Word: hollower
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...guaranteed that New York will rise prominently from its ashes. In the execution of Libeskind’s design in its present location, we will be reminded of our strength, but not our loss. It will have artificially filled over the empty space that now haunts us. The hollow pit that speaks for those who were slain, that strikes us silent and huddling before the enormity of what we cannot know and cannot say, will disappear...
...story has enabled him to wax philosophical. “One can never say they’re happy to have a devastating experience, but I think you can learn from a bad deck of cards,” he says. This colloquial optimism isn’t hollow the way Bolger says it. It is certainly practiced—he tells this story a lot—but his sense of luck and his acknowledgement of how that affects his life is genuine. This deck, he says, “also gives you the power...
...Willie and Joe, cartoonist BILL MAULDIN, who died last week at 81, created an unlikely and imperishable pair of American icons. These unshaven, hollow-eyed, grimy World War II infantry dogfaces appeared in the pages of the Army newspaper Stars and Stripes, fighting not just the Germans during the Italian campaign but also tedium, wet socks, lousy K rations and their commanding officers. G.I.s everywhere laughed, or nodded in rueful recognition. Mauldin combined the satiric eye and brush of a Daumier with the ear of a Ring Lardner. He captioned a drawing of a sergeant addressing his bedraggled...
...Union Speeches are usually as much about the way a president delivers his remarks as they are about the remarks themselves. The theater is usually not very good. President's rouge up their plans, but the long list of programs and calls to grand action often feel as hollow as the many standing ovations...
Some might dismiss this conclusion as yet another misguided, ultimately hollow, cry against conspiracy. But conservative forces have already successfully distorted the legacy of a progressive hero. Michael Eric Dyson explains this process in detail in his biography of Martin Luther King, I May Not Get There With You: “Conservatives must be applauded for their perverse ingenuity in coopting King’s legacy and the rhetoric of the civil rights movement…Now terms like “equal playing field,” “racial justice...