"It is time for a governor with a thoughtful blueprint for action, and not merely empty rhetoric or narrow ideology".
Like Tagore and Tanizaki before him, Tanpinar upheld the felt experience of ordinary life against the dehumanising abstractions and empty promises of modern ideologies.
Perhaps the years of ambition and accommodation in a party that's imprisoned by its own ideology had emptied Boehner out to the point where the thing he gave up as the price of leadership was his own ability to say no.
Populism can be so politically empty that it joins forces with ideologies as different as socialism and nationalism.
There are showmen and yeomen on both sides, and no ideology has a monopoly on empty pledges.
Such empty hyperbole and stubborn insistence on projecting ideology over reality isn't merely intellectually vapid, it's actively damaging to the psychological health of survivors.
Their ideology had become little more than an empty slogan, a means of entry to the special shops reserved for the Soviet elite.
Maybe it was just that there was action — even the Romney forces suddenly had something to do, and it felt like a deliberation, rather than a ritual as empty as many delegates seem to believe Romney's ideology to be.
Instead, she feels empty -- as so many teens without an adopted ideology must -- and is hodge-podging a personality as best she can.
