hollowness

Example Sentences

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This hollowness is precisely what the curators ask us to consider.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 7, 2026

"We experience the staggering magnitude of stardom Elton achieved, the candy rapture of his music, right along with the anxiety and hollowness he was feeling," he wrote.

From BBC • Oct. 10, 2024

Unrelenting hollowness robs the film of any impact or meaning.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 22, 2024

This also speaks to the hollowness that all ideological language contains, to paraphrase Orwell, in its swindles and perversions, its slovenliness and vagueness.

From Salon • Apr. 16, 2023

This I did not know when I was five; I merely knew a hollowness, as best I can recall it, so windy and sharp I could not stop weeping.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson