Sentence examples for somewhat vacuous from inspiring English sources

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Suburban America as a comfortable but somewhat vacuous realm of unreality: consumerist, wasteful, complacent, materialistic and self-absorbed.

Accompanied by Offa, a cathedral-born pigeon who speaks in scriptural tags, and Pansy, a diminutive, narcissistic, somewhat vacuous ginger cat, they set off to discover Who Stanley Really Is.

He handed me a dusty photograph featuring a rather tall man reminiscent of the orangutan in "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" and a blond woman with a somewhat vacuous expression.

In particular, the definitions of 'substance' and 'quality' seem to be jointly circular, unless we take as already given universals such as substance-hood, which make the definitions somewhat vacuous.

Self-centered, rich, married to a somewhat vacuous woman -- though I didn't know the term back then.

Rather than the somewhat vacuous exchanges of the past, there must be a real effort now at constructive dialogue.

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

Strictly speaking, Wittgenstein and Carnap think that logical truths do not express propositions at all, and are just vacuous sentences that for some reason or other we find useful to manipulate; thus it is only in a somewhat diminished sense that we can speak of (a priori) knowledge of them.

Yet it's vacuous stuff.

The vacuous modern era?

It's vacuous".

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