| People scarred by violence are often shells of their former selves, hollowed-out structures that move emptily through the world. |
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| Amid the crumbling plaster and tattered curtains, they spin out a private little reality that emptily echoes a life without meaning. |
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| The spritsail flapped emptily and the boat righted to an even keel, causing the two men swiftly to change position. |
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| Bile rises within me and I retch emptily, my sight blurring as the tears begin to fall. |
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| He was often dazed and drifted out of his senses while staring emptily into nothingness. |
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| But now that the first shock was over, now that life without them stretched emptily before me, I could not comprehend it. |
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| It requires less effort, too, to cachinnate than to chatter ever so emptily. |
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| Abandoned vehicles lie by the wayside, houses stand vacant and forlorn, bridges stretch emptily to nowhere. |
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| Of course, after another moment we stared at each other emptily. |
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| Too many films are too much alike, too emptily professional. |
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| Yet his writing is emptily abstract and opaque, e.g. As images of posteriority, ruins reveal the primordiality of the temporal law dial holds sway over their obsolescence. |
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| Not that I'd want to lumber this talented, writer with such an emptily modish title. |
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| Video-game characters tend to be emptily iconic. |
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| Princess Barbie has exceeded their wildest dreams, smiling prettily and emptily through the two events of her year, Nipplegate and becoming pregnant. |
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