Sentence examples for hollow intentions from inspiring English sources

With such hollow intentions it should have sunk long ago, but buoyed by luck, comedy and state-of-the-art special effects, it has not only survived the journey intact, it's also washed down its decks, ready for a whole new cycle of movies to begin.

The capture of Moscow would prove a hollow reward since the Russians had no intention of negotiating with Napoleon for peace.

I've gone on the record with my belief that China's illegal and unfair trade practices have the direct intention of hollowing out our manufacturing base and our record unemployment.

This step can be skipped if you're simply carving down to the pulp of the pumpkin, with no intention of hollowing it out.

His usual contention that he only ever turns up to tournaments with the intention of winning has an increasingly hollow ring.

The original intention had been to shoot Sleepy Hollow predominantly on location with a $30 million budget.

Misguided intentions -- more often than not -- make for hollow victories.

They have also enforced the same archaic and prescriptive rules for beauty, or repeated the same hollow political refrains for freedom, equality, and power, without any intention or thought into what that would actually look like, let alone mean.

Ultimately, the high-minded intentions of the conference will seem like little more than a hollow public relations exercise if nothing happens.

I love my privacy, but YikYak's lofty intentions of democratizing our voices under the shield of anonymity are regrettably hollow.

If the intention was to recall the thick walls of adobe construction, the gesture is hollow here.