vacuity
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The vacuity of that rationale needs to be emphasized.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
His article in Harper’s has something of Joan Didion’s wry bemusement about the vacuity of modern celebrity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2023
Suddaby’s analysis shows the vacuity of Bruen’s history-only test.
From Slate ● Oct. 7, 2022
They make up for their intellectual and moral vacuity with a zealous subservience to power.
From Salon ● Oct. 13, 2021
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
These vacuities, which correspond to those of mammals in position, are seen from the top of the head, as lateral vacuities behind the orbits of the eyes, and are termed superior temporal vacuities.
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
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
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
If the eye may be judge, iron must be reckoned to have a great many vacuities, and to be porous like a honey-comb, yet it is the dullest, and sounds worse than any other metal.
From Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch
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