Sentence examples for to vacuous from inspiring English sources

Kate Tempest – Everybody Down What we said: "Tempest shines, though, through her use of language, which illuminates the subject matter – from boardroom drug deals to vacuous parties where "everybody … has got a hyphenated second name" – to dazzling effect".

What we said: "Tempest shines, though, through her use of language, which illuminates the subject matter – from boardroom drug deals to vacuous parties where "everybody … has got a hyphenated second name" – to dazzling effect," wrote Tim Jonze, in the Guardian.

In addition to vacuous singular expressions, gap-based analyses have been proposed for future contingents (following one reading of Aristotle's exposition of the sea-battle; cf. §2 above) and category mistakes (e.g. "The number 7 likes/doesn't like to dance").

The Essex of the British popular imagination is often linked to vacuous plasticity and aspirational consumerism.

As it turns out, people don't submit to vacuous moralizing just because their boss keeps telling them "you are are better than this".

In 2000, after releasing their fifth studio album, the Make-Up dissolved, reportedly "due to the large number of counter-gang copy groups which had appropriated their look and sound and applied it to vacuous and counter-revolutionary forms".

Recurring themes include: women who are about to leave their husbands but change their minds at the last minute; superficially dull men who turn out to be excellent choices of husband; and trendy modern people who are revealed to be vacuous twits when exposed to the unforgiving light of traditional values.

James E. Darnell, Laboratory of Molecular Cell Biology, The Rockefeller University, New York 10021, USA (nominated by W. Ford Doolittle) I think speculation on the origin of eukaryotic cells that does not go back to the pre-cellular phase of evolution unlikely to unlock any secrets and at worst to be vacuous.

There's a comic side to this, as over-use and misuse combine to empty this already vacuous jargon of any real meaning.

He was oblivious, therefore, to the vacuous advice from Gary Player, who suggested McIlroy might do worse than to get a wife and stick with her.

Gallingly, people are more interested in his upcoming wedding to a vacuous reality star, a situation which Allen accepts as a possible boost to career reinvention, and is undergoing an increasingly flirtatious interview with a smart, sensitive journalist – typecasting for Rosario Dawson.