hollow man
Example Sentences
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Odenkirk imagined Saul Goodman as “a hollow man, like my dad and his pals.”
From Washington Post • Mar. 9, 2022
Laurel says he did all the creative work and was repaid by a lack of loyalty, while Hardy cuts even deeper, calling his longtime partner a hollow man fueled by jealousy for Charlie Chaplin.
From New York Times • Dec. 27, 2018
He is a hollow man, a shell, a narcissist incapable of self-reflection or humility or vulnerability.
From Salon • Sep. 24, 2016
Go round the back and you discover that only these clothes are keeping him upright: Father is a hollow man.
From The Guardian • Sep. 29, 2012
She returns a minute later with a gaunt, hollow man with big circles under his eyes and a nose that looks like it’s been broken in about three places.
From "It’s Kind of a Funny Story" by Ned Vizzini
