vacuously

1 As a female candidate, she was subjected to double standards and double binds: she can’t be angry or emasculating to her male rivals, but she also can’t seem weak, or vacuously chipper.

2 “Not so many books here now as there used to be!” he said, vacuously amiable, as he shut the glass door which had once protected the treasures of Tom Orgreave.

3 I still remembered when I finished the reading I was moved deeply by the plot of the novel and sat there vacuously.

还记得当我读完之后，我呆坐在那里，被故事情节深深的感动。

4 "Right," I say vacuously, tightening the knotted sleeves.

5 Then he looked about the room, almost vacuously, as though the old-fashioned wooden bed and the faded curtains and the blank walls might hold some oracular answer to the riddle that lay before him.

6 The induction starts at the sinks , which are P - positions because they vacuously satisfy the P - position requirement.

这个归纳从汇点开始, 汇点是P - 状态因为它显然满足P - 状态的要求.

7 The soldier looked first puzzled, then vacuously wise; then he knit his brows and looked at the oxen.

8 "I believe we are about through," said the judge-advocate, vacuously, looking at a list in his hand, "that is"—to the accused—"if you have no questions to put in reëxamination."

9 His insights are vacuous.

10 “What is some one at the door for?” he asked vacuously.

11 When I first watched The Day Today in the early 90s, I thought its savage parody of the vacuously self-important style in which television news was packaged would change broadcasting forever.

12 The series also earned James Marsden an Emmy nomination for playing a vacuous version of himself.

13 Boscoe, a wizened little tinsmith, with the grime of his trade upon him, looked vacuously to his front, and buried his nose in his pot of beer.

14 Back at the studio the anchors vacuously nod at Nandor's escalating trumpery, as they do when The Guide wrests Joanna's microphone away to parley on behalf of all vampires.

15 My dear madam," responded Mr. Magee, "only echo answers, and it but vacuously repeats, 'Why not?'.

16 She was sitting by the fire and the child was on the floor, staring rather vacuously at his little fingers, as if they interested him, but not much.

17 The Voluntary Carbon Markets Integrity Initiative, launched with backing from the British government, set guidelines to deter corporations from making vacuous claims about the benefits of offsetting.

18 Like family feuds, squabbles among poets are too tedious to recount, but Wiman remembers being accused of commissioning too much prose, of privileging formalism over free verse, and of publishing vicious reviews and vacuous poetry.

19 And the ladies of the chorus grin vacuously and kick their pink tights.

20 The campaign has been all the more vacuous given that Republicans have put forth no actual solutions to crime that may be taking place, other than building more jails and throwing more people in them.

1 面无表情

poker-faced dead-pan

2 面无表情地

dead-pan

3 空虚地

inanely

4 没有意义地

paltrily

5 空虚

empty blank void vacant vain airy shadowy gaseous frothy inane vacuous insubstantial flatulent aeriform inanely aeriality shadow vacuum vacancy vanity depletion emptiness nothingness flatulence hollowness inanity vacuity blankness inanition vacuousness deplete