And announcing victory in a fight you're running away from is hollow, even by Congressional standards.But hollowness, alas, is Mrs Bachmann's legacy.
For all Bayern's gameness there was a hollowness to their second-half dominance and, as Müller was taken off, even a note of dissent in the crowd.
Germany's recovery exposes the hollowness of French claims that the deflationary habits of the European Central Bank (ECB) are to blame for sluggish growth.
The artificiality of trail hunting seems to mirror the hollowness of what the hunt wants to represent – the continuance of rural traditions.
The Gadarene rush of the Watergate-era students into media and the law was prefigured in Doonesbury and it can claim to have predicted Jimmy Carter's sad descent from piety to sanctimony, the hollowness of Reagan's feel-good nostrums, the short electoral life of George Bush's desert victories, and the indecisive disappointments of Bill Clinton.
He also went for a long walk in the countryside of Athens (which he hated leaving) with a young man named Phaedrus in order, very gently, to make the youth see the hollowness of a rhetorician he admired.Socrates as talk-show hostBut Socrates also sought out those whom he saw peddling the skills of eristic conversation.
The events of the past two weeks in Belarus and Kyrgyzstan have provided a humble reality check and exposed the hollowness of Russia's neo-imperialist ambitions among the states that once made up the Soviet Union.Russia has long wished to keep the West away from its backyard.
But he claims credit for exposing the hollowness of Mr Sharon's talk of "painful concessions for peace".The surprise was Mr Sharon's decision to leave out the two ultra-Orthodox parties, Shas (11) and United Torah Judaism (5), both longtime Likud allies, both howling treachery.
This could suggest a Reaganesque popularity that transcends issues, or it could denote a hollowness in his support.
But the see-Dick-run sentences in "Off Keck Road" hint merely at a hollowness below.A slender novel dooms no writer to slender accomplishment.
The League's erstwhile ally in government, the PdL, now part of Mr Letta's coalition, is likely to support it.The row has exposed the hollowness of the League's claim that it is not xenophobic, only against illegal immigrants.
