Word: vacuously
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...pernicious. The University very likely would not recognize a Harvard Anti-Semitic League or a Harvard Segregation Club, even if these groups did not materially harm other undergraduates. On the same grounds, the University can afford to tolerate the real discrimination of the final clubs: the clubs are intellectually vacuous and socially innocuous. Thus the Faculty committee will be justified in applying the University's tradition against discrimination only if it is convinced that the social effects of the proposed Association will be injurious and undesirable...
...Report: Vacuous Rhetoric...
...mnemonic gadget for students who must know the philosopher's main preoccupations. Even at that, it is confused and ineffectual. When I learn of belief clattering, I want to know more, to hear the clatter more distinctly; instead I am handed myth swooning, a concept at least equally vacuous...
Those of us who pioneered aviation could always define the benefits we were trying to offer mankind, and we spent our own resources trying; the space promoters can offer no better excuse for their wild financial orgies than such vacuous blurbs as "space is the future of man," and it costs them nothing to laugh off a fizzle such as the recent $20 million Venus fiasco...
...Manhattan's Maynard Walker Gallery last week, gives persuasive answers to both questions. In it is a little girl, perhaps sent upstairs for an hour of penance, who dimly but fearfully perceives the end of her innocence. The picture has charm and-in the dark room, the vacuous expression-a touch of horror. Without luck's greatest blessings, the photographer who wanted to duplicate the painting would wait (for the clear light, for the tilt of the head) longer than it took the artist to learn to paint. And if the explicit drawing had been lost in abstractionist...