Sentence examples for vacant-minded from inspiring English sources
And in this unbelievably delightful and timeless collection of short pieces, we can recover the delight of ordinary, uncondescending appreciation, places where the vacant-minded stroller can take "peculiar pleasure".
Media outlets are lapdogs; Republicans, intellectually vacant and single-minded in pursuit of money; unions, wheeler-dealers; Democrats, timid ("the party of the New Deal last acted like it was one in the 1970s").
To Alfonso Dominguez, calling his project to populate a mostly vacant stretch of downtown Oakland with locally minded retailers Popuphood is both literal ("The stores are popping up!") and a bit of a tease.
Nimble, innovation-minded enterprises are taking ownership of unoccupied, vacant, or inhospitable sites like the Boston Harbor Islands, the course description posits.
Of course she has an interest, as a prospective Labour candidate for Mayor of London, but the general point runs across the country, to properties left vacant by all manner of people, not just absent-minded billionaires or offshore investment funds.
This was life inside the Night Heron, a decidedly illegal nightclub run by a group of adventure-minded artists in a water tower atop a vacant building in Chelsea for eight weekends in March, April and May.
(The apotheosis of this trend may have been "The Simple-Minded Life," starring the proudly thoughtless Nicole Richie and the vacant, dashboard-puppy-necked Paris Hilton).
Drawing on history, psychology, sociology and economics, as well as on interviews she conducted with women across the country, Ms. Friedan charted a gradual metamorphosis of the American woman from the independent, career-minded New Woman of the 1920's and 30's into the vacant, aproned housewife of the postwar years.
