Sentence examples for now vacuous from inspiring English sources
In her seminal paper Modern Moral Philosophy (1958), she argued that notions like "moral obligation", "moral duty", "morally right", and "morally wrong", are now vacuous hangovers from the Judaeo-Christian idea of a law-giving God.
West Africa's biggest musical export may now be politically vacuous afropop, but some among the upcoming generation want to return to socially conscious music.
Where once it was vacuous, now there is depth.
It's now more obvious that vacuous materialism is ever with us and that making fun of those caught up in it is an easy sort of sport.
And that suggests that the European Union, notwithstanding its economic travails, is experiencing its own "spring" in foreign and defense policy and that those who tended in the past to dismiss it as a flaccid talking shop capable of little more than vacuous posturing now need to carry out a fundamental reassessment.
This New Hollowness can be experienced in unusually pure form in two vacuous exhibitions now on view in Manhattan: "Manual: Two Worlds -- The Collaboration of Ed Hill and Suzanne Bloom" at the International Center of Photography and "Michal Rovner: The Space Between" at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Although Sarah Palin's name is now virtually synonymous with vacuous grabs for power, Game Change seems more about her in hype than actuality.
Where the visual representation of historical events is now often seen only as vacuous jpeg files amid gigabytes of information, Ms. Mehretu's language of abstraction is singular and poetic.
It's gotten to the point where I've missed so many classes these past few weeks that my vacuous thinking is now preventing me from going back to class from fear of people questioning or judging me.
But if art these days is like a teenager -- sarcastic, ungrateful, and existentially conflicted -- staging anti-art stunts as your art no longer makes you radical in what is now a competitive and often vacuous theater of ironic one-upping.
And we need to ask whether we now have an electoral process so vacuous, vicious and just plain silly that most people in their right minds wouldn't go anywhere near it.
