| 单词 | vacuous |
| 例句 | For now she had to figure a way to separate this vacuous girl from her mirrored sunglasses. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Her face tear-streaked but quite expressionless, almost vacuous, she picked up her handbag from the floor, opened it, and took out the small pea-green clothbound book. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z His talk was far from vacuous and stood out sharply from the rest, several of which bore no connection to the purpose of the meeting. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Whatever it is, that same look I see in those pictures, noble and vacuous, was the look I saw in Mable Jones. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z He looked at her carefully, but he was no match for the bland and vacuous docility Lyra could command when she wanted to; and finally he nodded and went back to his newspaper. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z There was something vacuous and stupid about it, flapping out there in the middle of nowhere, something empty, banal, brutish. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Katie refused to dance with the feller provided for her, a vacuous vulgar boy given to remarks like: “I thought you musta fallen in,” when Katie returned from a trip to the ladies’ room. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z He was brought up short by the rope which was wound round the tree—the vacuous brachet meanwhile giving a melancholy yelp— and fell off his horse with a tremendous clang. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z She was the kind of pretty, burnt-out, vacuous girl who at home wouldn’t have given me the time of day. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z All I can do is put in time waiting for the inevitable, observing as the ghosts of my past rattle around my vacuous present. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Now, Colin had seen enough movies to know what happens when dorks go to cool-kid parties: generally, the dorks either get thrown into the pool or they become drunk, vacuous cool kids themselves. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z I felt sick inside as I looked at his dull, vacuous smile—the wide, bright eyes of a child, uncertain but eager to please, and I realized what I had recognized in him. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps it’s the new year’s resolution for the Internet age, or a quirky millennial form of meditation, or another example of the vacuous attention-seeking of social media. She makes a tiny chair, he eats a taco, she braids a lock. Every. Single. Day. 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z Nice to see Ritter playing sharp, smart and deep instead of vacuous pretty. 'Listen Up Philip' is a toxic triumph 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z “If it was fundamentally vacuous, nobody complained. It was something to look at, something to walk on and something to think about.” Christo, Artist Who Wrapped and Festooned on an Epic Scale, Dies at 84 2020-05-31T04:00:00Z Warburg's first estimation of Americans, when he worked in New York in the 1920s, was that they were "boring, vacuous in both spiritual and human terms, and suffocating in money." 'High Financier': Niall Ferguson on the banker who helped make London a capital of finance 2010-06-23T23:38:00Z Is this a paean to Calvin and Tinie's youthful years necking MD 20/20 outside their respective branches of Woolworths, or just another vacuous ode to Grey Goose and LA clubs with table service? This week's new tracks 2013-02-04T06:00:00Z Nicholas Phan, 42, a tenor of Chinese and Greek descent, said Asians tend to be seen as technically precise yet artistically vacuous. Asians Are Represented in Classical Music. But Are They Seen? 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z More precisely, people who don't listen to her show ridicule her, for any of a number of outbursts/diet tips/daytime TV disasters/ways in which she seems to typify vacuous modern culture. Radio review: Vanessa Feltz on Radio 2 2011-01-18T08:00:05Z Photograph: David M Benett/Getty Images Sadly, not as the title might suggest, a new musical about our happy canine friends, but a vacuous trawl through the shopping habits of footballers' wives and girlfriends. Wag! The Musical! – review 2013-07-25T16:10:20Z The draftsmanship is original, but the content is too vacuous to be endearing. Film-makers have lost the art of making a long story short 2013-04-08T10:48:51Z In the first part of the new series her genuine ability to act is criminally underused, and her nostril-flaring skills are criminally overused as she adopts a constant state of vacuous doll-like terror. TV highlights 06/06/2012 2012-06-05T19:00:01Z Almost 50 years later, the fable about vacuous, ephemeral celebrity remains tartly relevant. The big picture: Julie Christie and Dirk Bogarde film Darling, 1964 2011-02-13T00:05:50Z Wilde, the clever but somewhat vacuous celebrity poseur, became an increasingly passionate presence on stage and an engaging quote machine for the anarchic American press. Review | Surprising influences on Oscar Wilde’s greatest works 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z Charles Isherwood’s Theater Talkback post last week, about the dearth of good musical theater voices, was prompted by what he called the “vocally vacuous” concert version of “Company” staged by the New York Philharmonic. ArtsBeat: Curtain Down, Heads Up: Where Are the Voices? 2011-04-18T12:00:41Z Nothing else I’ve read is as faithful to the obscenity of these latter days, the consummation of vacuous pop culture and complete social bankruptcy. Review | Finally, a novel that captures the inanity of the Trump era. It isn’t pretty. 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z A superior performer would certainly have been under-stretched by the vacuous script and the long sections where nothing happens of any consequence. I've never seen … Top Gun 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z But both shows use tabloid material for didactic purposes and, specifically, to condemn the morally vacuous eras they depict. Critic’s Notebook: London’s Dark Musicals ‘American Psycho’ and ‘Stephen Ward’ 2014-01-20T18:23:32Z Witness “The Woman Who Blew Away,” a cautionary tale concerning a Kylie Jenner-ish young woman whose immense success and vacuous life untether her from reality. Review | In ‘Roar,’ Cecelia Ahern uses fables to delve into what it means to be a woman 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z Friend's article warned against the "guilt-free freedom" of these monsters, who threatened a culture that traditionally valued self-denial and regarded fame as a reward for achievement, not a by-product of vacuous notoriety. Anna Nicole: the opera 2011-01-02T00:04:04Z “Colin Firth does dominate my visual field, which is a pity,” he said, “because TV and film fix an image of a character whom Jane Austen, for artistic reasons, left vacuous.” Mr. Darcy, You’re No Colin Firth 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z What stays the same, and what always gets me when I walk through one of these houses, are the vacuous spaces. Let them eat McMansions! The 1 percent, income inequality, and new-fashioned American excess 2014-04-13T11:00:00Z Written by Ricky Simmonds and Simon Vaughan, it skewers its protagonist for the vacuous cynicism of his political demagogy, as well as his considerable personal shortcomings. Review: ‘Berlusconi: A New Musical’ Is Hammy and Hamstrung 2023-04-04T04:00:00Z The vacuous "Shadows," embalmed now at MOCA, has gained nothing from the passage of yet more time. Alas, mere 'Shadows' 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z The show was an early forerunner of reality TV, but focussed on social history and inequality rather than fleeting celebrity and vacuous challenges. Michael Apted, 1941-2021: tributes paid to ‘visionary’ director of Up series 2021-01-09T05:00:00Z Concerto, only underlined the fact his playing at its worst is as inaccurate as it is vacuous. Review: Maurizio Pollini and Lang Lang: A Study in Contrasts at Carnegie Hall 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z Though you may find the occasional decent bottle, they are full of processed wines and vacuous brands that are the equivalent of empty calories. Everyday Wines: The Most Important Bottles You Will Drink 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z These days, if there is a vacuous parent on a sitcom, it’s likely to be a father. CBS’s ‘Mom’ Handles Issues Beyond Kissing Boo-Boos 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z Everything about “The Stranger in the Lifeboat” is sketched in cartoon colors — from its vacuous theology and maudlin tragedies to its class warfare theme. Review | Mitch Albom serves up another helping of superficial spirituality 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z Instead of pretending to be an “artist,” that vacuous elevation, I learned to emulate the artisan. I was a screenwriting guru groupie 2012-11-24T15:00:00Z And we did what we should have done in the first place: drank cocktails, rather than watch them disappear down the gaping maws of four vacuous people I used to quite like. Why the quality of Sex and the City 2 makes little difference to its fans 2010-06-04T16:36:00Z When they coined the phrase "girl power" they were hailed as modern-day feminists by some and dismissed as vacuous pop princesses by others. Spice Girls musical tests Girl Power's stamina 2012-12-11T12:29:12Z “There Be Dragons” belongs to a realm devoid of flesh and blood, where vacuous oratory reigns and religiosity passes for faith. | 'There Be Dragons': A Guess-the-Flavoring Game, and Then Along Comes a War 2011-05-06T05:30:06Z And, of course, an endless supply of gorgeous, vacuous, often shirtless women, because apparently there’s nothing a gal likes more in a guy than stupidity, self-absorption and a knack for treating the opposite sex dismissively. Review: ‘Ballers,’ on HBO, Follows a Financial Guru to the Sports Stars 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z This time, though, some critics have tagged McKay’s version of events as both vacuous and paternalistic, suggesting that the director was out of his depth. A Pocket Guide to the Oscars’ Beefiest Controversies 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z So I decided to go into showbusiness, which is why I’m this terrible, bitter, vacuous person speaking to you now. Andrew Scott: 'I'm Fleabag and she's the priest? I'd still have sex with him' 2019-06-02T04:00:00Z East Germany imploded, but neither its creation nor its demise was as vacuous as the novel suggests. Tear Down That Will: An East German Guide to Breaking the Spirit 2020-08-11T04:00:00Z The division between the two is stark as if the Serranos’ piercing meaning has been dulled and drained off with Currin’s pretty but essentially vacuous paintings. When we all smelled like teen spirit 2013-04-21T19:00:00Z But the overall impression given by the studio’s magpie oeuvre is of brilliant surfaces wrapped around a vacuous core. High-End Works Toying With Politically Loaded Signifiers 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z Muting the joyless noise You’re probably familiar with the vacuous soundtrack of joylessness, and are perhaps no stranger to cowardice. Former drunks make unstoppable runners 2013-01-06T14:00:00Z The color and vivrancy that has infused their sound is intentionally stripped; much of what remains is vacuous, removed from place but for the occasional Caribbean flourish. Andre 3000: The most ominous instrument in hip-hop 2016-11-26T05:00:00Z Henry is no Babbitt; he is far from smug or vacuous; he is not a dupe. Review: In ‘The Adventurist,’ an Executive’s Search for Meaning and Small Raptures 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z Admittedly I am not an accountant, but after viewing this beautiful but ultimately vacuous trifle I can’t see how it’s a better return on investment long term than its very good multi-camera. What Netflix wants you to want: Breezy "Turn Up Charlie" is in, "One Day at a Time" is out 2019-03-17T04:00:00Z The politics here are deliberately vacuous: something like “breast cancer” becomes a way for audiences to project themselves into the emotional experience that the dancers are expressing for them on the stage. Fox’s populist dance spectacle 2012-09-18T18:08:00Z Once that’s understood, the record becomes sort of entertaining: gaudy, vacuous, densely mannered. New Music: ?SuperHeavy,? With Mick Jagger, and ?Where Are the Arms? - Review 2011-09-19T22:39:18Z That’s the spirit that “Saturday Night Live” tried to return to this weekend with an opening sketch that imagined the celebrity arrival for Sunday’s Oscars, complete with vacuous hosts and overly excited nominees. ‘Saturday Night Live’ Goes to the Oscars 2023-03-12T05:00:00Z The question of being itself, as Updike and Holt agree, can seem profound in one mood, vacuous in another. ‘Why Does the World Exist?’ by Jim Holt 2012-08-03T22:40:08Z There is a dizzying amount of information to take in and some of the characters come so quickly and are as interchangeably vacuous that it’s hard to keep them straight. Scream Queens: Glee creator is back with a frighteningly funny horror show 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z They were hailed as modern-day feminists by some and dismissed as vacuous pop princesses by others, but their success is beyond doubt. Critics pan "charmless" Spice Girls musical 2012-12-12T16:10:56Z Thriving amid this vacuous Hollywood ritual is relatively easy for actors and actresses, even ones receiving awards attention for the first time. Oscar Casts Its Glow on a Regular Guy 2010-03-06T03:22:00Z For the generation who suffered through the vacuous musical excesses of the ’80s, Prince was our true artist. ‘Prince Was Our True Artist’: Readers Share Their Memories 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z This proves to be a gracious old pile known as Brockburn, where a party of vacuous people are sitting down to eat dinner and assassinate the characters of absent friends. Louise Penny’s Most Haunting Novel Yet 2020-10-09T04:00:00Z Later, Pitt was said to have suggested that his wife eat a hamburger to help gain weight — a piece of advice he supposedly read on GOOP, Paltrow’s lifestyle website for the rich and vacuous. Stop blaming the “other woman”: Brad and Angelina rumors run on toxic sexism 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z She went, and met a ruin of a man who was "totally vacuous and completely happy". India's bold, brilliant daughter 2011-01-29T00:06:38Z There are also vacuous soap operas, professional poker tournaments, Ultimate Fighting brawls, weight-loss infomercials. Review: ‘Donald Blumberg Photographs,’ Observing America on the Streets and From the Sofa 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z I bet the Met’s ranks are full of young curators with better ideas for digital programming than this show’s vacuous chatter. The Art of Staying Cool: 10 Can’t-Miss Summer Shows in New York 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z The conceit of the vacuous nonfiction movie “Casting JonBenet” is simple. Review: ‘Casting JonBenet’ Revisits a 1996 Murder 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z These war works are not important because they are “topical” — or, to use the vacuous catchphrase of our day, “necessary.” The Role of Art in a Time of War 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z The characters are vacuous and the dialogue's infantile. Prince of Persia shows why films based on video games will never work 2010-05-24T11:06:00Z Dean is also an excellent character, someone who is almost completely vacuous but still believes his own hype. Grandfathered and The Grinder: John Stamos and Rob Lowe's mid-career triumphs 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z In an upcoming episode, Pied Piper’s sales department commissions a pompous, vacuous ad. How “Silicon Valley” Nails Silicon Valley 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z Churchill's play emerges as a highly topical piece of living history, as vacuous arguments about the Big Society are used to camouflage the reinforcement of economic injustice. Light Shining in Buckinghamshire 2010-07-21T21:15:00Z It is the act of a vacuous narcissist. The Case for Covering Your Ears in Noisy Times 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z Pretension brunches with fraudulence and snobbery, and shops for baubles with the pseudo and the vacuous. In defence of pretentiousness | Dan Fox 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z Or is the vacuous experience of watching the “Ellen” show just so much more glaring now? Perspective | Ellen DeGeneres is sorry. ‘Ellen’ the talk show is still forcing a smile. 2020-09-23T04:00:00Z Labour's home secretary, Tony Blair, was put up to attack it, and, in an uncharacteristically irritable speech, called the third way "vacuous". What if John Smith had lived? 2011-04-07T20:00:15Z The febrile activity of the politicians, the lapdog enthusiasm of the media, the vacuous commentary – what is it all about, exactly? Artist Stuart Brisely: shutting up shop on the old politics 2010-05-21T12:10:00Z Owners and management are shown as depraved, vacuous, corrupt and downright evil, scheming to create workers who are ever cheaper, more compliant and more profitable. Sorry to Bother You: is this the most shocking anti-capitalist film ever? 2018-08-19T04:00:00Z Many of these books are stirring on the level of detail but an equal number thoughtlessly valorize the American soldier or wallow in the morally vacuous conclusion that war is hell and that’s that. An American Pilot, a Muslim Teenager and a Talking Dog All Caught in an Absurd War 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z I love how this film shows how he took control of his image early on, and how we see the lyrics to Freedom as being so astute, not vacuous at all. The 30 best films about music, chosen by musicians 2019-08-18T04:00:00Z The spaciousness of the music doesn’t mean it’s vacuous. Frank Ocean and the virtues of boredom 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z In any assemblage of movie artefacts, there's a danger of entering Hard Rock Café territory, creating a vacuous mausoleum of celebrity. Hollywood Costume – dressing the part 2012-10-12T21:55:14Z These days, she is breaking the mold of the self-absorbed, vacuous and angst-ridden teenage star. ‘Black-ish’ Star Yara Shahidi Is a Role Model Off-Screen 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z These are ghastly, ghastly people – vacuous, petty, dull, offensive. Made in Chelsea; The Prisoners – TV review 2013-04-09T06:00:00Z Adults and teenagers are uniformly vacuous and catty. Television Review: ?Suburgatory? on ABC ? Review 2011-09-27T16:18:22Z In those vacuous academic exercises, he trained to express ideals of bourgeois propriety. ‘Egon Schiele: Portraits’ at Neue Galerie 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z His wife buoys herself by recalling the vacuous aphorisms of her Grandma Win. Margaret Atwood’s ‘The Heart Goes Last’: A satire of unbridled capitalism 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z That was a big part of the problem with the 1996 film version, starring Madonna, who was both perfectly cast and utterly vacuous. Spring Performance: On Broadway, a Penchant for Celebrity Biographies in Song 2012-02-23T22:15:24Z Sam Francis, who died of cancer in 1994, had “been subjected to the criticism that what he is doing is vacuous, emotionally thin,” Mr. Agee told the newspaper. William Agee, Leading Art Curator and Teacher, Dies at 86 2023-01-30T05:00:00Z Most movies that deploy violence tidy it up with empty outrage and vacuous moralizing; here, the violence haunts you. ‘Crimes of the Future’ Review: The Horror, the Horror 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z The aggressively gossamer plot plays with the cliches of vacuous flapper-era musicals. Sandy Wilson, composer of ‘The Boy Friend,’ dies at 90 When we first encounter Max, he's a vacuous university student attempting to catch the eye of the pretty, principled law student by pretending to care about social issues. 'Anything for Alice' mixes chemistry, old formula for success 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z I find them pompous, vacuous, and vaguely enraging. The Disquieting Power of Wilhelm Furtwängler, Hitler’s Court Conductor 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z Related: Ten for the bonfire: Vanity Fair's most awkward Hollywood issue covers Everyone on that red carpet is desperately worried about being seen as a vacuous opportunist. Four stars, one cover, 1,000 stylists: why EW's Beyond Beautiful photo is beyond belief 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z She proves you don't need to be slim and pretty to be a vacuous cretin. Kim Kardashian's Butt Might Just Break the Internet Today 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z It seems vacuous to dwell on the look of the thing, but, well, look at it: thick as a phonebook, red and blue, with an upside-down duck on the cover. Can One Sentence Capture All of Life? 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z Get attention, just not the wrong kind. Of course, nobody wants to talk to a vacuous robot whose response to every topic is a too-loud “someone said they liked my lede!” #AmWriting, please RT: A few twitter offenses that are worse than retweeting compliments 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z When Garfield’s comments made their way on to Twitter, they were widely and rightfully derided as the silly, vacuous words of a heterosexual naif. Andrew Garfield, queer-baiting and the perils of 'playing gay' 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z Set during World War I, the movie builds a temporal and thematic trench between itself and the vacuous Batman v Superman. Why Wonder Woman Broke Through 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z But the vacuous smile this throwback musical leaves with you is hardly a crime. 'Bright Star' at the Ahmanson: Bluegrass, tears and a big, vacuous smile 2017-10-23T04:00:00Z By the time Church arrives at the chorus, he’s taunting his ideologically vacuous peers: “Stick that in your country song/Take that one to No. 1,” he sneers, knowing full well they never would. Country Music Struggles to Meet the Moment. Again. 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z He also quotes Lillian Hellman’s great description of a vacuous actress: “Her face is unclouded by thought.” Woody Allen Reviews a Graphic Tale of a Scandalous Starlet 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z Given the Donmar's exemplary musical track record, it is a bit of a shock to find them importing this flimsy, vacuous diversion. The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee - review 2011-02-22T02:09:02Z He hates the agency's new young, hip Swedish owners, whom he considers stupid and vacuous. Showtime's 'Happyish' mostly just selfish and smuggish for now 2015-04-25T04:00:00Z Bergès-Frisbey sums it up: "We live in a vacuous world, yet we do so with a feeling of urgency." France's 'lost generation' of jobless youth finds film portrait in Juliette 2013-07-20T23:06:06Z But the actual meat of the film itself – its story and ideas – I found disappointingly vacuous. Lincoln sets stage for celebration of US history 2013-01-09T10:53:59Z He consistently attacks the vacuous nature of celebrity, and challenges us to look at our own prejudices through his searing, unflinching deconstruction of society's holy cow subjects. Is Frankie Boyle actually funny? 2010-12-19T00:06:27Z With each of her coy winks, Lynch’s presence on “Hollywood Game Night” makes it all seem less vacuous — but only slightly so. ‘Hollywood Game Night’ and the problem with the celebrity fun bus 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z It was only displaced, to my chagrin and doubtless that of those within earshot, by ’N Sync’s heroically vacuous “Bye Bye Bye,” a recurrent theme in Sean Baker’s terrific, deceptively loose-limbed “Red Rocket.” Falling Back in Love With Cannes 2021-07-18T04:00:00Z I loathe gruesome and/or ordeal horror – I mean, what’s the point? – but for the real crimes against cinema you need to go to the pretentious, the vacuous and the unnecessarily cruel. The films our critics walked out on: 'There was no way in hell I was going back in' 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z Firstly, how we might avoid predictable or, worse, vacuous, transitions. 'Birdman' screenwriters created tension within its one-shot narration 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z Labour, for me, is the party of working class people who sought to educate themselves and their communities, not to glorify vacuous street art. Labour championing Banksy? It's a betrayal of party values 2013-02-27T15:26:06Z It’s tempting to think viewers back then were so vacuous that this glop spoke to them, but give the grandparents some credit. Critic’s Notebook: Long-Ago Shows From Stars Like Perry Como and Dean Martin 2013-12-22T21:24:18Z It seems that Mr. Barry intends his creations to be this vacuous and this criminally irresponsible. Kieron Barry’s ‘Tomorrow in the Battle’: A Love Triangle 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z It was a brash move, but it offered relief from the vacuous world-pop of the new Jamal song; his struggle to find a producer who fits his temperament was depicted a little too literally there. 'Empire' Recap: A Homecoming Betrayal 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z It's tempting to suggest that Sandler makes such horrifyingly vacuous films, in which absurd gags float around in a killing void resembling outer space, because he is cynical or does not care. "Just Go With It": Adam Sandler, Jennifer Aniston, Nicole Kidman and a sheep 2011-02-10T20:30:00Z He’s surprisingly convincing as a hard-drinking, drug-taking, morally vacuous cop, and he also helps to deliver a sucker punch of an ending that brings real poignancy. James McAvoy: five best moments 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z Popular websites like Gawker have dismissed O’Connell’s approach as self-indulgent while other critics berate Thought Catalog as a vacuous outlet designed solely to aid 20-somethings in hearing themselves speak. Too Sincere for the Internet? How the Web Journal Thought Catalog Sparked an Online Firestorm 2012-07-05T14:00:18Z Some are decent, a few are very good, and most are vacuous commercial enterprises. J-Lo needs a Back-Up Plan as romcom underwhelms US box office 2010-04-26T09:19:00Z To the Vigilant Citizen, a pop star appearing "vacuous, incoherent and absent-minded" must be "a tribute to mind control" rather than them actually being vacuous, incoherent and absent-minded. Lady Gaga and the New World Order 2010-07-01T20:59:00Z Publishers love to print the ones from well-known authors, so they must help sell books, but they can be a bit vacuous. Tips, links and suggestions: What are you reading today? 2013-03-12T16:10:04Z I don’t necessarily love that certain institutions in society are becoming less relevant than others that are more vacuous. Q&A: DAZN CEO Joseph Markowski is upbeat about the future of boxing despite its problems 2023-11-12T05:00:00Z Paul, who just wants to find a publisher for his book, is suddenly confronted with imbecilic pitches, vacuous corporate sponsorships, brazen flattery and one surprising instance of sexual attention. Review: Nicolas Cage is pure nightmare fuel in 'Dream Scenario.' That's (kind of) a good thing 2023-11-09T05:00:00Z Bankman-Fried exploited the vacuity of crypto as an asset by slathering it over with what sounded like profundities but were vacuous at their core. Column: Sam Bankman-Fried's seven guilty verdicts expose crypto as a swindle through and through 2023-11-03T04:00:00Z Former leader Tim Farron spoke against the successful amendment, adding the England-wide target was "vague and vacuous" and would prove an "electoral gift for the Tories" - to jeers from some in the conference hall. Lib Dem members defy leadership on housing target 2023-09-25T04:00:00Z Both actors gamely mock themselves and each other, upending our ready-made assumptions about the value of the obscure, self-serious artist relative to the vacuous, hugely popular influencer. Review: 'Rotting in the Sun' is the horny, thorny Instagay meta-mystery you've been waiting for 2023-09-08T04:00:00Z As soon as we meet the vacuous, self-absorbed Andy, we know that girls as smart as Stacy and Lydia will eventually have his number — and not the kind for texting. Review: 'You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah' is a sweet take on rites, fights and tween drama 2023-08-25T04:00:00Z But these are all generic classes of writing; samples turned out by humans in these categories often have a vacuous, robotic quality. Column: Artificial intelligence chatbots are spreading fast, but hype about them is spreading faster 2023-07-13T04:00:00Z It is an online Mall of America: vast, vacuous, relentlessly commercial and soul-sucking. Commentary: As those aboard the Titan submersible suffer, social media laughs 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z The liked tweets included references to Ms Dorries being a "vacuous goon". SNP MP cleared of bullying Nadine Dorries 2023-06-20T04:00:00Z Take Florida Gov. Ron Desantis who has backed this vacuous claim of a "weaponized" Department of Justice and promised to follow the same program only on steroids: Trump tries to flip it all on Biden 2023-06-16T04:00:00Z The very idea of ownership was vacuous and false to Proudhon, a conceit that ensured that the wealthy maintained their hold on political and legal power. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z The pregame chatter among CNN's vacuous panelists, meanwhile, used the same empty framing that has long made the term "talking heads" a pejorative. What the media missed from Trump by falling for his CNN distraction 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z Instead, they were built around “vacuous words and phrases” — regulations were “tailored,” “streamlined,” “right-sizing,” and made “fair.” Column: How Trump's frenzy of deregulation killed Silicon Valley Bank 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z The liked tweets were said to have included descriptions of Ms Dorries as being "grotesque", "as thick as two short planks" and a "mendacious, vacuous goon". SNP MP cleared of bullying Nadine Dorries 2023-06-20T04:00:00Z One problem with assessing the rise and fall of wokeness is that the term is vacuous to the point of being meaningless. Column: Right-wing culture warriors say wokeness is dead. They can't even define it 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z It’s one thing if characters are performatively vacant or vacuous — “American Psycho” and “Glamorama” are long too, but in those books it’s a joke that no one can keep the characters straight. Can Bret Easton Ellis bring back the (fictional) glory days? 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z Trump has embraced at least some of those vacuous ideas. Woman leaves QAnon because Q and Steve Bannon ignored her "alien transmissions" 2022-12-28T05:00:00Z Critics in Britain and the United States have panned “Harry & Meghan” as vacuous, self-aggrandizing and narcissistic, but it’s clear that viewers are lapping it up. Harry Takes Aim at William in New Episodes of Netflix Documentary 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z Didion was taking a swipe at Bob Woodward’s vacuous books, Liebling at the lengthy period of uninformed speculation about the health of Joseph Stalin while he lay on his deathbed in 1953. Column: Britain's prime minister followed the GOP's economic plan. She lost her job in record time. 2022-10-24T04:00:00Z “I argued then and would argue now that the idea of a strong-dollar policy is a vacuous notion.” The Mixed Blessing of a ‘Strong Dollar’ 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z In pure mathematics, the definition of a falsehood is surprisingly narrow, and an important exception exists for what are called "vacuous truths." Lies, falsehoods and "vacuous truths": GOP explores a new realm of absolute emptiness 2022-09-04T04:00:00Z “Some of their criticisms are ones that unite the left and the right. Like we all find celebrity culture vacuous.” ‘South Park’ enjoys a silver anniversary of satire 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z And — yes, spoiler alert — a young boy terrorizes his family and adds to the Upside Down’s vacuous dimness in unimaginable ways. Experts, new ‘Stranger Things’ star Joseph Quinn break down the show’s dark Season 4 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z It’s as vacuous and absent of real content as its empty, tinny CEO and promoter, Norman. Perspective | Golf at St. Andrews is real, which is why it has no room for Greg Norman 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z Frankly, this is one of the most poorly reasoned, logically vacuous and biblically shallow comments I’ve heard on this issue. Saving the lives of millions of children not just a ‘political victory’ 2022-07-04T04:00:00Z Yet the distinction between conventional lies and vacuous truths articulates an important problem, even if the logician's answer to it is ill-suited to daily life. Lies, falsehoods and "vacuous truths": GOP explores a new realm of absolute emptiness 2022-09-04T04:00:00Z From The Times’ May 16, 1986 review: “Top Gun” is a male bonding adventure movie that’s both exciting and disturbing, mind-boggling and vacuous. Get ready for 'Top Gun: Maverick.' Here's where to watch the 1986 original 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z Against this backdrop, Jackson’s comments this past week are best read as the self-defeating triumph of a vacuous form of originalism. Perspective | If every judge is an originalist, originalism is meaningless 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z Among the many vacuous reasons the Court of Arbitration for Sport gave in clearing Valieva was that, with her complicated case still unresolved, it didn’t want to cause “irreparable harm” to her. Perspective | Even if Kamila Valieva wins, she will be defined by what she has lost 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z Facebook executive Nicola Mendelsohn shook up the online-o-sphere earlier this week with one of those offhand declarations that sound superficially profound for a moment or two but are vacuous at their core. Column: A flailing Mark Zuckerberg wants Facebook to pivot to video — again 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z Besides, every older generation looks down on the current one with disdain and thinks theirs was somehow less vacuous. Perspective | What the Jake Paul fight looked like to someone who doesn’t follow Jake Paul 2021-12-19T05:00:00Z A licentious, money-drenched, morally bankrupt and intellectually vacuous ruling class, accountable to no one and free to plunder and prey on the weak like human vultures, rise to power in societies in terminal decline. Ghislaine Maxwell's trial is a sideshow — powerful, abusive men will not be held accountable 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z The David Ditch column can kindly be referred to as vacuous. Infrastructure package: ‘Spending’ vs. ‘investment’ 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z When we spoke, he hadn’t eaten for 14 days and described himself as feeling “vacuous.” Perspective | Five young people stopped eating to get grown-ups to start addressing the climate crisis 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z Mr. Scolari played a cocksure, if sometimes vacuous, television producer, Michael Harris, who persuades Newhart’s character to host a local show. Peter Scolari, stage and TV actor who won an Emmy for ‘Girls,’ dies at 66 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z No information, nothing but a vacuous statement, was released. Opinion | Jon Gruden needed to go. But that’s hardly the full story. 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z The film’s message of female empowerment has gained attention for flipping the script on anime, Japan’s signature style of animated movies and graphic novels that often portrays girls and women as weak, vacuous and hyper-sexualized. In Japan's anime universe, ‘Belle’ seeks to rewrite script on female power 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z "Inside it's totally hollow. Some government officials are like that too - vacuous and unjust," he says. India's living dead: 'They stared at me like I was a ghost' 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z The theory holds that our increasingly vacuous cosmos will eventually produce a singularity, a rupture in spacetime similar to the big bang. Can Science Survive the Death of the Universe? 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z “It’s so simple-minded. It’s very shallow and very superficial and intellectually vacuous,” she said. ‘Revolutionizing a culture’: How critical race theory grew from law school thesis to K-12 trend 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z Satirists set up a website, known as the “Lapidomator,” that allowed users to generate vacuous statements on any given topic — mocking the perceived emptiness of Mr. Lapid’s ideas. Yair Lapid Won’t Be Israel’s Next Leader. But He’s the Power Behind the Throne. 2021-06-12T04:00:00Z The beats were all the same, the highs and lows vacuous. Perspective | As the pandemic retreats, we’re left wondering what we’ve been through 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z As I’ve reported, this is a vacuous mantra that plays up the state’s avoidance of conservative nostrums such as deregulations and low taxes, but doesn’t explain why the state has been booming. Column: The California recall is fascinating — especially if you're an East Coast TV anchor 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z A flag for just how shallow the consideration will be crops up early, when the vacuous fun of the celebrity-packed fashion parade at the annual Met Gala turns up within the first 10 minutes. Review: How will the Met respond to a changed world? If only this PBS doc would ask 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z In one article titled "The Problem With Prom", he called the event "a shallow, vacuous affair, about nothing more than who has spent the most on looking nice." 'Kardashian clones' jibes teacher struck off 2021-03-22T04:00:00Z When an interviewer asks me what it’s like to see Homegoing on the bestseller list again, I say something short and vacuous like “it’s bittersweet”, because the idea of elaborating exhausts and offends me. White people, black authors are not your medicine | Yaa Gyasi 2021-03-20T04:00:00Z “If it saves a single life . . .” That oft-heard statement is at once so natural, so human, so admirably empathetic . . . and so vacuous. Opinion | Lockdowns needed a warning label, too 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z She said that the "gossiping about celebrities" got under her skin and felt "empty and vacuous" before beginning to feel "mean." Chelsea Handler says she was 'a self-absorbed lunatic' during her late-night show run 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z And let's not forget the more recent Benghazi crusade, which current House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy announced was conducted entirely for partisan political purposes and which led to the equally vacuous "Clinton email scandal." GOP's invented Hunter Biden scandal isn't going away: Are they shooting for 2022 already? 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z Public life in America has become so emptied out and vacuous that the very notion of there being a public conversation, let alone a high-quality public conversation, is gone. Cornel West on Trump, the virus and the future: "Imagine a world that is worth fighting for" 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z He’s always justifying his cowardly choices with vacuous bromides about “free speech,” but he’s obviously just in it for the money — no matter how much his platform is used to destroy our democracy. Opinion | America, We Break It, It’s Gone 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z Given that record, it is easy to think that the new Republican warnings about mail-in voting are similarly vacuous. Opinion | Trump is wrong about the dangers of absentee ballots 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z Xi’s vacuous, self-aggrandising ideological vision lies at the heart of this global crisis. Xi Jinping has buried the truth about coronavirus | Ma Jian 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z Williams asked Barr if his reasoning was based upon civil liberties concerns, and despite his earlier vacuous hand-wringing over abuse of government power, he didn't say yes. Donald Trump's one-man wrecking crew: Bill Barr wants to defeat impeachment, and then some 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z Gerhardt’s statement is the sort of vacuous hyperbole people fall back on to prepare themselves for a wasteful gesture. Opinion | A strike at Trump must succeed. Democrats are ensuring it won’t. 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z Tired of vacuous Nato summits spent tiptoeing around Trump, Macron let loose in an interview with the Economist, saying that Nato is suffering from “brain death”. Nato is not braindead. But it does need a shot of adrenaline | Michael H Fuchs 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z When pressed for specifics, Barr said, the administration’s critics respond only with “vacuous stares, followed by sputtering about the travel ban or some such thing.” Opinion | The most alarming part of Barr’s speech was its angrily partisan tone 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z In the vacuous tumult of the Trump era, I was looking for something durable: a stiff shot of no-nonsense spirituality. Opinion | One Cure for Malnutrition of the Soul 2019-10-19T04:00:00Z But he remains a luminous, transcendent talent, with the power to ennoble even an occasion as inane and vacuous as The Best. Lionel Messi’s enduring luminous talent marks him out as The Best 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z When they advocate the vacuous platitude about co-locating jobs and housing, it’s just a euphemism for crowding more people into every square meter of living space in our region. We’re not all on board with regional growth 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z Another petitioner, Ian Murray, Labour MP for Edinburgh South, said: “When Boris Johnson unveiled his vacuous slogan ‘taking back control’, voters weren’t told that this could mean shutting down parliament. Court hears fresh challenge to Johnson's no-deal Brexit 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z The nihilistic gewgaw, vacuous and vulgar, instead embodies the mythos that can be manufactured in a crude market-culture that primarily values art as a luxury asset. Review: Unicorns are just one of the wild rides in the Getty's marvelous 'Book of Beasts' 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z Rather than indulging in vacuous jump-scares, Singer summons moody narrative devices spearheaded by his actors to heighten the feeling that we are submerged in the occult. Review: The demonic possession Euro-horror of ‘Luz’ will rattle your soul 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z A smorgasbord of vacuous, white dudebro-centered coverage is not exactly aligned with the inclusive, empowering messages espoused by the world champions. Christen Press's Barstool deal is a slap in the face to what the USWNT stands for 2019-07-17T04:00:00Z “I’ve played some lunatics in my time, but the look of vacuous evil in his eyes as he autographed a waterboard kit, would put Daniel Day Lewis to shame.” Sacha Baron Cohen thanks Sarah Palin, Dick Cheney for 'Who Is America' Emmy nominations 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z Hampton said Tuesday she was “perplexed by the vacuous decision” to deprive her of her staff. Flap over Lt. Gov. aide’s firing roils Kentucky leadership 2019-06-18T04:00:00Z Wynn is of this age, but Twitter cannot contain her, and besides, she says, it’s mean and vacuous. Transgender YouTube star ContraPoints tries to change alt-right minds 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z It’s also about disconnecting from vacuous distractions and focusing on contemplation, introspection, acts of good, charity and connecting with God. Ramadan in Mideast is for fasting and Facebook, data shows 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z It pats her on the back for unspecified acts of bravery, but this strange conjunction of words is the most vacuous advertising noise this side of Miller Lite’s current slogan: “Hold True.” Opinion | Democrats need to sharpen their knives 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z But talk of “change” has become stale and repetitive, grounded in vacuous aspirations, such as the need to “maintain momentum”. I've seen how lawyers' sexism corrupts justice. This is how to change the industry | Charlotte Proudman 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z President Trump talks in vacuous generalities — “America first,” “Make America Great Again” — and governs in indecipherable contradictions. Opinion | Trump’s pet intellectuals are embarrassing themselves 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z Wynn is of this age, but Twitter cannot contain her, and besides, she says, it’s mean and vacuous. Transgender YouTube star ContraPoints tries to change alt-right minds 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z The demand that he be left alone, then, is entirely vacuous. How protecting Donald Trump’s family became a core principle of the Republican Party's ideology 2019-05-13T04:00:00Z “It's vacuous signaling of how virtuous they are compared to the rest of us unwashed masses,” Mattera said. Lifestyles of the Rich and Socialist: American celebs who blast capitalism while making millions 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z These two vacuous socialites are a perfect reflection of the inept celebrity president who sits in the White House where all three wield unimaginable power over the lives of every person on this planet. Jared and Ivanka: Moderates? Forget it. These vacuous looters epitomize the Trump presidency 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z Sasse issued an intellectually vacuous statement saying that as a “constitutional conservative,” he thinks the president’s emergency powers are too broad. Opinion | Trump relishes autocracy. What are Republicans willing to do about it? 2019-03-17T04:00:00Z They all do good work, but can’t save Chen from his own parlor games, which start off as mildly diverting but ultimately nosedive into vacuous tedium. ‘Caught’ at Intiman Theatre gets too caught up trying to pull rugs out from under its audience 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z The outsides of the little cookie discs are irritatingly slimy, and the interior is oddly vacuous. The official breakfast cereal power rankings: Part I 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z And yet years after the HBO satire “Silicon Valley” made the vacuous mission statement “making the world a better place” a recurring punch line, many companies still cheerlead the virtues of work with high-minded messaging. Why Are Young People Pretending to Love Work? 2019-01-26T05:00:00Z Faced with such cartoonish buffoonery, the response from the Trump White House was implausibly vacuous. Like Trump's favorite steaks, Roger Stone is well and truly done | Richard Wolffe 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z I also worry that many Americans will stay lost -- some of them by choice -- because the real world is simply too hard and the vacuous illusions and promises of Trump's America are too intoxicating. McDonald Trump: The surreal White House fast-food feast was America at its worst 2019-01-19T05:00:00Z By showing how easy it is to replicate a vacuous political campaign he hopes voters will think twice about their choices. Vote 'Dildo for Indonesia': rivals for president find young voters hard to please 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z And it is especially an argument that Fox News should be highlighting, since Fox is frequently responsible for stoking populism but keeping it vacuous or racialized, evading the debates the right really needs. Opinion | Tucker Carlson Versus Conservatism 2019-01-12T05:00:00Z One of the paper’s dimmest writers — the vacuous and principally unburdened Max Boot — was dispatched to put a fine point on the real reason for the season. Read my lips: Media’s love for George H.W. Bush more about hated of Donald Trump 2018-12-02T05:00:00Z But as conservative and ex-Republican Max Boot argued in a new Washington Post column, this is a completely vacuous claim. Conservative writer explains there’s no equivalence between Democrats’ and Republicans’ “... 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z I think if you’re running for office, you should be talking about your ideas, not just attacking your opponent in vacuous smears and overstatements. She Split With Cuomo. Now Comes Her Long, Long, Long-Shot Bid to Replace Him. 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z I’m certainly not immune to the charms of grinding for a slightly better gun but, for me, the spell inevitably fizzles and what was calming, even meditative, turns vacuous. Review | ‘Destiny 2: Forsaken’ is addictive and fun to play. Until it’s not. 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z According to this morally vacuous logic, it is the lust for money and success that incentivizes hard work, innovation and risk-taking. Perspective | Yes, it could happen again. The flaws of American capitalism invite cycles of booms and busts. 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z Even frequent Trump apologists found the president's tweet vacuous and damaging to the White House. President Trump’s “racist” tweet about LeBron James backfires, sees criticism from all sides 2018-08-04T04:00:00Z This vacuous post-9/11 public work reflected the actual state of the soul of our nation, big and empty with enough room for the Trump Baby Blimp to easily float unfettered skyward. The id of Trump, the economics of place and our empty national soul 2018-07-22T04:00:00Z The biggest losers, though, were the Isaac Newtons who invested in these vacuous IPOs as they failed to deliver profits and eventually imploded. Look Out, Bitcoin Has Lost Its Tether 2018-07-01T04:00:00Z Instead of continuing to complain about President Donald Trump’s nonsensical, vacuous policies, why don’t the nation’s Democrats put forth some positive ideas, like convening some sort of North American Migration Conference in Washington, D.C.? Border crisis: Convene conference 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z In either case, the effects have gone beyond mere vacuous debate. Reaction to LeBron and Ovechkin shows how we're ruining team sports - Golf Digest 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z His brand of vacuous but venomous thinking is now being directed at athletes. Sport molded my character - and Trump has learned none of its lessons 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z They aren’t the emptiest spaces in terms of physical objects, but they may be the most vacuous. Letter of Recommendation: Airport Layovers 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z Of course, the reputation of the modelling industry remains low, with many people regarding it, and models themselves, as shallow or vacuous. What does it actually take to be a model? 2018-05-28T04:00:00Z Judge Kate Traill condemned Roberge’s motivation for crime as a “very sad indictment” on her age group who “seek to attain such a vacuous existence where how many ‘likes’ they receive are their currency”. Canadian drug mule 'risked life sentence to take Instagram selfies' 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z Judge Kate Traill condemned Roberge’s motivation for crime as a “very sad indictment” on her age group who “seek to attain such a vacuous existence where how many ‘likes’ they receive are their currency.” Canadian drug mule sentenced in Australia for cocaine cruise 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z If a global conflict is to be avoided, saber rattling and empty over the top vacuous rhetoric must be avoided. Iran-Israel Conflict Escalates in Shadow of Syrian Civil War 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z He is completely vacuous on every policy issue facing the United States. Bulletproof, Slow and Full of Wine: Kim Jong-un’s Mystery Train 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z And yet, on Wednesday, Wiepert cited some vacuous “district policy” and kicked the press literally to the curb. Recent editorials published in Iowa newspapers 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z The losing Republican, state Rep. Rick Saccone, ran a vacuous and stale race. What the GOP Can Learn From Losing 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z Or that she runs exploitive sweat shops, markets clothes, and writes vacuous self help books that nobody likes at all? Trump Announces Harsh New Sanctions Against North Korea 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z Rather vacuous comment - where can they live in PR? Time Is Running Out for Puerto Ricans Sheltering in Hotels 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z So as not to lose the votes of the xenophobic electorate: this is their fear, the consequence of a now vacuous political system. Fascism is back in Italy and it’s paralysing the political system | Roberto Saviano 2018-02-10T05:00:00Z His banal and vacuous observations on society and science in general are only taken seriously because he is exceedingly rich. The Mind Meld of Bill Gates and Steven Pinker 2018-01-27T05:00:00Z Mark Ellen, who edited Smash Hits while the band were in their prime, remembers that many in the music press then “loathed Wham! and viewed them as vacuous heat-seekers, surfing the new booming economy”. Still saving us from tears: the inside story of Wham!'s Last Christmas 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z "His act is tired, inane and morally vacuous. If we are to Make America Great Again for all Americans, Bannon must go! And go NOW!!" The Alabama Senate loss just made Trump's job a lot harder – LA Times 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z “His act is tired, inane and morally vacuous. If we are to Make America Great Again for all Americans, Bannon must go! And go NOW!!” After Alabama, Republicans pin blame on Steve Bannon 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z His act is tired, inane and morally vacuous. Peter King says Republicans must ‘dump’ Steve Bannon 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z These days, Krone’s gobbledygook seems relatively benign compared to much of the vacuous language circulating in the emails and meeting rooms of corporations, government agencies and NGOs. From inboxing to thought showers: how business bullshit took over 2017-11-23T05:00:00Z But Pence is a theocrat — one who hasn’t had a new thought in years — and that’s why he sounds so vacuous. The vacuity of Mike Pence 2017-11-12T05:00:00Z The Daily Telegraph's Lisa Armstrong summed it up as a "stupendously vacuous enterprise". The pop stars who have conquered the fashion world - BBC News 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z You can’t beat Trump by coining more vacuous slogans than his, or launching flimsier policy balloons. Opinion | Trump’s continued attacks on Clinton tell us why the Democrats lost 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z The Right is not only lacking in class and style - they are ethically vacuous. Why the Far Right Wants to Be the New ‘Alternative’ Culture 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z Wayne Heisler, Jr., in his 2000 book “The Ballet Collaborations of Richard Strauss,” cites critic after critic dismissing the work as vacuous kitsch. A Dance of Sugar and Cream 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z A year ago he formed En Marche!, promising to shake up France’s “vacuous” and discredited political class. French election: Emmanuel Macron wins presidency by decisive margin 2017-05-07T04:00:00Z It is that kind of informed experience — rather than vacuous “tough on crime” slogans — that should guide the country’s highest law enforcement officer. Opinion | Sessions’s plans are anti-police and anti-community 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z What a country — where even the vacuous have a voice. Opinion | American democracy: Not so decadent after all 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z Asked about the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, Trump gave a vacuous and poorly improvised reply. Round by round: what Angela Merkel can learn from other leaders' Trump sparring 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z He has staked his campaign on a personal crusade to reinvent what he calls the “vacuous” and failing French political system, while refusing to be defined by any fixed ideology. Emmanuel Macron: the French outsider who would be president 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z In past years, it recited vacuous truisms and provided neither constructive guidance nor any meaningful... America Needs a Steady, Strategic Fed 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z Something is going on here, which can’t be dismissed as vacuous sentimentality. The Guardian view on celebrity deaths: a dramatic meaning | Editorial 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z The president’s vacuous response to Mr. Castro’s death brilliantly reflected the moral cowardice of the “Obama Doctrine.” President Obama’s legacy on Mr. Castro 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z “We are living in a nihilistic age, a vacuous blank space that opens up when hope is replaced by fear,” she wrote, with an alarming clairvoyance. Why Kara Walker's incendiary slavery art is as relevant as ever 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z The greater risk of adventurism lies further down the track of his presidency, once frustration mounts at his failure to deliver in detail on vacuous campaign promises. Security in the Asia Pacific: the risks and ramifications of Trump's impulsive adventurism | Euan Graham 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z He is a danger and a menace, utterly vacuous. Omarosa Manigault Changed Parties for Trump 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z New York Times - The editorial board was unimpressed with the debate, saying "when just one candidate is serious and the other is a vacuous bully, the term loses all meaning". Presidential debate: Trump criticises moderator Lester Holt - BBC News 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z The editorial board was unimpressed with the debate, saying "when just one candidate is serious and the other is a vacuous bully, the term loses all meaning". Presidential debate 2016: US media on who won Clinton-Trump clash - BBC News 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z She has come up with a typically vacuous campaign platform based around the "the three Rs" - Reform, Reaffirm and, well, she can't quite remember the third one. Trump v Clinton: Debate lessons from TV and film - BBC News 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z Cue jeremiads on Twitter against our stupid, selfish, vacuous age. Those taking selfies with Hillary Clinton aren’t narcissists – but our best hope | Jonathan Jones 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z But this open-ended fabricated universe — at least in its current form — is, on the one hand, a feat of engineering and, on the other, a vacuous time sink. ‘No Man’s Sky’ review: A game lost in infinite space 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z His triumph in Star Trek is a validation of meathead entitlement, a cheery, vacuous confirmation that education, planning, experience, and maturity aren’t as important as the will to charge blindly forward, ignoring obstacles. Star Trek Beyond makes the 2009 Star Trek a much better film 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z He is a morally untethered, spiritually vacuous man who appears haunted by multiple personality disorders. The Democrats Win the Summer 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z So, if we’re keeping score, Christian pop/rock radio stands accused of being less than real, in addition to formulaic, talent-free and vacuous. I’m a Christian radio host: Our music isn’t high art — but it’s just what people want. 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z His subsequent tweets did little to detract from his image as a vacuous, preening blowhard who confuses tough-guy verbiage for actual policy. Failing the Orlando Rorschach Test 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z There are people who are very attractive and either their morals are reprehensible or their value system is vacuous. Paul Simon on happiness, death and Donald Trump - BBC News 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z At the end of this most vacuous Republican contest, this seemed like the perfect examination of a nominee with no substantive policies to his name. Megyn Kelly's Donald Trump interview: the latest episode of a reality TV election | Richard Wolffe 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z The exception would be readers who fancy themselves hardheaded empiricists while nodding along to vacuous liberal pieties. The Upset in Indiana 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z Give me sinister before vacuous – if music didn’t reflect a bit of menace I’d be worried. 'Disarmingly melodic': fans (and a newbie) review Radiohead's new single Burn the Witch 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z Her story is so vacuous as to almost require the imagination to spackle its holes. Who Is Melania Trump? 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z I have already seen one vacuous reply to the #MoreThanMean project. #MoreThanMean highlights harassment women in sports endure | Shireen Ahmed 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z Selina’s speeches are referred to as "vacuous nonsense" by the same people who write them. Veep's fifth season is a welcome refuge from real-world political absurdity 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z Where Trump is not vacuous, he is dangerous. Sanders’s and Trump’s backward-looking plans won’t help the working class 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z If he hadn’t kept it, it might just have got lost, showing how vacuous I was at the time. Vietnamese boat people: living to tell the tale 2016-03-19T04:00:00Z God forbid they reveal him for being the vacuous reality TV wasteland he truly is. Carson's Trump endorsement: have Republicans lost their soul? | Matt Laslo 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z Bartlett argued that it was the former vice president’s vacuous ways that inspired the likes of his then chief of staff, Bill Kristol. “My goal is to destroy the Republican Party”: Former Reagan adviser Bruce Bartlett explains his vote for Donald Trump 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z If elected, Trump would accomplish very little to none of his vacuous agenda. 'Not even my wife knows': secret Donald Trump voters speak out 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z A bit vacuous, he's what they call a showhorse, not a workhorse. The Establishment Gets What It Deserves 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z But the one thing I’ve definitely not done: spent a single penny on this incredibly vacuous but impossible to quit addiction. The Latest Games Craze Will Devour Your Mind 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z But his ideas are so vacuous he makes Trump’s stump speech sound like a seminar at the Brookings Institution. Marco Rubio: the winningest candidate who just can’t seem to win 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z The "red card" is vacuous, but a symbolic recognition that national Parliaments matter. Is the deal a dose of reality for the EU? - BBC News 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z He embodied a new kind of career, one tilted toward the contemporary and away from vacuous maestro worship. Pierre Boulez’s Revolutionary Career 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z But it never had that message, because it was an intellectually vacuous show from the moment Cole decided to display the art of her close friends Bill and Camille Cosby. The Smithsonian’s Cosby problem only gets worse 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z Stephen Harper, Canada’s former prime minister, was a vacuous, anodyne nothing, as magnetic on the public stage as the podium he spoke from. A charm offensive: the repellent magnetism of Justin Trudeau 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z To his credit, though, Trump is attuned to the mood of the GOP right now, and he’s vacuous enough to say whatever it takes to appease the base. And then there were two: Trump and Cruz surge in latest Iowa poll, creating nightmare scenario for GOP 2015-12-14T05:00:00Z For Fox viewers, Bush certainly wasn’t targeted for much blame following the Madrid attack; he wasn’t denounced for providing vacuous leadership. Now they care about Europe: The dizzying hypocrisy of the right’s new Obama attack 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z There are two reasons why this vacuous music has flown into every public space. A Point of View: Why it's time to turn the music off - BBC News 2015-11-14T05:00:00Z And yet, here we are with the bold claim that it’s the biggest “ever”, ie “since we imported this shallow and vacuous marketing gimmick about two seconds ago”. When did people on Instagram become walking adverts? | Carole Cadwalladr 2015-11-07T05:00:00Z The DUP's Lord Morrow said the term equal marriage was "ultimately completely vacuous". Gay marriage: Assembly majority favour proposal but fails over DUP block - BBC News 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z Either way, it’s yet another example of Ben Carson’s very, very odd duality: the brilliant neurosurgeon vs. the frighteningly vacuous public figure. The medical miracles of Mike Huckabee: Inside the absurd, dangerous & contradictory health care plans of the GOP candidates 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z The PI was promptly arrested, after which Vitter released a vacuous statement about his intent to spy on the lawyer, not the sheriff. David Vitter lurches toward a humiliating defeat: A record of scandal and hypocrisy finally catches up to him 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z On Thursday, he wrote what might be the most vacuous column about the 2016 presidential election cycle so far. Sorry, thirsty media: Next week’s Democratic debate won’t be a GOP-style bloodbath 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z But then, in some ways, there is something to be said for shallow and vacuous marketing gimmicks so crass they make the Argos catalogue look like the I Ching. When did people on Instagram become walking adverts? | Carole Cadwalladr 2015-11-07T05:00:00Z He doubled down on the vacuous, insincere NRA logic that the reason those tiny children were gunned down in their 1st grade classrooms was the fact that there weren’t enough guns there. Mass shootings aren’t natural disasters: The twisted logic that govern American gun-control 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z Here’s the lead paragraph: That qualification “based on the public evidence thus far”—or, as Tompkins puts it, “based on the known facts”—renders the excuse vacuous. The ‘Experts’ Spin 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z As well as a long-term fall in the levels of deference, sceptics point to spin doctors, focus groups, heavily managed public appearances and mainstream politicians' use of vacuous, scripted language. Can authentic politicians deliver when it matters most? - BBC News 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z She considers reporters who fetishize the personal interview vacuous. The Radicalization of Joan Didion 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z Some Republicans think Mr. Trump did more to focus voters and the press on the sometimes vacuous inadequacies of traditional candidatespeak than any other candidate in memory. 2016 Republican field in search of a uniter kicks off debates 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z A tweet that, at best, could be read as patronising and ignorant; at worst, vacuous and self-absorbed. The Nicki Minaj debate is bigger than Taylor Swift's ego 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z The architecture is heroic, not in a pompous, empty, vacuous sense, but as engineering that really lifts the spirit. Seven Leading Architects Defend the World's Most Hated Buildings 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z A post on the Democratic Strategist Web site in March argued that “slinging essentially vacuous stereotypes like ‘corporate centrists’ and ‘left wing populists’ ” inevitably leads to “a vicious downward spiral of mutual recrimination.” Progressive frenemies 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z Clinton’s preference for vacuous campaigning gives Republicans an opening. Jeb Bush’s alarming caution 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z Then shadow chancellor George Osborne called the Bill "vacuous and irrelevant legislation". Reality Check: Will a ‘No Tax Rises’ law stick? - BBC News 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z Before the 2010 election, the Conservatives attacked Labour for passing legislation requiring the government to meet specific targets on borrowing and debt, saying it was "vacuous and irrelevant". Election 2015: Conservatives promise law to curb tax rises - BBC News 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z The committee's report said the UK government's draft contained a "legally vacuous" and "potentially contradictory" commitment to enshrine the Scottish Parliament as a permanent institution. Scottish powers draft 'a guddle' 2015-03-22T04:00:00Z Writing in The New Yorker last year, Rebecca Mead described its rapid ascent in art and popular culture, but nowhere is it more perfectly at home than in the vacuous vernacular of campaign politics. Hillary’s Eternal Quest for Relatability 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z "They view Southern California as being a little vacuous." More tech industry buyers are snapping up L.A. real estate 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z I argued then and would argue now that the idea of a strong-dollar policy is a vacuous notion.” The Strong Dollar Is Always Good, Except When It Isn’t 2015-01-24T05:00:00Z The article is hardly vacuous, the people written about may seem to be so, but for me this is a powerful piece that asks us to question the meaning of celebrity in society. The Jet Set Life of Karl Lagerfeld’s Favorite Male Model — for Now 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z The fewer opportunities we have to exercise our judgment, whether it be spatial, moral, aesthetic, or whatever, the more incapable and thus more vacuous we become. Death by Robot 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z Halloween is over, but the most deeply craven, vacuous political season in years has followed down its ghostly trail. Republicans bank on fear in this election Instead, of spouting grimly sophisticated cynicism of pundits, I still believe that the inherent goodness of the process can defeat the greed of the politically ambitious and ethically vacuous. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: American Politicians Are A Greater Threat to Democracy Than ISIS 2014-11-02T04:00:00Z Voters are bored with on-message technocrats with no vision, with vacuous political promises that don’t even begin to address the everyday problems of modern life in Britain. The grim reaper is knocking for Scottish Labour 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z Its vacuous obsession with who’s up, who’s down, and what’s “driving the narrative” is also a daily reminder of just how morally bankrupt Allen’s worldview is. Today’s Politico Playbook is disgustingly cynical, even for Mike Allen 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z It is of course a denigration of the vacuous job done by Timothy Geithner when he was President of the New York Federal Reserve Bank in 2008. Everything You Didn't Know About the Federal Reserve Board 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z It’s a vacuous and rote vision of leadership that easily impressed right-wing pundits are calling “smart.” The Scott Brown case study 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z After all, the New York Times publishes vacuous trend pieces about random people every week, but HBO does not hand out TV series to any old random Calvin Klein-hating, self-consciously bohemian twentysomething. Not That Kind of Girl review – Lena Dunham exposes all, again 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z The state needs more than an “empty, vacuous promise,” he said. Inslee assails 'climate agnostics' in speech at UW conference 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z What we said: “Tempest shines, though, through her use of language, which illuminates the subject matter – from boardroom drug deals to vacuous parties where “everybody … has got a hyphenated second name” – to dazzling effect.” Mercury prize 2014 ignores big stars in favour of FKA Twigs, Young Fathers and East India Youth 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z A student may privately wrestle with taking a summer camp job instead of an emotionally vacuous but résumé-padding internship. How to become a real person through college 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z I'd heard calories mentioned in books and films, but they were almost always associated with characters who were vacuous, stupid, or Bridget Jones. Eight things I wish I'd known in time for freshers week 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z Or sort of the empty, vacuous cocktail talk.” With an eye on 2016, Rand Paul takes his campaign-in-waiting to the operating room The moment I clicked over 40, I magically transformed into the most desirable person for vacuous yoof. The trouble with being 40 and single 2014-08-08T04:00:00Z Topless sunbathing, or the art of avoiding tanning lines, requires an incredibly sophisticated and vacuous routine which basically prevents action. Is the decline in topless sunbathing a backward step for feminism? 2014-08-02T04:00:00Z Proportionality is morally vacuous and creates an equivalence between those indiscriminately raining rockets on civilians — a war crime — and those who defend against them. Israel’s acts of self-defense should not be judged by proportionality Therefore, if I were to count or even understand them, I would be stupid, vacuous or Bridget Jones. Eight things I wish I'd known in time for freshers week 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z So reading something so vacuous, even by UN standards, is both frustrating and upsetting. The Sustainable Development Goals Draft Looks Like a Biz Plan From 1999 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z I asked candidate after candidate to define “secure,” and got more vacuous rhetoric. What candidates really mean when they say 'secure the border' 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z But all too often, the disagreements are entirely vacuous. What 'There is No Evidence' Really Means 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z The argument that employers shouldn’t pay for things they don’t believe in is vacuous. The Supreme Court Ruled in Favor of Patriarchy, Not Democracy 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z Instead, the Speaker stuck to vacuous talking points, raising the specter of a vague lawsuit challenging unspecified actions. Boehner's highly selective concerns about executive power 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z There are indeed poisonous souls who use "yeah, well women are just as bad" as a vapid and vacuous response to complaints about male violence against women, and that is shameful. Breaking the wall of secrecy on the sexual abuse of men by women 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z The mood changes when the glamorous, successful actress Masha, given high-camp bluster by the “Law & Order” regular Leslie Hendrix, turns up with an absurdly young, amazingly handsome, completely vacuous new boyfriend. A Review of ‘Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike’ in Hartford 2014-06-07T04:00:00Z Do we really need more vacuous apps in this world or do we need more human face-to-face interaction with the goal of bringing people together to challenge the values that are endangering life on earth? How to Get Girls Into Coding 2014-05-31T04:00:00Z Whether or not he’s leading a crusade against vacuous political correctness and manufactured scandals, he’s come to resemble an irritating heckler himself, playing perilously close to a type he’d ordinarily skewer. Why I unfollowed Patton Oswalt — and you should too 2014-05-09T13:35:00Z Tyson recognizes that arguments from authority alone are simply vacuous. The dangerous pitfalls of scientific celebrity: “Authority” alone can’t be trusted 2014-04-12T20:00:00Z And that means that spending half a billion to buy a pretty, vacuous bird can be a dangerous game indeed. Zynga Needs A Cash Cow - It Bought A Peacock 2014-01-30T23:16:00Z "Plaid is infatuated with playing fantasy politics knowing full well its vacuous policies have no chance of seeing the light of day as the third party of Welsh politics." Junior doctor debts wiped under plan 2014-01-13T06:59:29Z Since we have abandoned teaching them what words mean, once they get to college they will write in a hollow, semiliterate way, formally passable but mentally vacuous. The SATS Should Bring Back Analogies 2013-10-16T09:45:22Z Or it could approve a broadly drawn, but vacuous resolution, handing the president a blank check. Send in the clowns! 2013-09-09T11:40:00Z The Conservatives said the "vacuous" plan would not bring down costs. Labour 'would cap welfare spending' 2013-06-06T16:24:13Z But, while the religious zeal of some young recruits may be questioned, it would be rash to dismiss all recruits - such as suicide bombers - as ideologically vacuous. What is the appeal of Islamist radicalism to Africans? 2013-05-30T10:47:04Z Most official guidelines and policy statements, even fuller than usual of vacuous general principles, aren’t of much help in figuring how to do any of this. Hard Cases: The Traps of Treating Pain 2013-05-13T18:57:04Z The dispute about school closures “belongs in the realm of public discourse and local politics, not in federal court under vacuous and ‘kitchen sink’ civil rights allegations,” the city’s brief says. D.C. attorneys respond to lawsuit challenging school closures 2013-04-26T01:48:45Z These sort of bromides won't appear on any quality publication, only on vacuous non entities like TIME. Four Myths About Millennials 2013-04-12T09:45:36Z And that's not as easy as it may seem: footballers are often cynical and they see through weak coaches and vacuous speeches. Espanyol find salvation in work and a coach happier watching baseball 2013-02-18T14:30:57Z She a vacuous dumb blob that was given the power she has by people dumber then she is. The Long War over 'The War on Terror' 2013-02-15T19:20:25Z And transparency is not the vacuous concept some may claim it to be, according to Zambia's vice-president, Guy Scott. As Zambians demand fair tax rates, a British sugar giant grows fat 2013-02-09T21:59:02Z Web sites like CheesyCoporateLingo.com and TheOfficeLife.com offer alphabetized lists of vacuous phrases, while snarky software programs like Corporate Gibberish Generator, Business Buzzword Generator and MBA Writer automatically generate entire jargon-riddled memos. Business Jargon Bracketology: Which Annoying Corporate Buzzword, Clich� Or Euphemism Will Win Forbes' NCAA-Style Tourney? Vote Now! 2013-02-05T14:25:42Z The Spectator columnist Rod Liddle wrote that most of the blog comments were simply: "accurate refutations of her vacuous argument" on the benefits of immigration. Mary Beard: I almost didn't feel such generic, violent misogyny was about me 2013-01-26T15:28:43Z Its solution is an "electrified" ring fence, which sounds like vacuous jargon but is not. Chancellor's bank ringfencing proposals 'not tough enough' 2012-12-21T00:05:04Z A question about the parent trigger was so vacuous as to be misleading. Analyzing the new PDK/Gallup poll on how Americans view public education 2012-08-22T15:32:00Z The campaign group Fathers 4 Justice described the plans as "vacuous". Parental contact plans unveiled 2012-06-12T23:42:03Z The "unity in diversity" has to rank as one of the most vacuous slogans ever. Britain and the EU: Some ideas for improving Britain's relations with Europe. Why they may not work 2012-06-01T16:14:58Z Unfortunately, a vacuous slogan is underpinned by ineffectual proposals. Wonkbook: A 'mistake' Europe would be wise to make 2012-05-01T12:09:22Z As in all of her self-portraits, the figures look down on us with vacuous, mocking stares that suggest that nothing, including Sherman’s art, should be taken very seriously. Cindy Sherman Self-Portraits Offer Empty Entertainment: Review 2012-02-27T15:34:57Z A procession of agreeable, vacuous faces passed before the canvas, creatures of a common fate, garbed in the uniform of convention, carrying the polite weapons of Vanity Fair, each like the others and as uninteresting. The Maker of Opportunities 2012-01-30T03:00:18.090Z This young man was his pet abomination, the vacuous, actress-hunting, spendthrift son of a rich father, already notorious for his "goings-on," and likely to be more so if he continued as he had begun. The Eldest Son 2012-01-24T03:00:28.780Z I could never understand how Aldon could have this vacuous woman at his side, and then she turned out to be Brutus.” At the National Arts Club, Power, Ego, Hoarding and Real Estate 2012-01-21T16:17:23Z She was physically and mentally vacuous and the words that sometimes ran in her mind were parrotings of things she had heard. Gargoyles 2012-01-05T03:00:27.063Z It is to be noted that any vacuous space which we can experimentally arrange does not even approximately reproduce the conditions of true separation prevailing in interplanetary space. The Energy System of Matter A Deduction from Terrestrial Energy Phenomena 2011-12-21T03:00:36.570Z The vacuous faces vanished and in their place she could see this young genius—Antinous and Hercules combined—standing before this canvas living for the mere joy of work. The Maker of Opportunities 2012-01-30T03:00:18.090Z He was a short, undersized man, with a vacuous expression of countenance. Amusement Only 2011-12-04T03:00:06.637Z The hitherto glowering, menacing countenances, had all of a sudden taken on a heavy, vacuous expression. The Heath Hover Mystery 2011-12-01T03:00:22.357Z His vacuous face had taken on a vivacity. Gargoyles 2012-01-05T03:00:27.063Z Since his sense of humor can be questioned only by those themselves blind and deaf to humor, his dislike here for laughter should be taken for what he intends—disgust at vacuous guffaws. Two Burlesques of Lord Chesterfield's Letters. The Graces (1774), The Fine Gentleman's Etiquette (1776) 2011-11-29T03:00:14.883Z His face, on the other hand, was vacuous, expressionless; more, it was incapable of expression. A Duel 2011-11-20T03:00:13.840Z Then I shall tell you more—if you can stand more after this—fourteen sprawling and vacuous pages. The Letters of Henry James, Vol. II 2011-11-18T03:00:26.730Z Bob turns slowly and looks at the spoon with an injured air, then turns back to Mollie with a silly, vacuous smile. Contemporary One-Act Plays 2011-11-12T03:00:36.860Z The rest of the company listening with vacuous attentiveness waited for the debaters to continue talking for them. Gargoyles 2012-01-05T03:00:27.063Z Anyhow, I was relieved when he went down the stairs, and his vacuous whistling died on the air.... Leaves in the Wind 2011-10-28T02:00:25.937Z Feel free to let us know about the latest vacuous statement tossed off as scientific fact that you've heard or read in the news in the past month by e-mailing us at submit@sciam.com. Famous for Being Fatuous: Celebs and Pols Say the Darnedest Things--Especially about Science 2011-10-12T16:15:01.397Z When he came up, he remained planted before me, smiling with a vacuous smile, but with a happy expression of countenance. The House of the Dead or Prison Life in Siberia with an introduction by Julius Bramont 2011-09-27T02:00:18.213Z Slowly the other lifted his flinty eyes, fixing a vacuous stare on the Phantom’s face, and pulled hard at his pipe. The Gray Phantom's Return 2011-09-22T02:00:27.150Z They sat coughing, sharpening pencils and gazing with vacuous aplomb at objects about them. Gargoyles 2012-01-05T03:00:27.063Z Look at all the imbeciles who sailed into it, a vacuous smile on their lips and nothing whatever in their heads, and made a success of it! Rough-Hewn 2011-09-20T02:00:15.147Z But Mrs. Newbegin's ordinarily vacuous face bore a new and radiant expression. Mortmain 2011-09-09T02:01:10.217Z Charley danced from one foot to the other, the expression on his face proving conclusively that the vacuous look with which he had arrived was merely a mask assumed for defensive purposes. Mrs. Bindle Some Incidents from the Domestic Life of the Bindles 2011-09-08T02:00:22.323Z Taylor felt that his own grin, as he gazed around at the faces that were all turned toward him, was vacuous and foolish. The Ranchman 2011-08-27T02:00:21.017Z Pauline and Kindelon paused to watch the poor dazed-looking creatures, with their pinched, vacuous faces, their timid miens, their coarse, dirty bundles. The Adventures of a Widow A Novel 2011-08-25T02:00:27.403Z Those who have money spend a vacuous existence in the pursuit of strenuous idleness; those who have no money and some remains of self-respect occasionally emigrate, as I have done. Masterman and Son 2011-08-23T02:00:35.033Z Then she turned and looked at the pallid, vacuous face above the steamer-rug. The Long Lane's Turning 2011-08-23T02:00:34Z While repeatedly making vacuous proclamations of reform, it sends tanks at its own people, blaming Islamist interlopers and "armed groups" for inciting trouble. As the World Protests, Syria's Isolated Regime Sticks to Its Guns 2011-08-11T09:01:18Z Then he stopped, smiled in a wide vacuous way, took snuff, and squatted down, while the dogs as suddenly ceased their clamour and walked sheepishly away. Tales from the Veld 2011-07-05T02:00:29.217Z Possibly it was because you felt confident that his silences were not mentally vacuous. The Adventures of a Widow A Novel 2011-08-25T02:00:27.403Z “None so blind as those who won’t see—ah—ha—ha—ha!” sneered Bracebrydge, tailing off his vacuous laugh in would-be significance. The Ruby Sword A Romance of Baluchistan 2011-07-05T02:00:28.367Z "Well, tell me what it is and I will deliver it," Varney said with a vacuous smile. The Weight of the Crown 2011-06-26T02:00:09.240Z But apart from that, with the world still in the grips of an economic crisis that threatens to become desperately worse at any moment, the ethically vacuous nature of this entire plan is obvious. After .Com: New Rules for Web Names Will Change Browsing Forever 2011-06-20T17:06:48Z They must not be allowed to drift into vacuous habits in which they make no effort for themselves. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z In Nether-Applewhite, there happened to be a village idiot, whose great lolling head and vacuous eyes excited terror in children and often revulsion in adults. The Soul of Susan Yellam 2011-06-16T02:00:19.090Z “Oh, awfully nice—ah—ha—ha—ha!” sneered Bracebrydge, with his vacuous laugh. The Ruby Sword A Romance of Baluchistan 2011-07-05T02:00:28.367Z I imagined there might be a few old-time Broadway performers in the audience muttering similar sentiments to themselves as they watched Lonny Price’s vocally vacuous presentation of the Stephen Sondheim-George Furth musical. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: Are Musicals Losing Their Voices? 2011-04-14T17:20:27Z Now the opposite to "complete" or "full" is not "incomplete" or "not full," but something stronger, viz., "void" or "empty," therefore malplena = empty, void, vacuous. The International Auxiliary Language Esperanto Grammar and Commentary 2011-04-12T02:00:28.753Z Indignantly the Westerner stared down into the vacuous face of this latest impediment to progress. Lonesome Town 2011-04-12T02:00:24.580Z He knew the academic mode of painting in France had become totally vacuous and out-of-date. Manet-about-town 2011-04-07T07:59:51Z For a moment the valet's face seemed to set, lose its flesh and blood mobility and harden into something stony, its lines fixed, vitality suspended,—a vacuous, staring mask. Miss Maitland Private Secretary 2011-03-08T03:00:39.100Z The general public sat intent and vacuous; their minds gaped, if not their mouths; occasionally one whispered inaudibly to another; the jury, conscious of an official status, exchanged remarks in a whisper courageously loud. Anna of the Five Towns 2011-03-08T03:00:38.117Z He looked at me with the mild wondering which always made his expression vacuous. The High Heart 2011-03-04T03:00:52.683Z So long did we delay to dwell on the fairy-like scene, that the vacuous youth, accompanied by the young lady of varied accomplishments, caught us up and joined us quite suddenly, to their exceeding confusion. Above the Snow Line 2011-03-03T03:00:49.380Z In 1445, almost 90 years after Isabella’s death, a 15-year-old French girl was welcomed to England as the bride of the tragically vacuous Henry VI. Behind Every King 2011-02-26T16:55:05Z Robin Briggs, from All Souls College, attacked the "preposterous nonsense" and the "intellectually vacuous" ideas underpinning changes to higher education funding. Oxford heads towards maximum fee 2011-02-08T22:31:38Z But chancing to look up toward Sir Francis Clavering, Arthur saw a peculiar expression of alarm in the baronet's ordinarily vacuous face, and discreetly held his tongue. A History of Pendennis, Volume 1 His fortunes and misfortunes, his friends and his greatest enemy 2011-01-13T03:01:13.027Z He felt quite homesick for it; it struck him as an enviable existence of careless independence as compared with his present state of vacuous ease and servility. Footsteps of Fate 2010-12-20T17:11:56.663Z Today's vacuous Daily Mail editorial is a classic example of the genre. Newspapers join the blame culture by lashing out blindly over snow 2010-12-20T11:00:39Z The real issue, others suggested, is a cult of celebrity and vacuous chatter that passes for entertainment. ArtsBeat: Readers Weigh In on Y's Decision to Give Refunds for Steve Martin Interview 2010-12-02T18:36:00Z "Some prominent intellectuals have been exiled and the promises made for change have turned out to be fairly vacuous," he says. Is China Planning a Broader South Pacific Strategy? 2010-09-07T09:00:00Z In its place is the vacuous sanctimony that it the place is "hallowed," but all that seems to mean is that it is not open to Muslims. Glenn Beck, Park51 and the politics of hallowed ground 2010-08-30T12:30:00Z It's not just Netflix, of course -- Hulu.com offers plenty of opportunities for catching up on vacuous Bravo reality shows -- and there are endless niche Web sites that specialize in streaming documentaries or animation of various quality. Netflix's expanded Watch Instantly queue may end stream of bad movies watched 2010-08-20T04:00:00Z Entirely dependent on the largesse of the taxpayer, subjected to every manner of means test, experimental course and vacuous reform – but without unions or other instruments of self-defence – they're the easiest of easy targets. I was a jobseeking STAR (Sod This Appalling Racket) 2010-08-13T20:00:00Z But as to the 'morality' or otherwise of team orders, and whether or not they make the sport vacuous - one only has to look at cycling for a comparison. Today in Sport - live! 2010-07-26T07:29:00Z Between now and then, hours of vacuous airtime chat will be devoted to Slovenia. World Cup 2010: Slovenia may shed their 'underdog' tag against England 2010-06-19T23:06:00Z The four 'gals' have always been vacuous and Carrie fell in love with Big because he was elusive and loaded. The readers' room: what you thought of G2 this week 2010-05-27T23:04:00Z It will be easy for his opponents, internally and externally, to suggest that this proves he is too vacuous to be a leader. Standing apart 2010-05-26T21:07:00Z If vacuous bombast like this is going to conquer more than just the moron market, it needs a bit of mystery – the Guinness horses, for example. A word on our sponsors: Carlsberg's team talk 2010-05-18T12:36:00Z ESPN's mysterious decision to put Curtis Strange in the Butler Cabin with Mike Tirico paid no dividends even though Strange delivers his vacuous comments with a sense of urgency. Quibbles And Bits 2010-04-13T00:00:00Z Ms. Cui has been working with thorns for some time, and her artworks using them are widely admired, if a little vacuous. | Long Island: In Old Westbury, Reshaping the Art of Nature 2010-04-10T00:57:00Z "In uncertain times, there's a lot to be said for certain leadership," Mr. Blair said, dismissing the Conservative campaign slogan "Vote for change" as "the most vacuous slogan in politics." Blair Returns to Campaign Trail 2010-03-30T13:20:00Z And 'Vague and vacuous' - former prime minister Tony Blair. Papers divided on Tory tax plans 2010-03-29T05:12:00Z The Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesman, Vince Cable, was scornful, describing the efficiency savings as vacuous and questioning why they had no baselines. Budget 2010: Workman at No 11 who became Brown's secret election weapon 2010-03-24T21:59:00Z Vince Cable, the Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesman, said the programme was "totally vacuous". Budget 2010: How spending will be cut 2010-03-24T21:22:00Z Thierry Henry returns to the vacuous steel bowl he graced so gracelessly. The Fiver | An Exciting Morning In Nyon | Barney Ronay 2010-03-19T16:14:00Z It was, the judge said in his latest ruling, a “vacuous proposal.” Judge Accepts S.E.C.?s Deal With Bank of America 2010-02-22T16:19:00Z It says he will re-emerge on the political centre stage in a speech attacking the Tories. where they are described as "vacant, vague and vacuous". Papers divided on Tory tax plans 2010-03-29T05:12:00Z These spots have been hitherto mistaken for air-bubbles; but both they and the lustrous disks at the centres of the flowers are vacuous. The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc. The rector alone, of all the expected, turned up, his smile vacuous and his appetite in order. The Sentimental Adventures of Jimmy Bulstrode This other table was entertained by a vacuous young man with an eyeglass, who looked as if he'd already had quite as much Bubbley as was good for him. Miss Million's Maid A Romance of Love and Fortune "I think these Bullingdon bloods are rather rotters," protested Michael, after an irritating evening of vacuous wealth. Sinister Street, vol. 2 The vacuous expression upon his countenance was, perhaps, a shade overdone, but he followed his host across the small yard to his door. The Tempering Innumerable liquid disks, with vacuous spots, are also formed by the solar beams in glacier-ice. The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc. He searched all their faces for traces of such experiences as he was sampling, but they were usually vacuous or hardened or only worried. Cinderella Jane And then this woman with the vacuous face and the wild hair, and still wilder kind of attire, she, without doubt, was one of the patients! Miss Million's Maid A Romance of Love and Fortune There were men there, too, mostly as escorts, correctly dressed, bored, vacuous, from intent rather than lack of intelligence. The Missioner He was in his ghostly incognito, for he always traveled lightly in vacuous and doubtful regions. The Book of Gud I took some clear plates from under the water, and found in them numerous liquid cells, each associated with an air-bubble or a vacuous spot. The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc. "She is not shallow," he had merely said, and his poor brain had tackled the enigma so often and to so little purpose that its purport had become an unmeaning and vacuous reiteration. Love's Usuries And folks will smile the vacuous smile of ignorant criticism, and say, "O, yes, we all knew it before!" The Day of His Youth He was working at some detail of the gown, which the lady had evidently sent over for him, since the garment was disposed about a large mannikin with a vacuous face. A Top-Floor Idyl No one unaided, could be quite so inhumanly vacuous as the audiences in the theatres expected him to be. The Book of This and That Besides the liquid disks and vacuous spots, there are innumerable true bubbles entangled in the mass. The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc. A fat red-faced man came from the bar towards her, with two drinks; he was himself very unsteady and uncertain in his movements and his smile was both vacuous and full of purpose. The Duchess of Wrexe Her Decline and Death; A Romantic Commentary Her triple screens flashed into furiously incandescent splendor and she entered unscathed that vacuous sphere, which collapsed instantly into an enormously elongated ellipsoid, at each focus a madly warring ship of space. Triplanetary If a long glass tube with plane ends, and containing some pellets of sodium is heated in the middle by a row of burners, the cool ends remain practically vacuous and do not become obscured. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 "Dinard" to "Dodsworth" Their faces turned toward Darrell as he stood in the doorway, but there was no recognition in the vacuous eyes, no thought, no intelligence, and little life in the wide-mouthed stares. Isle of the Undead The flat round disks and vacuous spots to which I have referred come here to our aid, and furnish us with an entirely new means of analysing the internal constitution of a glacier. The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc. The young woman squatting on the mudflat at their feet stared back at them with vacuous light eyes half hidden behind a wild tangle of matted blonde hair. Pet Farm Mentally, he was far from Tellus, flitting in his super-dreadnaught through parsec after parsec of vacuous space. Triplanetary Meiklejohn glanced rather sharply at the lady’s companion, who, however, was merely a vacuous man about town. The Bartlett Mystery The call of the Ether ... the vacuous void ... the black velvet wastes ... the outspread cloak of the universe, dripping with stardust ... the undreamt-of galaxies ... these were the things by which he lived. The Sloths of Kruvny The latter, annoyed by the boy’s vacuous stare, spoke up sharply: “What do you want?” Our Southern Highlanders With her was a vacuous looking young man who seldom spoke to her but was continually addressing remarks to a woman at another table. The Silent Barrier The fastest thing known, whether in planetary air, the stratosphere, or the vacuous depth of interplanetary space, her first flashing trial spins had won her the nickname of the Silver Sliver. Triplanetary A tall, ponderous man, his eyes were small, contracted, with a rather vacuous look, and his face was sluggish and unimpressionable. History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. I Conditions in Settlement and Colonial Times I went from one to another in the Liberal camp, and all were in the same story, all had been drilled and schooled and fitted out with vacuous argument. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 7 (of 25) Gray eyes predominate, sometimes vacuous, but oftener hard, searching, crafty—the feral eye of primitive man. Our Southern Highlanders An inane expression of vacuous content when music is being rendered, a quantity of rhapsodical rubbish about Chopin and Beethoven without any knowledge of either, and behold! a lover of music. An Ocean Tramp My sentience wholly sped: No sound, no feeling, sight, or thought: Yet I knew with a vacuous dread I lay a thing by God unsought,— Dead, dead,—for ever dead ... Ioläus The man that was a ghost Inflamed eyes were common in that congregation, hollow cheeks flushed with the sign there is no mistaking, faces vacuous and dull-eyed and foolishly a-grin. Kildares of Storm He had a dull, uninterested way of asking questions which suggested the impulse of a vacuous mind to "keep the talk going," rather than any desire to secure the information asked for. A Captain in the Ranks A Romance of Affairs “Yes, doesn’t he, though?” assented the young man in the same vacuous tones. Officer 666 The groups melted at their approach into meek, vacuous individuals; reformed instantly as they moved on. Slaves of Mercury "But God knows they need such vacuous homes," I reflected, "to rest in." The Harbor Where the form was, a transparent, vacuous space is observable. The Rosicrucian Mysteries An Elementary Exposition of Their Secret Teachings "He looks like he might go some," Lambert commented in the vacuous way of a man who felt that he must say something, even though he didn't know anything about it. The Duke Of Chimney Butte But don’t ask me any more––discretion––you understand––between men of the world––demme!”––and the count relapsed into a vacuous dream. The Strollers There was a preponderance of fat old men and vacuous looking young girls of the type designated on Broadway as "chickens." Traffic in Souls A Novel of Crime and Its Cure Those eyes were the shiny, vacuous, soulless eyes of a madman! The Floating Island of Madness Crookes in a vacuous bulb produced soft light from high tension electricity. Little Masterpieces of Science: Invention and Discovery Lastly, there are some who are quite vacuous in the matter, either because the term conveys no meaning to their minds, or because Nature has made them indifferent to personal comfort and discomfort. Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2) or Settler and Maori in Northern New Zealand It was a smiling, vacuous, uncharacteristic photograph, and he abandoned it for a bulky album stamped with his initials. The Education of Eric Lane The vehicles, full of chattering, smoking, vacuous persons were speeding home. Beside Still Waters He wore a short, stubby black mustache and side whiskers, a monocle in one eye, and he had a vacuous expression on his face as of a person of immense profundity and “class.” Ralph on the Overland Express The Trials and Triumphs of a Young Engineer Arrived at the hutch, Excalibur wagged his tail and contemplated the rabbit with his usual air of vacuous benevolence. Scally The Story of a Perfect Gentleman But it was exhausting to the intellect to tell of, for the description ended with a musical, if vacuous, laugh, and a plunge into Sally's bosom, where the narrator remained chuckling, but quite welcome. Somehow Good But, among those of us who are neither hungry nor vacuous, there is not, generally speaking, much attempt to make the best of our spiritual privileges. Laurus Nobilis Chapters on Art and Life Since no one helped him to rise, he remained seated, and gazed about him with a drugged and vacuous stare, while the light of the approaching sunset shimmered over his mother-of-pearl buttons. Merry-Garden and Other Stories He raised his eyes—the unquenchable hatred of Gordon Makimmon flared momentarily on his vacuous countenance like the flame of a match lit in the wind. Mountain Blood A Novel With the closing of the door the vacuous look slipped from his face like a mask. Brand Blotters As the child let him go, his head drooped, and then he turned and looked at me with a silly, vacuous smile. The Wonder This may sound a bit vacuous or circularly defined, but I bet you that anthropologists can go and count what percentage of society was dedicated to information processing as a commodity in each society. Interviews (1998-2001) He would have been vacuous indeed to ask if this thing were a joke, for Jeb's whole attitude condemned him. Where the Souls of Men are Calling The present state of vacuous contentment was, perhaps, as near the condition of enjoyment as he would ever approach. Virginia It showed her depth of perception, and he reflected that she had not uttered a vacuous or silly phrase since their first meeting. Cavanaugh: Forest Ranger A Romance of the Mountain West Or am I bound to assume that bored and vacuous countenance which some young men consider good form? Vixen, Volume III. However, this solitary behavior was only pleasant for a few hours and then self-containment seemed particularly vacuous and the blessing a curse. An Apostate: Nawin of Thais Mocking laughter never discovered anything except the vacuous fool. War and the Weird Our fifty-four vacuous and pellucid flasks also declare against the heterogenist. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 Of course an afternoon tea is not to be taken seriously, and I hold that any kind of conversation goes, as long as it is properly vacuous and irrelevant. The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IX (of X) Tennis is an absurdity worthy of the vacuous minds of those who engage in it.. The Uncle Of An Angel 1891 And for whatever activities he might devise as distractions from his thoughts, fears of the vacuous nature of existence would always be man's ineluctable truth, and without agenda vacuous truth was his in excess. An Apostate: Nawin of Thais She noticed that the kind, vacuous face was beginning to look more than middle-aged, and that the scanty hair above it was whitening rapidly. The Squirrel-Cage Between them was their prisoner, a boy with a vacuous face, clad in a strait jacket that seemed to make no difference at all to him. That Sweet Little Old Lady It must have been your inbreathing, gaping desire that drew this red gush in me; I must be reciprocating your vacuous, hideous passion. Look! We Have Come Through! She addressed it as if there were an intelligence back of the vacuous pleasantness of the young face. Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale Mrs Rabbich was a foolish woman whose fetich was society with a big "S," and she idolised her only son, a rather vacuous youth who had just managed to scrape into Sandhurst. The Ffolliots of Redmarley With an exclamation intended for a laugh, looking unusually bored and vacuous, he went out of the room like a man in an earthquake sedately strolling away between reeling and crumbling walls. Sacrifice The hulking mass of not-quite-human gazed at her with vacuous eyes and opened its mouth. Suite Mentale And a whole lifetime of this loomed ahead—a vista of emptiness more vacuous far than the emptiest reaches of intergalactic space. The Vortex Blaster Between them was their prisoner, a boy with a vacuous face, clad in a straitjacket that seemed to make no difference at all to him. Brain Twister Seeing a stranger before her, Miss Huckins looked her over carefully from head to foot, while Josie smiled a vacuous, inconsequent smile and said in a perfunctory way: "Good morning." Mary Louise in the Country I felt neither pained nor confused, but only vacuous. The Romance Of Giovanni Calvotti From Coals Of Fire And Other Stories, Volume II. (of III.) A vacuous stare usually rested on his face, and he spoke in a slow, aggravating drawl. Canoe Boys and Campfires Adventures on Winding Waters For the twentieth time Edwin privately admitted that in spite of the weak, vacuous smile which seemed to delight everybody except himself, there was a sympathetic quality in this bland doctor. Clayhanger If I may query put, what mental rheum Did cause selection of such vacuous mind To fill a post requiring mental grasp? 'A Comedy of Errors' in Seven Acts Her triple screens flashed into furiously incandescent splendor and she entered, unscathed, that vacuous sphere, which collapsed instantly into an enormously elongated ellipsoid, at each focus a madly warring ship of space. Triplanetary And just then, if you listen, you will hear some one issue the emphatic but vacuous command, "Don't!" Etiquette "Six—seven—eight—nine—" Again a wait, while they looked at one another with vacuous eyes. The Cross-Cut The colt drew back and contemplated the opening with a vacuous eye. Overland Red A Romance of the Moonstone Cañon Trail Only vacuous, self-centered thoughts which were flowing idly through the youth's mind were available to him. Man of Many Minds Risings in Crete and the Balkans marked the reign of this, the 32nd sulṭán of his dynasty, a despot whose mind was vacuous, whose recklessness was extreme, whose extravagance knew no bounds. The Promised Day Is Come The pores of the wood being thus rendered vacuous, the hot liquid or vapors from the heating tank readily penetrate the entire substance, and thoroughly impregnate it. Scientific American, Volume XXIV., No. 12, March 18, 1871 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures. The first day of November came, to find the chamber a wide, vacuous thing now, sheltering stone and refuse and two struggling men,—nothing more. The Cross-Cut But we know the type he depicts—the sporting "nuts," with their careful get-up, effeminate paraphernalia, and vacuous countenances. Raemaekers' Cartoons With Accompanying Notes by Well-known English Writers |
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