And thus its inanity will, in all likelihood, be contained.
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Imagine: the vanity, the inanity , of these final meditations. YouTube!
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But actually, there's good news in all of this inanity.
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Painful, important things got shared along with all the inanity.
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That's a Laura Ingraham inanity that I think will probably pass.
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The language ranges from Victorian pastiche to modern vernacular and inanity.
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Do you like your political satire lukewarm with a side of inanity?
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You can't quarrel with inanity; it makes more sense than you do.
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This mood of melancholy, tinged with inanity, pervades the rest of the exhibit.
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Most of this inanity distracts from what, at its core, is a serious debate.
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WakefieldHonestly, who hasn't dreamed of disappearing from the inanity of day-to-day life?
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" It's suitable for most ages, but without the crushing inanity of a "Fuller House.
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My first book was designed to expose the inanity of those, and other, arguments.
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The IGN review claimed that the killing was so common that it turned into inanity.
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But even the four-piece's axe-slinging prowess is undercut by their love of inanity.
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Emotional rancor in Texas politics seems to increase in direct proportion to a law's perceived inanity.
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The volume, particularity and inanity of the phenomena effectively force us to take up this detachment.
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Media coverageThe inanity of Cheeto Harambe is, of course, only relevant if the media deems it newsworthy.
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And now, a new bill in Congress will attempt to stop the inanity before it becomes a trend.
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I think most Americans are exhausted by the pummeling inanity and want real solutions that improve our lives.
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It is a body apart from the inanity of the current president and the hate-mongering Democratic House.
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Tepidity born of financial risks in the face of a nuclear threat to the U.S. mainland is dangerous inanity.
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The colder I get, the duller my impulse to share every inanity and profundity that crosses my mind becomes.
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"They adjourned trying to debate what time to start this morning," said Ms. Comes, 47, marveling at the inanity.
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My old bones had tuckered themselves out with sheer inanity, with grumpy nothingness, onset alcoholism, meaningless meandering, and pies consumption.
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Just enjoy the silly inanity of a chicken running around the yard like a total goofball while wearing blue pants.
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It's the casting of Mr. Turner, though, that lifts this production into its own special universe of razor-edged inanity.
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French Neo-Classicism was "sickeningly sweet inanity," she wrote to her teacher and lover Charles Seeger back in New York.
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It's a ridiculous sequence of events, but it's exactly the sort of inanity that makes Silicon Valley beloved among tech enthusiasts.
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Well, if I'm right about the inanity of the idea, then this was clearly a mistake in judgment on my part.
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For this, blame a combination of managerial incompetence and ideological inanity from Donald Trump and his Mexican counterpart, Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
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A peaceful mass uprising, spearheaded by largely by women, couldn't compare to a French church burning or an American dullard president's daily tweeted inanity.
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Similarly, the vocals throughout sound nicely understated; there is none of the gurning, tits-and-teeth inanity of the more unfair stereotypes of musical theater.
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It is in this production's knowing riffs on the Hitchcock sensibility that theatergoers looking for substance amid the inanity can find it, if they squint.
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Now, in this year of inanity made flesh, His Electro Blue Voice have seen fit to give the world a new full-length, Mental Hoop.
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But Seluk has taken the character to new levels of self-parodying inanity, a shambling Austin Powers to the 007s of Raiola and Jorge Mendes.
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If I'm wrong about the inanity of the idea, then I can't trust my judgment in any case, and maybe these researchers really are first-rate.
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And then there's something like Rebecca Black's "Friday," whose staying power hinges on the maddening catchiness of the tune and the relatable inanity of its lyrics.
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Hospitalized with serious injuries after a car accident, Emma Fleed turns on her phone to find a barrage of semiliterate inanity from her so-called friends.
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But whereas Hello Kitty is docile and friendly, Aggretsuko flies into rages — complete with wailing heavy metal music — against the inanity and repetition of her workplace.
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Making his music from tenderly spun-out fragments of scales, he sometimes invites inanity (as in "Simple Song #3," written for the Paolo Sorrentino movie "Youth").
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It's easier to talk about the verbal kind because Sondheim's lyrics represent such a quantum improvement over the vagueness and inanity of almost everything that came before.
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Here we insert the common observation that the inanity of modern life has left the satirist unable to compete; pour one out for the absurdists among us.
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"What Daria did for exploring the inanity of high school, Jodie will do for exploring the trials and tribulations of a first job," MTV said in a statement.
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We talk about why, and what it means to make a show that manages to somehow poke fun at the inanity of the technology industry while glorifying its antiheroes.
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Who needs the endless inanity of Twitter when you've got a group of likeminded individuals working together to objectively assess the potency of a recently pressed batch of Yellow Minions?
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But we wondered if there aren't some hidden gems in that avalanche of narcissism—if there aren't a few works of art breaking up the inanity of your camera roll.
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After its season premiere was hijacked by a MAGA hat-wearing, inanity-spewing Kanye West last week, Saturday Night Live returned over the weekend with Travis Scott as musical guest.
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Perhaps it took a terrifying pandemic to reunite us with the simple connections of our lives and dislodge us from the web of inanity that Washington has become known for.
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Perhaps it took a terrifying pandemic to reunite us with the simple connections of our lives and dislodge us from the web of inanity that Washington has become known for.
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Imagine the inanity of France placing its embassy in St. Petersburg, Russia, rather than Moscow because it decided that it knew better than Russians where the government center should be.
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You're either laughing at his expense, which simply makes me sad, or you're supposed to laugh at the scenarios he manages to get into and out of due to his inanity.
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This case recalls the bone-chilling inanity of an analogous lawsuit against Jelly Belly, filed in 2017, that argued along these very lines, claiming that "evaporated cane juice" was misleading marketing.
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Justin Bobby speaks in ridiculous platitudes, like "Truth and time tells all," which now sound like everything spewed on The Bachelor, but back then were unique in their somehow grounded inanity.
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This paradise of inanity is on the south side of Washington Square — or, to be specific, the N.Y.U. Skirball Center, which has been colonized by a band of exceedingly likable brigands.
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And then moonlight falls on the murky pond of human inanity, and you see a guy who, though you know you shouldn't, can't help but make you feel that we are gods.
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Selina and her team are so focused on the vote that there have been fewer side plots about Washington inanity, where Veep used to find some of its best and weirdest jokes.
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Proceedings at the Quicken Loans Arena plunged between perplexing inanity (to which the celebrities did contribute), shambles, and sometimes rowdy conflict among the almost 2,500 Republican delegates gathered to nominate Mr Trump.
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The larger inanity here is the notion that the F.B.I. tried to throw the election to Clinton, when it was the Democrats who complained bitterly at the time that the opposite was true.
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To suggest trading Puerto Rico in a real estate transaction with another sovereign country is — besides the inanity of it all - indicative of a hostility to the interest and well-being of its citizens.
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Along the way, the audience is treated to the banality and inanity of white collar and food service work through now-memed phrases about TPS reports, a "case of the Mondays," and counting flair.
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The architects of this inanity were not only completely straight-faced about the societal benefits that could be reaped by a defecating seagull drone, they even decided their work might be worthy of an award.
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"The clear disagreement between the two magistrates in charge of the matter is such a rare event that it is worth underlining, as it illustrates the inanity of the decision," he said in a statement.
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We all have feelings about daylight saving, and today's time change was surely accompanied by the usual whinefest about missing appointments and losing an hour of sleep and the general inanity of this seemingly antiquated practice.
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Aside from commenting on their base inanity and deep selfishness, I even had the best joke to impart that one techie told me: In the event of doomsday, I have some good news and some bad news.
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Gearbox itself is aware of the inanity of it all, as they released a teaser trailer for the game a few months back using Trump quotes like "I like people who weren't captured" as something Duke would say.
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While seeing lyrics and words as secondary, and them being stripped of all meaning as acceptable isn't exactly "right," as both the aggressive inanity of the Chainsmokers' lyrics and Kellyanne Conway's entire existence prove, it was certainly prescient.
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Because with everyone consuming content on Facebook, with media companies that reach for objective truth driven out of News Feeds and out of business, there will be no one left to point out the inanity of all this fake connection.
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"Rotten Tomatoes critic score (Season 1): 67%What critics said: "The Witcher, for all its convoluted inanity, manages to buck expectations of female characters in a TV fantasy series simply by writing them the way men in the genre normally are.
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And yet, Mr. Buttigieg seemed eager to leave that behind in 2017 when he launched a bid to become chairman of the Democratic National Committee, a job saturated with exactly the kind of Washington inanity he had just been talking about.
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Set at the tail end of 1987 and shot entirely on VHS and Betamax tape — a gimmick your eyeballs are unlikely to appreciate — this rough, at times sophomoric comedy from Jack Henry Robbins shoots for satire and lands mostly on inanity.
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"Rotten Tomatoes critic score (Season 1): 66%What critics said: "The Witcher, for all its convoluted inanity, manages to buck expectations of female characters in a TV fantasy series simply by writing them the way men in the genre normally are.
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And while the casting of a registered sex offender in a small role (since excised) has stirred controversy -- prompting some cast members to pull back on promotional efforts -- the movie's general inanity provides more mundane motivations to downplay their involvement.
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My top (bottom?) pick is called 4AFart, which gets points for having a name that actually makes sense when using Alexa's clunky command phrasing (you get to say: "Alexa, ask 4 a fart") and also for the cheerful inanity of its description.
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The video installation included scores of individuals wearing sheets and a bed screenprinted with quotes so sarcastic, dry, and apathetic, the inanity and shallowness of the interactions in the piece made me think I was becoming more lame-brained by the minute.
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I discovered Walker in my twenties, and his music has been a constant soundtrack to low drama, prosaic cruelty, and high inanity ever since; he's operated as useful cultural shorthand for finding my own, like ancient Christians drawing a fish in the sand.
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For all its inanity and clumsy magical realism, at least Van Sant's film visually captured what exactly is unsettling about Aokigahara, which has much more to do with indifference of nature and the limits of human control, even over our individual minds and bodies.
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I find it frustrating that the President can throw out one inanity after another and not have to answer for them; indeed, the White House has gone so far as to claim that it can't say for sure whether he even wrote particular tweets.
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There is, of course, something puerile about this—the creators of American Vandal, Tony Yacenda and Dan Perrault, are essentially taking Christopher Guest's mockumentary format and tossing in dirty jokes—but inside its shiny wrapper of inanity, the first season revealed a deeper truth.
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The exit argument — when it's not just bloviating little-England inanity dosed with anti-immigrant bigotry — is that membership hitches Britain to a stagnant Continent whose most powerful countries are locked in a dysfunctional single-currency system that must lead to ever greater European federalism.
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Even putting aside the inanity of using the trade deficit as a scoreboard to determine if the United States is "winning" or "losing," most economists say larger economic forces determine the deficit, including the government's fiscal deficit, which Mr. Trump has been busily increasing.
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It's no small part of the reason Red America threw up their hands, looking for any alternative to push back against the inanity, even if that pusher comes in the form of a medicine-show huckster like Trump, who was just crazy enough to take it on.
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As he has done since day one in the Oval Office, Trump will continually blitz the nation with controversy, inanity, outrage and fierce polemical attacks so that in each minute of the day reporters, producers, editors, bloggers and tweeters can't resist offering some kind of response.
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"If you look at where the stock market is, economic growth, a lot of the data, if he was just halfway normal, and didn't do the tweeting, and all the bullying, and all the nonsensical inanity, he would have a much higher approval rating [than about 42%], it would've been easier for him to win reelection," Scaramucci told CNBC's Karen Tso in Davos.
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And by transposing some of the grit and silly shibboleths of contemporary city life onto that alternate landscape, the map (and the little blog posts he wrote to accompany it) prodded you to entertain the possibility that this ruined future might not feel like an emergency to those living it, that life in that archipelago might have all the richness, realness and inanity of ours.
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Who speaks reason > to his fellow men bestows it upon them. Who mouths inanity disorders thought > for all who listen. There must be some minimum allowable dose of inanity > beyond which the mind cannot remain reasonable. Irrationality, like buried > chemical waste, sooner or later must seep into all the tissues of thought.
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The last verse is "e l'infinita vanità del tutto" which means "and the infinite vanity of the whole" and it indicates the inanity of human life and human world.
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His own inanity is revealed when Victor asks him what was played and he cannot tell whether it was Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata or Tekla Bądarzewska- Baranowska's rather easy piece, Maiden's Prayer.
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"Three Sisters". Variety, Nov. 27, 1995, accessed May 14, 2010 James Agate, doyen of London theatre critics of the day, dismissed it as "American inanity,"Banfield, p. 224 though both Kern and Hammerstein were strong and knowledgeable Anglophiles.
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" Richard Dawkins reviewed the book, noting that it contains a number of factual errors, such as the misidentification of a sea snake as an eel (one is a reptile, the other a fish) and in two places uses images of fishing-lures copied from the internet instead of actual species. A number of other modern species are mislabelled. He concludes: "I am at a loss to reconcile the expensive and glossy production values of this book with the breathtaking inanity of the content. Is it really inanity, or is it just plain laziness — or perhaps cynical awareness of the ignorance and stupidity of the target audience — mostly Muslim creationists.
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Despite growing closer during the visit, the two return to their separate lives, but Raina eventually decides to break off the relationship. They maintain a friendship for a time, talking on the phone with diminishing frequency (and increasing inanity). Ultimately, Craig tells Raina that their friendship, too, is over.
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He took on the legal files and decided on a further investigation. Ten additional witnesses were interviewed, which further weakened the version of the General Staff. In the final discussion, President Ballot-Beaupré demonstrated the inanity of the bordereau, which was the only charge against Dreyfus. The prosecutor Manau echoed the views of the President.
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The German historian Michael Freund described Franz Ferdinand as "a man of uninspired energy, dark in appearance and emotion, who radiated an aura of strangeness and cast a shadow of violence and recklessness ... a true personality amidst the amiable inanity that characterized Austrian society at this time."Freund, Michael: Deutsche Geschichte. Die Große Bertelsmann Lexikon-Bibliothek, Bd. 7. C. Bertelsmann Verlag, 1961. p.
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Another inquiry by the Prefecture of Police showed the inanity of these allegations: Dreyfus was unknown in gambling-houses, and Guénée's informants had confused him with one of his numerous namesakes. There was no visible motive; the accusation rested solely on the disputed handwriting. However, public opinion had already condemned him. The press claimed that Dreyfus had exposed the system of national defense.
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In November 1981, TF1 declined to enter the Eurovision Song Contest for 1982, with the head of entertainment, Pierre Bouteiller, saying, "The absence of talent and the mediocrity of the songs were where annoyance set in. Eurovision is a monument to inanity [sometimes translated as "drivel"]."1982 Eurovision source in French Antenne 2 took over the job due to public reaction of TF1's withdraw, hosting a national final to select their entry as well, from the 1983 contest.
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She found the scene with Rachel screaming at Sunshine in the bathroom in broken English to be distasteful, and also highlighted the pairing of Tina and Mike (noting their shared surname, "Chang") and the joke of Jacob assuming they are a couple because they are both Asian. However, Drye speculated that in attempting "self-aware racism" the show was intentionally trying to point out the inanity of racist beliefs, and concluded that Glees self-awareness in this matter was its saving grace.
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" Angela Sherill of Publisher Weekly compared the narrative style of Dr. Soup with Lemony Snicket and Jonathan Stroud. "Young readers will enjoy Dr. Soup's voice, likening him to Lemony Snicket or Jonathan Stroud's Bartimaeus." The negative reviews mentioned unrealized characterization in the story, and the repetitious foolhardiness of some characters. It received a mixed review by the School Library Journal: "The inanity can be wearing and the characters (except for the youngest Cheeseman's sock puppet, Steve) don't quite gel into fully realized people.
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Shawn Langlois: 10 YouTube channels for binge-watching, 19 July 2017 Current product reviews on miscellaneous tech items, mainly on consumer products like action and dashcams, sometimes sponsored or donated, participating the affiliate marketing associates program of Amazon Services LLC,Archive.org capture of www.techmoan.com/about/ as of 17 April 2017 and a Patreon membership keep the channel alive. Bonus outro skits often feature a trio of muppet-like puppets, and frequently skewer the inanity and pedantry of YouTube viewer comments.
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TV Guide wrote they were "too darn perfect- looking to be believable as humans".Weiss, Sabrina Rojas, (March 29, 2007) "Razzle-Dazzle!," TV Guide. Retrieved on May 11, 2007. Entertainment Weekly included them in their list of the "21 Most Annoying TV Characters Ever", commenting "no one could have predicted how grating the pair's whiny inanity would become." When rumors circulated on the Internet and were mentioned in ABC commercials that the characters were going to die, some viewers hoped for a "double murder"Ausiello, Michael, (March 14, 2007) "14, 2007 Ask Ausiello," TV Guide.
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Brüno's main comedic satire pertains to the vacuity and inanity of the fashion and clubbing world. In May 2009, at the MTV Movie Awards, Baron Cohen appeared as Brüno wearing a white angel costume, a white jockstrap, white go-go boots, and white wings; and did an aerial stunt where he dropped from a height (using wires) onto Eminem. Baron Cohen landed with his face on Eminem's crotch, with his crotch in Eminem's face, prompting Eminem to exit the venue with fellow rappers D12. Eminem later admitted to staging the stunt with Baron Cohen.
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It was he who did the Victorian Gothic in its > pantalettes, when a church building or something of the sort was on the > board. With precision, as though he held his elements by pincers, he worked > out the decorous sublimities of inanity, as per the English current > magazines and other English sources. He was a clean draftsman, and believed > implicitly that all that was good was English. Louis regarded him with > admiration as a draftsman, and with mild contempt as a man who kept his nose > in books.
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They showed, moreover, the inanity of his claim to the support of the Fathers, and explained how the Divine and human natures of Christ, sometimes styled one, because they belong to the same person and work in perfect harmony, can no more by physically identified than the natures from which they proceed. Historians are not agreed as to how Cyrus came by this. Some think that he was, from the outset, a Monophysite at heart. Others, with more reason, hold that he was led to this belief by Sergius and Heraclius.
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The French linguistic term mot-valise, literally a "suitcase-word", is a relatively recent back-translation from English, attested only since 1970. Although French of France is regulated by the Académie française (which has had a conservative attitude to neologisms), it produced a number of portmanteau words such as franglais (frenglish) or courriel (courrier électronique = email) and has used the technique in literature (Boris Vian) or to create brands: Transilien (Transports franciliens = Île-de-France transportation system). A recent portmanteau example is Douzelage. Other examples : japonaiserie (from japonais ("japanese") and niaiserie ("inanity")).
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The Levee launched as a response to the ongoing failures of local, state and federal governments in the aftermath of the federal levee failures during Hurricane Katrina. The New Orleans Levees stated mission, outlined in the first issue, is "redirect the inanity back at those who spew it." The paper maintains a non-partisan stand politically, in that it operates under the belief that "stupidity is not a partisan issue." The New Orleans Levee normally prints 42,000 copies and is distributed for free to more than 400 locations throughout New Orleans, the area and regionally from Baton Rouge to Mississippi.
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" Critics in Lil Jon's hometown Atlanta also offered mixed reviews. Sonia Murray of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution called Lil Jon a "more numbingly simple chanter than noteworthy rapper...[who] now has the cachet to get A-list acts to join in on the inanity."Creative Loafing Atlanta expressed shock at the presence of "Lovers & Friends", with one critic calling it "something they'd play at an eighth-grade dance." Neil Drumming of Entertainment Weekly graded the album with a C, calling the songs "practically all hook...recited ad nauseam in Jon’s throaty growl...with over-the-top vitriolic rants and nausea-inducing misogyny.
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While praising Christoph Waltz's performance ("a good actor new to American audiences"), David Denby, of The New Yorker, dismissed the film with the following words: "The film is skillfully made, but it's too silly to be enjoyed, even as a joke. ... Tarantino has become an embarrassment: his virtuosity as a maker of images has been overwhelmed by his inanity as an idiot de la cinémathèque." Journalist Christopher Hitchens likened the experience of watching the film to "sitting in the dark having a great pot of warm piss emptied very slowly over your head." The film also met some criticism from the Jewish press.
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Piera Chen of The Hollywood Reporter gave the film a negative review citing its predictable plot and unconvincing characters. Edmund Lee of the South China Morning Post gave the film a score of 2 out of 5 stars, citing poorly written characters and inconsistencies. LoveHkFilm gave the film a mixed review describing the plot as "inanity", but praises the chemistry and performances of the leads, writing All You Need Is Love needs a whole lot more to be considered quality, but Shu Qi and Richie Jen get a thumbs up for their very substantial screen charm.
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She is, in modern parlance, "stalked" by a middle-aged bachelor Edmund Widdowson, and he eventually brow-beats her into marriage. His ardent love turns into jealous obsession suffocating Monica's life. Meanwhile Mary Barfoot's rakish cousin Everard decides to court Rhoda initially as a challenge to her avowed dislike of love and marriage, but he later falls in love with her for her intellectual independence, which he finds preferable to the average uneducated woman's inanity. Despite being virulently anti-marriage, she decides to indulge him with a view to turning down any marriage proposal to show her solidarity with her "odd women".
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The song, therefore, is a plea for global peace and the seemingly nonsensical title is in this case instead a reference to the human race, as in the Latin phrase 'Errare humanum est'; 'to err is human'. Gabilou also recorded an English language version of the song under the same title, "Humanahum". France famously opted out of the 1982 Contest, with the national broadcaster TF1 calling Eurovision "a monument to inanity [sometimes translated as "drivel"]."1982 Eurovision source in French Due to public pressure, the country re-entered the Contest the next year with a new broadcaster, Antenne 2.
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Reflecting on this fact, Lucian Boia noted that Antonescu could not "decently" be viewed as a rescuer of Jews, but that there still is a fundamental difference between the effects of his rule and those of Hitler's, concluding that the overall picture is not "completely dark."Boia, pp.260–261 For Dennis Deletant, this situation is a "major paradox" of Antonescu's time in power: "more Jews survived under [Antonescu's] rule than in any other country within Axis Europe." American historian of Romania William O. Oldson views Antonescu's policies as characterized by "violence, inconsistency and inanity",Oldson, p.
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As an example, Schumacher mentions Real Personal, a talk show about human sexuality that was televised by NBC five times a week during 1990s. "The title itself encapsulates the message of 'B-TV': real people and their 'real' problems are the focus here", contemplates Schumacher. Mentioning the highly successful entertainment programs of David Letterman and Jay Leno, Schumacher proclaims that a talk show host, seen daily on the television screen, becomes almost a part of the family. "Spreading not only inanity, but also a sense of security", the host "provides a fixed portion of our daily routine" along with a daily soap opera, daily infotainment show or a daily game show.
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Jon Dollan from Rolling Stone noted 'the laser-blasting inanity of the title track, which ends with someone bragging, "I'm eating Fun Dip right now/Not givin' a fuck." Not a bad credo for music that makes a disco sugar high feel downright pornographic'. Garret Kamps from Spin gave the song a positive review, calling it a "massively enjoyable, massively concussive collection of blips and bursts that sounds like something Moby might hear in his head during a heart attack, so thoroughly and dyspeptically is dubstep's characteristic bass wobble distorted and pushed into the red. That remains [his] signature trick...." Rolling Stone named the song the 22nd-best song of 2012.
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Mr Clodd wrote to Professor Pellew, George's brother, and found that this was the case. The family has been pestered for fifteen years with reports of the proceedings and requests to authenticate them and join the S.P.R. They said that they knew George, and they could not believe that, when freed from the burden of the flesh, he would talk such "utter drivel and inanity." As to "intimate friends," one of these was Professor Fiske, who had been described by Dr. Hodgson as "absolutely convinced" of the identity of "G. P." When Professor Pellew told Professor Fiske of this, he replied, roundly, that it was "a lie". Mrs.
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While personally courageous and dedicated, Curzon is otherwise unexceptional: he serves as an officer like many others. The stalemate of the conflict irritates him as he receives greater and greater promotion yet finds himself ordering great numbers of regular soldiers to their deaths. Though surviving when many do not and displaying an honorable sense of individual character, Curzon finally determines his willingness to sacrifice his life during the fateful offensive of the Central powers enacted in 1918. While without truly great fault, it is Curzon's lack of true psychological foresight and unimaginative nature that appears to define him given the inanity of the war.
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Desire, suffering and evil are themes that permeate all of his work. He is also an editor at Gallimard, where he played a decisive role in the publication of Jonathan Littell's novel Les Bienveillantes, which won the 2006 Prix Goncourt. In 2005, he was with others authors as Alain Decaux, Frédéric Beigbeder and Jean-Pierre Thiollet one of the Beirut Book Fair's guests in the Beirut International Exhibition & Leisure Center, commonly (BIEL). The September 2007 publication of Désenchantement de la littérature, in which he denounces the inanity of contemporary French literature and the loss of religious feeling in the West, generated a good deal of controversy.
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Kerry Lengel of The Arizona Republic gave the film two-and-a-half stars out of five, saying, "Despite the dizzying pace of carefully calibrated incongruities, Minions somehow never generates more than the occasional chuckle". Christopher Orr of The Atlantic said, "There's plenty of high-velocity comic inanity on display to keep kids happily diverted. But the movie's major flaw is an extension of its own premise: Search as they may, the minions never find a villain worthy of their subservience". James Berardinelli of ReelViews gave the film two-and-a-half stars out of four, saying, "Inconsistent and undisciplined, Minions is more an adjunct to marketing than a legitimate motion picture".
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Womack says this was informed by Harrison being the most outspoken of the Beatles in objecting to Ono's constant presence, and by Lennon's annoyance at Harrison's abundance of new songs. In Everett's view, Lennon's comments about "I Me Mine" suggest he was "jealous at Harrison's widening vocal range as well as his confidence in his compositional abilities". Lennon made similarly derogatory remarks that day about McCartney's ballads "Let It Be" and "The Long and Winding Road". According to Gould, Harrison was particularly upset that his bandmates griped about the time spent learning "I Me Mine" yet then indulged in "a laborious rehearsal of a song like 'Maxwell's Silver Hammer' which struck George as a paragon of pop inanity".
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Khan in 2009 In his next film, Dabangg, Khan played the role of a fearless cop with comic effect in the film. The film was noted by the Economic Times as being remarkable for its commercial success, despite having an "accent on inanity..." and "...complete incoherence in terms of plot and credibility." The Times also noted industry experts attributed the popularity of the film to Khan's presence, stating that they "ascribe its allure to the star charisma of Salman Khan, who has managed to carry off the over-the-top articulation of Chulbul Pandey with unbridled enthusiasm and zeal." Dabangg went on to win several awards, including the National Film Award for Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment.
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From his sycophantic love of candidates in uniform to his > hatred of Bernie Bros, from his reverence for "the discourse" to his > constant threats of suing the people who troll him on Twitter, Carl is > predicated on being myopic, vain and — frankly — wrong. Biederman said Diggler "grew out of the craven inanity and absurd self- importance you see in the worst 'wonks' and horserace pundits, but we exaggerated it to make him as much of a clown as we personally saw these people." Diggler writes with adoration for the ceremonial decorum of American politics, but blithe, often oblivious disregard for the plight faced by real voters. Diggler's persona and political outlook are drawn from specific real- life journalists.
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On the day of the premiere, The New York Times, whose correspondent attended the dress rehearsal the day before, warned, "The music is not up to the standard of Sir Arthur Sullivan. As a whole it is largely commonplace ... Gilbert's dialogue in the first act is here and there very amusing, but in the second it is slow and tedious."New York Times preview The press generally agreed with the Savoy audience that the second act of the premiere was inferior to the first. The Times opined that "the fun which runs alive in the first act runs completely dry in the second, which is long and tedious, and winds up with an anti-climax of inanity."The Times, 24 January 1887, p.
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In defense of the style, Justin Charity of The Ringer suggested that the debate is "really about discomfort with how a generation of young musicians has chosen to use their voices in strange, unprecedented ways, and against the wishes of their parents and forefathers." The Guardian compared the style to the first wave of punk, noting a shared "sonic simplicity, gleeful inanity and sense of transgression." The Vibe linked mumble rap to earlier forms of hip-hop, as well as jazz scatting. For The Conversation, Adam de Paor-Evans disputed the idea that mumble rap is a reflection of laziness, suggesting instead that it is an accurate reflection of boredom resulting from the immediacy and speed of contemporary cultural life.
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But it's campy and silly and just the ticket if you're in the mood for a film that makes you groan at its inanity as often as it makes you shiver." On his website Fantastic Movie Musings and Ramblings, Dave Sindelar stated that the film "never really becomes either a full-blooded horror movie or an effective variation on the fairy tale. The scare scenes would be more effective if they didn’t seem so arbitrary, and the last third of the movie fails to build up the necessary tension or suspense." TV Guide awarded the film 2/5 stars, and stated that the film "walks a fine line between good and bad taste, manipulating audience expectations and loyalties gleefully and shamelessly.
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On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 67% based on , with a weighted average rating of 5/10. Budd Wilkins from Slant Magazine awarded the film 3.5 out of 5 stars, writing, "Not quite a genre classic, The Asphyx is a mostly intriguing mashup of Victorian ghost story and steampunk revisionism that occasionally threatens to degenerate into inanity with its strident morality-play storyline and escalating improbability factor." Brett Gallman from Oh the Horror gave the film a positive review, calling it "an old fashioned, cathartic tragedy with familial bloodshed, played in garish fashion and with the moralizing pathos of medieval drama." Stuart Galbraith IV from DVD Talk awarded the film 3.5 out of 5 stars, praising the film's cinematography, lighting, while criticizing the film's "clunky" dialogue, stagy blocking, and low budget.
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Clouseau sees the neighbor and, in a pathetic effort to make it appear that the mess on the floor was not accidental, Clouseau begins to dance on the mess as if he is deliberately rehearsing a "soft shoe" shuffle. As a police detective, Clouseau also insists upon wearing elaborate disguises and aliases that range from the mundane (a worker for the phone company) to the ludicrously preposterous (a buck-toothed hunchback with an oversize nose); but even in these ridiculous disguises he cannot hide his characteristic inanity. Chief Inspector Clouseau is a patriotic Frenchman; later films reveal he had fought in the French Resistance during the Second World War. He has been prone to infatuation (often reciprocated) ever since the first film, in which his antagonist cuckolds him.
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" Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic called the song clever and said that it "functions simultaneously as glorious pop trash and a wicked parody of it." Priya Elan of The Times thought that "even the trio of songs that provides the core of the album's celebrity theme ('Paparazzi', 'Beautiful Dirty Rich', and the title track) don't ruminate on the addictive inanity of fame, choosing instead to observe passively." David Balls from Digital Spy praised Gaga's decision of releasing a mid-tempo track after two uptempos ("Just Dance" and "Poker Face") saying that "thanks to a typically catchy chorus and some smart, celebrity-themed lyrics, very nearly as thrilling in the finish. Backed with a hilariously self-indulgent video, it seems GaGa still has us firmly in her clutch and, ahem, squealing for more.
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On 18 January 1774, the Secretary of State wrote to Thomas Wroughton in Warsaw, saying > We perfectly agree on the Inanity of the Honors which Mr. Corry has been > graced with; but had they been a thousand Times more trifling & > insignificant than they are, Mr. Corry's Situation, & the Moment, rendered > his Acceptance of them highly improper. Mr. Corry seems to be become > sensible of this Truth, & means to decline them. If, for this Purpose, He > should desire You to return the Patent, The King [King George III] has no > Objections to your undertaking that Office, tho' it is not His Majesty's > Pleasure that His Name should ever be mentioned in the Transaction. On the same day the Secretary of State wrote to Corry, > As you choose to continue in The King's Service, I conclude You mean to > return the Patent which would otherwise render your doing so improper.
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David Edelstein of the New York magazine gave a favorable review, describing the film as "a cunning weave of low and high". Yahoo! described the "Raunchy Sex Comedy Wrapped Up in a Noble Quest" as "overall, sets and scenery were fantastic and photography was incredible...a awesome, piece of foolishness wrapped up as a Period Piece...more in common with American Pie than it did to Lord of the Rings. Richard Corliss, who admired McBride's and Green's earlier work, said he felt a "kind of head-swiveling awe in Your Highness‘s concentration of aimless inanity, in the purity of its devotion to its own louche principles. Like members of some post-Dadaist collective, the filmmakers have dedicated themselves to memorializing every first, wrong impulse that popped into their heads, while ruthlessly excising any vestige of wit or narrative niceties as being too linear, dude.
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During the filming of a TV commercial for a "Meat for Go" campaign set in London's Smithfield Market, stuntman Steve (Dave Clark), disillusioned by the inanity of his job, absconds in an E-type Jaguar (one of the props) with a young actress/model, Dinah (Barbara Ferris). After a visit to Oasis Swimming Pools, an open-air swimming pool in central London, and a memorable scene in and around the Great Conservatory on the grounds of Syon House, they make their way across a wintry southern England toward Burgh Island, off the coast of Devon. Dinah is contemplating buying the island, presumably to escape the pressures of her celebrity as the "Butcher Girl" on the back of the TV meat advertising campaign. This act of rebellion is cynically exploited by the advertising executive behind the campaign, Leon Zissell (David de Keyser), who dispatches two of his henchmen to pursue the fleeing couple.
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" Shubhra Gupta of The Indian Express gave the film a rating of 1 out of 5 saying that, "The Taapsee Pannu and Saqib Saleem starrer follows the standard rom-com template, and apart from literally a few moments, the whole thing is a slog." Namrata Joshi of The Hindu reviewed the film saying that, "Disjointed, tackily put together with no sense of drama and direction, it will be difficult to top this one on the inanity stakes this year." Sukanya Verma of Rediff gave the film a rating of 1 out of 5 saying that, "Just when it looks our film-making is moving away from idolising toxic archetypes for the sake of romantic fulfillment, Aleya Sen's Dil Juunglee comes along and squashes it in entirety." Umesh Panwani of Koimoi gave the film a rating of 1 out of 5 saying that, "Dil Juunglee is one of those films you give someone a dare to watch.
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Variety gave a negative review of the film, stating that "characters and story are flimsy and seem intended as mere pegs on which to hang the musical numbers" and that "choreography generates a lot of energy, but its frantic tempo doesn't always compensate for lack of imagination." However, the review also complimented the film's technical aspects, particularly that, "David Gurfinkel's camera work profusely using every trick in the business, every filter and lighting device, to hold attention up at all times." The Monthly Film Bulletin described The Apple as a "cut-price extravaganza plummets to a new low in opportunistic inanity" and that the "sole saving grace is an enthusiastically camp performance by Vladek Skeybal." The Ottawa Citizen described The Apple (along with Golan's earlier film The Magician of Lublin) as "remarkable feats of ineptitude". On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a 20% score based on 10 reviews, with an average rating of 3.99/10.
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