In 1996, physicist Alan Sokal set out to demonstrate the intellectual vacuousness of deconstruction by submitting an article intentionally devoid of any meaning to the journal Social Text.
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The lyrics are a commentary on the banality and vacuousness of successful pop songs, making " Hook " both a hit song and a satire of a hit song.
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By having articles on these phrazes wikipedia can infact play the positive role of exposing their vacuousness .-- JK the unwise 09 : 02, 28 November 2005 ( UTC)
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And though some of its content delves into the goth and ambient genres, it easily avoids the former's self-indulgent melodramatics and the latter's vacuousness ."
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President Clinton's impeachment trial in the Senate is so rich in irony, hypocrisy and vacuousness that after it is over months will be needed to reflect on the folly of it all.
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"I think a lot about it, " said Bush, in another of those slightly goofy allusions that his supporters find endearing and his foes pounce upon as proof of vacuousness.
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You're watching escapist fantasy vacuousness-- we're not passing judgment here, we're just discussing-- and there are cliff-hanging, inane dramatics happening in gorgeous televised color.
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He's the gatekeeper to Vince's marketable vacuousness, so much so that Ari ( who derides him as a " pizza boy " ) has to meet with Eric to negotiate Vince's business deals.
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Our experience with high-tech evil and failure should prepare for the reality that the Internet disappoints us and causes us angst about its vacuousness, its frustrating unreliability and its capacity to transmit malevolence and lies at top speed.
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He denounced local musical performances as'execrable'and deplored the vacuousness of Melbourne's concert-goers who, he declared, had'no taste . . . and are profoundly ignorant of what music is '.
