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During that era at least, Fischer said Lucas and Coppola seemed ”completely devoid of any self-awareness.”
From Los Angeles Times
“Camille hopes that lunch will be a salon of ideas ranging in topics vast and tremendous, but lunch is devoid of ideas and filled with crisis,” the narrator explains.
From Salon
The staging, directed by Ash K. Tata, is almost entirely devoid of laudable performances, and the result is a long and torpid evening.
And yet his approach to his craft is unusually earnest, devoid of the mystique that surrounds Kendrick Lamar or the mercenary commercial instincts of Drake, to name two of his peers.
Which isn’t to say the Olympics are devoid of drama.
From Los Angeles Times
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