Word: hollowness
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Perhaps it isn't the act of hollow sex which itself is so base. Perhaps it is the notion of it, even at Harvard, as an act that calls forth pride enough to don a pin and strut like a peacock. The celebratory reception of sexual conquest in the drinking culture is quite barbaric. Can men's sexual indulgence represent anything more than a pillage of females given their propensity to speak of in it terms of booty? Obviously, sex has no meaning to them beside its pleasurable...
Although Wilson's measure has won bipartisan praise in California, some people believe the initiative is simply a new way to sound tough on crime in the guise of social compassion. "It's a hollow gesture," says Katherine Spillar, national coordinator for the Fund for the Feminist Majority. "It would be a lot better to put the money into social services and into education for young women and men." Some medical facilities also fear that they will be put in the role of inquisitor, forced to ask girls who seek pregnancy services about the identity of the partner. And Jeannie...
...five years of the same cutting back and restructuring. Perhaps that is why our political life is so full of Russian-style Ross Perots, each one a politician with his own magic bullet. Perhaps it could be that the U.S.'s victory in the cold war is a hollow one: instead of making us into yourselves, you are turning into us. ELENA KOUCHMANOVA Ekaterinburg, Russia...
Peace with the neighbors is a hollow thing when there is war in the home...
...Anderson said the snake was recaptured around 2 p.m. when officials from Facilities Maintenance cut a six-inch by six-inch hole in the student's sheet-rock wall, exposing a hollow area in which the snake was hiding. The student will have to pay to fix the wall, he said...