vacuity
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The vacuity of that rationale needs to be emphasized.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
This moral vacuity provides the spectacle, as H.G.
From Salon ● Jan. 10, 2023
Suddaby’s analysis shows the vacuity of Bruen’s history-only test.
From Slate ● Oct. 7, 2022
Kaokept, who charms as the Balladeer, recedes into sympathetic vacuity when playing Oswald.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 23, 2022
He reached for the doorknob that opened the way out into the unlit hall, then shrank back as he glimpsed the vacuity of the rest of the building.
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
In the principal specimen the teeth were short and wide, the head large and deep with large vacuities, but the small brain case of that skull is bird-like.
From Dragons of the Air An Account of Extinct Flying Reptiles by H. G. Seeley
Four Children’s Heads, which it is much to be regretted should be thus lost in filling small vacuities of the ceiling.
From The Stones of Venice, Volume III (of 3) by John Ruskin
In the scale, wherever it begins or ends, are infinite vacuities.
From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 06 Reviews, Political Tracts, and Lives of Eminent Persons by Samuel Johnson
Nature has appointed happy fields, victorious laurel-crowns; but only to the brave and true: _Un_nature, what we call Chaos, holds nothing in it but vacuities, devouring gulfs.
From Past and Present by Thomas Carlyle
The marks of fire were left on various houses of stone, and, here and there, were vacuities, covered with blackened wrecks, where, doubtless, had stood more humble and combustible fabrics.
From Calavar or The Knight of The Conquest, A Romance of Mexico by Robert Montgomery Bird
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