Summer blockbuster checklist: budget-hollowing action sequences – check; trailer-ready quips dripping in smugness – check; source material that renders original ideas irrelevant – check; clumsily open endings allowing for sequels, reboots, remakes and an expanded universe – check; forced romance culminating in a kiss, usually, carelessly, during a life-threatening situation – ermmm..
Claims that the new law is motivated by concern for women's mental health ring hollow: their actions show little concern for people with disabilities or pregnant women, and a deep investment in stigmatizing abortion and discouraging women from seeking it.
It's a battle Cagney has to win, but his victory feels hollow, a holding action against the inevitable future.
Just the other day, President Trump sniped that "Democrats don't care about crime". Giving cops and soldiers a tax break counters hollow words with action.
It's a sharp contradiction, critics argue, that shows the president's words will be hollow without presidential action.
Farber diagnoses the prevalence of "this new mannerist flicker," in which "low-key photography, shallow perspectives, screwy pantomime, ominously timed action, hollow-sounding voices" — a wide range of tricks borrowed from the "'highbrow'" (the scare quotes are Farber's) — result in "ultraserious movies that express enough discontent with capitalist society to please any progressive".
This usually takes continuously cast square blooms and forms them into hollow rounds by the action of a heavy hydraulic pusher, which pushes them into the gap of two large-diameter contoured rolls that form together a circular pass line.
The chief prosecutor of the United Nations war crimes tribunal demanded action, not "hollow promises or excuses," from the Bosnian Serb republic today and openly accused its government of sheltering two fugitive war-crimes suspects, Dr. Radovan Karadzic and Gen. Ratko Mladic.
The phase behaviour of the G20T-duplex and F-duplex was examined by controlled drying experiments in which concentrated DNA solutions in the isotropic phase were loaded by a capillary action into hollow rectangle glass tubes (VitroCom), with tube thickness varying between 20 and 50 μm, and sealed only from one side.
But that could leave him looking weak, his action a hollow symbol.
From a position of strength, leaders can bring forth their vision of what is right in a situation; from a position of weakness, leaders' actions are hollow and desperate.
