialist Party, the utter devotion of the Liberals to sentiment apart from reality, the failure and worse than failure of Mr. Lloyd George, the erstwhile great war - time leader, to address himself to the continuity of his work, the whole supported by overwhelming majorities in both Houses of Parliament: all these constituted a picture of British fatuity and fecklessness which, though devoid of guile, was not devoid of guilt, and, though free from wickedness or evil design, played a definite part in the unleashing upon the world of horrors and miseries which, even so far as they have unfolded, are already beyond comparison in human experience.

British workers need more than «platitudes» from politicians if a national living wage is to be achieved, the Archbishop of York has said.

A close ally of County Executive Mike Hein — she mouths Heinian platitudes better than he does — Dr. Nolan trounced the incumbent, with about 20 percent of eligibles turning out.

Either Mr Pickles or Lord Forsyth could get the Tories a landslide - we are doing well despite Mrs Spelman not because of her or because of Mr Letwin's confused platitudes that appeal to The Guardian editorial more than swing voters in marginal seats.

That said, what we might expect of a project so invested in the stultifying effects of poverty is a better sense of what's eating its characters, rather than platitudes arguing that to be poor and male in Northern England is to be a bat - wielding tyrant whose empty rage extends even to canines.

In a Valley of Violence begins like many oaters we've seen in the past and the archetypal characters that therein show all the hallmarks of cowboy picture platitudes; Paul (Ethan Hawke) is a self - effacing drifter who appears more like a peacenik than the dangerous army deserter we suspect him to be; Gilly (James Ransone) is a murderous intimidator; Mary - Anne (Tessa Farmiga) is a virginal ingenue; Marshal Clyde Martin (John Travolta) is the conflicted reprobate law man; and so on.

Digging For Fire opens with a familiar Swanberg platitude; stressed out adults talk about stressed out adult problems; strong women trying to gain the reins on their less - than - model husband; secret undertones of dreaming about the highlife of the young freewheeler.

One of the elements setting «Infinity War» apart from far too many superhero movies is the introduction of a villain who's more than just another fire - breathing, multi-tongued monster - god hell - bent on destroying everything in its way while mouthing platitudes through some kind of filter that makes him sound like he watched «Star Wars» a thousand times and was always rooting for Darth Vader.

The only thing more predictable than the action beats is the mountain of platitudes from the lips of the cast.

The Hillary Clinton campaign privately argued that «platitudes» would better serve its defense of forced unionism than details about «fees.»

Those who make hiring decisions are frustrated with the limitations of interviews, which often become nothing more than sterile exercises in exchanging platitudes.

We feared that the dot - com arriviste and the bastion of traditional Japanese publishing would do little more than exchange platitudes.

For the uninitiated, think of it as the place in British Columbia where you go to realize your skiing dreams, where the terms steep and deep are more than just platitudes on a brochure or website — they're real, very real.

Nowhere is it more apparent that Sonic fits into these dynamics than Naka's note itself, where vague platitudes of coolness and «challenging the norm» weave between videogame content announcements and McDonalds cross-promotions.

Here, rather than a helpful guide, we have a set of de haut en bas platitudes, a treasure - hunt of banality that leads everywhere except to the art itself.

How can I look myself in the mirror and state that they have any degree of feasibility, in an era when two Presidential candidates don't even discuss the problem in their debates or speeches, other than give meaningless platitudes?

Beginning with the risk of losing a client like Wal - Mart (which recently bounced a firm for its oh - so - white ways), the duo offers gentle but specific hiring advice that, to the careful reader, distills a real to - do list rather than managerial platitudes.

He goes on, through his FT and personal blogs, as well as through his Twitter account, to challenge readers to find some example in living memory (or even earlier) where an English court, or a court in a jurisdiction in which received English law forms or has formed part of the law, has treated the words as law, rather than as platitudes or symbols.

While the expression may seem nothing more than a platitude, it is actually sound, straightforward advice, particularly in terms of certain career decisions and circumstances.

As the Australian Labor Party launches a national Indigenous caucus of Federal, state and territory MPs following another disappointing Close the Gap statement from the government, Yorta Yorta man Daniel James argues new attitudes rather than platitudes will drive meaningful change.