But Vin Diesel looks at the two flimsy concepts of science and logic, and smiles on the side of his face, and looks to the sand beneath his boots, and does a little laugh, like this: ah, ha ha ha.
This is another exercise in slightly fey Cirque fantasizing, full of conventional circus acts mixed with generic choreography and bent to a flimsy narrative concept, accompanied by the sort of music mimes would make if mimes made music.
Faced with the flimsiest of concepts, he had to take it by both ends and pull until he stretched it out to two and a quarter hours.
"It got to the point where it was feeling pretty flimsy as a concept.
They didn't think they could sell a concept this flimsy.
According to music journalist Richie Unterberger, Tommy was hailed by contemporary critics as the Who's breakthrough, but its critical standing diminished slightly in the subsequent decades, because of its occasionally pretentious concept and flimsy songs that functioned as devices to "advance the rather sketchy plot".
Stern concluded by saying that he "thought this would be much worse because the concept is so flimsy, but I have to say: It's kind of a treat to see Madonna letting loose and having some fun".
Men's Health neglects to explain precisely what makes these places manly when so many millions of women are fond of barbecue, pizza, steak, tacos, burgers, sandwiches and brew pubs, but perhaps this was nothing more than a flimsy men's magazine conceit, to permit the introduction of a high-concept contest.
Nor should it be forgotten that the war lacked UN approval and helped usher in the dubious concept of "humanitarian intervention", under which military action can be taken on the flimsiest of pretexts.
