Word: hollowness
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...Building a democratic state in the Congo would be a start-from-scratch idea, requiring extensive triage and years of benign nurturing by its neighbors near and far. Some of those neighbors, though, may be more inclined to maintain the hollow shell of Congo's sovereignty, while in effect carving it up into regional fiefdoms. A land whose plight once inspired Conrad has long learned the limits of optimism...
...having. And it wasn't handed down. That ranch is all that he sees himself to be: rugged, real and thoroughly Texan. But Bush's persona at the ranch is also more than an act. He seems at peace in this place where he knows each tree and hollow...
...imperfect vote-counting system has proved that Americans are just human. Any claims of U.S. superiority now sound hollow. PRAVIN SHAH Addis Ababa...
...There was his first major hollow political offer, back in November, for a statewide hand recount, and the constant and often eloquent calls to "count all the votes." He must hope we will remember those for their principle rather than their application, because neither was a request his lawyers ever bothered to make before a court. (By Monday's oral arguments, the mantra and its disconnect had even become a joke to Justice Souter. And to Boies...
...that what she does is no longer effective. Packed into the little more than half-an-hour's worth of music is the same startling harmonies and clear, almost heavenly voice that made Enya a favorite of fans around the globe. Unfortunately this very music now appears hollow, lacking the spirituality that her previous albums embodied (for example, the sense of sadness pervading throughout Watermark). And without that center, what is left is what A Day Without Rain is: a candy-covered shell. B- -Jimmy...