Word: hollowness
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However, if you believe in the inherent value of democracy (or of protecting the environment), then voting (or conservation) is a moral obligation. Its ultimately negligible impact is irrelevant. Naturally then, outrage from affluent liberals about tax cuts rings all too hollow, unless they are making regular contributions to charity...
Starting the next day, the food got worse. Some days there was just a little dry rice with boiled cabbage, others just some boiled sweet potatoes. Hunger became a permanent state, an ever present hollowness. The flesh on my body slowly melted away, my eyesight deteriorated, and simple activities such as washing clothes exhausted me. From time to time, I was called for special indoctrination and questioning by militant guards. The guards used these occasions to abuse me verbally and to tell me I would be shot soon or kept at the detention house for the rest of my life...
...important only to me, but what kind of America I believe in.” Unfortunately, the message I have learned from this recent media frenzy is that the two are inseparable, that America 47 years later is no different than Kennedy’s America: Shrouded in hollow patriotic discourse, it is an America that is skeptical of any leader who is not rooted in (Protestant) Christian mores. It is the same America that markets non-Middle Eastern oil as “terror-free,” and one that lauds multiculturalism while spreading fears of blood-sucking...
...that the movement planned to spend $1 million to build schools in six provinces in which it had gained a foothold. "Taliban are not against education," he said. "The Taliban want Shariah [Islamic law] education." He also said that schools for girls would follow later, a promise that rings hollow considering that during the six years of Taliban rule in Afghanistan, not a single girl was allowed to attend school...
...admitted to using hollow Eisenhower silver dollars to conceal messages or film. According to the agency, the coins are "virtually undetectable...