It's breezily written, at times entertaining, and devoid of anything approaching introspection.
And when she did, it was so vacuous, so devoid of anything approaching a position that it prompted Bill McKibben to describe her words as "literally saying nothing".
In essence, it's a bleak scene, full of people doing stuff they seem way too old to be doing, but the hedonism is so raw, the aesthetic so devoid of anything approaching credibility, that it somehow immediately became the coolest thing I'd ever seen.
It seems a gross disservice to Dickens's classic, however, even to mention the two books in the same breath: "London Bridges" not only lacks the ambition and panoramic scale of "Bleak House," but is also thoroughly devoid of anything even approaching that earlier novel's satiric observation, eccentric characters and storytelling verve.
His headlong approach, devoid of artifice, makes for plenty of bad prose, but it also gives a reader the irresistible sensation of reading a life as it's lived – reality, in real time.
That approach is devoid of integrity and seems cowardly to me.
He refuses to allow viewers to feel stupid, bringing an affable spirit of inquiry wherever he goes, an approach so devoid of hauteur and presumption that it can nearly mask (in this instance at least) the apparent disingenuousness at the root.
In a party dominated by intellectuals and rhetoricians, Stalin stood for a practical approach to revolution, devoid of ideological sentiment.
Trump and Murdoch also share a transactional approach to politics, devoid of almost any ideology besides self-interest.
"Over the last few days, your approach has been devoid of any serious solution to the crisis.
However, this approach is not devoid of deficiency while drilling.
