nothingness

Example Sentences

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Hanna’s grief for Erik is the key to her art, but so is the nothingness he seems to have disappeared into.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

Just a carefully curated exercise in nothingness, presented as importance.

From Salon • Jan. 31, 2026

Rambunctious and astute, the toddler heroine of the sublimely beautiful animated film “Little Amélie or the Character of Rain” first communicates in voiceover from the void of nothingness before birth.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 7, 2025

“That’s what baseball’s all about. These long periods of nothing happening and then bursts of action. I wanted to tease out those passages of nothingness and show that there’s actually a lot happening.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 14, 2025

On the contrary, when he pictured her stepping into nothingness, re-living that moment he’d already re-lived so many times already, he thought she’d had an excited expression on her face.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix