Sentence examples for sort of vacuous from inspiring English sources

But when the author hears the song in The Body Shop while buying shower gel, his liking for the duo's sound evaporates: "['Night Out'] had become a cliché, lazy shorthand for a sort of vacuous monied hip," he writes.

I refuse to think more of them for all this but I'm going to really try not to think less, particularly as public schoolboys are endlessly encouraged to show this sort of vacuous initiative.

We were faced with what's now known as indie rock, a sort of vacuous form.

This result of deconstructionism misapplied to creative work is probably what produces the sort of vacuous self-absorbed pabulum that appears in the New Yorker almost every week..

And just yesterday, Friedman returned to the pages of the Times with his "Theory of Everything (Sort Of)," in which he, for whatever reason, decided to intrude on the "Microtrends" turf of the similarly vacuous Mark Penn.

"I'm not a huge fan of just 'Hey, your shirt looks good, hey your shoes look nice.' Or sort of the empty vacuous cocktail talk.

It was all kind of vacuous.

"A sort of blank".

Once that's understood, the record becomes sort of entertaining: gaudy, vacuous, densely mannered.

And she sends up saintliness - and perhaps Sybil - when she freezes in the pose (head on one side, vacuous smile) of the sort of dear little holy person you might see in a stained-glass window.

It's a tactic of vacuous exhaustion, not a strategy of intellectual energy and moral direction.