Moments suffused with feeling but almost empty of content.
Marxism is emptied of content in today's China, and capitalism alone will not supply big collective dreams.
New York, which had excited him as a student, seemed "empty of content", after the thrill of running a country.
If campaign messages are as empty of content as Freedland believes, why are there so many trees in the forest Greenberg describes?
Or have these symbols been emptied of content, no more than a glittering backdrop to the West's newest faith, consumerism, and its secular cathedrals, shopping malls?
An individual with Wernicke aphasia has difficulty understanding language; speech is typically fluent but is empty of content and characterized by circumlocutions, a high incidence of vague words like "thing," and sometimes neologisms and senseless "word salad".
Even John Locke (1632 1704), considered the father of modern empiricism, thought that there is some knowledge that does not derive from experience, though he held that it was "trifling" and empty of content.
De Mistura appears to be following the model of the Oslo talks between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organisation: their initial 1993 agreement was dramatic but was followed by interim deals, while the toughest "final status" issues were left until the end of a "peace process" that was emptied of content until it ground to a halt.
The theory is there for those who want it - the role of technology in how we think and feel, the allegorical cycle of consumption and waste - but, according to his champions, the real joy of DeLillo is his recreation of those mad exchanges, layered like lasagna, empty of content, between people who have known each other all their lives.
On the other hand, all a priori judgments, such as "All bachelors are unmarried," were regarded as empty of content, because they did not present any information that was not already contained in the concepts with which they were composed (being unmarried is part of what it is to be a bachelor).
Ostensibly factual claims that have no implications for our empirical experience are empty of content.
