Word: hollowing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Legend of Sleepy Hollow," in The Sketch Book, Washington Irving. From one Irving to another, and this one is utterly different. But both Irvings share a delight in the grotesque, and Ichabod Crane is to Halloween, after all, what Dicken's Scrooge is to Christmas. This is must mid' o' the night reading, a story you can feel down deep in your Brom bones...
This icon of freedom is burnished by a new national confidence--but its metal skin is less than an inch thick. The inside of Lady Liberty is dark and hollow...
...statements of concern are all very well, and his pressure on Congress is undeniably admirable, but would not his protest be considerably strengthened if it were backed up by Harvard's own divestment? Indeed, Harvard's failure to divest make his words sound hollow and his recent positive actions ineffective...
...foregone conclusion that the Democratic-dominated House will do so too. For Reagan that would amount to the most stinging foreign policy defeat of his presidency. But even if the Senate sustains the veto by a vote or two, the Administration will have won only a hollow victory. It has watered down the arms sale enough to force the Saudis to look to Western Europe for some types of sophisticated weaponry. The Saudis, far from being reassured of U.S. support, are grumbling that the ruckus indicates an indiscriminate anti-Arab mood in Washington. But it is Congress that is likely...
...capable of dazzling technical feats which, far from being mere Last-Supper-carved-on-a-peachstone declamation, were filled with grave and intense emotion. As with Bernini a century later, we do Stoss a big injustice if we suppose his intimidating virtuosity was in some way hollow. "A miracle in wood," wrote the 16th century Italian art chronicler Giorgio Vasari on seeing one of Stoss's carvings that had found its way to Florence. It was done "with such subtlety as to amaze the world...