Sentence examples for hollow thing from inspiring English sources

The Middle Ages believed that fame is a worthless and hollow thing.

"The Hoax" is a much smarter and more diverting picture than "The Aviator," which, for all its pizzazz, did the one dull and hollow thing that you can do with Howard Hughes: it bought his story, straight.

One head alone can know its weight, on throne, in pageantry, and feel it still, in private space, when it's lifted: not a hollow thing, but a measuring; no halo, treasure, but a valuing; decades and duty.

I was right, but the last word you get in as the still living is a hollow thing, trailing off, as it does, into oblivion.

But it's a hollow thing when the giver has done major damage -- systemic or individual -- and seeks to "give back" as recompense, yet doesn't pledge never to do such damage again.

In 1905, he did some amazing versions of Alice in Wonderland, Sleepy Hollow, things that I've been involved with, so I felt there was a weird connection to me – the material, and life.

But in its layered approach, it risks a self-parody of experimental dance rather than what Mr. Simonet called "the hollow things in our culture" in a discussion after the performance.

The gold-plated Fifa World Cup winners' trophies are even less impressive than the (probably) hollow real thing.

"To win because anonymous and malicious persons witch-hunted Walcott out of the race would be a hollow and tainted thing," he wrote in a blog for the Guardian.

Bernini needled him, but after his death, he told Spada that "only Borromini understood this profession, but that he was never content and that he wanted to hollow out one thing inside another, and another inside that without ever getting to the end".

Those words, whatever they might be, are hollow echoes of things that have already been said by many.