Word: vacuous
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...about the inextricable link between love and death, though he does deliver his elementary lyrical content with a reserved aplomb that salvages a handful of good tunes. Gifted with an eerie and reverberating baritone reminiscent of Ian Curtis, McVeigh has an uncanny knack for delivering the most vacuous lyrics with commendable seriousness and brooding passion. The title track, while arguably the strongest song on the album and the one with the most commercial appeal, sounds at times like the pubescent diary entries of a lovesick and paranoid teenager: “He said to lose my life or lose...
...Finally, the candidate who had promised a civil and elevated debate wound up waging a reckless, spaghetti-on-the-wall character assault - Obama's a vacuous celebrity! A dangerous naif! A friend to terrorists! A closet socialist! - against an opponent whose preternatural poise made McCain's every charge seem desperate. He convinced himself that Obama was dishonorable and unqualified and was persuaded by his aides to believe that the only way to win was to make the Democrat seem unacceptable to voters. As a result, McCain reaped the worst of all worlds: voters saw McCain as both a Bush clone...
...hand it to the Harvard Band. They had a good bit comparing Dartmouth students to NASA astronauts in space. In both place, those must deal with a dark vacuous space that has no signs of intelligent life and nothing to do on weekends...
...portrayal of Norah. While her character is very poorly developed, one would have hoped Dennings might have injected at least some life into the rich-girl-trying-to-be-normal stereotype. In fact, director Peter Sollett leaves pretty much all of his characters flat and uninteresting. Tris is a vacuous hottie who only wants Nick when he doesn’t want her. Norah’s friend Caroline (Ari Graynor) is a drunken mess whose antics provide many of the film’s jokes—a gratuitous attempt at gross-out humor that sits bizarrely with...
...normally unflappable Obama off his stride and keeping the Republican nominee very much in the presidential hunt in a dismal year for Republicans. But the tactics also contained the potential for long-term political costs by distracting from, or eroding, the central McCain message. By comparing Obama to a vacuous Hollywood starlet, McCain found a coherent critique of Obama but relinquished his own ability to rise above the political maw. By choosing Sarah Palin, he lit a grass fire of GOP enthusiasm but risked undermining his ticket's claim of having greater experience and putting "country first." By attacking Obama...