hollowness

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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

But while he is most remembered for those tracks, they comprised only a portion of his whole catalog, which also included tenderly lighthearted love songs and numbers about the hollowness of masculinity.

From New York Times • Feb. 27, 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

While Claudia stood crouched down waiting, the emptiness and the hollowness of all the museum corridors filled her stomach.

From "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler" by E.L. Konigsburg