Word: hollowing
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...over the ROTC issue cannot be absolved by hiding behind unfounded appeals to constitutionality. Nothing gets resolved that way. After the adoption of the resolution declaring 7S-28 unconstitutional, the anti-ROTC contingent got up and cheered as if they had won some moral victory. But it was a hollow victory indeed. ROTC was not defeated on the basis of its merits--as it should have been--but on the misapplied technicality of constitutionality...
...Before the game, I would have said we would have been happy being so close," Princeton forward Matt Lapin said. "Now, there's a hollow feeling because we saw we could have...
UNFORTUNATELY, the response we have been given about the need to wage a war on crack have been the stuff of symbolism and hollow rhetoric. It is all too obvious that the war has already begun and that society is suffering severe losses...
...Hemmed in as he is, the risk for Bush is that his Administration could drift for months without major victories -- or, worse, be burdened with a mortifying setback. Already, the uplifting sermons have begun to sound repetitious and a trifle hollow. A budget concordat with Congress would, of course, provide the tonic that Bush craves, but the Oct. 15 Gramm-Rudman deadline all but ensures that serious negotiations will be delayed until late summer. In the interim, Bush should have more than enough time to grapple with that transcendent -- but still unanswered -- question: What precisely does he want to accomplish...
...this respect, it seems that the level of distrust will not soon dissipate. For each victory is seen in terms of a power dynamic, not as part of a moral conversion. Thus each victory is hollow and only makes the desire for victory the next time greater. In each win, there seems only the confirmation of the worst fears of the accuser. The change is on the surface, but the real demand is for a change of heart...