Word: devoid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ranch recuperation, but the strong TV lights accentuated new lines in his face and highlighted a thin, somewhat scrawny neck. It was a long speech-53 minutes-and the President read it rapidly, sometimes almost perfunctorily. It was devoid of any high rhetoric or drama -intentionally so. The President wanted to make it plain that he was saying as much as he could about the war and, at the same time, had far more domestic plans than anyone had imagined...
...chaste, inviolate, holy place -- devoid of carnal passes...
...instinctive vulnerability in his personal make-up to give credence to the "Tom Sawyer" haircut. Describing a female jazz pianist for whom he briefly led the life of a "prole-bohemian," he said, "I think she was basically interested in me as a Yale grad student. Love should be devoid of status factors, but of course it never is. Yes." The experience of manual labor left him with the conviction that there is no wisdom in the common man. He has never voted, and thinks politics are a matter of "parcelling out road contracts...
...should put in a bid for him at the end of the run. His Mr. Pickwick is a no-neck John Bull with a jellybelly. He is full of music-hall antics that date, but not back to the 19th century. His fellow Pickwickians are animated period costumes equally devoid of personality...
...over steep cliffs into small, semitropical coves, and everywhere unexploited ruins lend an air of timeless tranquillity. Marble columns stand cool and sublime amongst pine trees, crusaders' castles tower above rocky promontories, and old fortresses jut out into the ocean. Most wonderful of all, the coast is virtually devoid of tourists. The reason is simple enough. Most of the Turkish Riviera has barely been touched by the 20th century. The hotels are few and Spartan, the food is good but unfamiliar, the night life is nil, and travel is tortuous. Overland, the only means of reaching the coast from...