Sentence examples for vacuous piece from inspiring English sources

Yet while the plot and characters of "Cyrano de Bergerac" serve as a point of departure for "Calvin Berger," this well-crafted but vacuous piece has none of the soul of the original.

Mr. Branson does a disservice to the "wonderful people" of the "beautiful country" when he writes such a vacuous piece about a country that is less than a decade removed from violence that consumed 1200+ of its citizens while displacing over half a million and forever changing how Kenyans perceive and interact with one another.

This year's theme was "resilient dynamism", one of those vacuous pieces of managementese that could just as easily mean oiling the wheels of the capitalist machine, as anything pertaining to the WEF's motto of "improving the state of the world".

After all, the New York Times publishes vacuous trend pieces about random people every week, but HBO does not hand out TV series to any old random Calvin Klein-hating, self-consciously bohemian twentysomething.

When Fitzgerald writes "between the numbers, people were doing 'stunts' all over the garden while happy vacuous bursts of laughter rose toward the summer sky," I'm not sure he was thinking of bacchanalian set pieces that would rival an orgy staged by Bono and Julie Taymar for the joint birthdays of Russian oligarchs and Silvio Berlusconi.

Hearing the two consecutively was to find Mozart taking another step from child to man: the earlier piece brilliant if a little vacuous, the second rich in the ambiguity of spirit that makes Mozart Mozart.

This studio gathering of the rich and vacuous is not simply a satiric set piece on New York manners and morals: it is also the cause of Undine's forgetting to attend her little son's birthday, and of the final disillusionment of her aristocratic but impoverished first husband.

National governments lobbied for a piece of the action, eager for vacuous prestige and an influx of well-paid EU officials.

Pat Martin, a member of Parliament, promised a bill abolishing his nation's own 1-cent piece, saying "it's a completely vacuous thing to hold on to," according to Canwest News Service.

City developers are planning to knock down the historic Emek Theatre to make room for a new shopping mall, transforming a piece of rich cultural heritage into a vacuous, strip-lit husk.

Murrow agreed to do penitential and indeed mendacious interviews with vacuous stars to make up for his boat-rocking political pieces.