Word: hollowing
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...Metheny traded his acoustic for a hollow-bodied electric, drummer Antonio Sanchez and bassist Steve Rodby joined him and they launched full-bore into a frenetic Be-bop number. Metheny, in a musical stream of consciousness, let his fingers fly in electrifying perpetual motion. Then, after the applause died down and the remainder of the Pat Metheny Group took their places, the band proceeded over the next three hours to obliterate the memory of those ten glorious minutes...
...quickly forget you're talking over the Internet. Really. Pick up the phone, and you hear a regular old dial tone, and anyone calling you will hear the usual ringing noise. The sound quality is crisp and clear. I won't say it's perfect--there's a slightly hollow, tinny quality--but unless you're planning to listen to Mahler's Fifth over the phone, it's no big deal. And there are other perks besides the price. At Vonage's website you can access a list of your last 10 calls, both incoming and outgoing...
Although a survivor might take comfort in a room full of people displaying ribbons, the minimal effort required in wearing one makes its statement hollow, and the lack of meaning has only been exacerbated by the omnipresence of AIDS and breast cancer and a rainbow of other ribbons in the past decade...
...jazz age thug carefully steps into a huge hollow cake; his job is to pop out later and gun down a big gangster. A henchman hands the thug a machine gun, then warns him, "And don't mess up the cake. I promised to bring back a piece for my kids...
...proclamation of war against terrorism. On the day I left last August, 18 people were killed by a suicide bomber in a Sbarro Restaurant in West Jerusalem that I walked by a dozen times in the previous five days. Yet, the events of the past week have demonstrated how hollow and insubstantial the Bush Doctrine really is, and the terrible consequences of it being...