Word: hollowness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...their ideas echo the kind of cool, upbeat sportswear that made Klein famous in the '70s, when models like Lauren Hutton bounced off the fashion pages with little more than a gap-tooth smile and a shrugged-on pair of shorts. But the newfound--or recycled--optimism rings hollow; fashion's new generation of designers seems fettered by nerves...
...America's relationship with the Muslim world is staked to our success in reconstructing and stabilizing the ruined country. As long as our troops must attend to protecting themselves and tracking insurgents instead of setting the country aright, the U.S.'s claims of being a beneficent liberator will ring hollow in the ears of many Muslims. And they in turn may find the al-Qaeda view of the universe increasingly attractive...
...wanted to see what people’s reactions to it would be.” This is the one I was telling myself when I sat down in the chair in front of a hostile woman with forceps, a German accent and a long, hollow needle. But as soon as I looked at myself in the mirror post-piercing I knew it couldn’t have been for the reactions. The last thing I ever want to deal with is the slings and arrows of others—although I admit I do like seeing little wrinkled...
...Depp offer a congenial collision of acting styles: the one purring with assured menace, the other weirder, more daring. In a role that requires him to be both the lead and the comic relief, Depp plays the roguish coquette, sporting another of his odd British accents (as in Sleepy Hollow and From Hell). Only he could make this spiked cocktail of quirks so potent and piquant. Now Pirates could give Depp what he may never have wanted: a movie franchise...
...hours but of 86,400 seconds, and those did not flow into one another?so that, as a consequence, there was not enough time to get anything done." But, at journey's end, he seems unable to draw any satisfactory intellectual conclusions and resorts instead to hollow, dreamlike comparisons with other places, other Zones...