vacuity

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One of the secondary subjects of this tough, absorbing, meticulously controlled movie is the creeping vacuity of so much contemporary teen culture — a culture in which Lea participates without feeling entirely of it.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 3, 2023

This moral vacuity provides the spectacle, as H.G.

From Salon • Jan. 10, 2023

“Spencer” seems to me the more coherent film, partly because the directness of Stewart’s performance stands out so poignantly against the moral vacuity and aesthetic constipation of her surroundings.

From New York Times • Nov. 4, 2021

These are miniature masterpieces of vacuity, bracing blasts of cringeworthy corniness.

From Slate • Jul. 29, 2020

He reached for the doorknob that opened the way out into the unlit hall, then shrank back as he glimpsed the vacuity of the rest of the building.

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick