Emptiness Sentence Examples

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  • It did little to fill the emptiness within her.

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  • On the horizon you could see an endless expanse of emptiness.

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  • Part of this personality disorder includes a constant feeling of emptiness that the person tries to fill by clinging onto other people.

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  • If the days were filled with flattery, the nights were filled with emptiness.

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  • They must be pitilessly unmasked in all their mischievous emptiness.

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  • Spiritual death is their goal and their cackling laugh now resounds in the echoing emptiness of human souls.

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  • It is emptiness, the void where the universe evolved from.

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  • He was thankful he couldn't see down as he inched his way around a large boulder with only emptiness below.

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  • The emptiness which is a mere negation is not the highest, final emptiness.

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  • He believes in an allpowerful but indifferent God, and is himself an observer of society, standing aloof from its passions and ambitions, and interested only in pointing out their emptiness.

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  • Machiavelli had formed for himself a prose style, equalled by no one but by Guicciardini in his minor works, which was far removed from the emptiness of the latinizing humanists and the trivialities of the Italian purists.

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  • It of course symbolizes the emptiness of Volpone's love which is nothing more than carnal lust in fancy dress.

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  • Although of modest elevation it does command a splendid view northeastwards across Loch Tulla to the stark emptiness of Rannoch Moor beyond.

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  • This conviction of the emptiness of terms and abstract notions, and of the fulness of individual life, has enabled Lotze to combine in his writings the two courses into which German philosophical thought had been moving since the death of its great founder, Leibnitz.

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  • Marsilius of Padua and John of Jandun, though they had both reason to be grateful for the benefits of John XXII., chose this moment to demonstrate, by plausible arguments, the supremacy of the Empire, its independence of the Holy See, and the emptiness of the prerogatives "usurped" by the sovereign pontiffs - a demonstration naturally calculated to give them a claim on the gratitude of the German sovereign.

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  • Impulsive actions, persistent feelings of boredom or emptiness, and intense anger outbursts are other traits of this disorder.

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  • To me, that's a function of a very deep emptiness and suggests serious neglect in childhood-maybe some abuse, but mostly neglect."

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  • This misdirected will is punished by finding that the objects after which it thirsts are in truth vanity and emptiness.

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  • However, what is interesting to note is that the fat content of the milk is porportional to the emptiness of the breast.

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  • From the alighting board, instead of the former spirituous fragrant smell of honey and venom, and the warm whiffs of crowded life, comes an odor of emptiness and decay mingling with the smell of honey.

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  • And that other side of life, of which she had never before thought and which had formerly seemed to her so far away and improbable, was now nearer and more akin and more comprehensible than this side of life, where everything was either emptiness and desolation or suffering and indignity.

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