Sentence examples for empty prestige from inspiring English sources

Surely that means more (at least to me and my few thousand readers) than empty prestige.

Charles left the Habsburg state at the lowest point of its prestige, its coffers empty, its capital beset by unrest.

Prestige is an empty concept in the face of death, and the glory is of course false and hollow.

This false hierarchy has continued to be a problem: shows that look fantastic, like "House of Cards," get unearned prestige, even when they're empty suits.

Mary — the adjacent city and provincial capital — was half boomtown, half slum: filled with the requisite gold statues and portraits, white marble government buildings, prestige projects (an opera house, luxury hotels, a pointless flyover), and boulevards almost empty of traffic.

What prestige!

The prestige is gratifying.

"We actually shunned prestige".

Then American prestige declined.

Brokers: Weichert; Prestige.

"But prestige costs, too.