Word: vacuously
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Next, Billy embroils himself in simultaneous engagements with two horrid girls who hold no appeal for him. Prissy Barbara, a vacuous townie whose jaw drops when he puts his hand on her knee, and Rita, a shrew with large breasts and a gelding tongue, are constantly on the point of finding Billy out. Hopping in frantic secrecy between these charmers keeps his nights occupied--but offers no more satisfaction than his job, or bumbling duplicities...
...getting ready to leave. Both the Post and the Times are Republican papers. But Times Publisher Chandler has promised Conrad the same latitude that he enjoyed in Denver, where, despite occasional remonstrances from Post Publisher Palmer Hoyt, Conrad persisted in depicting former President Eisenhower as progressively senile and slightly vacuous...
What is doubly depressing is that these standards are applied with so little competence and that the Committee's facts are poor, its logic faulty and its recommendations are largely vacuous...
...environments. It has been able, at long last, to supersede the Hollywood glamorization of life. Let us hope also that your fine cover story [Sept. 20] will stimulate a new interest in the cinema, not only for its own sake but as an alternative to the slick, stifling and vacuous "entertainment" that constitutes so much of television's program offerings...
...unfeelingly, says, "Our long night is over. We must put away our tears, take off our mourning ... and face the future. It's our duty." Against these surfaces without substance, this ritual without meaning, stands the vitality of Grandma who, in the end, must accept the help of the vacuous young man, the angel of death...