"empty" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- But the slogan that Mr. Bush's judge "will not legislate from the bench" is an empty cliche.
- The dunk, the most emphatic play in basketball but too frequently an empty cliché, has found new meaning this season.
- Somewhere that teacher must be wondering whether having the last laugh is such an empty cliche after all.
- Repeatedly, his concern is less for the hermetic art he wishes fiction to be than for the empty cliche he fears it may become.
- They speak of policy toward Mr. Gorbachev's Soviet Union in empty cliches about "negotiating from strength" - as if everyone else advocates dealing from weakness.
- The psychologist and writer Dorothy Rowe recounted that she thought of heartbreak as an empty cliché until she experienced it herself as an adult.
- His articulation of political aims and postwar plans has been sketchy to the point of empty cliché.
- The promises and empty clichés about next year's potential success are insulting to fans' emotions.
- In that case we would have nothing left at all, because we would have no plan and economic and social cohesion would be an empty cliché.
- Freedom of navigation is not an empty cliche of international law.
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