Attempts to confront the void so often seem hollow.
Is the explanation for this as simple as the idea that he's taking refuge in language to deal with his inability to confront "the void," however you might define it?
This seemed the point of Ms. Whiteread's design: that Austrians should confront the void they had created in their own society, which is the empty space inside her monument.
Brushes with death force us to confront the unknowable void and the grim prospect of eternal nothingness.
Consider confronting the person.
First, when multinational companies from the developed world explore business opportunities in emerging markets, they must confront the same institutional voids that local companies face.
The episode was titled "The Void".
But the Taliban never formed a formal administration, and it is this void that now confronts the United States and its allies with a dangerous vacuum, and possible new civil war, if the movement is removed from power.
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.
