Sentence examples for vacuous thing from inspiring English sources

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They've got this slogan, Educate, Employ, Empower, which is the most vacuous thing I've ever heard.

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.

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Reality is a plenum, he held, a complete fullness; there can be no such thing as a vacuous region, or the void of atomism.

He highlighted three main challenges to the wellbeing agenda: that it is a distraction from the real economic issues; that such efforts are beyond the grasp of government; and that the whole thing is simply vacuous.

The show's visual and material plenitude is deeply gratifying in many ways, a lively alternative to a contemporary art world where too often things cerebrally dry, electronically vacuous or just badly made prevail.

Anyone anticipating easy answers is probably asking the wrong questions because the future of journalism is likely to be many things at once: simultaneously vacuous, cerebral, profitable, loss-making, prurient, in the public interest, bite-sized, long-form, knee-jerk, revelatory, depressing, uplifting, funny, grubby, mobile, surprising and contradictory.

By now disillusioned with the clothing industry, a business he regarded as "intellectually vacuous", he resolved to "stop selling people things they don't need", as he later said.

Dumb, vacuous, empty -- Zoolander is all these things, but still he longs to chuck modeling and take up a meaningful life teaching "kids who don't read good" at an institute financed by his efforts on the runway.

For one thing, he's formed an alliance with Sydney Vacuous Model, based on the fact that he thinks she's hot.

If you make the measure of every single thing money, you end up with an extremely vacuous, and extremely dangerous place for human beings to live in because it doesn't allow for any other value system.

As a practical matter, I think Harry is in need of someone to take charge of the situation, eschew vacuous ivory tower academic diatribe and simply do the right thing [ 4].

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