Word: hollowing
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...would suggest that economic pressure will find and foremost hurt the rich and the affluent otherwise they would not constantly and consistently protest that it will hurt the Blacks. Such sentiments of concern sound hollow in a society where as Carsten shows people are classified by race and discrimination is a way of life...
...pages contain a formidable array of stories--stories which delve into the comic and tragic interiors of ordinary lives, revealing an extraordinary subtlety of observation and perception. No peripheral backwater of society no commonplace experience is too mundane to attract the sympathetic interest of this writer. Just as bleak, hollow cocoons of loneliness make up much of Philip Larkin's poetry, is unglamorous, unremarkable lives which are the raw materials of Trevor's prose. But far from being dull, these are absorbing, seamless evocations of character and life style, of curiously inept human beings muddling through life's complications. Infused...
...suburban community of 24,000 just northwest of Chicago. By refusing to review a lower court ruling appealed by the National Rifle Association, the United States Supreme Court let stand the town's ordinance against the sale and possession of handguns. Unfortunately, this decision is a rather hollow victory for gun control advocates. The fact that the responsibility for enacting gun control laws has fallen to local governments in towns the size of Morton Grove is just a reminder of a failure to enact a strong law on the national level. While local measures against handgun proliferation are encouraging, they...
...first one I saw was standing outside Elsie's, his triangular nose thrust firmly in the air. The orange face returned my stare with a hollow, fiery gaze His mouth stayed half-open, and I had trouble telling where face ended and teeth began...
Conway attributed the delay to problems with four conduits, which had been bent out of shape, preventing the placement of telephone wires. Conduits are hollow pipes through which the wiring...