Douglas Brunt

Wall Street has played a role in everyone's life, and it has been vilified by everyone, but I think that the average trader didn't have a sense of what was coming. The culture is so vacuous, it's possible to come to it straight out of college and never have a real adult life, even if you have the wife and kids.

American Novelist

Cormac McCarthy

The notion that the species can be improved in some way, that everyone could live in harmony, is a really dangerous idea. Those who are afflicted with this notion are the first ones to give up their souls, their freedom. Your desire that it be that way will enslave you and make your life vacuous.

American Writer

Mariella Frostrup

I used to routinely turn down things that might compound the impression that I was some kind of vacuous blonde. But now, when I look back, I think I should have done them because I would be very rich - being taken seriously isn't all it's cracked up to be.

British Journalist

Mike White

You watch stuff like 'The Real Housewives' and you start to think, 'We're all so vacuous! Is there any nobility to any of these people?' But then you look out into the world, and there are people who are doing cool stuff with their lives.

Writer

FKA twigs

I really enjoy the fun of putting something out and people liking it or hating it or talking about it, but vacuous attention, it feels disgusting. It's like a hangover.

British Musician

Imran Amed

The way the media tends to cover fashion is as this superfluous, vacuous industry. They focus on models and shows, but behind all that is a massive global industry.

Canadian Editor

Pierce Brosnan

I just find that you can become a very boring person living in L.A. I tell you, living there on a day-to-day basis is vacuous: terribly fake.

Irish Actor

Lauren Mayberry

I don't buy into this idea that pop has to be frivolous or vacuous, and we've never subscribed to that.

Scottish Musician

Brian Stokes Mitchell

I hate those vacuous musicals, the happy-happy, 'Let's have a good time' shows.

American Actor

Astrid Berges-Frisbey

We live in a vacuous world, yet we do so with a feeling of urgency.

Spanish Actress

Use 'vacuous' to describe remarks or actions that have no deeper meaning or value.

Lack of Substance

'Vacuous' implies emptiness that can be seen as mindless or superficial.

Not Just Empty

It can be used sarcastically to criticize something as lacking depth.

Sarcasm and Criticism

Describes behavior or expressions that suggest an absence of thought or intelligence.

Intellectual Emptiness

Can hint at someone being blissfully ignorant or unaware of surrounding complexities.

Insight on Ignorance

'Vacuous' often suggests a willful lack of engagement or effort to understand.

More Than Unintelligent

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 that sparked this great divide in my life, because it had shot me in one direction upwards. My career had taken off, and yet inside, I was completely nosediving towards some sort of vacuous rock bottom that I couldn't define.

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