hollowness

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David Lindsay-Abaire’s “The Balusters” is a piquant comedy satirizing the hollowness and hypocrisy of well-to-do do-gooders on a neighborhood homeowners association board.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

Unrelenting hollowness robs the film of any impact or meaning.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 22, 2024

"We try and fill our days with moments of distraction and joke and laugh just to feel something, but overwhelmingly the feeling we have every day is hollowness."

From BBC • Jan. 5, 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

While Claudia stood crouched down waiting, the emptiness and the hollowness of all the museum corridors filled her stomach.

From "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler" by E.L. Konigsburg