Sentences with word «vacuousness»

What is disturbing is the almost total vacuousness of the new generation of artists, whether it's visual artists, writers or filmmakers.

Now the latter alternative is intended to apply to the property of total vacuousness, for example; but not to all properties.

But no amount of directorial trickery can mask the essential vacuousness of the story and its characters.

The tragedy of Ukraine is that there is a fundamental vacuousness in its dominant political discourse about «joining Europe», and a mismatch between the aspirations of its society, especially its younger generations, for a better life (which is seen as synonymous with a «European choice») and the capacity of the Ukrainian state and the EU to deliver.

Religion which claims to speak in the name of a God has no means to demonstrate the source of their licence and atheists, responding to intellectual and spiritual vacuousness of religious myth, has concluded, in the absence of any direct evidence, how can there be a God?

That should not be lightly dismissed as liberal vacuousness.

Though it avoided theological abstraction and academic trivialization, it was lured toward technique, theological vacuousness and an individualistic, subjectivist orientation.

Cameron offers a response of convincing vacuousness.

While the film does center around two detectives trying to determine who drained the blood and removed the reproductive organs of some young wayward girl, the real mystery is why someone drained the intelligence out of Ellroy's novel, ripping out its soul in favor of glossy, empty - headed vacuousness.

The setting is today's Russian middle class of spacious, well - furnished apartments, elegant restaurants with jazz purring in the background and the selfie vacuousness of contemporary materialism.

Cronenberg's film misses no opportunity to pour scorn on Hollywood's essential vacuousness, from its obsession with youth and love of new age nonsense to its moronic, formulaic approach to film - making and the monstrous egos it creates and destroys.

The rigidity of the grid is confronted by the infinitude, obsessiveness, and vacuousness of the five black lines in endless repetition.

A Rubio aide was caught saying that low - skill American workers can't cut it in the job market, and Rubio's latest high - profile foreign policy speech has been panned for its vacuousness.

Moreover, he opines that these proofs are essentially arguments that reduce to absurdity any alternatives to panentheism by demonstrating their incoherence or vacuousness.68 Moreover, the proofs may show that the idea of the dipolar deity or the Unsurpassable Object of our worship is not nonsense.69

This lack of awareness, though, is directly commensurate with the «perception» of vacuousness that scientism has «found» to be «inherent» in the physical world.

It seeks to call theological educators back from the abyss of intellectual and moral relativism and the vacuousness and triviality that they entail.

I tried to indicate the vacuousness of Alan Johnson's Labour in For Britain as a way of saying «This is not serious, we need to hear the arguments for and against in a way that helps us think for ourselves».

«But let's see the vacuousness and intellectual laziness in the twist they have given what President Buhari said, out of sheer malice and evil hearts.

Among the pleasantly - promising minor figures, Lamont Johnson was left hopelessly stranded by the vacuousness of Furble Feeble - Dreedle and the stifling predictability of Reginald Rose's script for SomebodyKilledHerHusband.

This gives it an air of vacuousness and serves no other purpose than being a warning about going out to play by yourself.

It is the vacuousness of the statement «We've already set out that we want more good school places wherever children are in the country» before Greening gets to her solution which worries me.

As in the Lettres de non-motivation (Letters of Non-Application) that he has been sending out to employers regularly since 2004 — in which he responds to newspaper advertisements and details his reasons for not applying for the jobs in question — his work often appropriates the vocabulary, mechanisms and modus operandi of the sectors by which it is informed, the better to highlight their dogmas, excesses and, when all is said and done, their vacuousness.

In common speech sweetness conveys authenticity, warmth, conviviality or affirmation; or just as likely, a certain dumbness, vacuousness and opacity.

But when the news finally broke Wednesday, the vacuousness of the idea was there for all to see.

This blank field, upon close inspection, seems to indicate the head — however its vacuousness is more striking than any representational characteristic.

Scientists have increasingly weighed in on the vacuousness of the current emphasis on renewable energy generation.