Word: hollowed
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Firing unauthorized workers is therefore premature and not part of a holistic approach to comprehensive immigration reform, but rather an exclusionary targeting of a demographic and a hollow indictment of employing unauthorized workers. If the Obama administration sincerely wants to solve the immigration issue once and for all, it must dispense with bad policy, not decent people...
Davidson ends his book with an ominous image: While Aeschines is prosecuting Timarchus in 346 BCE for practicing homosexual prostitution in his youth—a warning sign in Athens of tyranny—he portrays an “anti-Athens” of hollow zones and derelict buildings that “lurks still in the city’s crevices” amidst “unbridled appetites and animal passions”—waiting “like the abysmal Charybdis to swallow Athens down.” It’s still eerie...
Brady, Representative Kevin • complaints of about the failure of the D.C. Metro system to provide better service for 9/12 tea partiers ring hollow considering that government funding for improving the subway was voted against...
...Shane Acker's visually alluring but hollow animated film 9, the apocalypse has come and gone, leaving a scorched landscape, smoldering ruins and a crew of mechanical beasts in charge. Mankind is no more, and this ought to be troubling, until you consider the usual sort we see saving the world onscreen and realize it's a relief not to have to worry about the plight of yet another plucky, attractive human being with a tendency to throw him- or herself in the way of some soulless yet savage machine...
...snoozer, James McNew’s sole vocal performance (“I’m on My Way”) is pleasant but forgettable, and spacey, grandiose opener “Here to Fall” sounds decidedly and eerily unlike them—distant, cold, and weirdly hollow. But in the end, the band fulfills their weighty responsibilities, protecting their impressive legacy as they steer and educate their offspring. Though at times long-winded, Yo La Tengo maintain their status as the wisest of authorities, full of surprises and always worth listening to. —Staff writer...