The most intelligent among them turn it into a religion: oh, the despicable vacuousness of bourgeois existence!

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Unfortunately, North Korea's odious behavior with respect to the U.S. helicopter it shot down this week is a vivid reminder of the vacuousness of Mr. Carter's exploits.

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"The very vacuousness of these films is reassuring, " Mamet explains.

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It embodied perfectly the vacuousness of the race policy of an Administration that has U-turned twice on the landmark Piscataway case -- first joining, then opposing, then supporting again the suit of a white teacher fired to make room for a black colleague.

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You could make a case for this as a feature-film version of the FCC's fairness doctrine, but it feels more like a blandness doctrine, a pulling and hauling of the tone-deaf script, which is credited to Matthew Michael Carnahan, to the point of perfect vacuousness.

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