The half-full, half-empty quality of most of the companies' presentations was underscored by the observation by Peter R. Kann, the chairman and chief executive of Dow Jones, that the 11.9percentt drop in advertising at The Journal in November did not prevent the newspaper from having the second-best November advertising results in its history.
There is an empty, generic quality to these pictures.
That the transmuted objects all have to do with public spectacle -- sports, politics and rock 'n' roll -- is somehow significant, too: a wry comment, perhaps, on the empty, synthetic quality of contemporary communal experience.
I crept up a stairway reserved for staff to the silver room, which was lined with empty battleship-quality nickel and plate-glass cases with intricate little locks.
These foods are usually highly refined, and full of empty, low-quality carbohydrates ("garbohydrates"), and sugar/sweeteners.
He said the arena was nearly empty, the production quality amateurish.
For parents with an empty nest, getting quality family time can be quite a challenge.
Atlantic City was badly damaged by Sandy, but the aerial view initially shown on TV looked more devastated than it was; it already had an empty Antonioni-like quality, which the film The King of Marvin Gardens captures beautifully.
Given that most mainstream political rhetoric and strategy in the nation the answer to every ailment is "achieve recognition," there's been a strong incentive to make real and full efforts at what might otherwise be empty goals of quality, training, and rehabilitation.
Raw reads were then transformed into clean reads after removal of such reads as 3' adaptor sequences, empty reads, low quality reads, reads which were too long or too short, and reads with only one copy (probably due to sequencing error).
