Sentence examples for vacuous phrase from inspiring English sources

There were 72 uses of the vacuous phrase "Go-To" in Barclays' annual report.

We cannot anoint someone who has not explained their position on any of these – saying "Brexit means Brexit" is not a plan, it is a vacuous phrase.

This glib but rather vacuous phrase earned cheers and applause, and soon the discussion was opened up to the audience, with members of the cast crawling through the theater with microphones to give us all a chance to air our views of the doctor's views.

For now, though, you could argue that the events of 9/11 still seem so unfathomable that they have actually impoverished the language a little, leaving us with a vacuous phrase like war on terror, which manages to empty both "war" and "terror" of much their meaning, or the creepy, Nazi-sounding homeland, which seems a far less pleasant place to live than just plain America.

The fervour Royal arouses among her supporters burns brightly, as does the hostility she arouses with her one-woman crusade for what she calls renewal, but which her opponents regard as the vacuous phrase-making of a hyper-charged ambition.

However out of sync with China's changing society, such exercises remain a part of formal politics here, and otherwise vacuous phrases can signal important policy trends.

The problem with all this is that instead of ideas, we get self-serving, vacuous phrase-mongering.

In the same way "the big society", "back to basics" and "family values" are examples of equally vacuous, ambiguous phrases.

His slogan has been "energy independence"—a vacuous and misleading phrase used by politicians of both parties.

I'm part nobody, part pin-up,' she observed with a shrug), kind of sad, kind of angry, kind of vacuous (favourite word: 'minger', favourite phrase 'Come on, bring it on'), kind of sweet, kind of funny ('You should be a Jordan lookalike' said a stablehand. 'I'd rather be someone than try and look like someone. She's plastic') and, yes, almost certainly a grisly tragi-comic accident-in-waiting.

The annals of political rhetoric are full of forgettable phrases and more than the average amount of vacuous rhetoric.