Word: hollower
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...important only to me, but what kind of America I believe in.” Unfortunately, the message I have learned from this recent media frenzy is that the two are inseparable, that America 47 years later is no different than Kennedy’s America: Shrouded in hollow patriotic discourse, it is an America that is skeptical of any leader who is not rooted in (Protestant) Christian mores. It is the same America that markets non-Middle Eastern oil as “terror-free,” and one that lauds multiculturalism while spreading fears of blood-sucking...
...that the movement planned to spend $1 million to build schools in six provinces in which it had gained a foothold. "Taliban are not against education," he said. "The Taliban want Shariah [Islamic law] education." He also said that schools for girls would follow later, a promise that rings hollow considering that during the six years of Taliban rule in Afghanistan, not a single girl was allowed to attend school...
...admitted to using hollow Eisenhower silver dollars to conceal messages or film. According to the agency, the coins are "virtually undetectable...
...looking forward.” Unfortunately, 10 days after Saddam’s plunge through the trapdoor of the gallows, al-Rubaie’s prediction that Saddam’s death would be a unifying event for Iraq—as it should have been—rings hollow. Saddam’s status as one of this and last century’s most ruthless tyrants has not been brought into question, nor should it ever. Instead, al-Rubaie’s prediction seems laughable because Saddam’s execution was overrun by the endless sectarian violence...
...essentially, to appeal basic civil rights to popular approval—would surely not be a triumph of democracy: it would be a failure of it.Further, the pro-referendum movement’s claims to be the defenders of populist imperative are, given the results of recent elections, hollow. In two consecutive statewide elections, voters overwhelmingly supported pro-same-sex marriage candidates for seats in the Legislature. Even those who were originally staunch opponents of same-sex marriage have come to change their minds—notably, former State Senate Minority Leader Brian P. Lees, who said...