Word: hollowing
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...individual statistics adorn the record books, few fans bestow catchy sobriquets on their favorite center, and even fewer focus on the line during any particular play. These are the men in the trenches, the men who get gouged and held and run over and stepped on, and, as a hollow reward, mud in their face. Seldom do their jerseys stay clean for a quarter...
...march of the mendicants still begins at dawn as the hollow clap of the temple bell calls Phnom-Penh's faithful to alms. But the city through which the saffron-robed monks walk is now littered with rubble. There is far less food. The silver bowls have been replaced by plastic ones, bought on the black market. Yet the ritual is more important than ever. "People have asked to revive this dawn rite so they can share the little they have in order to make merit," explains Tep Vong, the senior Buddhist monk in Kampuchea. "We are rebuilding...
Without those diesels, the power plant is still a hollow shell, a $230 million testament to Harvard's failure to realize that striving for efficiency sometimes leaves people angry. Two weeks ago, 57 people who spend eight hours a day inside MATEP decided that they'd had enough, and put a temporary crimp in Harvard's plans. But in another two weeks, a state bureaucrat who has spent eight hours a day for a year thinking about MATEP will tell Harvard whether it can install its diesels--a decision that could ruin those plans permanently...
refractions through a hollow prism...
LOON LAKE is political in an uncomfortable way. It is sexual in a strangely mechanical way. Its rhythm is charted, its course vaguely predictable, its ending a hollow punctuation to the entire novel. But its vision of America's past glows with more beauty than a lavender sunset over Loon Lake...