Here is a man who understands the cinematic image, not just as vacuous glamour but as narrative and poetry. |
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Its dubious merits and glitzy, vacuous plot aside, it is a film, on one level at least, about having everything and feeling nothing. |
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I have been repelled by attempts to portray him as a vacuous man with an artificial smile and no convictions. |
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Had I been sucked into a vacuous, unappreciative, homogenous culture that moved at breakneck speed? |
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He attempts to revisit the concept of intelligence but comes to the vacuous conclusion that it can't be defined. |
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You'll see their vacuous smiles, but their sad eyes will betray how hollow and unhappy they really are. |
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Ultimately, it's a completely empty, vacuous product, carefully crafted to make lots and lots of money. |
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In short, what we have here is a veritable orgy of vacuous generalities and meaningless slogans. |
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Can there be anything more futile than to combine the huge range of music we find under the vapid and vacuous heading Easy Listening? |
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The story may seem vacuous because of its clear lack of progression, but then, maybe that's the point of it. |
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If the Nationalists had simply parroted their trite, intellectually vacuous opposition, then that would have been no more or less than expected. |
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For many, the book was a microcosm of the vacuous 1980s, a period in American history when youngsters stood for nothing and believed in nothing. |
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We should argue about how things are, not seek to win arguments with vacuous comparisons designed to evoke revulsion without thought. |
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It transformed his face, giving his normally vacuous gaze a look of both intelligence and awareness. |
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Some might say that it's because the actors are silly, strident, vacuous, and self-important. |
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She's perfected that smiling art of PR deflection, of projecting a sweetly vacuous wholesomeness. |
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This piece struck me as one of the most vacuous and shallow pieces of writing I've seen in a very long time. |
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So is there any genuinely interesting news in all this vacuous Hollywood house-hunting nonsense? |
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A vacuous, empty space is present in almost all locations throughout the film and successfully captures the enormous lack of love Barry feels. |
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Corporations will choose to promote vacuous materialist music as it is often in their interest to do so. |
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However, with Silvestrov, the feel of the scherzo imbues the adagio so that what was once regarded as solemn is now seen as vacuous and illusory. |
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Choices based on the most minute reasoning but lacking any desire are vacuous. |
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On nonproliferation, India believes that the vacuous legalism of the current nonproliferation regime will lead the world nowhere. |
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On the contrary, the whole vacuous production looks like a revival perfunctorily thrown together by a hack house director. |
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The transition to a 3D world certainly taxes the Xbox's power but the game world is particularly vacuous. |
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Suzie, a pretty, slightly vacuous woman dressed in rather scanty clothing, stands there. |
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He stands there, a pretty, slightly vacuous woman dressed in rather scanty clothing standing next to him. |
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So says The Knife, who, as their name suggests, are not a conventional band content to offer vacuous platitudes served on a diet of mediocrity. |
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Pedestrians are compelled to use vacuous, shelterless walkways without local incident or relief. |
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So now, six years in, what should these shysters, lawyers, and purveyors of vacuous mediocrity do next? |
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Belief and unbelief, so important to the intellectual posturing of modern existence, are innocuous, vacuous terms. |
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So the vacuous Shoreditchers inevitably skip off into the sunset together with that Winkleman terror snapping at their heels. |
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The Register is no more innocent than the rest of the news hounds in promoting Sun's ambitious but vacuous plan. |
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If the directors are vaunted for intelligence and brio, why is this film so vacuous, stupid and lazy? |
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Morning light streamed through the venetian blinds of the vacuous police office. |
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For they are vacuous, ill-bred fools who know less about video games than they do about recording interesting music. |
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Now I realise that it's been there all along, with its stupid, slobbering tongue and its vacuous, infantile grin. |
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On the second floor, I stepped into a vacuous, empty office space. |
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He painted American landscapes and cityscapes with a disturbing truth, expressing the world around him as a chilling, alienating, and often vacuous place. |
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But, overall, it was vacuous stuff, came to nothing, and fizzled out. |
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If only the museum had been given a fraction of the budget wasted on silly stunts and vacuous indulgences of the Capital of Culture bid, its future would be assured. |
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Smith speaks with perfect articulation and a vacuous undertone laces her words. |
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Therefore, if I were to count or even understand them, I would be stupid, vacuous or Bridget Jones. |
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Lahiri is vacuous, self-absorbed and clueless about the wider world unless it comes packaged in a pop culture reference. |
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Businesses, individuals, Canadians and Americans both are concerned and yet where is the big, gaping, vacuous hole in the debate? |
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It is vacuous, it is phony and it is false, and the Liberals should be ashamed of themselves for entering into the agreement. |
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The assertion that the Bosphorus divides two parts of the world and that the EU must stop there is both inane and vacuous. |
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Let us get down to business and stop making vacuous speeches as was the case in the first part of the debate. |
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This is totally vacuous and meaningless in terms of protection as far as they're concerned. |
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He has proposed an amendment to this very vacuous proposal by the Liberals. |
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On the other hand, citizens must learn to expose the vacuous green speeches which don't give results. |
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Mr Dupuis and even my own European minister have implied that this is a vacuous or empty document. |
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It strikes me though that it was as vacuous as the Liberal policy that he was touting throughout his entire speech. |
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We have a strong vision for Canada and the opposition parties have the vacuous ramblings of a coalition. |
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Speaking of Daisy, Mulligan does as elegant a job as possible portraying such a vacuous character. |
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In America, however, there is a stubborn strain of vacuous unawareness that reflects no credit on American society. |
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Gone are the days when crimplene flares were modelled by vacuous looking male models with an unnatural penchant for Aran knit cardigans and neck ties. |
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There are soaps, vacuous chat shows and endless Hollywood films. |
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In the tape, the bull looks bored, wearing that peculiarly vacuous expression that only cows and bulls can know. |
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He's a young, concerned citizen who, like so many of us, is turned off by the negative and vacuous campaigns run by candidates of both major parties. |
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There was less than a minute of silence, and then two police cruisers tore down the vacuous street with their sirens on and stopped in front of the restaurant. |
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Its parade of sententious and yawningly vacuous postmodern artspeak can only serve to perpetuate the perception of the contemporary art world as a self-serving elite. |
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Gone are the days when crimplene flares were modelled by vacuous looking male models with an unnatural penchant for Aran-knit cardigans and neck ties. |
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Discoverers are not satisfied with idle chatter or vacuous pursuits to fill in the hours until bedtime. |
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The risk would be to alienate public opinion in these countries against the Union and that would risk us being seen as vacuous and vacillators. |
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The Broadway-inspired Slaughter on Tenth Avenue could be considered a crowd-pleaser, but it is not a vacuous one. |
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Please treat us like we have a brain and some experience of the world, rather than nongs who can get all excited by stupid, inflammatory and vacuous rhetoric. |
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Let us reject this watered down, vacuous placebo bill and finally do something about animal cruelty. |
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The assumption that feminism comes in a neat, Xeroxable package is Gravely outmoded and vacuous. |
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Simon Day and John Thomson's bafflingly pointless A Gaucho Adventure reduced two funny men to starring in their own vacuous vacation video. |
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In other words, if a coindexed pronoun is outside of the c-command domain of a QNP, coindexing between the two will be semantically vacuous. |
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An avaricious, vacuous Africa, in love with TV soap operas and fridges. |
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It is all very well for the Bank of Nova Scotia to disguise itself as Scotiabank or for the venerable Bank of Montreal to adopt the vacuous BMO as its moniker. |
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Members will be very familiar with the vacuous speeches that always appear here in the House of Commons on the Thursday of every week in response to questions about the future agenda for the House. |
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To do so requires far greater effort than the showy but ultimately vacuous offerings that the European Parliament has come up with in its own report. |
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Isaac alleges that the 20 points identified by Gensler are trivial, dependencies or vacuous without giving a rationale. |
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I'd heard calories mentioned in books and films, but they were almost always associated with characters who were vacuous, stupid, or Bridget Jones. |
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It will be held out as a faint offer of having done something so we can tell our constituents that we acted on animal cruelty when we did nothing more than pass an empty, vacuous bill. |
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Mr. Speaker, the minister's answers are vacuous. |
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Mr Primakov has just about managed, in principle at least, to prise yet another dollop of cash out of western fists, amid all the usual vacuous promises of prudence and probity. |
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They came with a throne speech that was vacuous and an economic update that was insulting, one that took away labour rights, took away women's rights and proposed to sell off assets. |
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We simply cannot allow the work time to be used up by repetitive, vacuous and substance-free general statements, no matter how appealing they may sound. |
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But his calculated assassination of five of his team-mates last week on MUTV was just the kind of lowlife potshot you'd expect from a vacuous ned. |
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She's the over-fed, vacuous fluff-brain from The Only Way Is Essex who quit I'm A Microcelebrity, Get Me Out of Here last week after just a couple of days. |
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