These men have been living with oppression Since the day of their birth They cannot make the trees grow with their water Or the song "Amassakoul 'n' Ténéré" ("The Traveller in the Desert"), which seems to question the very reality of tribe and community: You who are organized assembled, walking together Hand in hand, you're living A path which is empty of meaning In truth, you're all alone.
The news is emptied of meaning.
It is "fun" to learn about these models, they are different and interesting, but there is no context for understanding why they have been developed and therefore, they are empty of meaning.
I still remember the jolt I felt, after a long relationship ended, when I went to use one of "our" words to someone new but realised it had been emptied of meaning.
In The World, William Archer wrote that he had enjoyed watching the play but found it to be empty of meaning, "What can a poor critic do with a play which raises no principle, whether of art or morals, creates its own canons and conventions, and is nothing but an absolutely wilful expression of an irrepressibly witty personality?" In The Speaker, A. B.
Until a recent surgery, he still shook hands and smiled like the politician he once was, but the gestures have been emptied of meaning.
En route to being emptied of meaning altogether, terms like these become buzzwords, Proscio says, and "a policy paper simply isn't serious if it doesn't include the latest exotic technical term or chic business school phrase".
He's a Shakespearean fool of the first order, an insufferable windbag whose words are empty of meaning, though he believes that the bluster he speaks is language and that he is communicating.
It was empty — of students.
It was empty of furniture.
As for "peace," war's companion and theoretical opposite, though still used in official speeches, it, too, has been emptied of meaning and all but discredited.
