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  • This was practically a scoop, though, compared to the revelation that Prince Harry may or not be having sex with a vacant-looking blonde called Florence Brudenell-Bruce, "the youngest of four children of old Etonian wine merchant Andrew and his French wife, Sophie".

    If you want to bag a royal, study Botticelli | Carole Cadwalladr 2011

  • This was practically a scoop, though, compared to the revelation that Prince Harry may or not be having sex with a vacant-looking blonde called Florence Brudenell-Bruce, "the youngest of four children of old Etonian wine merchant Andrew and his French wife, Sophie".

    If you want to bag a royal, study Botticelli | Carole Cadwalladr 2011

  • If there's no news value in a vacant-looking, pie-faced blonde nitwit who's never done anything, explain Heidi Montag.

    Chris Kelly: Missing Sex Money Mystery Blonde: Day 26 2008

  • Standard airbrushed, bob-jobbed, vacant-looking Playboy models.

    Friday Pix archmage 2006

  • We all heard he was engaged to your beautiful vacant-looking cousin; but I suppose he grew sick of her.

    Camilla 2008

  • The daughter Varvara gazed fixedly at her mother with her mouth open, moved her vacant-looking eyes to the window, turned pale, and, uttering a loud shriek, fell back in her chair.

    The Wife 2004

  • And a vacant-looking lot they were, in his opinion; neither their eyes nor their hands had any of that close attention to business which alone made revolutionary conduct formidable.

    Swan Song 2004

  • Yermolaï was a very strange kind of man; heedless as a bird, rather fond of talking, awkward and vacant-looking; he was excessively fond of drink, and never could sit still long; in walking he shambled along, and rolled from side to side; and yet he got over fifty miles in the day with his rolling, shambling gait.

    A Sportsman's Sketches 2003

  • The stout German, for her part, looked at both her visitors with pewtery, vacant-looking eyes, smiling affably and evidently not understanding Russian.

    The Double 2003

  • They were all a little cross-eyed and so vacant-looking they should have had an i stamped on their long, dirty-white foreheads for impenetrable.

    Futures Imperfect Willis, Connie 1994

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