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Small talk is not just mentioning the recent weather; it is a skilled and calculated attempt to make vacuous conversations look meaningful.
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In the exhibition catalog, an essay by the show's organizer, Cornelia Butler, the Modern's chief drawings curator, says nothing illuminating about how they are made, nor does a maddeningly pretentious and vacuous conversation between Mr. Sietsema and the critic Bruce Hainley shed any light on questions of technique.
And I water only while engaged in long, vacuous telephone conversations.
Because -- more fundamentally -- these parents may not appreciate the importance of having vacuous, loving conversations with babies.
They lip-sync a maliciously vacuous recorded conversation in portentous-sounding Italian as a confident Galileo sweeps in to sing shreds of wisdom at them.
Nor is the pursuit of celebrity necessarily as vacuous as our conversations about it, such as they are, tend to assume.
Originally written for the stage by Jose Landivar, the brother of the director, Luis Landivar, "Red Hook Black" crawls forward by means of stilted conversations and vacuous exchanges.
Their conversations are excruciatingly vacuous, and their love scenes are uncomfortable to watch.
Yet it's vacuous stuff.
The vacuous modern era?
It's vacuous".
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