Word: hollower
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...bare-breasted angels, Cellist Casals shuffled in from the vestry on short, hesitant feet, bearing a brown-grained viola da gamba by the pegs. When he motioned the audience to its seats with his bow, his movements were crabbed with age. But when he began to play, the vast, hollow church filled with luminous, lucid sound, suffused with a passion that is the wonder of musicians the world over. Each night the audience paid Casals the only tribute permitted in the church, rising to their feet and standing in hushed silence...
...Hollow Stand. After handing out the Adams statement, Press Secretary Hagerty fought doggedly through two press conferences to defend Adams before a White House press corps in full cry. Hagerty hewed hard to the line laid down by Adams: no influence was exerted, so the hotel hospitality was a matter of personal and private friendship...
...Muffled Roar. Two days of dogged Seabury questioning wore off Jimmy's gloss. Little by little his theatrics turned hollow, his cockiness wilted. Samuel Seabury sent his report to New York's Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt, who called Democrat Walker on the carpet for personal questioning. But before Roosevelt had a chance to remove Walker from office, the mayor resigned and fled to Europe. Three years later he returned, played desperately at being a man about town, became a familiar and still-jaunty figure in nightclubs, theaters and bars before his death...
...worse-and in so doing, may help solve itself. With the new jets costing around $5,000,000 apiece, the international airline business will soon get so expensive that few of the small newcomers will be able to afford the heavy losses of competition in return for the hollow luxury of showing their flags to blase travelers at the world's airports...
...little to build with-neither real dramatic bricks nor real psychological stones, only philosophic shards and ethical bits of glass. A story that, told as vivid theater, might blaze with Biblical fire, seems quite unwarmed. A story that, recounted as high drama, might seem grandly severe, seems elaborately hollow. Set against the Moses of Michelangelo, Fry's Moses seems solemnly carved out of soap...