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be vacuous

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If films used to be vacuous pap, they aren't any more.

In the end, outward aggression in whatever form can be vacuous and useless.

Patrick Stein, creator of DVD Tracks, conceded, "Some people feel that audience-supplied commentaries will be vacuous and boring -- and some probably will be".

"This is the fifth time in a row that the IMF's orthodoxy and Washington boosterism have proved to be vacuous," says Jeffrey Sachs, a Harvard economist and one of the IMF's most strident critics.

Although torts were once routinely understood as wrongs, since Holmes's time, tort scholars have tended to suppose that the concept of a wrong is either too moralistic to explain the terms on which liability is imposed or so capacious as to be vacuous.

Recurring themes include: women who are about to leave their husbands but change their minds at the last minute; superficially dull men who turn out to be excellent choices of husband; and trendy modern people who are revealed to be vacuous twits when exposed to the unforgiving light of traditional values.

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Yet it's vacuous stuff.

It's vacuous".

That was vacuous.

By and large the knowledge is vacuous.

Interview showed it was vacuous.

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