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Sentence Examples Yet, behind the irony in the final rhythmic incantation, we read an emptiness that is neither spiritual sustenance nor love. Her stomach was grumbling and the emptiness inside seemed to have filled her with nothing but air. It will be profound, a mixture of embarrassment, shame and a huge feeling of emptiness. You can read in the paintings the emptiness and disappointment at the end of the huge party. The streets are deserted, their emptiness emphasized by the lonely sound of the wind. You also cannot say that the emptiness in one container was different from the emptiness in another. For most people it is too hot in the summer, too cold in the winter, too austere in its emptiness, too far from port, too tough on the spirit. While the physical emptiness remains, the memories and the love also remain. Russia's collapsing birth rate feeds fears that Siberia's emptiness will be infiltrated from the teeming nations to the south. Nora, however, had not intended to swap the isolation of north-east Scotland for the vast emptiness of the Canadian prairie. Now, with much of the rubble cleared, its vast emptiness reveals the horrible dimensions of the December tragedy. As you dug you could see the dirt actively change places with the emptiness. The quiet emptiness of the town in contrast to the mad rush of the falls creates an almost zen-garden sense of contemplation. Still, Canada's vast, frozen emptiness offers a unique playground for Mars-gazing scientists. Parts of the paint surface are often blank, using the emptiness of the underlying texture to generate a sense of the Tao. To appreciate what came next, one must be aware of the emptiness in our understanding of inheritance at that time. His tossing a TV off a hotel balcony is a staged prank that inadvertently exposes the emptiness of the act. To my enjoyment, he made no more explanation, so I let him stew in the emptiness of the verbal vacuum he created. This is music that perfectly captures the surreal emptiness of everyday life in a digital world. We understand that we are not what we think we are, that there is emptiness beneath our projection. Show More Sentences This should have triggered a warning to my feeble little mind, yet the emptiness remained unnoticed. It says so much about the emptiness of modern life that there has been so little discussion of the key problems confronting our nation. Obtuse terminology squashes out the real words, leaving you with a strange sense of emptiness. His method is to play with advertising language in such a way as to show its emptiness in any discussion of poetry. Sacks adds to this the decadence and emptiness of our culture, especially when exported and transmitted by television. In our constant search for happiness in the west, we fill our emptiness with possessions. This important essence addresses existential feelings of loss and emptiness. Celebration and thankfulness matter, but should not push out real feelings of emptiness when we lose someone. On the one hand, there is loss and anxiety in the face of annihilation, stemming from emptiness and a sense of guilt. The emptiness that I had been trying to fill was replaced with fulfillment in Jesus. For the European, loneliness is emptiness, alienation from society and tradition. Then and only then will we take back control over the market forces that are the cause of our increasing emptiness and anxiety. As I closed the door behind me I was struck by the silence that filled my hallway and the emptiness that filled my life. They made plans for the next day and upon hanging up the phone, the emptiness began to consume her. Philosophers wrote about the absurdity and emptiness of human existence in the extraneous Universe. These stories, ranging in length from a few pages to a paragraph to a sentence, convey a sense of emptiness. The expression then was priceless, something between defeat and misery, between loss and emptiness. It is graphic, depressing and leaves the audience with an overriding feeling of emptiness. I sometimes experienced an inner emptiness that I prayed God would help fill. For them, another weekday without work would only increase the emptiness and disconsolateness caused by idling away spare time. Show More Sentences When the talent is gone, the child is more likely to feel disillusion and emptiness than a normal child. I sobbed loudly, not caring who I woke up, speaking into the dark emptiness of my room, forming disjointed sentences and unconnected thoughts. The figure tramped through the alleys, forgoing the masses of disobliging people for the emptiness of the slums. His diaries record recurrent struggles to understand the enigma of his own personality, his spiritual emptiness and addictiveness. In brilliant festivals and noisy entertainments, there is always, at bottom, a sense of emptiness prevalent. The euphoria gone, some are left with a sense of emptiness, of an adventure unfulfilled. The learned doctors of the Great Vehicle teach us that the essential characteristic of the universe is its emptiness. It attained some popularity due to a mistaken belief that it taught orthodox Mahyna doctrines, such as emptiness. What if it was expressive of the redundancy of these men's thoughts, their emptiness and circularity? Yet in a play that explores spiritual emptiness, the sense of absence is strangely appropriate. Days melted together, welded by the redundant routine of tears and emptiness. There's something about Perth that quickly reassures you after Australia's emptiness. It was France and Russia that gave the existing system the kiss of death by exposing its emptiness and fundamental immorality. They'll see the yucky black emptiness inside, and they'll be repulsed and run away. But when a graphic designer uses a typeface that is older than 30 years, it is dismissed as retro, nostalgia or emptiness. The apparent intensity of this backlash masks the real emptiness of such complaints. We drop through what seems to be an eternal void, not five astronauts floating in space but five aquanauts in an expanse of emptiness. That sense of emptiness also can be experienced as loneliness or depression, two other top triggers for your overeating. I looked deep into his eyes, and saw only emptiness, and I was greatly saddened by it. But the surprise in his eyes soon faded to sadness, and the sadness ebbed away to emptiness. Show More Sentences Although they had no satiric intent they were designed as a commentary on the emptiness of lives dominated by consumerism. The bereaved person may weep tearlessly and experience a sense of emptiness. In this vast emptiness and profound tenebrosity, no images could be formed. Consumerism and materialism won't fill the spiritual emptiness so many in an affluent society experience. Only a seasoned actor whose every gesture conveys meaning can fill this much emptiness. The distorted semblances of the trees on the other side were vaguely visible through it, mocking him cruelly in the emptiness. Sleep was a short reprieve from the burning sensation that filled her body and the emptiness of her mind. Silence and emptiness in spades to give it that ring of authenticity plus the benefits of top-notch facilities. We want to celebrate the sexiness of life rather than a pretentious, snobby emptiness. In their place you will find creepy white suits and the cold emptiness of the beyond. That could be very desolate or it could be very inspiring, in terms of shunyata, the Buddhist understanding of emptiness. The truth of a phenomenon is called shunyata, emptiness, which implies that the phenomenon does not possess a truly existent essence or nature. While you're here you can make the pilgrimage to Ground Zero and stand on the viewing platform to stare at the stony emptiness below. We forget spaces, our own emptiness, to construct places that tell exciting stories about who we are. Frustration often points to unfulfilled desire, to some sort of lack or emptiness. Ahead, along the lonely Stuart Highway, lay 900-plus miles of largely unrelieved emptiness all the way to Alice Springs, and beyond it, Uluru. Sr Mary's unselfish life touched so many people in so very many ways and her passing leaves an emptiness that can never be filled. As a place apart, it has an almost pure, certainly Buddhistic sense of void and emptiness. But it had to come to an end, leaving me with a renewed feeling of void and emptiness. It is the emptiness, the void that swallows me for a moment, and I realize I am working, and far from my love. Show More Sentences After about four years of separation that was filled with this gigantic hidden void of emptiness and despair, why now? His presence helped to replace some of the emptiness inside, the void in her heart. During the course of the story Smith has a lot to say about the emptiness of celebrity and stardom and what it means. In some of his writings he describes this emptiness as the nowhere from which joy emerges without a cause and the nowhere to which it returns. If these Stepford citizens have their way, soon your life will be a vast, sterile emptiness. In Greek mythology, Chaos is the goddess of emptiness and confusion who gave birth to the Universe. Bodhisattvas, because of the intense development of their love and compassion, have come to understand sunyata, the emptiness of all phenomena. There's certainly an affinity between the Buddhist idea of sunyata of emptiness, and the Western mystical teaching of nothingness. What is this penetrating insight that leads us to the direct experience of emptiness? The emotions they played on were consonant, at least implicitly, with ideas of spirituality and constancy, of emptiness and isolation. That mirage, or intuition, revelation or dream opposes order to disorder, plenitude to emptiness, and to disgust wonder, hope, enthusiasm. Therefore, trying to fill our emptiness with anything other than spiritual pursuits is like trying to plug a round hole with a square cork. The killing, actually, starts with the surreal emptiness and manufactured optimism of party conferences and conventions. His words echoed in the emptiness of his mind as his frail, emaciated body began to convulse and was racked by involuntary spasms. My feelings of anger and disgust, but even stronger emptiness, stopped me from poking fun at all my usual subjects. She hadn't felt hungry before, but her stomach quaked in defiance to its emptiness as her eyes touched the fruit's flawless red flesh. Despite enjoying all her freedom, Ms. Sudha had experienced the emptiness of an issueless family for about 15 years. The physical world has abundant glitter, but emptiness lies beneath its superficial shine. But really the emptiness and depthless art of their club and magazine culture drains the blood from my face. What once had been a city was a desert now, a vast field of emptiness and desolation. Show More Sentences Bitter, icy emptiness greeted him where Juliana's essence should've been. But the boys talk and act in ways that betray disconnection and emptiness. There is nothing to fear, hate, envy or be entranced by at all in any of these embodiments of that which is in our own Souls and which we are projecting onto emptiness. Soon great swathes of the countryside were closed off, and the emptiness echoed to the crack of gunfire as animals, many of them healthy, were slaughtered. Instead of creating an ice-cold emptiness, as some bands would have done, Nada Surf has created a warm and sweetly melancholy expression of this feeling. In both the Hinayana and the Mahayana, it is accepted that direct realization of the emptiness of the mind is the realization of the egolessness of the individual. The body naturally leads us to the experience of shunyata, or emptiness. This would have been appropriate had it not been for the nagging sensation that the emptiness should be credited to the actor and not the character. While it represented possibility, a blank slate, it also represented an emptiness that needed to be filled. When you act to impress others, you feel the emptiness inside. But in the next instant, the hair rises glacially on the back of his neck, his spine is seized with iron, his eyes open on emptiness, a nameless terror. The music seems to have somehow entered me, and as I stare into Maxim's clear blue eyes, the emptiness inside has become filled with the airy consistency of the melody. He frames his cultural codes as domestic interiors, always unpeopled and usually crammed with possessions, spaces so filled with emptiness, they ache. The dankness of the house, the emptiness filled me with doubt. This larger emptiness went hand in hand with the insensitivities endured by the poor and working class residents who were removed from neighborhood after neighborhood. Twelve had undergone lasting personality change, leaving them hostile and mistrustful, socially withdrawn and plagued by feelings of emptiness and hopelessness. Certainly it's not the lame, dated jokes, the lazy writing, the slack narrative pacing, the boring matiness of the male ensemble or the overall emptiness of the film. Now I think that many are beginning to experience the rawness of the trauma, emptiness, and loss. Even the beautiful Angelica cannot take his mind away from this emptiness. He will give you quality over quantity, abundance over emptiness. 1,000 years from now my father will be remembered in the annals of history as one of the greats of our time. Show More Sentences I am not being patronising, far from it, because I know exactly what their fans must be enduring and it leaves a terrible emptiness at the pit of your stomach. Manhattan is denser than an English muffin, but America is filled with emptiness. The scene of writing is a potential country-at-war, physically contested, overcompetitive, infected, an inescapable grid of emptiness and valuelessness. In eroticism the poles of life and death, being and nothingness, fullness and emptiness are one, dissolved like subject and object in the insensible totality of things. The hollow of the bell symbolizes the wisdom cognizing emptiness. There's a giant void, an emptiness that will never, ever be filled. On my left, there are several yards of emptiness, then trees. As he coolly, incisively probes away, his questions elicit fascinating personal revelations, generating feelings of anger, guilt, panic and emptiness. To make things as simple as possible I decided to concentrate on images of flat emptiness, avoiding mountainous areas where the contour lines jostle against each other. From somewhere in the emptiness behind us there comes a faint, eerie howl. In Barrett's ballads, betrayals by men confirm the emptiness of patriarchally defined ideals of womanhood. Is your name Oscar Lois Anderson?' Her Dalek voice echoed eerily through the black emptiness of the warehouse. Jake had gone from the center of a teeming throng of people to the solitudinous emptiness of his lonely house. But again I thought of the emptiness and horror of reality, and boldly prepared to follow whithersoever I might be led. And Petroleum is used for sea or airsickness with a sensation of emptiness in the stomach that is relieved by constant eating. When I contemplate God among the dead I find only emptiness and silence. He then spread his arms dramatically, drawing a semicircle of emptiness. To grasp the emptiness of the sign of one's own genesis must cause logopathy. Forget the shamelessness, the emptiness, the glaring disingenuousness. One of the invitees, Sofia Hernandez Chong Cuy of the Americas Society in New York, captured the emptiness at the core of Hoffmann's practice. Show More Sentences Three lines, three images or thoughts, snap together into a kind of recognition of the fleetingness of time, the fullness of the moment and the emptiness of past and present. His works are situated at the fault line where pop culture's shimmering surfaces dissolve into a peculiar emptiness as monochrome planes of color. When introjects are weak, an anaclitic personality configuration results, characterized by dependency, insecurity, and feelings of helplessness and emptiness. Our attempt is to show ritual hermeneutics as the bodiliness of understanding in terms of interpretation organized with the emptiness of symbolic meanings. However, the last twelve lean years since the outbreak of the Darfur people's revolution have demonstrated the emptiness and vacuousness of that argument. Each schematic drawing depicted a different county in Kansas or Missouri, eliciting identification in its inhabitants but a curious emptiness in the rest of us. However since emptiness empties itself and so cannot itself be an object of attachment, dynamic 'sunyata' empties itself out as just the things themselves. I hate this emptiness and the redundancy of eating burgs at Burger Town. Examples from Classical Literature As yet, however, nobody about the house had any suspicion of the emptiness of the treasury. The Amado thrown back in haste light enough was given to show the emptiness of the room. The big double doors of the fire hall stood open, revealing dark emptiness within. Plainly in his mind they perceived how he had been cast adrift in the emptiness of the void. Then he saw that this emptiness was lined and laced with filmy striations, like cellophane. It seemed to come closer to her, and to fill an emptiness that ached in her heart. A cold wave swept down my spine, and a sort of emptiness came to the pit of my stomach. And where once burned the eye of the cosmos will be naught but a hideous emptiness. Say, Stilly, I'm off uptown to attend to the emptiness in this stone utensil. He made the most of the cactus, but there was an emptiness about the pit of his stomach. Nothing less than a stomachful would allay the gnawing craving of that great emptiness. Behind his eyes lay the emptiness of age, the open wound of stifled years. Carinthia lifted her open hands for sign of their emptiness. No shred of cloud relieved the emptiness of a devitalized sky. And fiercely in a bewildered way I rebelled against this emptiness. A ship from Orede had come out of overdrive and lay dead in emptiness. But in about a fortnight this forager came home, full of emptiness. Down through emptiness they fell together, Burl glassy-eyed with panic. The lane up to the inn was in its middle-day emptiness and somnolence. In the sonorous emptiness of the place, there ensued a heated discussion. Show More Sentences There was a screen of straggly brush, with emptiness beyond. It stood for a week or two longer, open-eyed, as if astonished at its own emptiness. He fanned the air with his arms, showering savage blows upon emptiness. At night the bunched electrics lit up that distressful palace of all the luxuries, and they fared sumptuously, swinging on through the emptiness of abject desolation. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of emptiness? Words that rhyme with emptiness What is the plural of emptiness? What is the adverb for emptiness? What is the adjective for emptiness? What is the noun for emptiness? Translations for emptiness Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words emptily emptiest empties emptier emptied Empson Emptiness emptor empty empty calories empty handed empty-handed 9-letter Words Starting With e em emp empt empti emptin emptine emptines