Word: hollowing
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...wants it both ways. He gets the point across that all the screwing around he did was "sick" but he is still proud of having been included in the survey. The several pages he devotes to this analysis ring especially hollow when he writes about how much he loved his wife and how their divorce was mostly her fault for not understanding...
...smiling candidate arrives, with spouse, by motorcade; Mondale crosses the brick bridge, spanning a small hollow that separates the house from its surroundings, to greet them and escort them inside; after about two hours, the participants re-emerge for a meeting with the press at which Mondale says very nearly the same thing about each interviewee...
...murder of the Sikhs is yet another tragic example of bloodshed motivated by religious "fervor." Terms like Sikh, Hindu, Jew, Christian and Muslim ring hollow when they are used to sanctify acts of violence. The greatest evil lies not in what religion does to men but in what men do in the name of religion...
...Zoeller, 32, who whistles while he plays. Or that an eight-stroke drubbing was casually accepted by Norman, 29, a hatchet-faced Australian able to hit the ball prodigious distances in unpredictable directions. "I needed something special. It never happened," he said after the playoff. "I feel disappointed and hollow." While it is the nature of contests that today's defeat can make yesterday's victory seem meaningless, neither a 160-yd., 6-iron shot into the 18th grandstand nor a 40-ft. putt into the 72nd hole will ever leave Norman completely...
...Harvard was anxious to be a symbol of academic freedom to other universities. A secret record of cooperation with the FBI makes the symbol hollow," said Sigmond Diamond, a professor of history and sociology at Columbia University who has been embroiled in a debate about Harvard's actions during the McCarthy period since he began writing about it in 1977. Diamond has a significant personal interest: he received his Ph.D. here in 1953 and a year later was offered the position of Dean of Special Students by then-Dean of the Faculty McGeorge Bundy...