But if it comes to be used (as it too often is) to mean any charge uncomfortably near the bone, or if alternatively it covers any kind of demagoguery, falsehood and trickery, then the very concept is rendered empty and meaningless.
I'm built like a sieve, wherein any validation I receive, achievement I reach, or good thing that happens quickly drains through me, and I am once again rendered empty.
Maybe Boehner is afraid that a Tea Party revolt could upend his speakership, so he's rendered it empty in order to hang onto it.
48 Tips and Tricks for Giving Your Freezing, Barren Cave a Mega-Makeover Does any guy who enters your home immediately assume the fetal position and morosely contemplate the futility of existence as a relentless wind howls angrily outside and his hopes and dreams are rendered as empty as your front hall?
It's a full account rendered in empty gestures — or, in the prescient words of Jack White, himself likely a future subject of an overstuffed boxed set: "I got a backyard with nothing in it / Except a stick, a dog, and a box with something in it".
Do the black-and-white cutout images of birds sprinkled in among Doug Aitken's "Plateau," an intricate metropolis made entirely of Federal Express boxes, really evoke "Darwinian questions of natural selection, rendering the empty corporate city an artifact of an almost desperate will to build, conquer and survive"?
12. Someone with preexisting emergentist leanings will tend to see this as trivialising panpsychism or rendering it empty.
It's not just a 3-D movie in your goggles, but a fully rendered theatre, complete with empty seats and tastefully illuminated aisles.
Strain rendered fat into an empty bean can and throw away once cool and solidified.
Giant One way to emphasize space is to render it simultaneously empty and full, by putting one or two outlandishly scaled-up things in it.
However, in describing the prevailing theory of evolution, we must avoid tautology at all costs because tautology renders the theory empty.
