Sentence examples for vacuous the from inspiring English sources

In doing so he belittles as vacuous the Washington protesters' advocacy of democratic institutions.

The loofah was stringy and matted, the sponge was branching and vacuous, the pumice was riddled with needle holes.

He significantly shaped views on pop culture (before Thom Yorke, Noam Chomsky and a few others helped seal them) and gave me the insight to see how shallow and vacuous the world of glamour and celebrity-dom is.

The policy debates have often been vacuous, the rhetoric shrill, the attack ads pervasive and wearying.

There's the expensively vacuous, the kind that Marc Spiegler, a director of Art Basel, has described as simply another rite in commercial art's "elaborate validation ritual".

Stuck In The Middle With You is a song whose meaning is elusive and uncomfortable ("I've a feeling that something ain't right") and somehow vacuous; the horror lies in the lack of meaning implied by Mr Blonde's liking it.

Our current reality shows are devoted to documenting the wealthy, the plastic and the vacuous not the downtrodden, not the lonely and not the deeply dented souls who smell like whiskey and tap their cigarettes out in colorless ashtrays.

Reno, like Frédéric Moreau, is a frustratingly malleable figure, a hero almost vacuous except for the exactitude of her noticing.

The book is a "bleak performance... a tired study of the vacuous" with the feeling of an improvised screenplay being performed by an uncommitted cast.

I remembered Ajdabiya's dry light, the blue of its vacuous sky, the way the heat holds you.

He asserts that by 1968 the album appeared vacuous against the emotional backdrop of the political and social upheavals of American life, describing it as "a triumph of effects", but "a Day-Glo tombstone for its time".