nothingness

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The More Oratory Reveals Only Nothingness bill to encourage legislators to sit down and listen once in a while.

From Washington Post • Jul. 29, 2021

Nothingness has led nowhere; sensory deprivation was subsumed and then extruded as a mirror image of itself, emptied of its original meaning — negated.

From New York Times • Jan. 19, 2021

Nothingness surrounds them—both formally, on the page, and literally, in the black yawn of space.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 6, 2019

I'm not saying his reporting on the Winter Games' opening ceremony was sullen, but I gleaned more hope and comfort from my last reading of Sartre's "Being and Nothingness."

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 16, 2018

The book on top was Being and Nothingness by Sartre.

From "We Were Liars" by E. Lockhart