Sentence examples for Vacuous statement from inspiring English sources

"The Silicon Valley economy is improving, except for jobs -- and that's not a vacuous statement," he said.

Sasse issued an intellectually vacuous statement saying that as a "constitutional conservative," he thinks the president's emergency powers are too broad.

It provided news in Arabic edited by BBC-trained journalists to an audience that until then had been fed a bland fare of endless meetings of Arab leaders and their vacuous statements and activities.

Cynara describes herself as being "sweet, hot, strong and black -- like a good cup of coffee" -- and she is fond of making vacuous statements like "I would like to see Buckingham Palace, and the Thames River, and the white cliffs of Dover again".

The negative form of such vacuous statements, e.g. "The king of France is not wise", is similarly neither true nor false.

Paul Johnson's vacuous statements in "A God-Fearing White House Is Safer" (Aug. 20, p. 37) would make one glad that he is British and not part of a U.S. administration.

There follows a retreat into a vacuous assertion of competence.

You would also have no need for vacuous citizenship statements or flag waving exercises to prove you are a proud and loyal citizen.

But those statements are vacuous and cheap to make, and there's no consequences for when they're wrong.

First, the program is vacuous — for the most part it's a statement of desired outcomes, not policies.

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.