Sentence examples for hollow values from inspiring English sources

The professor, a winner according to the hollow values of a crumbling society, is a pompous and egomaniacal bore.

Here she encountered not only Hemingway and Williams, but also the Dadaists and Surrealists, who shared her belief "in the sacred mission of art" and her "commitment to exposing the false dreams and hollow values" of the ruling class.

Presumably, the playwright is crying out against the hollow values of a youth-crazed culture and charting its damaging effects on a fragile 16-year-old -- and on all the ostensibly well-meaning grown-ups who notice her in all the wrong ways.

"Yes, oh yes, God yes!" But hollow values are also present in Wall Street Democrats who invert the GOP's What's the Matter with Kansas?

Those hollow values are present in the countless editorials at political organs like the Washington Post which falsely argue that we can't afford to preserve and expand Social Security and Medicare, or pose false choices between help at the dawn of life or fair play at its sunset.

Since a study of hollow American values, dramatically dissected, would follow the path from "Death of a Salesman" to "National Anthems," it is entirely apt to say that attention must be paid.

He chided companies for posting hollow lists of values like "be honest," saying of course you have to be honest.

Fig. 1 Aqueous Mn2+ concentrations (a) and protein concentrations (solid symbol)/pH values (hollow symbol) (b) during anaerobic birnessite reduction with different initial cell concentrations.

The zigzag traces of atomic stress and the corresponding 422 common neighbor type can be observed near the inner surface of the hollow nanowire, which values are increased with an increase of time.

George Carey, former Archbishop of Canterbury, has claimed that "there are deep forces in western society, hollowing out the values of Christianity and driving them back to the margins".

Its draft title (later toned down) was "Lukoil: Hollow Promises, Wasted Value," and at its core was the ungentle suggestion that last year Alekperov's company had more than $1 billion in "forgone revenues" -- a euphemism for money lost through corruption or ineptitude.