Sentence examples for pretty devoid of from inspiring English sources

He points out that much brownfield land is rich with wildlife, whereas much "greenfield" intensive farmland is pretty devoid of life.

With a few exceptions, sci-fi seems to be pretty devoid of humor, unless the audience is laughing at campy set design or bad alien prosthetics.

"Most marketplaces are pretty sterile and pretty devoid of feeling.

HTC's financial release (here) is notable pretty devoid of substance and tangible plans.

It's usually not a city, as much as I need to get a good coffee, those inspirational places tend to be pretty devoid of people.

But rather in day-to-day conversations, many have walked away from speaking to Muslims with the feeling that Islam is pretty devoid of any principles of Mercy.

Hicks was no longer able — or willing, anyway — to spend profligately on the free-agent market, and the minor-league system was pretty much devoid of worthy prospects.

Everyone's favorite stylish greensward now runs up to 30th Street — which is pretty much devoid of traditional attractions at the moment.

While both the teenage and adult groups seemed to be full of decent humans striving for enlightenment, after three hours of listening, I found the prospects for any sustained open dialogue between teenagers and parents on sex pretty much devoid of hope.

Re "Talk to Parents About Sex? Yeah, Right," by Michael Winerip (Parenting column, regional sections, April 6): As a sexuality educator for almost 20 years, I was disappointed to read that after observing a three-hour program about sexuality for teenagers and parents, Mr. Winerip felt that the prospect for having an open dialogue about sex was "pretty much devoid of hope".

To the casual listener (or the avid listener obsessed with what is most popular), hip hop has become pretty much devoid of topical diversity.