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

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

If we're lucky the results will be as easy on the eye as this show always has been, but eventually the philosophic hollowness becomes impossible to overlook.

From Salon • Jul. 28, 2023

Back home, she heard the hollowness in her steps as she walked from bedroom to living room to verandah and then back again.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie