Sentence examples for empty speeches from inspiring English sources

Xi and his team have also startled officials by telling them to stop reading empty speeches at meetings.

The betting, the newspaper cartoons, the "But is it art?" debates, the focus on personality and the empty speeches on prize night – these have become the bore.

And he added that his call for change, which has been dismissed by both Mr McCain and Mrs Clinton as "eloquent but empty, speeches not solutions", had first come from Americans across the nation.

The three-star general also delivered what was reported to be a "fiery" speech at the Republican national convention, where he lambasted Barack Obama's "empty speeches and his misguided rhetoric", which he said had "caused the world to have no respect for America's word", or might.

They are another example of the kind of European solidarity that does not appear in institutional propaganda or in Juncker's vibrant, but ultimately empty, speeches.

Instead, it'll be a forum for world leaders to make mostly empty speeches and to announce voluntary partnerships and initiatives with big corporations.

Tell me what you want without empty speech".

Plepler looked at me. "Do you know what 'flummery' is?" Empty speech, I said.

Or in the jargon: "empty speech acts, whose informational content refers to neither world nor self".

And beyond all this an empty speech balloon bobs at the painting's edge, too small to contain the verbiage.

An upside-down yellow bird head emerges from the bottom of the orange H and expresses itself in a right-side-up, sky-blue, empty speech balloon.