nonentities
Example Sentences
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He’s always been good at inhabiting emotional and psychological nonentities, whether as a replicant in “Blade Runner 2049” or as a man scarcely more lifelike than his blow-up doll in “Lars and the Real Girl.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2022
Autocratic leaders, as Joachim Fest writes, are often "demonic nonentities."
From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2021
Ocasio-Cortez is a popular target of debate-me dudes, who can be high-profile media figures or nonentities.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 29, 2019
Her portrait subjects included both celebrities and nonentities, all swathed in the same luxe wrapping.
From New York Times ● Jun. 2, 2017
It follows from this that nonentities often attain the highest social positions, while originality, creative power, perseverance, honesty, responsibility and duty take a back place.
From The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study by Auguste Forel
