Sentence examples for described as empty from inspiring English sources

But hacking proved a powerful social outlet for the sometimes sickly misfit uninterested in student clubs, which he described as "empty, meaningless groups of people".

His excursions resembled religious events more than political rallies, and he kept his message simple: "I am with the people". His opponents criticized him for what they described as empty promises of cheap rice, free school lunches and, in his last campaign in 1994, total prohibition of alcohol.

Today, antique shops, restaurants and other attractions fill storefronts next to spaces that Black described as "empty, but full of possibility".

This was found on what had previously been described as empty minicircles in both Amphidinium species.

His side had been close to a result that might have been described as an empty victory in an empty stadium, but they will rightly grasp at whatever they can.

He lived like a monk in what was described as "an empty room, with a solitary kitchen table in the middle of it, and an iron bed".

In Los Angeles, Smith is sometimes described as "an empty suit" — a frequent term in newsrooms for a paper's corporate overseers.

It was an unusual scene for a place that Mr. McMurtry once described as so empty that one can feel "like the only human creature in town".

Those successes have earned Mr. Hertz speaking engagements at TED Talks and at the World Economic Forum, but he said he had grown frustrated by what he described as the "empty talk" of the moneyed elite.

The museum was the grand project of former president Jacques Chirac, who loved anthropology and embraced the idea of a colloquy of civilizations, as opposed to the academic quality of the old Musée de l'Homme, which Philippe Descola, the chairman of the anthropology department at the Collège de France, described as "an empty shell — full of artifacts but dead to themselves".

Good ideas might be better described as the empty calories of enterprise innovation: accessible, tasty, and momentarily satisfying.