Dislike of shallow promises and easy solutions in times of war, eco-disaster and other horrors have grounded fairytales; the escapist stories have become lenses through which difficult truths are inspected.
Their requests have been met with a combination of silence, empty and shallow promises and a phrase that has become the defacto norm for Obaigbena in his responses, 'the money has been transferred" and yet time and time again no such funds were ever transferred.
To those who claim that B. Hussein Obama's reelection was a mandate to exercise his presidential duties and name a successor to the Supreme Court, I say not to allow yourself to be blinded by his shallow promises of free healthcare; you surely don't want to put your family's well being in the hands of government-salaried doctors and their death panels.
Citizens must also demand the country's future be "fact-based, not based on wishful thinking, not hoped-for outcomes made in shallow promises, but with a clear-eyed view of the facts as they are and guided by the truth that will set us free to seek solutions to our most daunting challenges," he said.
It was quite embarrassing when Our Host had to retrieve him from doing hand stands in the shallow end and promise him a vodka tonic just to get him back in the group huddle.
In 2016, she found Trump's promises shallow and empty, especially coupled with proposals that she considered anti-immigrant.
Shortly after promising that he would "get our house in order," he then contributed to the NFL's further image erosion with hollow promises, shallow platitude and evasive explanations.
For a slick 87 minutes, The Shallows delivers on its promise: Blake Lively, in a bikini, fighting a shark.
Its aim is not to better our children, it is to brand them with designer labels, empty promises and shallow ideals.
It tenderly demonstrates the rewards of connection and shows how collaboration toward a common cause ultimately holds more promise than the shallow pursuit of individual greatness.
