When we confront emptiness, our experience is not that nothing is there, rather that something is there no longer.
Most characteristic is Husbands (1970), a much derided study of three well-heeled New Yorkers (Cassavetes, Peter Falk and Ben Gazzara) experiencing a shared midlife crisis and confronting the emptiness of their lives following a fourth friend's early death.
And indeed there is a certain existential crisis in confronting the emptiness of mid-level clubs' ideal scenarios: it requires double-think to continue with unflinching support for a cause that is inherently limited – to take pride in winning a match, despite knowing that the ultimate win is impossible.
Punishment: The best thing Bud Selig could do for Strawberry is force him to confront his emptiness without the locker room, the salary, the buzz.
For a long time Leith believed he might be able to confront the emptiness that seemed to have developed near the heart of him by thinking (as well as by eating).
Hardly a declaration of nationalistic pride, Born in the USA confronts the emptiness of the American dream.
Today we are witnessing the triumph of rationalist knowhow and yet, at the same time, we find ourselves confronted with emptiness.
The curious emptiness Chicago confronted, the way it just dropped off into nothing, especially at sunset or in the fog, this void was responsible for all the activity.
In the other, the author typically undergoes a crisis — a terminal illness, the death of a loved one, an onset of existential dread — that causes him to confront his life's emptiness, coming to realize that there is something out there greater than himself.
Confronted by all that emptiness at eight knots, all those shades of blue, the world is going to look too much like the vacancy of their real lives for anyone to risk actuality.
Setting the pace politically, morally and philosophically, Sweden had begun to confront the questions of spiritual emptiness and the meaning of life that arise when material comforts have been satisfied and traditional beliefs, restraints and standards set aside.
