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Like the movie, whose commercial and critical success suggests people approve, it’s pokey and self-serious and almost entirely devoid of humor.

It’s far less than it was before the election, and devoid of almost any cable TV news.

In a performance devoid of any positive energy, Pegula struggled to cope with the Czech's huge serves, including 11 aces, and hit just four winners in a match lasting little more than an hour.

Defence lawyers responded that Whitla was impaired by a low IQ and claimed the challenge was devoid of merit.

To others, it looked an awful lot like a man in decline, devoid of any intellectual curiosity or ability to accept good-faith criticism, resorting to petty insults to obscure his own fundamental lack of understanding.