Sentences with word «vacuous»

Ok, maybe the role isn't as vacuous as it seems.

However, given the adoption by the United Nations of the responsibility to protect, does he agree that the international community must decide whether that responsibility is to be a serious attempt to avert genocide or simply a rather futile exercise in vacuous moral posturing?»

As for Vacuous, don't attack his spiders, they're slow and easy to dodge.

Chad simply presents his same vacuous argument that the bible is true because the bible says so.

And it's a shift in the Liberals» approach to economic policy, which had become encumbered over the past decade by vacuous buzzwords like «champion sectors» and «innovation gateways» (Both found on a single - page in the 2011 election platform).

What's indisputable, however, is that the intellectually vacuous nature of these sessions and the central administration's tyranny over classroom instruction is demoralizing many excellent and successful teachers.

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?

I live in NYC & often think of how vacuous & self absorbed this city is; but at the same time we always have an opportunity to answer the question: what would Jesus do??

You could make equally vacuous statements about any other plant improvement method and it'd make as much sense.

Theresa May's «Brexit means Brexit» mantra was recently panned by Labour's Stephen Kinnock «the most vacuous phrase in modern political history».

Which might sound like vacuous new age nonsense, the sort of thing which you might find at the head of a thousand Facebook postings.

It's like the equally vacuous claim that funding for biologists.

Whitehead denies all such vacuous actualities, affirming instead that all actual entities are «occasions of experience.»

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 at,» «interesting» and «proven ability.»

The freedom not to adhere to a specific set of religious rules is vacuous if one does not have the right to adhere to one's chosen set of religious rules:

Her criticisms, moreover, are completely vacuous from a scientific point of view.

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

Moreover, coming from a Mexican artist challenging the main economic system keeping Los Angeles afloat — the film industry — Cuevas's fakes seem somehow braver than the originals, precisely because they're real humans rebelling against an industry that squanders millions of dollars on vacuous eye candy.

Sending himself up in the process, he sets about unpacking how ultimately vacuous that idea is, and even begins to explore what might replace it instead.

Albers reduced Delaunay's lively private window on the world to an anonymous empty square, diluting his colors, and so - called color field painting reified color into vacuous purity, tautologically self - same and grandly staged — «publicized» — but mute.

In the stars» shadow, Hough and Boneta are talented yet bland leads, which leaves the film feeling vacuous.

Diaz is quite believable in the part, and gets solid support from Brewster, who is even more appealing as the adoring, wounded and somewhat vacuous younger sister.

None of which is to imply that The Departed is the slightest bit vacuous or auto - piloted.

Happy End reveals itself as something vacuous and cold, a bizarrely seductive pseudo-thriller lacking a thoroughly worked - out payoff.

Some strange moments are presented by the hanging, including sticking vacuous work by the staff favorite Jeff Koons next to Jasper Johns's genuinely thoughtful Racing Thoughts.

While the noisy, vacuous blockbusters follow a template, A Quiet Place is a near - silent film that reveals a more individual and unusual approach.

Mr. Marr cites the Randian definition of «altruism» in the abstract, but it is an absolutely vacuous definition.

In the same interview, he tells Jeremy Paxman that «celebrity in itself is utterly, utterly vacuous; [after becoming famous] you realise you need nutrition from a higher source».

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.

If irresponsibility and a lack of trust or deep caring between anyone is the grounds for good humor, then Bojack Horseman does it infinitely better (The difference is that in a cartoon show about vacuous Hollywood types there are characters who feel like subjects who can care rather than just targets for cynical jokes).

The Daily Telegraph and Daily Mail both contain particularly virulent editorials attacking, respectively, the Deputy Prime Minister's «immature and irresponsible» politics and his «vacuous proposal».

Well, you're wrong, and you too will suffer at the hands of flashy and entirely vacuous crap similar to Megamind.

The party, however, rejected the call by Chief Obasanjo for a third force saying that such would amount to repeating the same blunder that brought in the ideologically vacuous APC and the Buhari Presidency which had now wrecked havoc on the nation in its almost three years of governance.

After combing through the listings of franchise - fatigued superheroes now clogging big screens everywhere, I've come up with a list of well - made, challenging, and engrossing films for folks as sick of vacuous action adventure as I am.

In the hands of a cynical genius like Billy Wilder or a wily craftsman like Steven Soderbergh, Gringo might've become a satire for the ages, a mordant document that people of the future could study to understand this morally vacuous moment in the life of our republic.

Many leading US tort scholars consider it a «vacuous incantation».

Lanthimos fills their scenes with purposefully vacuous small - talk, but we know something's up, and when it's revealed, it's certainly from out of leftfield.