vacuity
Example Sentences
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One of the secondary subjects of this tough, absorbing, meticulously controlled movie is the creeping vacuity of so much contemporary teen culture — a culture in which Lea participates without feeling entirely of it.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 3, 2023
“Spencer” seems to me the more coherent film, partly because the directness of Stewart’s performance stands out so poignantly against the moral vacuity and aesthetic constipation of her surroundings.
From New York Times • Nov. 4, 2021
They make up for their intellectual and moral vacuity with a zealous subservience to power.
From Salon • Oct. 13, 2021
These are miniature masterpieces of vacuity, bracing blasts of cringeworthy corniness.
From Slate • Jul. 29, 2020
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
Vocabulary lists containing vacuity
Notes of a Native Son
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
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