How To Use Vacuous In A Sentence
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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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Certainly my academic career is one to which the adjective ‘vacuous’ can be uncontroversially applied.
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Male models are not always so vacuous as they are made out to be.
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MikeGene: Scientifically vacuous is not the same as invalid.
Cleaning Up The Mess
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He expresses concern that a society that ceases to respect the ‘res publica’ and loses all faith in a ‘national philosophy’ may well drift into an asocial and culturally vacuous anomie.
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But on a much larger level, it just shows once again the utter vacuousness of our electoral system.
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Why will sport endure long after more vacuous forms of entertainment wither on the vine?
Times, Sunday Times
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If the definition of "athleticism" is strictly about speedy movement then I would say you are right – the moon is athletic, the term is vacuous, and the argument is dumb.
Bunny and a Book
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Here is a man who understands the cinematic image, not just as vacuous glamour but as narrative and poetry.
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True, but vacuous, weasel-worded, fact-free, faux-expert prognostications by contemptible establishmentarian hacks rank pretty low on the list of charities I donate to.
Matthew Yglesias » Staggeringly Off-the-Mark Forecasts of European Economic Preeminence
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Can't you see by now that I can keep this up as long as you'd like, and you will never be able show that "athleticism" is any more subjective or useless or vacuous in the context of ID than "athleticism" is?
Bunny and a Book
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Last night Tory Derek claimed he was fed up with the other housemates' "vacuousness" sic.
Archive 2005-07-01
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Predictable, vacuous and with a tongue in as many cheeks as possible, Desperate Scousewives is a show that leaves you feeling just that bit grubbier for having guiltily enjoyed it.
TV review: Desperate Scousewives; The British Woman on Death Row
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What gets me is when a real-life scientist friend says something uninformed, or vacuous, or just plain needy and I desperately want to refer them to the DrugMonkey blog.
On the Nature of Bloggy Relationships
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So is there any genuinely interesting news in all this vacuous Hollywood house-hunting nonsense?
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On the second floor, I stepped into a vacuous, empty office space.
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Photorealism meant something because it had a kind of vacuousness to it.
Times, Sunday Times
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There are soaps, vacuous chat shows and endless Hollywood films.
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ITV's audience figures failed to go through the roof, and this episode proved once again that viewers want good-quality programmes and talented presenters, not vacuous diddies like him.
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At least TOWIE is mildly amusing although it must be said that on the whole the women are utterly vacuous and self-obsessed.
The Sun
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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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She was intelligent and coherent and not the least bit cosy or vacuously spiritual.
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Can't you see what a disingenous, vacuous, irresponsible twirp our former prime minister really is?
John Rentoul today puts Trevor Kavanagh and myself in the...
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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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Suzie, a pretty, slightly vacuous woman dressed in rather scanty clothing, stands there.
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This resource limitation was not demographic but the result of intellectually vacuous politics and feeble military advice and leadership.
Times, Sunday Times
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Rather than bellyache about who owns what media outlets, with a mealy-mouthed ‘it's not fair’ position, perhaps more honest debate and more public discussion would expose the vacuous nature of many current arguments.
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Furthermore, labeling your argument vacuous is a condemnation of your argument, not of you.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Why the Arizona Law is Much Worse than the Federal Law It is Supposedly Based On
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a vacuous space
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What entertaining mincemeat you would make of our vacuous celebrity culture, which lauds talentless nonentities on the basis of youth, looks, greed or the unslakeable thirst for publicity!
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I called him a vacuous, pigeon-chested young man.
Times, Sunday Times
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The title overstates the case: Wall Street and Washington did not betray the American people: betrayal presumes an obligation, an obligation which existed only as a fantasy in the population at large, a fantasy no more or less vacuous than our millennial belief in gods.
Planet Atheism
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At times he half-rose from his chair, and fell vacuously into it again; or he chuckled in the face of weighty, severely-worded instructions; tapped his chest, stretched his arms, yawned, and in short behaved so singularly that Richard observed it, and said: "On my soul, I don't think you know a word I'm saying.
Ordeal of Richard Feverel — Volume 4
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Instead of thumping out his reply, he'll stare vacuously at the board for a while.
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I have always thought 'vivacuous' is a good word, and hope one day to write a book about this phenomenon, using a title purloined from some Fitzroy graffiti, 'Gentrifuct'.
Dis-O Week
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Tremendously important to attract the other shallow, vacuous, winkers to the GOP.
Gingrich says Palin 'tremendously important'
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She gives off a powdery aroma of someone pampered and indulged since diaper days; in short, she seems vacuous, and you can't have vacuous spitfires.
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Romantic comedies are rarely anything more than the sort of vacuous entertainment one tosses into the DVD player in order to kill 100 or so minutes, then promptly forgets as soon as the end credits are rolling.
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But the event coincided with her brief foray into the world of the blonde, a change of hair colour which saw her daubed as tarty, attention-seeking and vacuous-looking.
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Most of the conjuncts will be vacuously true by virtue of having false antecedents - i.e., there will be indefinitely many things that John did not say.
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You can see this new mood at work in the scathing reviews now being garnered by vacuous conceptual artists who were acclaimed in the 1990s.
Times, Sunday Times
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One of the great myths of contemporary economics is that mercantilism was an analytically vacuous bundle of gold-hoarding prejudices.
Ian Fletcher: In Praise of Mercantilism, or Why Economic History Isn't Boring
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This resource limitation was not demographic but the result of intellectually vacuous politics and feeble military advice and leadership.
Times, Sunday Times
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It transformed his face, giving his normally vacuous gaze a look of both intelligence and awareness.
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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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At least TOWIE is mildly amusing although it must be said that on the whole the women are utterly vacuous and self-obsessed.
The Sun
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She said that was one of her favorite movies while they stared vacuously into the computer screen.
Pretentious College Dropout Suffers Heartbreak, Nobody Cares (Full Story >>)
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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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I have been repelled by attempts to portray him as a vacuous man with an artificial smile and no convictions.
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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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Belief and unbelief, so important to the intellectual posturing of modern existence, are innocuous, vacuous terms.
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Is your life so vacuous?
The Sun
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Vince (played vacuously as ever by Adrian Grenier) is pressured by an action-film director (Nick Cassavetes, as himself, of course) to perform a dangerous driving stunt on camera.
Previews of HBO's 'Entourage' and 'Hung'
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I think that all Paul (Miles) G did was expose American wine consumers as the fickle mob that they are, further validating the vacuousness and self important Parkerist approach to wine: if someone tells me its good then it must be good.
Vote now! Wine Person of the Decade [the Naughties] | Dr Vino's wine blog
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That novel, about two competing writers, one a vacuous success, the other a brilliant but unreadable failure, has a lot to say about the literary life, both the successful and unsuccessful kind.
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This vapid, vacuous, uneducated, Alaska hillbilly is an international laughingstock.
McCain campaign adviser pushes back on Palin book
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At least TOWIE is mildly amusing although it must be said that on the whole the women are utterly vacuous and self-obsessed.
The Sun
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If anything illustrates the sheer vacuousness and frivolity of the so-called metropolitan elite I have yet to hear it.
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Other new words that have become sufficiently common to make the dictionary include "mouse potato"--an intensive computer user--"unibrow"--eyebrows that seem to join together and "himbo"--an attractive but vacuous man.
Faces Of The Week July 3-7, 2006Forbes Faces Of The Week July 3-7, 2006
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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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Had I been sucked into a vacuous, unappreciative, homogenous culture that moved at breakneck speed?
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Some might say that it's because the actors are silly, strident, vacuous, and self-important.
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The game consists chiefly of vacuous and circular argument.
Times, Sunday Times
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You mean you can dispose of God that easily and vacuously?
Vincent Bugliosi: Why Do I Doubt Both The Atheists And The Theists?
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Pedestrians are compelled to use vacuous, shelterless walkways without local incident or relief.
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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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The plaintive cry "Don't let the Government get its hands on my Medicare," might be apocryphal, but it highlights the vacuousness of a political movement that is built on deliberate denial by Americans of their own responsibility for the straits in which we find ourselves.
David Paul: The Problem Is Not Jon Stewart
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It is rare to see a work so dramatically inept, intellectually vacuous and morally glib.
Times, Sunday Times
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They were at an opposite pole from the self-important, vacuous management.
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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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But the proximate cause of my jaundiced demeanour, which is now bubbling over into anger, was an interview on the programme with the vacuous Shane Richmond.
Death is a commodity
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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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He stands there, a pretty, slightly vacuous woman dressed in rather scanty clothing standing next to him.
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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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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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She's perfected that smiling art of PR deflection, of projecting a sweetly vacuous wholesomeness.
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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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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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But, anything less than declaring ID to be scientifically vacuous is shortchanging the public, who depend on scientists to be honest.
Professors Weigh in on Evolution - The Panda's Thumb
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Fortunately no celebrity biographies - ghost-written self-promotion by vacuous nonentities - register in the top 100.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is vacuously true that we cannot know exactly how many have died.
Robert Naiman: How Many Iraqis Did We 'Liberate' From Life on Earth?
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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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Hilditch, meanwhile, doesn't help himself with vacuously positive public pronouncements that often seem to fly in the place of the very plain evidence of decline on the pitch.
Is It Time to Clear Out Australia's Cricket Selectors?
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I had announced on entering old Ebbits's cabin; and he had looked at me blear-eyed and vacuous, while Zilla had favored me with a sour face and a contemptuous grunt.
THE WHITE MAN'S WAY
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Choices based on the most minute reasoning but lacking any desire are vacuous.
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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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We would be satisfied with any draft document, however vacuous.
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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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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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(London received $530 for this story on August 14, 1905.) "TO cook by your fire and to sleep under your roof for the night," I had announced on entering old Ebbits's cabin; and he had looked at me blear-eyed and vacuous, while Zilla had favored me with a sour face and a contemptuous grunt.
The White Man's Way
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From his face you can see nothing but a kind of goofy good-nature, and the vacuous, half-baked expression of a child bewildered by all the strange things that are going on all around him.
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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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I have been conducting an experiment aimed at analysing the intensifying silliness, stupidity and vacuousness of the world.
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A grim meaning rose in the vacuous eye of Lovel; Isaacs caressed his diamond pin, smiling in a sickly fashion; McNamara's wandering stare fixed and grew unhumanly bright; Ufert openly dropped his hand on his gun-butt and stood sullenly defiant.
Trailin'!
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But I don't think I can set aside my prejudices about the vacuousness of life in suburban sprawl.
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Belief and unbelief, so important to the intellectual posturing of modern existence, are innocuous, vacuous terms.
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This uni - verse, however ontological, was somehow also en - dowed with physical attributes of a uniform finite sphere (σψαι̃ρα), and as such it was continuous, indi - visible, unchangeable, and ungenerated and imper - ishable; whereas the Non-Being of Parmenides was only an obverse of Being, vacuous of determination, a sham polarity as it were.
SPACE
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Both are equally remote and vacuous.
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In 2008, she says, 3,849 out of 9,000 California schools used ESY, which she regards as part of the "new Food Hysteria" that is promoted by “an agglomeration of foodies and educational reformers who are propelled by a vacuous if well-meaning ideology.”
Archive 2010-02-01
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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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A few years ago, Professor Crookes, of London, having observed that light pith balls delicately suspended in a vacuous tube were under certain conditions repelled by the sun's rays, was led on from step to step until he had constructed the instrument now so well known as the radiometer, in which a delicate wheel is rapidly turned by the rays of the sun, or by the rays of any source of bright light, shining on its blackened vanes.
Religion and Chemistry
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Not to give vacuous nonentities even more money they don't deserve.
The Sun
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Rose, sitting nearby, smiles vacuously and asks, "What's an obscuranist?
Best Left Unsaid: intro and ch.01
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The promises for our "noncombat" role are as thin and vacuous as the now long-forgotten promises of Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz and Richard Perle -- remember them?
Stanley Kutler: Our Enabling Media
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Scientifically vacuous is not the same as invalid.
Cleaning Up The Mess
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PEZ: If the definition of "athleticism" is strictly about speedy movement then I would say you are right – the moon is athletic, the term is vacuous, and the argument is dumb.
Bunny and a Book
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Only if you disrespect dialogue and honest communication. and you will never be able show that "athleticism" is any more subjective or useless or vacuous in the context of ID than "athleticism" is?
Bunny and a Book
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I find them pretty vacuous.
Times, Sunday Times
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The induction starts at the sinks , which are P - positions because they vacuously satisfy the P - position requirement.
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Far from being vacuous storytelling, myth in its true sense is a communion with the deepest truths of existence.
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It provides us no cover to assert vacuously that we are doing what the Supreme Court commands.
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You can see this new mood at work in the scathing reviews now being garnered by vacuous conceptual artists who were acclaimed in the 1990s.
Times, Sunday Times
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I find them pretty vacuous.
Times, Sunday Times
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He looked to Stan and Pine who were nodding vacuously almost in synchrony and shook their hands.
THE MANANA MAN
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Instead, when the train drew up at the next station, she hopped blithely on to the platform and was greatly surprised to find a young friend of hers, the Reverend Noel Wells, seated upon the nearest bench, his long black-trousered legs uncanonically sprawling, his soft black hat tilted over his eyes, his mouth wide open and an expression of imbecile contentment on his vacuous, sleeping face.
Death at the Opera
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I cringe whenever I hear terms like “podosphere” or “blogsophere” but tonight, Steve made me retch like a college freshman at his first kegger with the ultimate in vacuous hyperbole: “mainstreammediaosphere”!
CJUG
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With blatant double standards such as this, the West's claim of taking a moral and ethical stand is vacuous.
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Herman "I don't have facts to back this up" Cain -- whose surge in the polls underscores the vacuousness of both Romney and Perry -- was recently given an opportunity by MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell to acknowledge that sexual preference isn't a choice.
Michael Sigman: Note to GOP: Sometimes an Opinion Isn't Just an Opinion
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vacuous comments
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Mentally, he was far from Tellus, flitting in his super-dreadnaught through parsec after parsec of vacuous space.
Archive 2010-05-01
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Since contradictions convey absolutely no information, the cosmic bootstrap turns out to be vacuous.
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As for Michelle Rhee, I heartily advise you distance yourself from her before the extent of her vacuousness becomes obvious.
Matthew Yglesias » Turning Schools into Schools
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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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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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It is has a strange otherworldly and mythical quality to it, like a cinematic dream and the result is not vacuously uplifting but powerfully moving.
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Choices based on the most minute reasoning but lacking any desire are vacuous.
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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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With suit pressed and vacuous smile, he remains the image of gentility: he is privileged, sheltered and supported from the realities of engaging with the world.
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The room resembled an installation in a vacuous art gallery, the re? ection of the ceiling bulb on the wood? oor intended to signify the false surface of existence, the felled suitcases embodying the transitory nature of life — or more speci? cally, the life of the subject, shrimped up in the corner against a bare, mispainted wall.
'Love And Obstacles'
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- the stupidity of so many voters who believed in the vacuous 'spiv' Blair and the spin from Campbell and the twice disgraced Mandelson.
Army Rumour Service
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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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I did, however, often dream of the lovely Professor Stix, rather than focus on whatever vacuously pretty rich girl was in my arms at the time.
Masked
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No one can make up their minds what to do, and then when they finally do, they end up backtracking, retracing their steps, and returning to the scene of the previous puzzlement to more or less complete the vacuous cycle.
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You can see this new mood at work in the scathing reviews now being garnered by vacuous conceptual artists who were acclaimed in the 1990s.
Times, Sunday Times
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Anyone thinking their children will be amused, thrilled, or humored by this bilious blob of scarab bile needs to rip out their internal organs, stuff onions up their nose, and apply liberal amounts of gauze to their vacuous person.
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the vacuousness of her face belied her feelings
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Is your life so vacuous?
The Sun
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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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On nonproliferation, India believes that the vacuous legalism of the current nonproliferation regime will lead the world nowhere.
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I find them pretty vacuous.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is rare to see a work so dramatically inept, intellectually vacuous and morally glib.
Times, Sunday Times
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This resource limitation was not demographic but the result of intellectually vacuous politics and feeble military advice and leadership.
Times, Sunday Times
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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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It is rare to see a work so dramatically inept, intellectually vacuous and morally glib.
Times, Sunday Times
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But, overall, it was vacuous stuff, came to nothing, and fizzled out.
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If it be contended that ice at 32° does break, and that therefore the whole mass of the glacier may break at that temperature, setting aside the contradiction to the facts of regelation which such an assumption involves, I would refer to Dr. Tyndall's experiments concerning the vacuous spots in the ice.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 74, December, 1863
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The Hindu Angelina might be vacuous, vain, papilionaceous, silly, or even a mere doll, but if her hair hung down “like the tail of a Tartary cow,” 96 if her eyes were “like the stones of unripe mangoes,” and her nose resembled the beak of a parrot, the Hindu Edwin was more than satisfied.
The Life of Sir Richard Burton
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The game consists chiefly of vacuous and circular argument.
Times, Sunday Times
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Isn't it clear that Albert is fundamentally not ‘on board’, not willing to bury the ugly reality in vacuous journalese?
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She stood in the doorway, sucking on the straw, her face the twin of Tee Bobby’s, her expression vacuous, her eyes tangled with thoughts that probably no one could ever guess at.
Dave Robicheaux Ebook Boxed Set
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You can see this new mood at work in the scathing reviews now being garnered by vacuous conceptual artists who were acclaimed in the 1990s.
Times, Sunday Times
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Is your life so vacuous?
The Sun
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a vacuous mind
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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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Good to hear Schonborn distantiate himself from a scientifically vacuous position.
Vienna cardinal draws lines in Intelligent Design row - The Panda's Thumb
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He was at his best talking about the weather, a subject on which he spoke with the expertise and vacuousness of a true Brit.
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Your statement is probably vacuously true.
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Tom is a professional hockey player and ballet lover, pursuits on whose alleged similarities he vacuously expatiates.
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He had a knack for deploying the usual hippie self-absorption in appealingly vacuous ways: “All across the nation, there’s a strange vibration/There’s a whole generation with a new explanation.”
The Other Papa
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In short, what we have here is a veritable orgy of vacuous generalities and meaningless slogans.
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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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Despite that he knew what he was to see, when he did turn his head and beheld his wife and Sonny, the pair he had seen thieving in the dark, he went suddenly dizzy, and paused, supporting himself with a hand against a pillar, and smiling vacuously at the grouped singing boys who were pulsing the sensuous night into richer sensuousness with their honi kaua wiki-wiki refrain.
THE KANAKA SURF
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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.
