Sentence examples for empty sounds from inspiring English sources

Words must be understood in their basic sense, Epicurus says, as opposed to what he calls "empty sounds" (LH 37).

Empty desires are those that have as their objects things designated by empty sounds, such as immortality, which cannot exist for human beings and do not correspond to any genuine need.

While we are flooded with promotion to stay asleep and mimic empty sounds, we can wake up.

The band then decided it was time for another guitarist, to fill in some of that empty sounds during guitar solo's and to add to the band for a more full sound live.

The result was a wall of magnificent but empty sound.

Alas, the "road-map for peace" joins "mission accomplished" on an expanding list of empty sound bites.

It turns out that the backdrop was just the empty sound-equipment trailer from the Musicology tour.

"It's like 'do this scene, stand up on those boxes there, on an empty sound stage, put your hand on this pole like you're leaning up on the top of something, walk down these boxes, sit in that chair and say the rest of your dialogue, then the scene will be over'," he says.

Immediately thereafter, singing star Don Lockwood Gene Kellyy) is reunited with ingenue Kathy Selden Debbie Reynoldss), they enter an empty sound stage where with the artifice of a cyclorama and a wind machine he creates a sunset and a light breeze to serenade her with the beautiful Arthur Brown-Nacio Herb Brown song 'You Were Meant for Me'.

So, there you have it: the empty sound of being off your head and convinced of your own brilliance at the start of the Blair era and the endtimes of what was known at the time as - oh, please - Cool Britannia.

Any word which covers everything loses its cutting edge and dwindles to an empty sound.