His 2008 campaign of Hope and Change was vacuous in content, but big on cult of personality.
The neo-liberal economic model was always intellectually vacuous, but now we know it is also dangerous and destabilising.
Some think it is vacuous nonsense, others think it is too clever, and a minority find the line rather deep.
Interestingly, only the late Merrill Lynch bothered to respond, albeit with a vacuous note blithely affirming its concern about terrorism.
Instead of coming off as sexy and vacuous, the wonk in the hipster glasses presents as functionally unisex and extremely content-rich.
Wade, which struck down every abortion law in the nation based on vacuous emanations from newly discovered penumbras of long established constitutional provisions.
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In the wake of the Democratic counterattacks, we are told, Gore has effectively parried Republican criticisms and shown them to be ill-informed and vacuous.
Mr Meacher said studies on the effects of GM foods on human health had been "scientifically vacuous", and warned the government against rushing the debate.
And while these leaders have repeated vacuous bromides about the "tragedy of both sides, " their voters have been much less circumspect in telling the Jews what think of us.
Now this is all, of course, empty political posturing of the most vacuous sort and we would be very wise not to read too much (or anything) into this decision.
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By the 1900s, the cream of Spanish art was in Madrid, London or New York, while shifting tastes led contemporary critics to deride Murillo for being vacuous and overly sentimental.
During a boilerplate, vacuous speech about President Bashar Assad's slaughter of his fellow Syrians, apropos of nothing the baroness launched into an unhinged, impassioned, and deeply dishonest frontal assault against Israel.
This campaign started from what was initially seen as a vacuous and pro-forma delineation of rights, but gradually grew and developed into something that had an absolutely enormous effect on Soviet history.
Now, three years into his term, the president has belatedly responded with a much-ballyhooed "pivot" to Asia, a phrase that may prove to be as gimmicky and vacuous as his "reset" with Russia.
An early indication of the way in which this bipartisan diktat will be received in official Washington can be seen in the vacuous response of the incoming chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Nice, if vacuous, words were spoken all round.
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Michael Meacher - sacked as a minister in the recent reshuffle - said studies on the effects of GM foods on human health had been "scientifically vacuous", and warned the government against rushing the debate.
Web sites like CheesyCoporateLingo.com and TheOfficeLife.com offer alphabetized lists of vacuous phrases, while snarky software programs like Corporate Gibberish Generator, Business Buzzword Generator and MBA Writer automatically generate entire jargon-riddled memos.
For politicians and commentators to make the similarly politically correct--and vacuous--suggestion that individuals shouldn't profit from quality information is part and parcel with the wrongheaded notion that individuals should be made equal in all walks of life.
But of course, there is a difference, and such is Mr Jennings's loathing for the vacuous and arrogant elite (as he finds them) that his whole enterprise threatens at times to slide into one long raspberry of disgust.
His plays are often set in very stifling little rooms with people saying vacuous things to each other that become more and more deadly, until a kind of naked power play is revealed that's punctuated by wrenching silences.
Yet to widespread surprise, including his family's, Mr Chandler soon set about turning the Times into a serious, intelligent and broadly fair-minded paper better suited to the increasingly varied people now pouring into southern California, not all of whom were as vacuous and unlettered as their reputation supposed.
Well, it has a large cast of contributors, it attempts (and seems to succeed) in covering ALL emerging markets, and most importantly it is (mostly) devoid of the vacant and vacuous moralizing that is sprinkled very heavily throughout The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, and other parts of the Western business press.
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