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

Somebody asks Pence a question and he responds like they are nonentities.

From Salon • Oct. 13, 2020

Then you can pick your own way, a way that will commend itself to the well-bred nonentities who never accomplish anything.

From H. R. by Lefevre, Edwin