hollowness

She was truly a great friend, but there was a hollowness to her.

As the second season of "Severance" nears its finale, the show has become more explicit about cracking open the hollowness of bringing our “whole” or “best” selves to our workplaces.

If it has done nothing else, the political turmoil of the past decade has revealed the hollowness of that notion.

According to Didion, that moral hollowness found its ideal spokesman in Ronald Reagan, a minor Hollywood actor who leveraged his position as a Screen Actors Guild leader to be elected California’s governor in 1966.

"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.