Signed to Mickie Most's RAK, they floundered, devoid of a direction – scoring the occasional pop soul hit, like 1970's Love Is Life, trying their hand at everything from glam to bubblegum to hard rock in the vein of Free's All Right Now.
It'll be a mess, devoid of heart and soul, that can't possibly live up to the brilliant nuance of the original.
But more important, they instantly invest some authentic feeling into a project (product) that has seemed devoid of soul from the minute it was announced.
How could a service intricately bound to something so fun be so devoid of soul?
But one might as well say, without apology or explanation, that most of the film work he did was shameful junk, ill-chosen, slapdash and devoid of soul.
(Or, as Cayce grumbles about Tommy Hilfiger, "simulacra of simulacra of simulacra.... There must be some Tommy Hilfiger event horizon, beyond which it is impossible to be more derivative, more removed from the source, more devoid of soul").
Yet with a useful product to sell and all the emotional resonance of music to lean on, the ad comes off vague, haunting, and devoid of soul.
There must be some Tommy Hilfiger event horizon, beyond which it is impossible to be more derivative, more removed from the source, more devoid of soul".
By they, he meant the other 31 souls who were preparing to go into the 25‑lap race, apparently devoid of a prayer.
