The Mail agrees that we need a sense of humour about his remarks – and if that organ struck a different pose over the Andrew Sachs prank call, what is consistency but the empty boast of the mediocre mind?
Then, he found himself flummoxed by the empty rooms.
According to the defense, an unsupervised informant had goaded an innocent lawyer, desperate and prone to making empty boasts, into the eager arms of Michael Grimm.
How the parties compare: Gloria De Piero, Labour's shadow women and equalities minister, described Mr Shapps' comments as "empty boasts from the old boys' network".
The company's motto ("Boldness changes everything") is no empty boast, but a neat reflection of the way Mr Mittal's dealmaking created a world-leading steel giant from virtually nothing in barely a dozen years.
It's a fairly empty boast, but a useful one for ReelzChannel, where "The Kennedys" landed after being rejected, in January, by the History Channel, where the project originated.
It's no empty boast: Mercedes sources so much of its components from the region that it named a car, the Vito, after the state capital, Vitoria.
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It sounded like an empty boast.
His claim is not an empty boast.
