Sentence examples for more like empty from inspiring English sources

In Mr. Trump's case, it looks more like empty and self-aggrandizing bluster.

They instead chose to chase dollars and bowl victories, their talk of reform sounding more like empty rhetoric.

Don't get us wrong, we love a good soft serve, but this date feels more like empty calories than anything of substance.

Rex Ryan, the Jets coach, has managed, so far, to talk up this game without making it as much an us-versus-them thing as he did when his team played the Patriots, in part because doing so, absent cause and history, would make the trash talk more like empty cable-news-talk chatter, rather than a legitimate (or at least plausible) call to arms.

The other side of the room was more like an empty parking lot.

Without a definition of synthetic biology and without information about what the synthetic biology companies are doing, synthetic biology seems more like an empty fundraising term than technology.

For us feminism had run out of steam, the environmental movement no longer excited, the fire no longer burned in the belly of the Left, and youth rebellion was looking more and more like an empty gesture inspired by Nike.

As a friend tells me, getting married is like entering a furnished house, holding hands, with a cheering throng behind you, but divorce is more like leaving an empty room with a creaky door and no one waiting on the other side.

No one likes empty ritual.

That Mr. Combs makes his desires seem like more than empty materialism must come in some part from the fact that he has been hungry at the same table.

Which sounds more like a long-winded empty promise.