Sentences with phrase «using vacuous»

Many of the principles of good writing — conciseness and «show, don't tell» — are just as important to resume writing as not padding or using vacuous words like «experienced

Many of the principles of good writing — conciseness and «show, don't tell» — are just as important to resume writing as not padding or using vacuous words...

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No problem; we're used to your vacuous posts.

All occasions are «psychic» in the negative sense that they are not, to use Whitehead's term, «vacuous.»

Nor, in Mansfield Park, does she have much use for the vacuous religiosity of Dr. Grant, who is a pastor only in name and not in fact.

Quietly he pulls back from defending its central propositions, using the fog of vacuous platitudes and pseudo-profundity to encourage the perception that he is still defending it.

«As if the palpable odium of intiating a vacuous criminal charge against a whistle - blower, no less a person than a distinguished senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria was not bad enough, the prosecuting authority, obviously urged on by the Inspector General of Police, threw pretension to adherence to democratic tenets of the rule of law when it sought from the court, albeit most illegally, to obtain summons against Senator Misau, while deliberately witholding service of the copy of the charge on the Senator, an obvious stratagem conceived to frame up all manner of false allegations tailored to suit the obvious purpose of yet another gestapo strategy to use state powers to swoop on the Distinguished Senator and keep him out of circulation»

A wicked satire of our selfie and Instagram - obsessed culture, «Ingrid» features a knockout performance by indie comedy goddess Plaza as a woman who uses a $ 60,000 inheritance to move to LA and stalk an online celebrity (Olsen) with an equally vacuous existence.

It has a long tradition of championing esoteric arthouse films by directors such as Lars von Trier and Pedro Almovodar, but also happily allows Hollywood to use the festival as a promotional vehicle for some of its most vacuous summer blockbusters.

Unfortunately, director Peter Hewitt, writers Alec Sokolow and Joel Coen (shame on you, Joel; you must have had a mortgage payment due, too), all led by the now - creatively vacuous Jim Davis, have used the memory of the real Garfield, Odie, Jon and Liz as kitty litter.

Like his work on Interstellar, Hoytema's photography for Nolan's Dunkirk renders epic - scale sets and a high stakes story with gentler beauty, using colour to find emotion in the frame, rather than Pfister's harsh, vacuous lighting.

The vacuous use of zombies in modern games feels ignoble in the light of their origins as a satirical device.

Others have used phrases such as «vacuous incantations».