vacuity
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The vacuity of that rationale needs to be emphasized.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
One of the secondary subjects of this tough, absorbing, meticulously controlled movie is the creeping vacuity of so much contemporary teen culture — a culture in which Lea participates without feeling entirely of it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 2023
Suddaby’s analysis shows the vacuity of Bruen’s history-only test.
From Slate ● Oct. 7, 2022
They make up for their intellectual and moral vacuity with a zealous subservience to power.
From Salon ● Oct. 13, 2021
He reached for the doorknob that opened the way out into the unlit hall, then shrank back as he glimpsed the vacuity of the rest of the building.
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
In the next line but one we discover that— 'No sad vacuities his heart annoy; Blows not a Zephyr but it whispers joy.'
From Early Reviews of English Poets by John Louis Haney
These vacuities, which correspond to those of mammals in position, are seen from the top of the head, as lateral vacuities behind the orbits of the eyes, and are termed superior temporal vacuities.
From Dragons of the Air An Account of Extinct Flying Reptiles by H. G. Seeley
I removed the whole comb, consisting of common cells, from one of my best glass hives, and left that composed of males' cells alone: and to avoid vacuities, I supplied others of the same kind.
From New observations on the natural history of bees by François Huber
In the principal specimen the teeth were short and wide, the head large and deep with large vacuities, but the small brain case of that skull is bird-like.
From Dragons of the Air An Account of Extinct Flying Reptiles by H. G. Seeley
All church yards, gardens, and unnecessary vacuities, and all trades that use great fires or yield noisome smells to be placed out of town.'
From Captains of Industry or, Men of Business Who Did Something Besides Making Money by James Parton
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