Sentence examples for vacuous sense from inspiring English sources
"How she longed for the uninhibitedness of kids her age, their vacuous sense of immortality," Giordano writes.
Or that the photos of my friends gawking drunk into the camera swigging a Meantime Pale Ale told him something about the vacuous sense of self-loathing that comes from metropolitan hedonism?
Or that the photos of my friends gawking drunk into the camera while swigging a Meantime Pale Ale told him something about the vacuous sense of self-loathing that comes from metropolitan hedonism?
Anthony H. Cordesman and Khalid R. al-Rodhan of the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington called the new Iranian claims "little more than vacuous political posturing" meant to promote Iranian nationalism and a global sense of atomic inevitability.
Thus, the language of advertising consists essentially of often propositionally vacuous displays of competitive linguistic sophistication designed to create a largely artificial sense of exclusiveness among status-conscious readers.
The dying embers of whatever substances you took last night are gradually glowing out of action, the heightened sense of awesomeness trickling from your tingling fingertips, and the growing vacuous doom is beginning to flood your body.
The photographs of Plath as a vacuous girl of the fifties, with dark lipstick and blond hair, add to one's sense of the jarring disparity between the life and the work.
In this sense, ecological aesthetics speaks to the charge that traditional aesthetic appreciation of nature is morally vacuous, although the degree to which moral considerations and appropriate aesthetic appreciation of nature are importantly related remains a matter of discussion and debate (Loftis 2003, Bannon 2011, Stecker 2012).
Spacey is vacuous yet conflicted, Bettany's bravado is mixed with self-hatred, while Simon Baker in his pinstriped Armani gives the sense he'd mortgage his own mother.
Strictly speaking, Wittgenstein and Carnap think that logical truths do not express propositions at all, and are just vacuous sentences that for some reason or other we find useful to manipulate; thus it is only in a somewhat diminished sense that we can speak of (a priori) knowledge of them.
