Word: hollower
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...birth control, abortion and divorce. Those three matters alone would alleviate a great deal of suffering. If Pius IX is indeed a candidate for canonization, then Pope John Paul II's recent apology for the church's missteps over the centuries is at best lame and at worst only hollow words. RICHARD L. CRAWFORD Vineyard Haven, Mass...
...Bush at times makes an ideological pitch, that he trusts the people with their own money while Gore puts his faith in archaic bureaucracies, it may never be sharp enough to punch through general contentment. So Bush is left trying to argue that Gore is a fraud, his promises hollow. It is as though he is saying, "We both want to save Social Security and give Grandma cheaper drugs and fix the schools, but he's a liar. You can't trust him to get it done, and I'm a leader...
...people to tell what's true when you can't talk about the things most important to you and have to put a smiley face on one of the toughest political marriages in history. When she says she felt like a newlywed unpacking boxes in Chappaqua, it rings hollow. Does she really relish the prospect of rattling around in the huge empty house on her own? When she says, "It takes a village," doesn't she really mean "It takes mandatory universal health care, if only you people had listened"? When she shook so many hands in the Puerto Rican...
...broad terms, Bush's effort to portray the military as hollow is basically wrong." -Michael O'Hanlon, a senior research fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington...
This is silly. Every schoolboy knows the only worthwhile reason to become invisible is so you can case the girls' locker room undetected. Caine (an utterly charmless Kevin Bacon) does use his power voyeuristically in Hollow Man. But this being an up-to-date--that is to say, thoroughly ugly--movie, he doesn't stop there. He becomes a rapist. And then, of course, a murderer...