Sentence examples for full of vacuous from inspiring English sources

I remember (with some embarrassment) an issue of the English Department student magazine, Gorgon, in which I published a long, shapeless poem, full of vacuous profundities, based on Allen Tate's "Ode to the Confederate Dead," and in which Heaney had a short, shapely poem entitled "Aran": it was as modest as mine was pretentious, as precise as mine was vague.

Most official guidelines and policy statements, even fuller than usual of vacuous general principles, aren't of much help in figuring how to do any of this.

A vacuous travelogue full of unlikeable people (but for Penélope Cruz's virtuosic hysteric), it was Pedro Almodóvar sanitised and straitjacketed after years in therapy.

The annals of political rhetoric are full of forgettable phrases and more than the average amount of vacuous rhetoric.

It's a tactic of vacuous exhaustion, not a strategy of intellectual energy and moral direction.

They protected themselves from what we were going through by limiting themselves to the manageable domain of vacuous, hackneyed language.

The knowing one that smacks of vacuous surface sheen but somehow implies hidden depths lurking below.

Lewis, without abandoning his God, begins to treat him as something other than a dispenser of vacuous bromides.

It was all kind of vacuous.

With the systems approach, there is no exclusion of vacuous generalizations from the realm of laws, and yet only those vacuous generalizations that belong to the best systems qualify (cf., Lewis 1986, 123).

We were faced with what's now known as indie rock, a sort of vacuous form.