Word: hollow
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...police lieutenant, Honsinger finally visited the memorial three weeks ago and saw his name on panel 10E, line 86. "I had some people around [his name on the wall] that I knew. I'm glad I wasn't killed over there, of course. But it gave me a hollow feeling...
...with playful refinement, Scott's performance works best when he banters with Polonius (David Cromwell) or soundly rejects the love of Ophelia (Natacha Roi). But his passionate soliloquies fall flat, failing to tear the polite veneer from his countenance. His only way of communicating unbridled passion is with a hollow scream, which sounds insincere and empty...
BUCHANAN WILL BECOME THE REPUBLIcans' Jesse Jackson. He may not get the nomination, but like Jackson in 1988, he will dominate the convention, making the G.O.P. nomination a hollow prize and shoring up the re-election of Bill Clinton. GARY SCHWARTZ Fort Lee, New Jersey...
...fell to the Great Polarizer to describe all this accurately. Dole's campaign, said Pat Buchanan in the South Carolina debate, is "vapid" and "hollow"--as the candidate demonstrated when he blew a particularly ripe opportunity last week. With Buchanan pushing his nativist protectionism elsewhere in the state, Dole toured the bustling BMW plant near Spartanburg, a symbol of South Carolina's embrace of the global economy. "It was a perfect chance to hit a home run for free trade and the interconnected world economy," says Governor David Beasley, an energetic Dole supporter. So what did Dole do? Nothing...
...preserving the Great Hall of the Freshman Union but decides in the end that it is not worth preserving because (a remarkable statement coming from a practitioner of profession that calls for lots of imagination), "I can't imagine any future for this space, except as the pathetic, hollow stage of a forgotten era." This is, of course, the official Harvard line--and, on both the example of Harvard Hall and the promptings of common sense, the purest nonsense...