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Hollow posturing aside, the AFL-CIO has opposed neither the neoliberal austerity policies at home nor the imperialist wars of aggression abroad.
Just kidding: their beings are so easily enveloped by hollow posturing and other equally moronic pursuits because there's nothing else there.
President Obama does not seem to represent an exception to this pattern -- his feeble message of peace and hollow posturing about a "new beginning" with Iran, or his formalistic advocacy of the two-state solution in Palestine, notwithstanding.
I don't know if that's something they've been scared into sincerely believing, or if it's the same hollow posturing that makes them threaten to burn down mosques all the time.
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Just posturing?
"It was just posturing.
Macho posturing.
In his brilliant Thom Pain (Based on Nothing) – still one of the best monologues I've ever seen – Eno skewered the posturing hollow man.
Yet their posturing seemed hollow, given the operation they were engaged in: Ukraine's withdrawal from Debaltseve, after days of fighting against Russian-backed rebels in the strategic town.
Walcott's celebration was a rare moment of personality making itself known on the football pitch - a novel change from the PR posturing and hollow diplomacy that now characterises the modern game.
This kind maddening political calculus is undoubtedly what informed the decision to turn the President's speech into a hollow piece of rhetorical posturing, and it's exactly the kind of political calculus that will prevent the President and his allies in Congress from passing any really meaningful climate and clean energy policies.
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