Sentence examples for pretty vacuous from inspiring English sources

"It's pretty vacuous a lot of the time," she says of the city.

"Survey data point to an overwhelming belief in God, but when you go down a couple of layers, it can be pretty vacuous," says Cromartie.

That he announced his move on the eve of Gordon Brown launching the pretty vacuous themes of Labour's election campaign made for a poetic moment: wherever Purnell goes, he is surely ­moving in the right direction.

Between the rich humanist realism and grand spiritual passions of the 17th century and the new formal rigors and political awakenings of the 19th century, Rococo looks pretty vacuous.

In 10 years' time, we will have seen a switch from pretty vacuous higher education, where something practical has been academicised just to pad it out into a degree, in favour of some first-rate practical education that is meaningful in its own terms.

It's pretty vacuous to spend a couple of years debating whether the emissions target for 2020 should fall by 20%, 30%, or 40% compared with 1990, or perhaps 2005, without knowing how and with what extra costs and disruptions such targets might be achievable.

Perhaps cupcakes are too measly to get worked up about, pretty yet vacuous.

I can't remember the name of the boy who offered to hold my hand, but he was the baby of the group, each of them smooth-faced, pretty and vacuous — all swagger and ridiculously transparent.

That's the narrative arc you need to win: pretty-but-vacuous turns pretty-but-totally-weird-and-cool-with-it.

(He moves in anyway.) Pretty, spoiled and vacuous, Fiona has the kind of Sloane Ranger slacker life that Princess Diana might have led had she declined Prince Charles's marriage proposal.

It's a (very pretty but utterly vacuous, worth it for a few bob) first-person shooter, a genre that's wildly popular right now, covering series like Halo, Battlefield, Killzone, Call of Duty, and Far Cry.