Word: devoide
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fact that the fiery climax is a forgone conclusion is just one of the reasons Carrie 2 is largely devoid of suspense or dramatic tension. There is also its tendency to substitute black and white images and spooky lighting for any real frights. Moreover, we don't even really care when the high school jerks finally get what they deserve. The evil jocks and cheerleaders are certainly horrid--for example, the guys think videotaping the girls' derrieres is a productive extracurricular activity--but the antagonists are far too cartoonish to truly be resented...
...street ended, and we rounded a corner only to discover our destination, a six-story red brick building with no visible address, appeared completely devoid of life. A note scribbled on the door instructed us that the films could be found in the rear of the building. As we tiptoed over broken shingles and eyed an obtrusive porcelain toilet next to a dumpster, a female voice said, "The Revolving Museum is over here...
...devoid of resources for sexual assault victims: there is no rape crisis center," she added...
Morell's work is coolly and carefully playful, almost devoid of humans and human drama. His photographs are an object lesson in finding fascination in new places...
...swan of Avon" (a conspiracy, they say). But their gravest problem is the existing poetry of De Vere himself. It is competent yet uninspired. The 20 or so poems may be juvenilia, but there is neither spark nor promise to the lines, too full of alliteration, all too devoid of depth. "Fram'd in the front of forlorn hope past all recovery,/I stayless stand, to abide the shock of shame and infamy..." The praise Oxford received as a poet may simply have issued from the mouths of sycophants hungry for patronage. Says Alan H. Nelson, a University of California...