Interestingly, only the late Merrill Lynch bothered to respond, albeit with a vacuous note blithely affirming its concern about terrorism.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Into the fire

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.

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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.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Dreamy foreign policies

Some think it is vacuous nonsense, others think it is too clever, and a minority find the line rather deep.

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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.

WSJ: Mitt Romney: How I'll Respond to China's Rising Power

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.

NPR: Playwright Pinter Wins Nobel for Literature

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.

ECONOMIST: English snobbery