His remarks, while not devoid of hyperbole, echoed criticism voiced by Supreme Court justices, prosecutors and defense attorneys.
His persona is so much a part of the public imagination that it looms even over a movie as devoid of autobiographical echoes as "The Ghost Writer," which had its premiere Friday at the Berlin International Film Festival and opens in New York and Los Angeles on Friday.
The N.B.A. playoffs are equally devoid of onomastic pleasures, just cheap echoes of Magic and the Mailman, Tiny and Tree, Chief and Cornbread.
In a lighter, more playful vein, Titarenko frames a rain-soaked, leaf-scattered street devoid of life but for the faint echo of a woman's leg, repeated in three whispered beats.
In Magalia, a small town north of Paradise where the Camp fire ravaged so much, the hum of generators and the tap of rain echoed in a place suddenly devoid of many people.
Technology then exacerbates the problem, with our Facebook and Twitter feeds creating an echo-chamber of judgments that are often complete devoid of facts.
The dollhouses are devoid of furniture, but many have wallpaper, carpets, trompe l'oeil curtains and even artwork, echoing the details sometimes found on the surfaces of Ms. Whiteread's cast rooms.
The echo in a Marabar cave is not like these, it is entirely devoid of distinction.
Lute music echoed forlornly through their cavernous Roman-themed banquet hall in an Old City devoid of tourists.
Of all the candidates, Sanders is the only one who echoes the pope's criticisms and calls for a more equitable American society devoid of the shocking concentration of wealth and income and growing gap between the rich and poor.
