Sentence examples for vacuous power from inspiring English sources
Clever language without real answers is a vacuous power play, and poisonous to real political change.
His intentions here are noble, as they are when he deconstructs the gratuitous lyrics of Rihanna, the vacuous girl power sentiments of Beyonce and the trite filmmaking of Oliver Stone in the case of 'World Trade Center', but his delivery of them is coated in arrogance.
If you choose, you can find this view reflected in The Narrow Road to the Deep North – this hope in small human gestures that cut against the vacuous cruelty of power.
Although Sarah Palin's name is now virtually synonymous with vacuous grabs for power, Game Change seems more about her in hype than actuality.
Osborne called it "vacuous and irrelevant" and on coming to power, he repealed it: so much for setting things in stone.
Both are vacuous but were thought capable of keeping the regime in power indefinitely.
There is a similar air of vacuous fundamentalism in requiring that every bill cite the Constitutional power given to Congress to enact it.
"Motion and rest" as power appears to provide either an incomplete or vacuous theory of indivuation.
A thinking person's soap opera - even as it riffs on soap opera conventions - Mad Men announces this episode's power play with soap star Megan Donn's alternately vacuous and insightful French-Canadian trophy wife) gossiping like a soap fan herself upon seeing Peggy and Ted at an afternoon screening of Rosemary's Baby.
These scenes have a perfunctory, tacked on quality, and Mr. Caviezel's face, which is pleasant but vacuous at the Last Supper, for example, does nothing to add to their power.
