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.
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.
"The words of the apologies will ring hollow if Canada's actions fail to produce the necessary social, cultural, political and economic change that benefits aboriginal peoples and all Canadians," the report said.
Their actions ring hollow -- their use of the phrase is for marketing and public relations purposes, not to listen to us and help the patient in need.
While speaking to reporters Tuesday, President Obama declared Trump "unfit" to become president and said Republican denunciations of Trump's actions were hollow if they continued to endorse him.
Schemes for imperial collaboration amongst ethnically 'British' peoples were hollowed out by the actions of a variety of political and business leaders across Asia and Africa who reshaped the functions and identity of the Commonwealth.
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.
