It's numbingly easy to pick on someone like Ms. Cyrus for her creative choices, and the vitriol aimed at her in recent weeks has felt especially hollow, declarations of cultural war from defenders of an innocent past that never was.
He and the other players suspended Monday for their involvement in the Biogenesis case remind us of how self-serving and hollow Selig's declarations have been about baseball's having moved past the steroid scourge.
Some American officials think much more needs to be done to build confidence and that such a declaration, however hollow, might further undermine support in the region for a US military presence.
Such actions, unlike the hollow words of summit declarations, would give the developing countries good reasons to support a new round.*Jeffrey Schott is a senior fellow at the Institute for International Economics.
The foreign jurisdiction in question is Ireland, where hollow laughter greeted McFeely's sudden declaration of Britishness.
But there was something off about the declaration; it was too boastful and hollow, somehow, as though he had read instructions on how to brag.
The striker's oft-reiterated declarations of regional devotion proved horribly hollow as he scarpered for the A1 (southbound) at the first flutter of Gérard Houllier's eyelashes.
In large measure, such a declaration of victory would not have been hollow.
Opponents claimed Diệm's declarations about the value of democracy were hollow.
