nonentities

Example Sentences

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He’s always been good at inhabiting emotional and psychological nonentities, whether as a replicant in “Blade Runner 2049” or as a man scarcely more lifelike than his blow-up doll in “Lars and the Real Girl.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 14, 2022

The velocity at which running backs go from the country’s biggest athletic stars to nonentities can be jarring.

From Washington Post • Nov. 30, 2021

Thus we get, most recently, NBC’s ludicrous “La Brea” and Apple TV+’s mopey “Invasion,” which ask their audiences to invest themselves in the struggles of nonentities wrapped in enigmas.

From New York Times • Nov. 11, 2021

Autocratic leaders, as Joachim Fest writes, are often "demonic nonentities."

From Salon • Sep. 28, 2021

From 1587 till 1659, they were ruled by Turkish pashas, sent from Constantinople to govern for three years; but in the latter year a military revolt in Algiers reduced the pashas to nonentities.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" by Various