Word: hollower
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...pain, but is not recognized as humid, foreign, gritty Vietnam long enough for it to become a concrete place.Perhaps Johnson is trying to make a statement about how humans think in metaphor, that we are not literal beings. But, like his portrayal of Vietnam, that conception of thinking rings hollow. Is that really the sum totality of human thought?“Tree of Smoke” is massive in every sense of the word. It is a work that reaches for epic but falls short. It is a work that aspires to examine the big universal themes: love...
...inaction is partly backlash against the discredited American messenger. Torture, "black sites," extraordinary rendition and the bungled, bloody invasion and occupation of Iraq have all made U.S. human-rights appeals ring hollow. But many countries that point to America's abuses are doing so to cover their self-interested, economic reasons for overlooking atrocities in Darfur and Burma...
...Administrative Board claims that it is “primarily concerned for the educational and personal growth of undergraduates, both as individuals and as members of an academic community.” In light of the lack of the student representation, transparency, and proper advocacy, however, that pledge rings hollow. The College must reform the Board, and it should do so without delay...
...tragedy, in part, was created by 25 years of neglect of the public sphere, by the culture of neglect, that allowed the levees to crumble, that allowed the transportation system to erode to the point where it couldn't handle an evacuation, that allowed FEMA to be this hollow shell run by contractors, who couldn't seem to find the Superdome for days. So here you have a disaster that was in part a disaster created by this very ideology. And then you have billions of dollars liberated in the name of the victims of this tragedy and suddenly there...
Something has changed in the world of Sam Beam, the bearded Floridian who goes by the moniker Iron & Wine: Where once was a hushed grandeur, a well-oiled beast has let out a hollow howl. Beam’s previous solo LPs (2002’s “The Creek Drank the Cradle” and 2004’s “Our Endless Numbered Days”) glowed with disarming, whispered proximity. While these full-lengths and a few interspersed EPs have found his homespun aesthetic—all tape hum and endearing errors—buried...