Sentence examples for if vacuous from inspiring English sources

Nice, if vacuous, words were spoken all round.

THERE has been much furrowing of brows and earnest if vacuous talk.

The three skating rivals were sitting at a dais last week, engaging in the kind of cheerful, if vacuous, banter that local news anchors use as filler.

If vacuous bombast like this is going to conquer more than just the moron market, it needs a bit of mystery – the Guinness horses, for example.

If her last summer is any indication of how Diana would have lived the rest of her life, her death deprived the world of decades of vicarious, if vacuous, glamour.

Thanks to the sale of virtual goods, like tractors, cows and weapons for a buck or two each, these fashionable, if vacuous, distractions have become a $1.6 billion business.

Until this moment, feminism's musical manifestations had swung between coded appeals for sexual equality from singers and songwriters as diverse as Big Mama Thornton and Linda Perry, and heartfelt, if faintly vacuous, appeals for a woman to have fun.

Reforming round in vacuous circles.

It proposes themes that are warm if not completely vacuous.

Give me sinister before vacuous – if music didn't reflect a bit of menace I'd be worried.

Ms. Cui has been working with thorns for some time, and her artworks using them are widely admired, if a little vacuous.