There are some clients who have such a high degree of hopelessness and apathy and are so devoid of goals, that motivational interviewing may be ineffective in motivating them to change.
Meanwhile, Wisconsin Republican Paul Ryan trotted out his budget plan that was so devoid of specifics that it amounted to a secret plan to cut the deficit.
Alexis Petridis, writing in The Guardian, said that some of the songs are "mostly beautifully turned", but marred by lyrics that are "so devoid of personality that they sound less like song lyrics".
The power of the argument is that it is so devoid of meaning that it is almost impossible to rebut.
We have a brew at the Niarbyl Bay Cafe, where the car park doubles as one of the island's many dark sky sites, spots so devoid of light pollution that on a clear night the heavens are dazzling.
We feel nothing but pity for him, that his life was so devoid of love that his only way of finding meaning was to attack a defenceless woman who represented the best of our country in an act of supreme cowardice.
After Washington beat Marquette on Quincy Pondexter's shot with 1.7 seconds left, the Huskies ensured that this game was so devoid of drama that Brendan Sherrer, who made the team during an open tryout in November, played the final 1 minute 26 seconds.
It is the very essence of that most Soviet of Russian institutions, the communal flat: a place so crammed with people and so devoid of privacy that not having a bathtub can be considered an advantage.
Jonathan Liew, of The Daily Telegraph, requested that readers stopped watching the show, whilst describing it as "so devoid of intellect that it actually sucks nearby intelligence into its vortex.
"Did you ask him about the pipe guy?" And so that was Macworld – a conference so devoid of exciting news that the people of Silicon Valley have had to import Jack's pipe as a talking point.
