Such an apparently shallow and vacuous life didn't deserve a write up on your pages - even if it was of the same calibre.
They are brought to vacuous life by the movie's stars: Emma Watson portrays flirty Nicki, her clipped British accent disappearing inside Valley-girl speak, her time spent in front of mirrors alarming.
In the vast wasteland of American Judaism in the late twentieth century, we find that all that is left is a vacuous life of Social Darwinism where only the wicked can prosper and where the simple goodness of one lone human being counts for nothing.
In his novel "Depth Sickness," I read, a loan shark shoots off his own foot on a hunting trip, then redeems his vacuous, vile life in recollection, while waiting for help or death, both of which arrive at approximately the same time.
If we look to another epitome of that era, the movie "Cocktail," we see that people's drinking habits were every bit as vacuous as their life styles.
This transient binge drinking with people I barely knew was actually shockingly similar to my current vacuous and hollow social life.
After the symposium, Mr. Ware said he sensed that the world of fine art was offering "an increasing embrace" of the comic-strip form, which he called a welcome relief from "branding comics as a facile stand-in for all that's vacuous and empty about American life and culture".
Like crosswords and pornography, these activities are both alluring and vacuous: they do little to meet life's challenges on this side of the screen.
As the tale unfolds, unfortunately, Maxwell Sim's story becomes implausible and what began as a sharp picture of the emptiness of modern life ends up becoming vacuous.
Sound does not persist, neither across space nor across generations, so the tremendous rattle of horse-drawn drays, the clink of cupboards, the sneezes and shuffles of domestic life fall into the vacuous, silent crevices of history.
It was consistent with this popular view of the emptiness of the lives of the rich to make Susan Alexander a cartoon character; the movie reduces Hearst's love affair to an infatuation for a silly, ordinary nothing of a girl, as if everything in his life were synthetic, his passion vacuous, and the object of it a cipher.
