Word: devoide
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...since the dawn of television the presidential debates have provided a final chance to pull a campaign out of the grave, or simply dig the hole a bit deeper. Though the campaign officially ends on November 2, the Harvard Republican Club fully expects President George W. Bush to devoid the opposition of credibility and secure four more years as Commander in Chief this Thursday night...
...decadence, materialism and sexual immorality, they are largely recycling ideas and language that originated in the West. The authors point out that even as Western Europe and America began evolving into liberal democracies with capitalist economies, a countercurrent of opposition accused the newly emerging "modern" world of being devoid of spirituality. In the arts, Romantic poets like Wordsworth and Blake charged that industrialization was stripping people of their individuality and their connection to the past, while in politics, Karl Marx accused capitalism of ruthlessly exploiting workers. Buruma and Margalit spotlight the often striking overlap in language and ideas between Europe...
Most damningly, the film is devoid of humor. In using a clip from “The Daily Show,” Greenwald lets Jon Stewart make the jokes for him. A defter editor would have used the frequently absurd clips from Fox to comedic effect. Instead, the director elicits a few chuckles but misses the belly laughs his material so richly deserves...
...road looking for subjects and making sketches. His pictures were carefully composed back in the studio. But his juxtaposition of elements was sometimes odd: urban buildings and their inhabitants seem set down in fields, or surrounded by forests. His figures can be stiff, and his scenes are deliberately devoid of drama. These people are strangers - we don't know their stories. They're not about to tell. As the end of his life approached (he died in 1967 at 84), the themes continued almost unchanged, but it's hard to resist trying to weave them into a story. The women...
...specific studies or even general principles that might back up its findings, has replaced the term “liberal arts education” with its own (unexplained) invention, “liberal education”—a phrase that seems palatable at first glance and utterly devoid of meaning at second, unless one were to mean it in a politicized sense. (Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby, incidentally, might have done well to consult the handy guide distributed to all incoming first-years, Gordon Harvey’s Writing with Sources, before citing former University President...