Word: vacuously
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...usual, a powerfully resonant Tonio, alternately strutting and servile as he paced in front of the curtain and expounded Leoncavallo's advice to the audience that an actor is "a man with a heart like yours," and that "what he tells you is true." Playing Tonio with vacuous smile as a simpleton rather than a physical cripple, Warren shot the role full of pity which honed rather than blunted its edge of evil. In his great self-revelatory aria ("I know I'm deformed and ugly"), his mahogany-hued voice soared with a passion and authority that...
...less successful moments of the movie come when the characters attempt to generalize too quickly. Their generalizations about security--those that don't come out of the action itself--and particularly the tycoon's remarks about success are mostly vacuous...
...cannot see where Mr. Halberstam has contributed much to the clarification of the larger issue which is contingent upon the particulars of the Emmett Till case. It is this part of Mr. Halberstam's argument that I wish to fill in, since without this, his article seems pointless and vacuous...
...years after the publication of Philosophy 4, an equally vacuous but somewhat differently angled novel appeared about the Harvard undergraduate. This was The Count at Harvard by Rupert Sargent Holland, whose name seems justly to have escaped posterity. Perhaps the best comments on the value of this book are found scrawled inside the cover of the edition now in Lamont. Various undergraduates from the class of 1912 up to the present have inscribed their critical sentiments there: "Only on person ever read beyond the first chapter of this book. That was myself. Don't do it." And from a member...
...Kaiser. His poem has a delicate sensuality reminiscent of MacLeish, and Kaiser handles his images well. The two other pieces, The Bridgegroom, by Winifred Hare and The Promised End, by David Chandler do not measure up to it. Chandler has a pretty turn of vision, but his poem is vacuous...