Word: devoide
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...Women Beware Women is deceptively simple. Nothing more than a multi-level platform painted to resemble cobblestones, the stage is entirely devoid of furniture or props...
...When first published, USA Today was facetiously labeled "McPaper" by the newspaper industry's old guard. They said it read easily - too easily - and left readers devoid of intellectual nutrition. But the market has clearly proven that many Americans are attracted by simple, accessible news. Further, many of the older, more traditional papers, such as the Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe and Washington Post have absorbed a lot of the innovations that USA Today brought to the field. All are now using color, flashier graphics and shorter stories. Even the hallowed New York Times wouldn't be far from...
...crumble. We would hardly applaud such a development. We cling to the out-dated belief that there are some rules of propriety that are, in fact, beneficial to society and the moral life of the individual. Those that protect basic considerations of privacy--the right to establish a sphere devoid of any calculations of sexual dynamics--are worthy of preservation...
...publication of Angela's Ashes. But the undercurrents of anger and resentment that reverberate through the book show us the raw underbelly of that dream: the humiliation, the loneliness, the despair and the jealousy. McCourt's second novel does not exist as an extension of his first book, devoid of any meaning. Rather, it shows us that the American dream--romantic though it may be--is still very much what his brother Alphie calls a "tormenting dream...
...This is not to say that Body Shots is devoid of interest. There are some genuinely funny scenes, such as when one character is introduced into a new sexual theater, and it does portray sex in all its awkwardness and difficulty. But in the end, from being beaten over the head with pop psychology, the result is not a revelation, simply a pounding in the ears...