Mr Key's folksy charm, although lambasted by critics as empty of substance, plays well with the public.The National Party is helped by the fact that Labour, the main opposition party, has its own problems.
To his patent contempt, Trump discovered that the incumbency of Obama had concealed that seven years of promising "repeal and replace" was empty of substance.
And when that happens, your brain goes into panic mode and tries to empty this substance from your stomach...and you feel very, very nauseous.
"The radicalization models that US government agencies have relied upon are equally empty of substance and are also little more than covers for the organized suspicion and demonization of Muslim populations," he added.
That he is no longer a leftist, a Troskyite, or a Maduro socialist, but rather the braying equivalent of the unscrupulous and cynical spin doctors who break the elegant language of politics down into degenerate phrases empty of substance but rousing to the right audience in the right mood.
Empty womb, empty hands, empty heart.
Exactly when was the world emptied of substance?
The movie's icons of nostalgia provide a grotesque carnival of the undead, a uniform spew of icons emptied of substance, history, connections.
Writers, pundits, and politicians like never before are trotting out expressions empty of meaning and devoid of substance.
The good people of the world who think it's "stylish" and "artistic" are continuing to outweigh the bitter, twisted losers who think it's "empty" and "lacking substance".
