nothingness

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The More Oratory Reveals Only Nothingness bill to encourage legislators to sit down and listen once in a while.

From Washington Post • Jul. 29, 2021

“After finding Nothingness, I have found Beauty,” Mallarmé wrote.

From New York Times • Feb. 25, 2021

Nothingness surrounds them—both formally, on the page, and literally, in the black yawn of space.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 6, 2019

I'm not saying his reporting on the Winter Games' opening ceremony was sullen, but I gleaned more hope and comfort from my last reading of Sartre's "Being and Nothingness."

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 16, 2018

Owing to legal constraints and the need for an official-sounding name, he called it the Institute for Union with Nothingness, or the I.U.N.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende