Sentence examples for empty argument from inspiring English sources

Concerns that winning the Booker prize will be far more challenging for UK and Commonwealth writers was a "glass half full, half empty argument" said Trewin, arguing that increased competition would make winning an even greater accolade.

That's an empty argument if there ever was one.

A lot of how people feel about it, though certainly not all, is a classic glass half full vs. half empty argument: It all depends on whether you tend to see things in a positive or negative light, and whether you are optimistic that progressives can build on what's good about this in the future, or whether you think that's false optimism given the power of the insurance industry.

That goes for the "empty arguments" about evolution and religion too.

Leonhart's won't-someone-PLEASE-think-of-the-fluffy-puppies plea makes it seem as if she truly is running on empty, argument-wise.

If we are going to take aim at anything, then let it be at America's unhealthy obsession with guns and at the empty arguments against gun control, not at common sense.

Interpreting the results boils down to a glass-half-full, glass-half-empty argument.

Tim Pawlenty was one of several making the tired-and-empty argument that more tax cutting would "get the economy moving".

The "emptiness-argument" and the "nonself-argument" show that all conventionally real phenomena and persons are empty of intrinsic reality.

In essence, the debate about malaria clonality/sexuality although longstanding and controversial (see introduction) is somewhat futile and akin to arguing about whether a glass is half full or half empty, the arguments being different ways of interpreting the same observation.

Whether the empty-calories argument is true, it's certainly convenient.