nothingness

Example Sentences

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Hanna’s grief for Erik is the key to her art, but so is the nothingness he seems to have disappeared into.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

Just a carefully curated exercise in nothingness, presented as importance.

From Salon • Jan. 31, 2026

It had been a performance impressive in its nothingness.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 6, 2025

Rambunctious and astute, the toddler heroine of the sublimely beautiful animated film “Little Amélie or the Character of Rain” first communicates in voiceover from the void of nothingness before birth.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 7, 2025

—The Popol Vuh of the Quiche Maya Na Arean sat alone in space as a cloud that floats in nothingness.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan