Word: hollower
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...that they are feminists, that they are concerned with what is best for women and that they are defending rights that every woman deserves. When one learns that these groups suppress initiatives and organizations that seek to give women a free and informed choice, however, the rhetoric rings hollow. Only when “pro-choice” activists recognize the necessity of informed consent, when they genuinely support parenting and adoption as realistic and viable options, when they act in the interests of the woman facing the most difficult decision of her life—only then will they...
...Troops” to heart. It’s time for our political officials—city, state and federal—to put their money where their mouths are and do more to celebrate those who risk their lives for a living than buy them off with hollow praise. That, or let’s hope a giant speed trap staffed by the contract-less members of the NYPD awaits the buses of the Republican Party’s Antiquarian Road Show come convention-time next summer. Preferably somewhere in Harlem...
Daddy’s Home could easily serve as a Saturday Night Live parody of modern hip-hop. Though the messiah fails to deliver us from the sinful and tiresome world of flashy cars and hollow lyrics, his caricature only accentuates these absurdities. What’s more, his own glorification of pimps and hoes is hardly removed from today’s most popular rap songs. At best, Mix’s comeback will give rappers cause for introspection and change as they see themselves through his lens. —Cassandra Cummings
That Chalabi thinks he was not listened to by U.S. officials will produce a hollow laugh in both Washington and Iraq. For his opponents in Iraq, the chaos over the summer can be laid at Chalabi's door. "I think the Americans relied on information they got from Iraqis outside the country, especially Chalabi," says Rabiah Mohammed al-Habib, a prominent tribal prince in Iraq. "These people simply wanted military intervention." Sometimes unfairly, Chalabi is blamed for encouraging his friends in Washington to think that an invasion would be a breeze and reconstructing Iraq not much harder...
...hoping to take advantage of Lawrence's heroism. In The Bridge on the River Kwai, his Colonel Nicholson becomes so obsessed with British pride he ends up a puppet of his Japanese captors. Even from those sidelines, Guinness could loom over a film. In Doctor Zhivago, his burnt-out, hollow face is unforgettably marked by the horrors of war. His Herbert Pocket in Great Expectations shines with the exuberance of youth, which ultimately defeats the aged bitterness of Miss Havisham. Omar Sharif was the star of Zhivago, John Mills of Expectations, but Guinness was the soul of both films...