hollowness
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I’ve just spent months reporting on the hollowness of America’s gifted education apparatus, of the term itself, of cognitive testing specifically.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
Nitibhon, a Thai supermodel, plays her tycoon as comically drab, keeping her gaunt cheeks slack to emphasize her character’s hollowness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 4, 2026
As the second season of "Severance" nears its finale, the show has become more explicit about cracking open the hollowness of bringing our “whole” or “best” selves to our workplaces.
From Salon ● Mar. 19, 2025
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
She had known this was coming for months now, and yet looking at Amala she felt an ashy hollowness.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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