vacuous
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The few other highlights in the show are overwhelmed by a surfeit of lifeless abstractions, eye-glazing prints and vacuous conceptual works.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026
As for the music itself, while it was enough to convince some fans, the lack of actual human creative input made it sound "vacuous and pristine", she says.
From BBC • Aug. 22, 2025
I continued to issue vacuous appeals about how cool and sick and insane this was.
From Slate • Jun. 22, 2025
It's the story of Cohn, who at the top of his game adopts and mentors the vacuous and malleable Donald Trump.
From Salon • Oct. 2, 2024
He looked at her carefully, but he was no match for the bland and vacuous docility Lyra could command when she wanted to; and finally he nodded and went back to his newspaper.
From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman
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