emptiness
Example Sentences
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Emptiness is baked into the concept of luxury.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2022
British writer Martin Amis referred to Didion as the "poet of the Great Californian Emptiness" and she was especially incisive in writing about the state.
From Reuters • Dec. 23, 2021
The chapter about her is called "Luminous Emptiness," and that's a Buddhist idea.
From Salon • May 22, 2019
Emptiness focuses the viewer’s attention on the artist, absent or otherwise.
From Economist • May 3, 2018
Emptiness ate away at his insides, quickly replaced by a sadness that hurt his heart.
From "The Maze Runner" by James Dashner
Vocabulary lists containing emptiness
"Just Lather, That's All" and "The Woman Who Was Death"
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