Word: hollowing
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...Albright introduces a hobbling version of the modern-minded young medico balked by his old-fogy superior, lugs in the love of two staff doctors for the same nurse. These concessions to plot bore like termites through the sound timber of the play's background, leave it rather hollow...
There was one difference: our friend made one mistake. He was above all practical. Ideals, hollow traditions and mock morals were not for him. With gentle, piercing strokes, he painted human nature as it was then and has always been. His writings have been a mirror in which men have seen themselves as they were, and the image has not pleased them...
...Swell," answers a hollow voice from the dictograph. "I've been waiting...
...false name, Victor Jourdain supplied money to build up a staff of patriotic priests and laymen for gathering articles and distributing 20,000 copies of Free Belgium, taunting the German occupants and preaching patriotic passive resistance. The stories, written on thin tissue, were carried to the printers in a hollow cane. Bundles of the finished sheet were transferred in store elevators, on dark street corners, in crowded busses. Yet each man knew only the distribution links above and below him. For aiding Free Belgium two men were shot and scores of others died slowly in German concentration camps without ever...
...attack on loose thinking parading as profundity, on hollow rhetoric offered as a guide to social action, on fakes, phonies, pomposities, stuffed shirts, pedants and wordmongers in general, The Tyranny of Words will to most readers make tonic good sense. But, as with most of Stuart Chase's writing, they are likely to be more impressed with his devastating diagnosis than with his cureall. Picturing present-day human communications as a telephone switchboard with all the wires crossed, Stuart Chase can only look hopefully toward a distant future when, through the rigorous application of semantics, the connection between minds...