"How sad that Clarissa's life is so empty," he remarked.
Naturally, given the environment, he delighted in fine wine, and it was his custom when his wine glass was empty to remark to the waiter, "My tide is out".
"Looking at empty stadiums," he remarks of his love of Stanford Stadium, "I suspect that stadiums 'stage' or 'make present' what Martin Heidegger once identified as the most elementary philosophical question: why there is something at all, opposed to nothing?
In Israel, the "Joint List," a coalition of Arab candidates who stood on a shared platform during the recent election, sharply rejected the prime minister's attempt at an apology, issuing a statement Monday that called his remarks "empty words intended to preserve his racist regime".
Once, when the Yankees were on a losing streak, Yogi Berra walked into the stadium, surveyed the mostly empty bleachers, and remarked: "If they don't want to come, you can't keep them away".
"Our words will remain cheap and empty," Sider said in remarks he has prepared for the Birmingham program, "unless we allow God to move us to new, more vigorous action".
"When an actor is alone on an empty stage," he once remarked at a "Lulu" talk-back session, "an image arises that demands interpretation.
When they do, temporarily, find themselves in a clinic, the safety and order simply dispirits Hushpuppy, who says it looks like an empty fish tank – a remark that reminded me of the title of Andrea Arnold's British social realist film.
As empty as Mr. Romney's remarks were about Iran, his refusal to renounce waterboarding is disturbing.
Among the day's developments: Chris Sims, chief constable of West Midlands police, criticised "empty slogans" after Cameron's remarks about a "zero tolerance" of crime – a theory Bratton used in New York.
