Olmert brushed aside the public's demand for his resignation by emptily, arrogantly and repeatedly pledging to correct his own mistakes.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Remembering Olmert's true record

So too, disastrously, in a clear bid to pretend away Obama's treachery, Israel actually applauded Obama for emptily criticizing the resolution he voted for.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Ending Israel's losing streak

Romney promised emptily that he would get a kid a job.

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Greater self-criticism, and generosity, among outsiders would enable them to put more pressure on the Rwandan government to promote the national reconciliation it so emptily talks about.

ECONOMIST: Rwanda bleeds on

While emptily mouthing slogans of tolerance, all these adherents to the rule of the "international community" embrace the agenda of the most violent, intolerant, totalitarian forces in the world.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Unmasking the "International Community"

He was one of the earliest patrons of the American modernists John Marin and Arthur Dove, and he bought the late work of Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947) in depth after World War II, a period when it was dismissed as emptily decorative.

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