hollowness
Example Sentences
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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
She was truly a great friend, but there was a hollowness to her.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2025
"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
This I did not know when I was five; I merely knew a hollowness, as best I can recall it, so windy and sharp I could not stop weeping.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
