Chase is vacuous because he's 13, and who among us wasn't vacuous at 13?
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Even its logo comes across as an incomplete concept, the bottom half of Walmart's vacuous smiley face, if Walmart's vacuous smiley face wanted to fuck.
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That's not to say that the plan is completely vacuous.
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That's how vacuous and devious the entire enterprise has become.
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Many foreign leaders have realised that Mr Trump enjoys vacuous flattery.
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His answers were filled with nonresponsive hyperbole and were generally vacuous.
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We're both just too layered and complex for these vacuous supermodels.
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The conceit of the vacuous nonfiction movie "Casting JonBenet" is simple.
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They're dead, vacuous orbs sucking in any genuine positivity that surrounds them.
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Now, all that remains are the vacuous crumbs of Leigh's previous self.
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Such sentiment may sound like the vacuous "mission statements" of today's universities.
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Most of the participants spoke in the same vacuous think-tank argot.
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He is odd and entertaining, vacuous and vain, disarming and terrifyingly dangerous.
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It's that every conversation is precisely as dense and vacuous as every other.
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The rhetoric has been harsh and vacuous; the news cycle fast and unrelenting.
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Their homes aren't just paranoid comfort that becomes vacuous…There's actual, legitimate communion.
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Some may argue that the generation game, if intellectually vacuous, is basically harmless.
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It feeds by dangling tiny vacuous sacs from its stems into the water.
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Mr. Jackson's prescription — "effective governance lies somewhere between revisionism and textualism" — is completely vacuous.
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He was so different to all the vacuous pop stars I grew up with.
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It was a safe statement, because it was an utterly and necessarily vacuous one.
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Rush Limbaugh called the speech "irresponsible and vacuous" in suggesting there was any connection.
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It was reported in print and on TV that Trump was spirited — and vacuous.
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There is such a thing as "good writing"; it's not a purely vacuous phrase.
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"Trump is Trump -- vacuous, unqualified and dangerously ignorant of foreign affairs," said the editorial board.
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This has largely been a vacuous contest that has centered on personality rather than policy.
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His song, his stage name, and his façade — they're all completely vacuous, but they sell.
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Selina's speeches are referred to as "vacuous nonsense" by the same people who write them.
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These vacuous appeals fly in the face of facts and are simultaneously laughable and infuriating.
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While visuals can certainly be vacuous and cliche, such criticisms underestimate what imagery can achieve.
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It's vacuous and shallow and materialistic, and that's what keeps me coming back to him.
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"—Cassie (@Cassiesmyth) August 26, 2019Grossman was also criticized for being "so empty" and "so vacuous.
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Now that he's in this very important job, he turns out to be completely vacuous.
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The majority of pundits on the right and left focus on the same vacuous rhetoric.
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It's a star investor, vacuous star investor with liquid assets, earning less than projected inflation.
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Obama sold the country a vacuous campaign of "hope and change," devoid of substance or experience.
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An Anglican bishop, Pete Broadbent, once dismissed UKIP has "a vacuous...blot on the political landscape".
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By being so vacuous, people can project whatever they want or need to project onto him.
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Henry is no Babbitt; he is far from smug or vacuous; he is not a dupe.
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It's legally vacuous to try to now apply Roberts's old logic to a newly amended law.
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It was a weird cavalcade of non sequiturs and falsehoods that, on policy, was also completely vacuous.
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Mars was the bright, shiny object to distract people from the vacuous nature of Obama's space policy.
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Marissa Casey Grossman, AKA Fashion Ambitionist, was called "so empty" and "so vacuous" for the Instagram post.
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They aren't the emptiest spaces in terms of physical objects, but they may be the most vacuous.
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" He also quotes Lillian Hellman's great description of a vacuous actress: "Her face is unclouded by thought.
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There are vacuous pronouncements about art and death, and exchanges that flirt with nationalism and religious preachiness.
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HealthNewsReview, a watchdog site that critiques news stories and press releases, called the press release vacuous and incomplete.
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He's 100 percent there, just present, and he's bored with [society], because that's how vacuous we've made it.
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I'm locked out from the most vacuous social network I'm signed up for, and it's pissing me off.
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Still, in terms of actual positive outcomes, the Singapore summit was little more than a vacuous photo op.
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With their time-filling, vacuous babble, these voices will be familiar to anyone who follows sports on television.
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He was a reaction — and very much a physical one — against a vacuous culture obsessed, paradoxically, with authenticity.
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"The fact that CNN can see through this nonsense demonstrates how vacuous our political elite is," Enjeti said.
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It focuses on largely vacuous slideshow, with only one slideshow for Iraq and Syria and none for Afghanistan.
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He embodied a new kind of career, one tilted toward the contemporary and away from vacuous maestro worship.
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At their best, these videos are informative and easily digested; at their worst, they're misleading, stolen, or simply vacuous.
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She promises continuity with Mr Aquino's pro-business policies, but her CV is thin and her campaign lamentably vacuous.
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But the overall impression given by the studio's magpie oeuvre is of brilliant surfaces wrapped around a vacuous core.
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By contrast, grievers hear so many vacuous phrases that a little straight talk can often be a welcome relief.
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Beck's other friend, Annika (Kathryn Gallagher), is an Instagram influencer whose vacuous self-empowerment posts are absolutely dead-on.
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Morris proposed to Brooker that they turn Barley and the vacuous new-media scene he exemplified into a sitcom.
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Yet this is a vacuous argument, because the United States Supreme Court held in the landmark case Holder v.
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With their seemingly old-fashioned artificiality, his works grew dogged by a reputation for unbearable length and vacuous spectacle.
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Here's what he told me: Often the phrase "strict constructionism" is a vacuous label that substitutes for careful analysis.
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A lot of it may be vacuous, but we're not — despite our frustrations — in a totalitarian society of Orwellian Newspeak.
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The other takeaway: This was an astonishingly substantive debate, especially if you compare it with the vacuous, petty Republican debates.
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He appeared on the vacuous morning show Fox & Friends, then stepped onto Maria Bartiromo's Fox Business show, Mornings with Maria.
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Mr. Whitehead could well be extolling the liberation of the period, but he could also be criticizing it as vacuous.
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To compare Trump to Napoleon or Hitler is to make a vacuous historical comparison that obscures more than it reveals.
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You start to understand how Michael blends everyone's faces — even that of his wife and son — into the same vacuous mass.
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When their reasoning is not merely vacuous – it will work because it is such a good idea – it is frequently apocalyptic.
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For my part, I've never met a national politician as ill informed, as deceptive, as evasive and as vacuous as Trump.
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Most religious leaders believe that interfaith dialogue, with the best of intentions, can be vacuous if students are not sufficiently learned.
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Yes, of course, there are some influencers who are self-indulgent, vacuous, lack integrity, and are in it for the freebies.
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I bet the Met's ranks are full of young curators with better ideas for digital programming than this show's vacuous chatter.
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This has become a vacuous and badly outdated talking point — the kind we both drafted during our years in the government.
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But Pence is a theocrat — one who hasn't had a new thought in years — and that's why he sounds so vacuous.
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In the vacuous tumult of the Trump era, I was looking for something durable: a stiff shot of no-nonsense spirituality.
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Clinton's plans to "fix" the system as it is now are as vacuous as President Obama's promises in 2009 and 2010.
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The official explanation — that Spencer was terminated because he was dealing directly with the White House, and not Esper — is vacuous.
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It was after the "ratings" that Trump always crows about, and ratings have overtaken principles in this mad, morally vacuous world.
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With vacuous spaces and a need for 803/7 heating and cooling systems, such large museums tend to accumulate CO2 emissions quickly.
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Terms like: disqualifying, vacuous, lies, deeply offensive, harmful, toxic, corrosive, incendiary, grotesque, morally reprehensible, contrary, farfetched, unrealistic and counter to the Constitution.
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For his detractors, it might demonstrate a vacuous candidacy founded more in charisma and vagaries than conviction and a sophisticated policy platform.
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Such mass-market selections represent the junk-food aisles of wine, filled with vacuous bottles that will leave any wine lover malnourished.
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By failing to attend to any of these distinctions, Zuckerberg's new communitarian language is as vacuous as his old talk of connectivity.
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Glad-handing and vacuous rhetoric aside, the truth is that both countries have now stepped into a new phase of strategic competition.
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Heaters that have shifted their gaze from the party, and turned into strangely morose—albeit totally vacuous—reflections on the human condition.
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That's what leaves you with this kind of vacuous, defensive Kemp ad versus the much more concrete and forward-looking Abrams one.
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It's an interesting point about the digital communities we form, but at the same time this is the most vacuous, unfulfilling community imaginable.
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As wise as we may have grown to the cynical, vacuous endorsements that celebrities attach to various products, we still buy the hype.
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Their similarities are notable because they have mounted a response in literature to a world wedded to vacuous categories that misrepresent lived realities.
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Wayne Heisler, Jr., in his 2000 book "The Ballet Collaborations of Richard Strauss," cites critic after critic dismissing the work as vacuous kitsch.
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"It is sad that they seek to attain such a vacuous existence where how many likes they receive is their currency," Traill said.
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Or a wall-building bully, ready to use vulnerable people and the federal workforce for political stunts to advance a vacuous political agenda?
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Detailed questions about the matches themselves — the turning points, the winning patterns — are now much rarer; the questions more general and often vacuous.
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Not only because it reflects the party's core values but because it offers the strongest contrast with the vacuous immaturity of the other side.
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Audiences know when they're being jerked off, and there's a limit to how many vacuous prequels they'll sit through before they abandon a franchise.
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Crucially, he has promised to reverse the damage done by Tillerson, who implemented a vacuous reorganization that drained talent and grew vacancies at State.
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The result is a world that is existentially hollowed out and intellectually vacuous; neither fun to live in nor a place for legitimate inquiry.
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"The fundamental point about the two Johnsons is that he's rather vacuous in policy terms," says Benjamin Martill of the London School of Economics.
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Those still standing should follow my boys' lead and flummox Trump by simply repeating his vacuous, empty words — before he has a chance to.
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Though you may find the occasional decent bottle, they are full of processed wines and vacuous brands that are the equivalent of empty calories.
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Mr. Putin may be strategically vacuous — look at Syria, Ukraine and Venezuela — but he is tactically agile, particularly when it comes to covert ops.
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As the Choi Soon-sil scandal unfolded, memories of Ms. Park's earlier initiatives started to fade, supplanted by an image of a vacuous woman.
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Trump has been simultaneously evasive and vacuous on the question of how he would fix what, in his own words, is a complicated issue.
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These noxious episodes lead critics to claim that Western principles are vacuous: a mask for unrepentant imperialism or merely the philosophy of a simpler age.
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Partly because of its simplicity and adaptability across platforms, half of the 2020 Democratic field has embraced good, responsible, rather vacuous 2010s design, as well.
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But those of us who take part in the virtual, vacuous hole known as the internet can all agree we're part of the garbage dump.
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Correct. I think if you're running for office, you should be talking about your ideas, not just attacking your opponent in vacuous smears and overstatements.
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That workshop became the Groundlings, where, a few years later, Newman developed a character who spoke with an airy, vacuous drawl—a proto-Valley Girl.
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Such allusions seem intended to send up that vacuous blockbuster, whose non-songs and bizarre sets are periodically enlivened by muscular acrobatics and outlandish costumes.
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This time, though, some critics have tagged McKay's version of events as both vacuous and paternalistic, suggesting that the director was out of his depth.
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Accused of being a vacuous idiot who recklessly dashed off statements about people's art without thinking, I would think about one person's art every fucking day.
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He may be ideologically vacuous and dangerously unprepared, they thought, but he's different, one of those mythical "outsiders" who can roll into Washington and clean house.
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" She continues: "The upshot will be to encourage the healthy idea that women can be as bold, eloquent, original, irritated, aggressive, vacuous, and vague as men.
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But layered into Donut County's fuck-it-all bizarre premise and Weird Twitter humor is an examination of the vacuous hole that defines human existence today.
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His speech at the funeral is awful and empty (more on that in a second), but it's just vacuous enough to pass as solid political pabulum.
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I see a man of character, a smart man who knows how to build consensus in spite of our pop culture, media-saturated, vacuous instant expectations.
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Most notable, of course, is the harsh rhetoric and vacuous "policy proposals" offered in the presidential primary campaigns that have diminished norms governing political civility and transparency.
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In 2013, he gave the account over to two performance artists who used it to write a pretentious and vacuous paper about exploitative fame and the internet.
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"'I like feeling that vacuous emptiness in my soul when I realize there are people out there who can do this,'" Waller-Bridge recalled her friend saying.
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Until we publicly recognize real disagreements surrounding disability and accessibility, Mouffe would insist, we are doomed to a vacuous, empty debate that is neither political nor productive.
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Well, let's see: one of them is a lesbian postal clerk, who lusts after a vacuous socialite, who in turn is flirting heavily with a macho journalist….
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Trigger happy. Evasive. LYING. Vacuous. Vapid. Vacant. Vacationing. Meaningless. Frivolous. Oblivious. Sloppy. Silly. Empty. Outvoted. Overruled. Overturned. Null. Void. Inane. Inept. Negligent. Negligible. Naïve. Juvenile. Trivial. Disappointing. Underwhelming.
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If it's entertaining and if it might draw viewership, then it's fine, no matter how empty or vacuous it is as programming, as news, or as policy coverage.
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Royal weddings typically elicit the most vacuous coverage — idle speculation about the cost of the bride's dress, design of her tiara, the wedding cake, her bridesmaids and such.
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Though we're tempted to throw out labels like "vacuous" or "vain," Elle Woods and Cher Horowitz gleefully flip the script on the culture that so wildly underestimated them.
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Like "Large Vase of Flowers" (1991), "Bouquet of Tulips" (2016) is just a straining example of his signature brain-dead brand aesthetic of vacuous, hyper-commodified financial empowerment.
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They include Franklin's chums Max (Tommy Dorfman) and Bellamy (Kahyun Kim) — pretty, young and vacuous materialists — and his gallerist, Alessia (Hari Nef, in the production's sharpest satirical performance).
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Profanity is living in a country where a 17 MONTH OLD BABY IS SHOT IN THE FACE & the moral cowards of the Republican party tweet out vacuous #thoughtsandprayers.
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For us, obviously, it was the imprint of Donald Trump in the Republican Party ... His flirtations with misogyny, with race-baiting, a man of vacuous ideology, little conviction.
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While they mouth vacuous amendments to their records as extreme climate change denialists, no one should take any comfort in such transparent attempts to smooth their confirmation processes.
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Khosrowshahi also joins the company as it deals with the ongoing Benchmark Capital and Waymo lawsuits, not to mention a vacuous executive suite and a serious work culture problem.
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"I'm associated with the very thing I detest: vapid, vacuous, plastic, constructed, mindless celebrity," he said in the doc, which was reportedly filmed during the end of his marriage.
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Among the clues studied avidly south of the border is the output of North Korean news agencies: multitudinous, mostly vacuous and usually the verbose ramblings of official press releases.
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To argue that the Syrian dictator and his supporters are useful allies in the fight against ISIS, which they honestly don't care about, is intellectually vacuous and morally grotesque.
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But that's what the nation is going to get, as big media corporations obsessively flood us with even more of the vacuous, unwholesome nonsense that already pervades viewers' screens.
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The intermittent broisms — including various musings about sex with twenty-two-year-olds and snorting coke to cope with altitude sickness — cement how vacuous the game presents its operators.
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"We are seeking to attract loyal readers with quality content and not digital drive-bys distracted by vacuous, contentious clickbait," Thomson said while discussing results for British newspaper The Sun.
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This chapter in Italy's story is told through the lens of Veronica, a beautiful escort who sees vacuous celebrity as the only form of success that society can offer her.
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Worse yet, the vacuous nature of the traditional media has so turned off the citizenry that many people become political bystanders, opting to remain uninformed and disengaged from civic life.
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Some days writing feels impossible — I might spend most of the day with a phrase or sentence that feels right, but once I sit at the desk, it becomes vacuous, trite.
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The movement drifts between liturgy, go-go dancer, and vacuous model posing, but the dancers remain focused on simply executing the movement as they alternate between states, free of expressive embellishment.
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Women's intelligence is often questioned if they take pride in their looks and we are regularly dismissed as superficial and vacuous for caring about a bouncy blowout and a perfect manicure.
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The film follows Centineo as Brooks Rattigan, a bright but somewhat vacuous high schooler who dreams of getting into Yale but isn't sure what he'll do once he actually gets there.
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You could argue these sequences raise the typically vacuous third act superhero battle to new heights, with stakes and consequences that actually carry the weight of issues facing our real world.
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Like 2017's The Beguiled, 2006's Marie Antoinette, or 1999's Virgin Suicides, though, certain viewers will want to disregard this series as pretty to look at but ultimately vacuous.
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Sitting somewhere between Disney soundtrack fluff and angular art-school pop, it was catchier than velcro and a kind of musical equivalent to the vacuous emoji chat of the WhatsApp generation.
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They provide a crucial counter to the factually vacuous anti-vaccine campaign, which is being waged not only on social media platforms like Facebook, but also in statehouses across the country.
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"'Cats' turns the most vacuous stage musical of the 1980s into a big-screen litter box for the hammiest of stars to unload into," Peter Howell of The Toronto Star wrote.
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The secretary of state, all but visibly seething, muttered non sequiturs, repeated vacuous talking points, and at one point told Amons it sounded like she was working for the Democratic National Committee.
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If what women wear, or don't, brings the "soul of France" into question, as Marine Le Pen, the leader of the extreme-right National Front, has argued, that soul is extremely vacuous.
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Or that the photos of my friends gawking drunk into the camera while swigging a Meantime Pale Ale told him something about the vacuous sense of self-loathing that comes from metropolitan hedonism?
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It was bad enough when Hollywood's "everything's a remix" machine was obsessively churning out delightful but vacuous rom-coms like You've Got Mail and Sleepless in Seattle, or Notting Hill and Bridget Jones.
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It's a combination of the obvious emphasis on the death of innocents, in a brute-force attempt to create emotional and political relevance, with the utterly vacuous violence you fill that world with.
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His triumph in Star Trek is a validation of meathead entitlement, a cheery, vacuous confirmation that education, planning, experience, and maturity aren't as important as the will to charge blindly forward, ignoring obstacles.
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Their neighbor is Brian, a pretentious yet vulnerable artist (Heap); Tim's best friend is Mike (Frost), a wannabe army man; and Jess's best friend is the fashion-obsessed and mildly vacuous Twist (Carmichael).
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Trump is grabbing at the proposed deal so he can go out on the 2020 campaign trail and paper over his failures with the vacuous claim that he produced a better trade agreement.
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And it is especially an argument that Fox News should be highlighting, since Fox is frequently responsible for stoking populism but keeping it vacuous or racialized, evading the debates the right really needs.
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Named for Marxist theorist Antonio Gramsci who argued that political change follows cultural change, the "Gramscian Alt-Light" are those people you've seen on 4chan threads: creative, angry, unpredictable, but politically vacuous and messy.
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Instead, what DIS have come up with is an exhibition so vacuous, ideologically apathetic, ahistorical, sarcastic, and dehumanizing, it's a wonder it hasn't been blacklisted solely on account of its conformity to commodity fetishism.
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One Republican Senator texted to CNN: The President should be doing this with a therapist, not on live TV. Republicans, and the broader right, justify their inaction with two vacuous forms of moral reasoning.
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Many of these books are stirring on the level of detail but an equal number thoughtlessly valorize the American soldier or wallow in the morally vacuous conclusion that war is hell and that's that.
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What Schultz calls "centrism" is a vague repackaging of what centrist Democrats have been proposing for years, a vacuous ideology that makes sense to a small subset of elites but has no mass constituency.
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Just in the past month, they've had to deal with scandals created by vacuous Friday tweets from an ad executive, porn, the darn Russian bots, angry politicians in Sri Lanka, and even the United Nations.
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And while all of this space waste talk might sound gross here on Earth, the vacuous hostility of the cosmos means that every atom of human byproduct can have survival value outside of our atmosphere.
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That declaration by Priebus added a new level of fretting to many grand old members of the Grand Old Party, as well as scads of others already agitating in the vacuous "anyone but Trump" movement.
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The fact that Scalia was a "giant of originalism" and a man who had a profound impact on American jurisprudence is proof of little more than the vacuous nature of judicial thinking in this era.
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Probing deeper, I hit a blobby pocket—cheese, I presumed—followed by the vacuous crunch of iceberg lettuce (the only kind of crunch iceberg knows how to offer), and a soft bite of butifarra sausage.
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Die Hard presents the law as incompetent and useless, Reginald VelJohnson as a thwarted policeman who can only do his best work by enabling the renegade white guy, and the media as vacuous, deceptive, and insatiable.
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The fact that these silly-sounding arguments were accepted at all, according to Lindsay, vindicates their initial assumption: that much of poststructural theory underpinning modern arguments about race and gender is rotten, if not entirely vacuous.
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Trump's loud, boisterous yet vacuous promises of "doing great things" hide the expansion of an already bloated government and the narcissism-fueled authoritarian control necessary for him to do any of those things, great or otherwise.
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Her non-responsive and vacuous nomination testimony sent a strong message: The consumer protection agency is going to be crippled, leaving consumers on their own again to battle against the biggest financial institutions in the world.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads PARIS — With a sloppy style of vacuous vicissitudes, Cy Twombly reversed what the avant-gardes of the prewar era held as a given: the view of history as a burden.
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And yet years after the HBO satire "Silicon Valley" made the vacuous mission statement "making the world a better place" a recurring punch line, many companies still cheerlead the virtues of work with high-minded messaging.
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Darlene's dark, bellicose, and androgynous attitude was unlike any teenage girl seen on TV at that time, when vacuous or bubbly teeny boppers such as Full House's D.J. Tanner or Family Ties's Mallory Keaton were the norm.
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At first, Taylor Sloan (Elizabeth Olsen), Instagram influencer extraordinaire, seems to be actually, miraculously genuine — as the film goes on, her veneer of kindness melts away and we see she's the vacuous social climber we'd always suspected.
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While Uber got rid of its embattled CEO Travis Kalanick and diminished his power within the company, new CEO Dara Khosrowshahi still faces a litany of scandals, including federal investigations, messy lawsuits, and a vacuous executive suite.
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"No more Bright Young People with their beautiful families and flawless characters and elite educations and vacuous messages of uplift and togetherness," writes Nathan Robinson, the editor of Current Affairs and an early left critic of Buttigieg.
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Often involving anodyne press statements, vacuous declarations of progress and orchestrated handshakes, official talks feel deeply undramatic (think of the Israel-Palestine negotiations from 2013-14, convened by John Kerry, or the stalemate of the current Brexit talks).
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Years of promises to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act with something that would address some of people's frustrations with the program turned out to be completely vacuous — which seemingly surprised even many GOP members of Congress.
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So based on his public pronouncements and vacuous policy positions, I thought it might be a worthy exercise to match Trump's ideas for America's future with the legal minds who can most ably help him fulfill his promises.
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But on a day where the world watched sports and politics become heavily intertwined, the Stanley Cup-winning Pittsburgh Penguins released a vacuous statement declaring that they had visited the White House before and would be going again.
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Initially pen pals as a result of an innocent social-studies assignment, the two become unexpected roommates when a coup sends Anton fleeing to the suburban home where Tatiana lives with her vacuous single mother, Darlene (Katie Holmes).
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Phillip Braun, a finance professor at Northwestern University, told Business Insider's Troy Wolverton that "it's likely" that Uber will hit its adjusted EBITDA profitability target, but that "I don't think it's meaningful... I view it as a vacuous statement."
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"The Infernal Machine" takes its name from its score by Christopher Rouse; despite its intensity, it's vacuous — though it would be twice as effective if Catherine Barinas's dark costumes and Mr. Stanley's dark lighting didn't make it semi-invisible.
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She was first accused of being a vacuous spendthrift interested chiefly in renovating and buying new china for the White House, lavish entertaining, her designer wardrobe and the like, then portrayed as a cunning manipulator of policy and people.
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Now, instead of the loquacious Irishman who endured Wells' vacuous questions about pay and net worth with answers that were at least made of multiple syllables, the spotlight is on the guy who unclipped his microphone and walked away.
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Derek Zoolander (Stiller) and Hansel (Owen Wilson), vacuous models who have been in a self-imposed exile since we last saw them, are recruited to star in a fashion show for hot, young, annoying thing Don Atari (Kyle Mooney).
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A good example of this vacuous fight-picking, which I think of as a howling canyon filled with misdirected energy, is Brett Easton Ellis's new book White, a hodgepodge of inflammatory opinions designed to raise hives on the left.
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Sure, he types it all out in caps lock, uses tons of curse words, and uses the laughing-crying emoji after his own messages, but he is completely aware that kind of sheer, vacuous noise is his greatest strength.
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Emily: Somehow, Connor's flirtations with a presidential campaign are garnering the interest of the media, which shouldn't surprise me — he is rich — but are even more hilarious when you consider how pampered and vacuous the oldest Roy child is.
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She was first accused of being a vacuous spendthrift interested chiefly in renovating and buying new china for the White House, lavish entertaining, her designer wardrobe, and the like, then portrayed as a cunning manipulator of policy and people.
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Her argument against this statute, delivered on the recording like a vacuous Helen Lovejoy, was to use the old bathroom hypothetical in which a formerly male sex predator now dressed in a skirt ambushes little girls behind closed doors.
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Who cares if giving a beloved hero an unearned arc of evil does nothing but add needless, vacuous fight scenes in overblown issues existing purely as a cash grab with inevitable merchandise tie-ins (get your Nazi Cap action figure today!)?
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There&aposs a certain derangement obviously that&aposs set in with a lot of people where they have reversed principles that they supposedly once specifically because they don&apost like Donald Trump, which I find not only troubling but morally vacuous.
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Personal Shopper Directed by Olivier Assayas Starring Kirsten Stewart Grade: PASS In her second outing with director Assayas, Stewart plays an American personal shopper in Paris, running between fashion houses to pick up the fancy threads for a vacuous supermodel.
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And to say that Bannon is kind of a faker — it's entirely vacuous to rant against "the establishment" while sitting in the West Wing of the White House celebrating a stock market boom — isn't to say that he can't do harm.
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Gerhard Richter has made cheap Rorschach wallpaper and a couple decent tapestries to complement a choral piece by composer Steve Reich whose sonorous heights are sucked dry by the poor acoustics of the vacuous gallery space during the press preview.
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It might be embarrassing to admit to that now, aged 23, but it's not hard to see why a whole generation of young millennials bought into the genre's vacuous beauty in the first place; there was something quite unifying about it.
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"The only relief is that it gave us a break from the Kardashians and Taylor Swift," she cracks, although a direct line could be drawn from the vacuous celebrity culture exemplified by the rise of that family to our president-elect.
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These days, it's easy to recognize "The Bachelor" franchise — the 13th season of "The Bachelorette," featuring the series' first black lead, is currently careering toward its inevitable rush-proposal ending — as a vacuous project complicit in various crimes against humanity.
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By all means let's stop playing politics, but this means abandoning the overheated and vacuous repeal rhetoric and engaging in good-faith discussion on possible adjustments to the existing framework, not playing chicken with the coverage for millions of people.
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That tactic has become evident in rivals MSNBC, which now dominates evening ratings with a lineup of liberal presenters, and CNN, a network that has come under criticism for its regular cast of vacuous proxies for both the right and the left.
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Their goal, in short, is to reveal the identity left as an emperor wearing no clothes: To show that the ideas you hear from liberal intellectuals, activists in #MeToo and Black Lives Matter, and even some Democratic elected officials are vacuous at best.
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People from places where political instability and violent conflict undermine the flow of daily life — from raising families in safety to snapping the occasional vacuous selfie — often find themselves exiled, not only from their physical homelands, but from their communities and historical records.
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While the throngs of pretty people dolled up in a style best-described as festival-chic—the obligatory mish-mash of fringes, flowers, and culturally appropriated feathered headdresses—might seem reminiscent of Coachella, Thailand's Wonderfruit aims to be a less vacuous affair.
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Nor did MPs such as Mark Francois, who recently warned the European Union they "will be facing perfidious Albion on speed," a threat with no obvious meaning but which represents the vacuous and unremitting rage that is increasingly prevalent in Theresa May's party.
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The small-town police (led by a slumming Mitch Pileggi) are uninterested, but an obnoxiously foul-mouthed photographer (Kal Penn) is intrigued, arriving from Los Angeles with a posse of vacuous models and plans to mimic the mystery shots for his portfolio.
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And while President Trump's ineptitude, coupled with his vacuous promise to provide better, cheaper health plans that would cover everyone, complicated matters, it's likely that even if Ted Cruz or Marco Rubio occupied the White House, the result would be the same.
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Still, whether you find Poppy charming or vacuous, something about her robo-Pamyu Pamyu vibe is resonating with hundreds and thousands of people, and in an industry run by numbers that gives her as good a shot as any at reaching the upper-echelons.
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Yep, while hip-hop is often characterized by its detractors as a vacuous music concerned only with chasing the trilogy of money, cars and promiscuous members of the opposite sex, when rappers get political they like to do so in fiery and uncompromising terms.
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Cable news was not designed for anyone to pay close attention to it and morning shows are even more vacuous and inane—their sole purpose is to drown out the existential dread as you get ready for another interminable and meaningless day at work.
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At the risk of soaring too close to the blissed-out platitudes of a Pinterest quotes board, or the equally vacuous rhetoric of Ivanka Trump's awe-inspiringly tone-deaf Women Who Work, I've often struggled to untangle my job from my sense of identity.
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The video features a cluttered and incoherent but celebrity-studded storyline wherein Perry's basketball team (the Tigers, as in "I've got the eye of the") faces off against the preening, vacuous Sheep (presumably Swift, as in "Watch out for the Regina George in sheep's clothing").
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Doherty — who is known for bringing Fiorucci, Valentino and Issey Miyake (the last of which she worked with for 20 years) to the U.K. — avoids the fashion world, calling it "vacuous," and instead prefers to work with artisans, or "makers," as she refers to them.
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A Super Bowl halftime show wrapped in Latin identity was all the more moving given its predecessor: Maroon 5's boring, vacuous performance at a moment when the NFL was in the thick of a boycott triggered by Colin Kaepernick's protests against police violence.
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The cleverly executed cameos (Dave Coulier, Macaulay Culkin) and tossed-off lines ("the heir to the Capri-Sun fortune") point toward a welcome prickliness, but the show can't quite stick to those guns — if it did, Jules would realize how vacuous her existence is.
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Boot resists the neoconservative label, which he says he considers vacuous, but he nonetheless is widely considered a leading thinker of a conservative foreign policy ideology that most people would identify as neoconservatism, and he is associated with top neoconservatives such as William Kristol and Eliot Cohen.
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Renée's narrative is fictitious, yet was wholly inspired by reality—and while the vast majority of horror games take place beneath the cover of darkness, The Town of Light is set in the afternoon, where interminable beams of sunlight split the institution's vacuous, cobweb-covered floors.
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Few of us have ever thought that our name might be seized from our gravestone by a best-selling author, assigned to a fictional evil wizard, and our final place of rest transformed into a vacuous bucket list novelty for fans of a popular fantasy franchise.
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Maybe this is a surreal extreme of the unthinking, vacuous new-niceness that occupies a large amount of YouTube territory, content creators so determined to deliver an upbeat, brand-friendly message that the uncomfortable truths of the world—personal and political—go mind-bogglingly, witlessly ignored.
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At the height of music industry excess, the artists had such a healthy credit rating that they splashed out on theme parks, imported safari animals, and dubiously expensive holistic therapies alongside the usual vacuous shit mega-rich people do, like owning eight houses and seventeen vintage cars.
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But the "red, amber, green" approach did serve an important function in the Army: It offered some deploying soldiers a measure of psychological satisfaction that something was being done, even if that thing was circular and vacuous: Look, what was once red is now amber, almost green!
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The album's opening track "Army Nights" is about someone Williamson ran into at the gym—"the kind of guy anyone cool would hate and think to be a vacuous person", who would work out in the week and go out at weekends to try and pull women.
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If the new algorithm—the format of which was described as one that "will be based on the likelihood you'll be interested in the content, your relationship with the person posting, and the timeliness of the post"—will kill vacuous, spammy accounts like this, then all the better.
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Decades after World War II, a character informs a woman who was part of the French Resistance that she was, in fact, too vacuous to realize that she had betrayed her own companions to the enemy, and that her partner has protected her from knowing this ever since.
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I remember thinking they would always have that in common — the easy banter of seasonal sports, the patter of team statistics — which always seemed vacuous to me until I became a father, until I began to look with envy on the touchstone of sports between generations of other men.
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When would one of these women give us the real talk on Peter, this vacuous and emotionally needy man who seemed to have no clear idea of what he wanted in a partner except that she be "a woman who will tell me she loves me a lot"?
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This would be a Trumpian message at its finest, placing the onus on the tiny group of university bureaucrats who have weaponized the federal student loan system against students themselves, whether financially or in promoting the vacuous programs and identity politics that undermine the very ideals of America.
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That and searching for older artists that got passed over in their own time, that is something that always interests me... I think there are two zeitgeists; one defined by what is selling (a vacuous brand of abstraction), the other by interesting pockets of political media-based art.
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I feel a little self conscious about something, where just like ... When you ask these questions, we try to answer them, but I hope it doesn't sound holier than thou or sanctimonious, because it's like, we're from Hollywood, which God knows is as vacuous as any place on earth, right?
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What we need is a set of force planning goals that will ensure enough collective spending to create a truly effective level of deterrence, and guard the most exposed NATO states near the Russian border — not vacuous goals like 2 percent of GDP and 20 percent of spending on procurement.
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But it's still fascinating to observe Smith and his collaborators navigate a story filled with pitfalls (not least of which is how many stories in our culture have depicted gay men as vicious, vacuous killers — a description that could maybe fit Cunanan) and make it about more than just itself.
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Drake's official albums are punishing, interminable slogs, where wispy, vacuous beats provide an appropriately empty external correlative to the lazily expositional male fantasies dribbling from his mouth; I'd quote lyrics if the ostensibly nice, sensitive guy who's actually a callous sociopath strategically deploying his sensitive image weren't by now such a familiar role.
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Study: Public water supply is unsafe for millions It is also a reminder of how vacuous the policy debates have been over the role of government in the 123 presidential race, as most of the attention has focused on Donald Trump's temperament and gaffes, along with Hillary Clinton's trustworthiness and her email scandal.
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They love those same techniques when to Stephen Colbert uses them every single week, and they can&apost stand the fact that conservatives, whether it&aposs Charlie Kirk or me or you, Jesse, or Allie actually has fun bringing down these people and exposing them for how vacuous and moronic they really are.
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" Asked by Chris Wallace whether President Trump's morally vacuous response to the racist march and deadly violence in Charlottesville, Va., made his job harder, Mr. Tillerson said, "I don't believe anyone doubts the American people's values or the commitment of the American government or the government's agencies to advancing those values and defending those values.
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Trump resigned the presidency already — if we regard the job as one of moral stewardship, if we assume that an iota of civic concern must joust with self-regard, if we expect a president's interest in legislation to rise above vacuous theatrics, if we consider a certain baseline of diplomatic etiquette to be part of the equation.
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"Given the vital installations they guard and how many drugs and contraband they intercept along our maritime borders, cutting the Coast Guard to pay for a vacuous and expensive vanity project like a border wall would be dangerous and irrational," Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the Democratic minority leader, said in a statement on Wednesday.
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He has raised more money than all of the GOP candidates combined with only 1/23rd of the media coverage dedicated to him compared to vacuous fascist Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE.
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He protests that it's a harmless joke—though his predicament is more amusing for Assayas's viewer, who has already learned that the offending blow job is drawn from his life; it actually took place during one of the later Star Wars movies, which certainly makes more intuitive sense, and Léonard has only veiled it with the Haneke in a vacuous bid to seem hip and arty.
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To follow some of the coverage of British politics you would think that the Scots, now closing in on a second independence referendum, all hated the English and adored the EU; that the old cared nothing about the prospects of the young; that the young were all vacuous virtue-signallers; that Remainers were snobby metropolitans who can state their bank balances only to the nearest thousand pounds and that Leavers were knuckle-dragging racists.
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