vacuity

Example Sentences

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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

This moral vacuity provides the spectacle, as H.G.

From Salon • Jan. 10, 2023

The canvases bear little resemblance to one another but operate together as a meditation on the word “wonderful” itself, on its vacuity and overuse in American culture.

From New York Times • Jan. 27, 2022

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