Sentences with phrase «vacuousness in»

The tragedy of Ukraine is that there is a fundamental vacuousness in its dominant political discourse about «joining Europe», and a mismatch between the aspirations of its society, especially its younger generations, for a better life (which is seen as synonymous with a «European choice») and the capacity of the Ukrainian state and the EU to deliver.

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A Rubio aide was caught saying that low - skill American workers can't cut it in the job market, and Rubio's latest high - profile foreign policy speech has been panned for its vacuousness.

Religion which claims to speak in the name of a God has no means to demonstrate the source of their licence and atheists, responding to intellectual and spiritual vacuousness of religious myth, has concluded, in the absence of any direct evidence, how can there be a God?

This lack of awareness, though, is directly commensurate with the «perception» of vacuousness that scientism has «found» to be «inherent» in the physical world.

In Rabbit Redux, the sequel to Rabbit, Run, the vacuousness of modern life remains, but the likable veneer has worn thin.

Updike tellingly portrays the vacuousness of life in present - day America.

I tried to indicate the vacuousness of Alan Johnson's Labour in For Britain as a way of saying «This is not serious, we need to hear the arguments for and against in a way that helps us think for ourselves».

«But let's see the vacuousness and intellectual laziness in the twist they have given what President Buhari said, out of sheer malice and evil hearts.

While the film does center around two detectives trying to determine who drained the blood and removed the reproductive organs of some young wayward girl, the real mystery is why someone drained the intelligence out of Ellroy's novel, ripping out its soul in favor of glossy, empty - headed vacuousness.

The setting is today's Russian middle class of spacious, well - furnished apartments, elegant restaurants with jazz purring in the background and the selfie vacuousness of contemporary materialism.

It is the vacuousness of the statement «We've already set out that we want more good school places wherever children are in the country» before Greening gets to her solution which worries me.

As in the Lettres de non-motivation (Letters of Non-Application) that he has been sending out to employers regularly since 2004 — in which he responds to newspaper advertisements and details his reasons for not applying for the jobs in question — his work often appropriates the vocabulary, mechanisms and modus operandi of the sectors by which it is informed, the better to highlight their dogmas, excesses and, when all is said and done, their vacuousness.

In common speech sweetness conveys authenticity, warmth, conviviality or affirmation; or just as likely, a certain dumbness, vacuousness and opacity.

Scientists have increasingly weighed in on the vacuousness of the current emphasis on renewable energy generation.