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hollowness



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This hollowness is precisely what the curators ask us to consider.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 7, 2026

Unrelenting hollowness robs the film of any impact or meaning.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2024

But while he is most remembered for those tracks, they comprised only a portion of his whole catalog, which also included tenderly lighthearted love songs and numbers about the hollowness of masculinity.

From New York Times ● Feb. 27, 2024

"We try and fill our days with moments of distraction and joke and laugh just to feel something, but overwhelmingly the feeling we have every day is hollowness."

From BBC ● Jan. 5, 2024

All the while, there's a fierce hollowness gnawing at my insides and I try to imagine a life of this, watching fine people eat while I nigh on starve to death.

From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland




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