Sentence examples for vacuous for from inspiring English sources
First, the program is vacuous — for the most part it's a statement of desired outcomes, not policies.
Where the original Rio showed a true romantic readiness, an ability to grasp the enormity of our damage to the planet, this ersatz reproduction has been a victory for the vacuous, for the Tom Buchanans of this world – who know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
The local as site of integration, though proverbially the site of integration, is entirely vacuous for the purposes of theory and better left to those who live and act it out at their discretion - too much state and policy there can only do harm, as in the notorious burka laws.
Note that condition (a) is vacuous for μ ≥ 1/ c.
Second prize for crassness goes to the German automaker Volkswagen, which has appropriated three huge spaces side by side with another directly across the street for exactly the same one dimensional and vacuous mural for its Golf.
Reno, like Frédéric Moreau, is a frustratingly malleable figure, a hero almost vacuous except for the exactitude of her noticing.
Finally, it's about nothing other than Claudia's vacuous bid for fame – which is too idiosyncratic to register as a wider satire on fame-hunger.
– we are unambiguously on the side of change from the Labour status quo, but that we think we contrast ourselves very favourably with what is a rather vacuous pitch for change, one without sincerity, one without authenticity from Cameron.The Economist: It is typically true, though, that when the Tories do well, you do badly.Mr Clegg: Yes, but that see-saw has changed completely.
Bangs, who talked as brilliantly as he wrote, slates the then 32-year-old Mick Jagger for looking too old (oh Lester, what would you say now?), and rips into Bryan Ferry, calling him "the most vacuous excuse for a superstar yet presented" – a case of simultaneously missing and getting the point.
Although Sarah Palin's name is now virtually synonymous with vacuous grabs for power, Game Change seems more about her in hype than actuality.
When we first met Bruno on Da Ali G Show, he seemed to be a combination of the two: his outrageous couture and unabashedly "out" behavior take Borat's act to a more threatening place where people express entrenched homophobic views, while his interviews do for vacuous celebrities and fashionistas what Ali G does for politicians.
