empty rhetoric
collocation in Englishmeaningsofemptyandrhetoric
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empty
adjective
uk/ˈemp.ti/us/ˈemp.ti/
not containing any things ...
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rhetoric
noun[U]
uk/ˈret.ər.ɪk/us/ˈret̬.ɚ.ɪk/
speech or writing intended to be effective and ...
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(Definition ofemptyandrhetoricfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofempty rhetoric
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Talk of direct payments as empowering would look rather likeemptyrhetoric.
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The president's leftist and labour critics characterised his anti-neoliberal discourse asemptyrhetoric and demagoguery, and pointed to his failure to design an anti-neoliberal programme.
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The constant refrain that economic and social success can only be achieved by carrying out structural reforms is looking increasingly likeemptyrhetoric.
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If we do not do this, we unfortunately reduce ourselves to anemptyrhetoricproducer.
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That is the sort of thing that helps, not theemptyrhetoricthat we have just heard.
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Not without justification, people do not seeemptyrhetoricand manipulation of their interests as an appropriate or effective way of addressing their concerns.
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When one says that they are a danger to life and limb, that is unfortunately not justemptyrhetoric.
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Without that, their words are butemptyrhetoric.
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Let them use the opportunity to show that their new-found concern for the individual is more thanemptyrhetoricand more than bluster.
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He now needs to show that that is no longer simplyemptyrhetoric, and that he is prepared to act on his words.
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To present energy taxes as the most important measure is simply to engage inemptyrhetoric.
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It isemptyrhetoric: he has not the beginnings of a shred of an idea of how he will deliver his pledge.
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All the talk of how he would intervene before breakfast and after dinner has come to nothing butemptyrhetoric.
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I fear that we will hearemptyrhetoricand no real commitment.
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Anything that now follows can only beemptyrhetoric.
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Let us build on those, and not be carried away byemptyrhetoric.
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The time for appeasement andemptyrhetoricis over.
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We must ensure that these sound proposals are more than justemptyrhetoric.
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Those critics should move away fromemptyrhetoricand accept the democratic process.
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Let us have no moreemptyrhetoricsuch as the motion.
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