Word: hollowness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...mattered, and so were desperate for signs that the invasion had not been a horrible miscalculation. So now the White House can ask its supporters to take a deep breath and listen anew to the President's claims of progress at a time when no one can call them hollow...
...muster the quorum it needed to take votes on the legislation. (At one meeting, some absent professors had to be called to rush to the Faculty Room so that the necessary quorum could be attained.) Kirby maintains that students are the focus of this University, but his words sound hollow when so many professors are willing to roast a president who is unequivocally dedicated to undergraduate education while they themselves are unwilling to commit 90 minutes to the same end.In addition to curricular flaws, the Faculty also continued to largely ignore inadequacies in undergraduate teaching this year—problems...
...teachers, weak Christians and nonobservant Jews, make a show of teaching virtue and righteous self-restraint, but their shifty eyes and hollow voices betray their lack of belief. They are paid to say these things, by the city of New Prospect and the state of New Jersey. They lack true faith; they are not on the Straight Path; they are unclean. Ahmad and the two thousand other students can see them scuttling after school into their cars on the crackling, trash-speckled parking lot like pale crabs or dark ones restored to their shells, and they are men and women...
...Museum Tinguely in Basel, Switzerland. If Mawurndjul is considered the Michelangelo of rarrk, then the MQB is his Sistine Chapel. Across 150 sq m of ground-floor ceiling, his sacred billabong at Milmilngkan ripples and sings; the rarrk's kinetic power suggesting the presence of Ngalyod. Nearby, his painted hollow-log column appears to bear the weight of the building. Mawurndjul visited Paris last September to hand-paint his lorrkkon log and supervise the ceiling work, joining his artisans on the scaffolding. "His eye followed every single line as it was painted," recalls Lonergan...
...rise headquarters for Hearst's growing empire. The intention was that a taller addition would be constructed later, but the Depression intervened. For nearly eight decades, the Deco-flavored base stood alone. In the late 1990s the Hearst Corp. decided to keep the old building but to hollow it out and erect a new tower within and above...