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Перевод: vacuous speek vacuous


[прилагательное]
пустой; праздный; бездеятельный


Тезаурус:

  1. Even granted that everyone, for example, finds pleasure beneficial, to judge an inclination egoistic because achievement of its goal gives the agent pleasure would be vacuous, because whatever his goals he will be pleased if he succeeds, sorry if he fails.
  2. And they're attributes possessed in ultra-abundance by The Heathers , an elite clique of vacuous High School beauties who specialise in "being popular" and making life hell for socially inadequate "dweebettes" and "pillowcases".
  3. They were at an opposite pole from the self-important, vacuous management.
  4. The book is distinctly impressionistic in its handling of evidence, with random observations from cranks such as Evelyn Waugh and the vacuous Anne Fleming used uncritically to point a moral or to adorn a treason.
  5. The man had a bland, vacuous face, protruding green eyes and lank, brown, greasy hair.
  6. For the materialist version of the CTP is beset with many difficulties that ultimately make its claim to have explanatory force somewhat vacuous.
  7. Pretty meant vacuous, personality meant show-off, having fun was shopgirl mentality.
  8. At best, the CTP is a vacuous summary of these observations, a framework within which they can be gathered together.
  9. Betjeman's poem "Original Sin on me Sussex Coast" makes a point unwillingly learnt from his old tutor when it depicts the sheer wickedness of children bullying one another, unseen by the sentimental eyes of the mother whose mind has been washed by modern advertising techniques and the vacuous optimism of the age:
  10. This can be a vacuous form of words, conveniently forgotten as students settle down in their maths, their physics, their geography lessons to acquire ideas which are, we acknowledge, of potential general application, but which are likely to be of little use if the connections between theory and practice are not made explicitly.
  11. But in a place like this you're more likely to turn from grand vacuous profundities to the rich detail around you - to the thriving, rare colony of alpine chickweed, for example, the lacy white delicacy of which brings this grey June landscape alive to the attentive eye.
  12. In politics Charles Dilke had referred to "Greater Britain" and Joseph Chamberlain to Imperial Unity, while the quixotic Lord Rosebery, with his usual flair for vacuous terms, demanded "Efficiency" in government, education and industry.
  13. Spalding's stages could be criticised for being somewhat vacuous.

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