Word: hollowness
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...time when thousands of lives are sacrificed in war upon the altar of democracy and when the U.S. President is using it to enhance his position in the international community, the argument of necessity triumphing over ideology comes across as hollow, defensive and downright flawed. It is disappointing that Time published this example of American self-justification. TEO TZE YIN Singapore
...Justice. In various stages of construction are vacation villas, apartment towers, shopping districts and a theme park. But the project, which Yang has reportedly invested about $220 million in, appears to have run out of steam. A wide avenue is lined with half-finished copies of Amsterdam canal houses, hollow shells already showing signs of wear. A few workers trundle down the street pulling wheelbarrows, but otherwise the place is deserted. Red-brick housing blocks hold 1,400 apartments?all vacant. Liu Ping of the Netherlands Business Support Office in Shenyang says: "A lot of people wonder whether (Yang) will...
...that explanation sounds a little hollow when you consider that Harvard’s enforcement of city and state codes is spotty at best, and full of double standards. For example, a microwave oven in a dorm suite occupied by a tutor is just as illegal as one in a student room—the law makes no distinction about who’s living there. And presumably it presents the same fire hazard in a tutor suite as in a student room. But the university doesn’t inspect tutor suites. “That would...
...jokes, nothing seems funny to them anymore. "There's a massive number of variants of jokes," Wiseman says. "But I've heard the basic structure of pretty much every single one." Oh, he still is capable of laughter, but it's a dry husk of a laugh, a hollow been-there, heard-that chuckle designed to make you think you're funny even when you know you're not. Is it possible to burn out your joke receptors from overuse? This calls for more research. If you didn't laugh at the world's funniest joke, you should worry...
Sometime last fall, the solemn words and silent vigils faded and the discourse of Sept. 11 began, offering little pause for the tragedy. I was lulled by hollow news reports and the kitschy “9-1-1” metaphor, whose appropriateness troubled me. Its simplicity befit the attacks themselves—large, uncomplicated and unsubtle...