“I pulled the last button through what I hoped was its corresponding hole just below the hollow of my neck, and for the first time looked down at my breakfast.”

“An award-winning cabin in Monteagle is nestled in a Tennessee mountain hollow and projects from the hillside to overlook a mountain stream.”

“The astronauts were astounded by the sheer hollowness of the void they encountered in the remote region of the galaxy.”

“The hollowness of their promises left me feeling deceived and betrayed.”

“The point of religion, he used to say, was to reconcile us to the hollowness, the futility, the nothingness of life.”