Word: vacuous
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Perhaps even more infuriating than this blatant one-sidedness is the masturbatory rhetoric Palmer and his students deploy to defend it. Indeed, it seems that not enough vacuous and fawning praise can be heaped upon Idealism 101, as it is stroked in a single Harvard Gazette profile as “a way of having richer discussion,” “creating a caring community,” “[helping students] envision what they could become,” and helping to “bring about a more humane, peaceful world.” Naturally...
...have faded—and that development is as reasonable as it was inevitable. There is no way that a society can function effectively while its members sleepwalk through life, terrified about their prospects for survival and, in any case, worrying that much of their existence is shallow and vacuous. Harvard students have, of course, protested—or supported—the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and, even those who are less politically active have not (and could not have) shut themselves off entirely from following the so-called “War on Terrorism...
Ross raises a legitimate point; Paris Hilton is vacuous. She appears to have eating disorders that have yet to be documented, and she’s reportedly racking up enough bedside notches to make even Wilt Chamberlain blush. But I have a confession: her outfits make me want to do a cartwheel. If I had to die and be reincarnated, I probably would come back either as Jesus or as one of Paris Hilton’s handbags. So let’s forget about brunette Alice Walton, Wal-Mart heiress and divorcee, who probably spends her Friday nights...
...their shinier outfits. The Chicks had a brain now, and they had an idea…called treason. Much like a TF who comes to the painful realization that one of his students is actually smarter than him, we Americans had to face the awful reality that our own vacuous, bubble-gum culture had actually produced a clue...
...better with everyone from a different background," she says, chatting with friends in a Nairobi hotel. "They're learning about each other, and that's interesting." Even if, in the end, all they collectively learn is that a household of African twentysomethings can be as self-obsessed, vacuous and obnoxious as reality-television contestants in other parts of the world...