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
The velocity at which running backs go from the country’s biggest athletic stars to nonentities can be jarring.
From Washington Post • Nov. 30, 2021
Autocratic leaders, as Joachim Fest writes, are often "demonic nonentities."
From Salon • Sep. 28, 2021
He was a nonentity even among the nonentities who remained after Yeltsin’s perpetual clearing-out of his cabinets.
From The Guardian • Feb. 22, 2017
From the first moment of my arrival upon the platform I had singled him out, the only interesting figure in a crowd of nonentities.
From The Master Mummer by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)