I can't bring myself to listen to more than eight bars of an Uffie record without wanting to chew my own hands off - vacuous, hipper-than-thou nonsense, surely?
Democratic Representative Bruce Vento of Minnesota complained that Kemp had "HUD on an autopilot with Heritage Foundation software... .. [W]hat has blocked [their] ideas for the past decade has been far less the liberal establishment than conservative opposition to any major national initiative (other than vacuous volunteerism) to address any social problem (other than drugs).
Another, from Arnold Chapkis of London, castigated Mr. Livingstone for his lack of historical knowledge: "As it stands, the square is rather vacuous and more than a little pointless.
A Nixonesque mass who quietly back (and buy) "real" hip-hop (Kendrick Lamar, J Cole) rather than vacuous trap and radio rap (Kanye West, Drake).
Britons want to see their royals demonstrating "value for money," to be seen to be in touch, to have a greater ethos of service and to be more than vacuous figureheads propped up by pomp and pageantry.
In Shenzhen and Guangzhou (where FedEx's forthcoming aerotropolis is expected to generate new businesses worth $65bn by 2020), architectural train-smashes, rather than vacuous pastiche, have become à la mode.
Nothing brings out the barbarian in me more potently than vacuous, soft-centered, these-you-have-loved extracts, especially when being put "on hold" on the telephone prior to a useless connection to a call centre.
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.
But alongside Afriyie's statements in the debate, it's hard to see past this as being anything other than vacuous lip service, if you'll forgive the inevitable pun.
