hollow words
Example Sentences
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Steve’s increasingly hollow words contain echoes of certain powerful men whose insufficient relationships with their fathers fostered insatiable needs for success and adulation.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 16, 2022
“These are words, hollow words, and nothing that suggests there is any intent to carry out any of those supposed threats,” she said.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 20, 2021
Instead, the Masters chose to stand behind well-sounding but utterly hollow words that fail to advance the cause of racial justice, and gestures that do little to make Augusta a more inclusive and welcoming place.
From Washington Post • Apr. 8, 2021
She dismissed them as harsh judgments and hollow words from people she did not trust.
From New York Times • Dec. 29, 2016
He believes he has fulfilled his Christian duty by trusting in Heaven for the conduct of human affairs, and trying to comfort his fellow-men by the hollow words that he 'sees no cause for despair.
From Shakspere and Montaigne by Feis, Jacob
