Sentence examples for vacuous expression from inspiring English sources
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.
The vacuous expressions on the faces create a feeling of rudderless, dispirited anomie that was emblematic of the larger society.
Ms. Gunderson's black-on-black portraits of Danish and Bulgarian kings who aided the Jews, illustrative charcoal drawings of civilian heroes and allegorical visions of nautical escape may have memorial value for some viewers, but they are vacuous as expressions of moral insight or celebration (Johnson).
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").
Some philosophers have reacted even more radically to the problems of usual characterizations, claiming that the distinction between logical and non-logical expressions must be vacuous, and thus rejecting the notion of logical form altogether. (See e.g. Orayen 1989, ch. 4, §2.2; Etchemendy 1990, ch. 9; Read 1994; Priest 2001).
Vacuous chewing movements constitute the most common pattern of expression of purposeless oral movements and represent an impermanent response, with individual and strain susceptibility differences.
The truth predicate has to satisfy certain principles; otherwise the global reflection principle would be vacuous.
