Sentence examples for A nothingness from inspiring English sources

A nothingness at the heart of America.

Something was pouring toward me now, a nothingness exhaled through the floury membrane of the boy.

But darkness can have many hues; in twentieth-century literature, it often means emptiness, the horror a nothingness that can't be filled.

The thought crossed my mind that the town of Boulder had been set up by the cookbook as an extravagant practical joke — a nothingness at the end of the trail.

But if you can just stop the mind from broadcasting its peculiar mix of propaganda, impression, recollection, projection, apprehension and sedition, you invite in a nothingness that is a close cousin of sleep.

This creative capacity is what Jean-Paul Sartre is referring to in L'Imaginaire: Psychologie phénoménologique de l'ima-gination (1940; "The Imaginary: The Phenomenological Psychology of the Imagination"; Eng. trans., The Psychology of Imagination) when he describes imagining as "the positing of an object as a nothingness"—as not being.

And where the river should be carving its way through the fields, there is only "an eerie nothingness" a "dusty scar in the land".

"True life (seimei) must contain within itself an absolute nothingness, a [principle of] absolute negation" (NKZ VIII, 341).

Nishitani understood the historical phenomenon of nihilism as a vacuous nothingness that assaults the modern world, a world bereft of its ethical and religious moorings.

He had always dreaded one of his guardians dying, disappearing into an unbelievable nothingness, ripping away a corner of his childhood shelter.

Thus Christians had a motive to first establish the possibility of a little nothingness.