Hollywood was a place of empty vacuousness and deep debauchery.
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They could smell the vacuousness of Clinton's student loan agenda.
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But they see his vacuousness as potentially advantageous: Unlike Hillary Clinton, he'll sign their bills.
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And because there is a vacuousness there, you try and find pegs to strengthen your identity.
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It's tough to get a handle on the 1975: they're extremely talented and diverse musicians but their stylized image implies vacuousness.
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Trump made up a story about counter-parties welching on deals, and then, when called on it, retreated to total vacuousness: TRUMP: Okay.
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The moral vacuousness Zuckerberg displayed as a young adult should have told us something about how he and many other young "disrupters" intended to operate.
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As AV Club points out, the shorts were made by comedian Ryan Mazer, who apparently also understands and appreciates the ghastly vacuousness of a good stock image.
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Gary Dauberman's script is lamentably light on mythological details (can the demon survive indefinitely outside the doll, or does it have a curfew?), but its vacuousness allows the director, David F.
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Aside from some of them being the fiercest critics of the very agencies they are charged with leading, some have also been accused of bigotry, plagiarism, insider trading and overall vacuousness.
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Sorrentino, while leaning into the humor, believes he's saying something profound in all of this about the absurd vacuousness of the Catholic Church as a vehicle for the true profundity of religion.
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But for all the attention devoted to the show's extreme critique of the controlling mansplainer, and its biting depiction of millennial vacuousness, the real dramatic engine of "You" is simpler (and perhaps even more subversive).
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They didn't just attempt to commercialize protest, they didn't just suggest that a soft drink was all that was needed to solve the social problems in America, but they decided to do it with someone who symbolizes vacuousness and entitled celebrity culture.
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"Zuckerberg wants us to believe that one must be for or against free speech with no nuance, complexity or cultural specificity, despite running a company that's drowning in complexity," writes cultural historian, Siva Vaidhyanathan, confronting Facebook's moral vacuousness in a recent Guardian article responding to another Zuckerberg 'manifesto' on free speech.
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And though some of its content delves into the goth and ambient genres, it easily avoids the former's self-indulgent melodramatics and the latter's vacuousness." Sleeps with the Fishes also holds high rank with 4AD founder Ivo Watts-Russell, who said, "Among the forum world of 4AD followers, some people think it's 4AD's best record. I'd place it in the top ten. It's absolutely beautiful.
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Sambu eventually marries Vembu, who is clearly smarter than her husband and spares no criticism of her husband's vacuousness. The two eventually have a son called Sundhu who also helps in his father's work in solving crimes. Sambu's detective career is launched when the Director of the bank where he works fires him for letting a corrupt bank manager escape. Sambu gets sweet revenge when the same Director eventually summons him to recover a lost pearl necklace.
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The second sense of obscurantism denotes making knowledge abstruse, that is, difficult to grasp. In the 19th and 20th centuries obscurantism became a polemical term for accusing an author of deliberately writing obscurely, in order to hide his or her intellectual vacuousness. Philosophers who are neither empiricists nor positivists often are considered obscurantists when describing the abstract concepts of their disciplines. For philosophic reasons, such authors might modify or reject verifiability, falsifiability, and logical non-contradiction.
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A precocious girl, she hides her intelligence to avoid exclusion at school. Dismayed by the privileged people around her, she decides that life is meaningless, and that unless she can find something worth living for, beyond the "vacuousness of bourgeois existence", she will commit suicide on 16 June, her thirteenth birthday. Planning to burn down the apartment before dying, she also steals her mother's pills. For the time being she journals her observations of the outside world, including her perceptions of Renée.
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He once remarked to friends, whom he entertained lavishly, "I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china." The line quickly became famous, accepted as a slogan by aesthetes but used against them by critics who sensed in it a terrible vacuousness. Some elements disdained the aesthetes, but their languishing attitudes and showy costumes became a recognised pose.Breen (1977, 2000) pp22–23 Wilde was once physically attacked by a group of four fellow students, and dealt with them single-handedly, surprising critics.
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Shi Huifeng, Is "Illusion" a Prajñāpāramitā Creation? The Birth and Death of a Buddhist Cognitive Metaphor, Fo Guang University, Journal of Buddhist Philosophy , Vol.2, 2016. According to Shi Huifeng, the terms void (rittaka), hollow (tucchaka) and coreless (asāraka) are also used in the early texts to refer to words and things which are deceptive, false, vain and worthless. This sense of worthlessness and vacuousness is also found in other uses of the term māyā, such as the following: > “Monks, sensual pleasures are impermanent, hollow, false, deceptive; they > are illusory (māyākatame), the prattle of fools.” The Suñña Sutta,.
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They dubbed a song that sounded curiously like the former "One More Song on the Market", while "Nothing to Say in a House Song" railed against the duo's perceived vacuousness in house music by (vacuously) repeating the title with no other lyrics. "Shampoo Victims" also included a duo of collaborations with friends/heroes Sparks. Russell and Ron Mael provide both lyrics and vocals on the album's best tracks "La nuit est là" (The Night Is Here) and "Yo quiero mas dinero" (I Want More Money). As if to accentuate this fondness for '70s/'80s pop, the duo also sampled Giorgio Moroder's "Love Fever" on "Each Finger Has an Attitude".
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Unlike older forms of esotericism, occultism does not reject "scientific progress or modernity". Lévi had stressed the need to solve the conflict between science and religion, something that he believed could be achieved by turning to what he thought was the ancient wisdom found in magic. The French scholar of Western esotericism Antoine Faivre noted that rather than outright accepting "the triumph of scientism", occultists sought "an alternative solution", trying to integrate "scientific progress or modernity" with "a global vision that will serve to make the vacuousness of materialism more apparent". The Dutch scholar of hermeticism Wouter Hanegraaff remarked that occultism was "essentially an attempt to adapt esotericism" to the "disenchanted world", a post-Enlightenment society in which growing scientific discovery had eradicated the "dimension of irreducible mystery" previously present.
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Carolin Grace of Diva said: "Madonna became meaningful in the early nineties, when Sex came out, and at that point lesbian culture was really changing." She felt women were coming out about their sexuality and the book's handling of the taboo issue was "a legacy, our contribution to the show", stressing "[t]he lesbian sub-cultural references borrowed by Madonna aren't our only possessions." O'Brien argues in her book Madonna: Like an Icon, the book had a confusing philosophy. According to female critics, who pointed out the vacuousness of Madonna's remarks about porn and abuse, she did not understand that behind the fantasies the "reality is too hard" for a woman to endure, referring to the daily hustles that women have to face in red light districts and brothels.
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It segued into "State of the Nation", whose chorus declared that "Life begins when you're ready to face it". "Salt Lake City Sunday" satirized The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, from its practice of tithing ("They want you to repent/They want your ten per cent") to its belief in conversion of the deceased ("You leave my ancestors to rot in their graves"). "Coitus Interruptus" described the vacuousness of modern relationships ("The boys sleep with girls/The boys sleep with boys/Never find that high/Never acting coy") with deadpan puns ("Emission impossible"). The jaunty title track and then-current single, "Fireside Favourite", juxtaposed sexual conquest with nuclear nightmare imagery ("Hey now honey, open your eyes/There's a mushroom cloud up in the sky/Your hair is falling out and your teeth have gone/Your legs are still together but it won't be long").
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In his preface to Yayati, Khandekar states that he was drawn to the original story from the Mahabharata at multiple levels, and for many reasons. The resulting novel is a modern retelling of the story of the mythological Hindu king, who enjoyed all the pleasures of the flesh for a millennium only to realise how empty of meaning was his pursuit of desire. Khandekar saw modernity, with its materialistic values, as an elephant on the rampage through the delicate garden of traditional virtues and feelings, blurring the distinction between good and evil, between selfishness and compassion, and blinding people to the evils of the world. In response, Khandekar looked to the past and chose the story of Yayati, making use of a kind of tale often dismissed as the fairy stories of old women to describe the vacuousness and futility of contemporary society's endless obsession with avarice and lust.
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