Word: hollower
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...partial-birth” abortion ban tears at the fabric of Roe v. Wade, I wasn’t too worried about the new legislation. I knew that “partial-birth” abortions were pretty rare, and so it all seemed like a hollow victory for the pro-life lobby. That was until I read the fine print. There is one exception built into the ban—doctors are allowed to perform the operation if the pregnancy puts the woman’s life in danger (pro-life legislators can be so generous sometimes). But that?...
...jeans, Frumin sits by a window at Europa before HSU, surveying the action as club staff prepare the venue and stock the bars. With no partygoers at the moment, the three adjacent rooms of the club Europa—dance floor, pool room and lounge—appear like hollow red caverns. As a club staff member walks by, Frumin stops him, asking, “When is this thing starting up?” “We don’t expect people until at least 10:30,” he replies. He nods. Several members...
...American, abused, angry and alarming. He warned young Americans to think about a draft, joked about Dick Cheney’s cardiac health, and lashed out at the “Divided States of Embarrassment” for abandoning free speech. The national rhetoric of redemption began to ring hollow as this spokesperson of the Midwestern underclass resonated all the way to Harvard; sales tripled those of his previous release...
Supporters of this event might argue that it is meant to express sympathy with Jubran in his fight against deportation and not with his views on terrorism, yet these arguments ring hollow. It is true that Amer Jubran has the right to free speech and I suppose there is a possibility that the United States government has acted improperly with regard to his deportation. These facts alone, however, do not explain why, out of the numerous cases of civil rights abuses in the past, Jubran was chosen (hopefully despite his beliefs and not because of them) to be honored with...
...been rehabilitated, and the din of construction fills the capital. Large swaths of the countryside are calm and cooperative. And the Administration won a diplomatic showdown with the U.N. Security Council last week when the council unanimously endorsed the U.S. plan for reconstructing Iraq--though the victory felt somewhat hollow when council members immediately declared they would not contribute men or money to the effort...