Sentences with phrase «vacuous if»

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:

An «agglomeration of foodies and educational reformers who are propelled by a vacuous if well - meaning ideology» — in other words, by unexamined assumptions that spending time in school gardens will give children a better chance at getting an education and a high - school diploma.

Not exact matches

Statements like these may appear banal or merely pious, but if we view them against the backdrop of our own theological history, they are far from either banality or vacuous piety.

If those who have most deeply entered into the contemporary situation find what is said dull or vacuous, it is not saved by the amount of evidence amassed for its conclusions or the tightness of its logical arguments.

If we conceive of the Word or Spirit as moving more and more fully into the body of the profane in response to the self - negation of God in Christ, then we can understand how the Christian God gradually becomes more alien and beyond, receding into a lifeless and oppressive form, until it finally appears as an empty and vacuous nothingness.

Caleb, Imagine how boring her book must be if an Op Ed with the greatest hits is this vacuous.

In addition, as in the last case, even if the subject's infallibility were not vacuous, that it is infallible is not necessarily information that is available to it: the theory stipulates only that the subject «perceive» what causally affects it, not that it know or be aware of what it perceives, much less that it know that it is perceiving real causes.

Is it not at least equally likely that if you keep telling people that they lead meaningless lives in a meaningless universe you might just find yourself with — at best — a vacuous life and a hollow culture?

Remind me this vacuous article if Iheanaco really hit the same note as Messi or Ronaldo.

If you want avert your eyes from the many hours of vacuous Super Bowl pregame programming, there will be real, live golf also played in Phoenix on Sunday afternoon.

12:23 - McNulty tweets back: «Cameron pathetic if he thinks quoting me talking about EdM's pmq performance is a serious attack on EdM - really weak and vacuous attack»

It's a vacuous manifesto - if you ignore the exploding landmines whenever it provides any substance.

«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»

3.45 pm: Over at CentreRight.com Douglas Carswell MP argues that politics will only be restored with radical reform of parliament and accountability structures: «If we want a legislature with fewer vacuous soundbites and which actually holds the executive to account, we need to elect MPs willing to be more than cheerleaders.»

«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.

Steinhardt and his colleagues considered a very different possibility: What if the universe actually started out cool and vacuous?

No doubt, wisdom lies in taking a pass on Hall Pass, but bravery demands something else, something far more instructive: Watch it, every vacuous frame, if only to measure the precise aesthetic distance from blessing to curse.

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 trial is compelling enough, even if this section is light on proper scrutiny, and then we're off to Greece for a final episode of revenge (involving that country's far - right Golden Dawn party) which is extremely hard to swallow and borderline vacuous.

I was really aware of certain vacuous tendencies that tend to get perpetuated in the industry and wanted to get away from that (though some are unavoidable if you genuinely believe in them — some of which I do).

If «nature», as Quinn sees it, is as vacuous and cynical as these oversized boardroom ornaments, I despair for him.

If Stella speaks of Poussin's «tepid classicism» and of the «vacuous symmetry» that haunts High Renaissance art, who are we to look askance?

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.

Were that the case, that is, if this were just a random fit of sine waves, I most certainly would not have bothered submitting to AGU, it would be completely vacuous.

If you can not name even a single specific fact that supposedly supports your case, then your entire stream of groundless assertions is legitimately dismissed as vacuous.

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.

If you've encountered these kids in everyday life, you know the vacuous + put - upon act is in now.

If the vacuous Shiny Pony with nice hair and teeth likes it, it must be good... no?

If RECO actually did the job it is supposed to do, there would be far fewer Realtors out there bending / breaking the rules, and those who survived the initial five year rookie start - up gauntlet period would remain on their toes forever going forward in pursuit of becoming true professionals instead of slowly slipping into the easy routine of becoming vacuous marketing wizards without substance.