Sentences with word «vacuity»

In refuting this self - justifying logic UK Uncut exposes the moral vacuity of our contemporary establishment.

Scott's film is shameless pandering to an audience that (he thinks) is ravenous for stories about the heartlessness and moral vacuity of the wealthy.

Using the all - purpose PC insult («racist») underlines the sheer vacuity of DC's thinking and leadership.

But in vacuity time too, vanishes.

The list of replacement leaders — Iggy, we hardly knew ye — includes a tarnished former NDP premier and a handsome son of a former prime minister whose vacuity makes Robert Redford in The Candidate look like Lincoln.

If anything, the 140 character limit of Twitter exposes the intellectual and emotional vacuity of such partisan political posturing.

Their bones were light and hollow, filled with vacuities to help them fly, so they tend to crush easily and break into pieces.

It looks like bravery, but it is merely vacuity that drives sensationalism.

It was not a «black, cold vacuity» but an «empyrean ocean of radiance.

He admits that he failed to make it all the way through Fox's work, since «no prose I have ever encountered can match Fox's in a blissful vacuity, where all things flow to all, as rivers to the sea.»

Karl Rahner, in Encounter with Silence, reports a sense of vacuity experienced at times by every believer:

First, the church's rabid pursuit of «relevance» and «pragmatism» has produced in many churches a shallow vacuity.

In vacuity there is not even a nowhere.

With plenitude a fact of everyday life, Californians developed a «vast cosmic indifference» toward the demands of morality, politics, business, and craft — even basic occupational competence — so that life took on «a dreadful vacuity.»

In this theatre of din, natural or contrived, the sane voices are mute; hopelessly drowned by the passion of loud vacuity, as it was in Yeats's Ireland of 1919, in the chaotic run - up to the war of independence against Britain (1919 - 1922)

It only exposes, in full Technicolor, the conceptual vacuity of a federal sop on a unitary architecture.

«There are rules about this surely... The best thing possible would be head to head with Ed Miliband to expose the total vacuity of his policies that would take this country backwards and undo a lot of the work that's been done.»

I had to read three or four time before the enormity of Miliband's sheer vacuity became duly apparent.

Too often, the picture lives and dies on its ability to keep the pace fluid — but just that need for momentum suggests something amiss at the heart of the piece, a certain surface tension that would pop should the rock - star protagonist we envy ever collide against the satire of the kind of colossal moral vacuity required of his vocation.

This sounds like a wonderful conceit, actually, but don't be fooled, as the dialogue never rises above the level of the characters» own vacuity.

Filled with their musical composition, they can claim to achieve the knowledge: Two cosmonauts in the Odyssey of the Space of the Buddhist Vacuity.

The latter's focus on collectible knick - knacks emblazoned with pseudo-portraits of forgotten heroes, dead leaders, and unnameable generic persons, offers another designation of absence, here in terms of image vacuity and identity dissociation.

A fine advertising line, ready to hit t - shirts and shopping bags, had it not been a critique of capitalism and its social vacuity.

In this collection of new photographs, Koch explores the feeling of vacuity when objects become obsolete and only their negative space is left behind.

«These are figures in the process of becoming where beauty and vacuity pursue one another in their circumscribed fragility.

Through an assortment of drawings, paintings, photographs, and videos, the artists in «Empty Distances» delve into creative perceptions of «the void» — a nebulous space that can refer to post-apocalyptic, pre-civilization, or even psychological vacuity.

The small ones are intimate and pun - like because they are actual size; the larger are witty and incisive in their scaling up of empty pictorial space and ironic elevation of cultural vacuity.

Although reputedly skeptical of words, she opens the exhibition in visual vacuity, directing us instead toward a document.

This is a great shame, but the self - evident vacuity of much of what is presented as contemporary art may eventually become such an embarrassment that it leads to the development of a more clear - headed and deeper thinking community in future.

Sometimes the obviousness of the questions strays towards self - help vacuity.

All they can offer is nostalgia for simpler days, some deprecatory remarks about our 24 - hour news cycle, and a forlorn endorsement of shorter memos for the President (the demand for which was, as I recall, widely regarded by critics as a symptom of intellectual vacuity in the Reagan Adminstration).

One might, of course, take the «being of nothing» to mean, not sheer vacuity but a set of universals, all lacking instances.

Despite the utter vacuity on display, there are some fine performances.

Despite his ma's calloused disposition and emotional vacuity, however, Julian is unflinchingly obedient; he keeps her cigarettes lit and kisses her cheek when prompted.

Two weeks later I remain horrified by the moral vacuity demonstrated by the many, many people who think Gleick's behaviour is no big deal.

After his corker of a convention speech, NDP elder statesman Stephen Lewis said members need something intellectual to chew on after the type of «vacuity of policy» that left - wing parties occasionally find themselves in.