| The more festively it's dressed and the more vacuously it goes down, the better. |
| But sneering isn't the only way in which intelligent life can manifest itself and besides, what would you make of a friend so vacuously upbeat, so hysterically undiscriminating? |
| It is has a strange otherworldly and mythical quality to it, like a cinematic dream and the result is not vacuously uplifting but powerfully moving. |
| Dissolute bluebottles hum vacuously in the fruity air. |
| Lefteris seemed embarrassed and out of his depth as party faithful looked on vacuously. |
| Of all historical periods, modernity is the only one to designate itself, vacuously, in terms of its up-to-dateness. |
