Word: hollowing
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Though carefully tamped down, as it had been, by all the cautious words in advance, an attitude of expectancy broke out in Geneva as the Big Four gathered around the hollow square of tables...
Piercing the hollow, curving south facade were 27 deep-set, rectangular openings, decorated by stained glass designed by Le Corbusier. The broad church door also bore a symbolic painting by Le Corbusier, done in enamel. Capping it all was a swelling, sausage-roll roof from which extends a mighty spout to carry rain water to a concrete tank. Said Abbé Besançon, one of Ronchamp's priests: the church is "ungodly and ungainly...
...many a harried instructor or teaching fellow who jolts toward the University by MTA from the out-lying -bury's and -ville's of Boston each morning, Commencement orations about the Cambridge "community of scholars" have a certain hollow ring. Instead of the academic sanctuary envisioned by 19th century Harvard presidents, the University too often now is a place where the younger Faculty member spends his day between 9 and 5 like any other commuter. The high rents and poor housing in the neighborhood drive him to suburbia...
Among musicals, the most winning were the first and last to open-The Boy Friend and Damn Yankees. Silk Stockings and Fanny were both lavish and hollow; more rewarding were House of Flowers, which bloomed brightly before it drooped, and Plain and Fancy, which had a nice Pennsylvania Dutch tang if not always enough musicomedy verve...
...script leads him down with so many lines of platitudinous garbage that he could scarcely he expected to carry them off well. Among his colleagues at the school. Louis Calhern is bitter but human as a disillusioned history teacher, while Margaret Haves reads her way through a very hollow portryal of a pretty and frustrated schoolteacher who tempts circumstances too much...