Sentence examples for certain emptiness from inspiring English sources

The photographs in the series all evoke a certain emptiness and stagnation.

It fills all her time, but it doesn't fill a certain emptiness.

The piano solos are harder than they have to be, and virtuosity that does not promote spirit or tone but simply makes performers sweat suffers a certain emptiness.

If his work reflects his origins in the barely settled West, he said, "it's because there is a certain emptiness in my paintings".

When you sell and sell and sell, and finally sell the essence of who and what you are, the challenge -- for players, in this case -- becomes how to play with a certain emptiness.

"The main thing I discovered, is that listening well requires a certain emptiness of yourself," said Burkins, a former Wall Street Journal newspaper reporter.

Harrison often gives in to emotional cliché when she writes about sex -- her characters are likely to feel a certain nagging emptiness when they enter the sexual realm -- and Bigelow's persistent longing for access, through the Aleut woman's body, to "her deeper self, her deepest self" can put you in mind of an inspirational sex manual.

It's the kind of success that most writers would maim and kill for, although it's largely beside the point, says Shepard. "The funny thing about having all this so-called success is that behind it is a certain horrible emptiness.

Sometimes judged "dated," because of their schematic construction, Odets's later plays, with their study of bad faith, bear witness to a certain kind of American emptiness that is evergreen.

Emptiness, too, is not "found" when sought (emptiness is empty, too).

THERE is a certain mix of anger and emptiness with which any football fan is familiar.