Bella Swan might be devoid of any obvious interests beyond her lust for vampire Edward Cullen and werewolf Jacob Black, but her very blankness has allowed a generation of young women who are in love or would like to be to live out their longings for dangerous, unattainable men.
The problem is that there is something bloodless about these accounts: everything is recounted from a great distance, a distance so great that it flattens August's life into a nondescript landscape, devoid of any real interest.
Unfortunately, to the extent that Pure Land Buddhism has seemed to resemble Protestant Christianity, it has also been assumed to be divorced from "genuine" or "original" Mahayana Buddhist thought and practices and devoid of any intellectual interest.
Compared to other methods, ICA is devoid of any a-priori definition of seed regions of interest [11].
These models of inducible insulin resistance are of considerable interest, because the results are devoid of any developmental compensation and, thus, bypass any changes that arise from deletion of the insulin receptor during embryonic development.
Sawyer goes utterly undefined, devoid of tendencies, thoughts, interests, ideas, because she is, rather, the embodiment of an idea; the protagonist of the film isn't Sawyer or her stalker but stalking as such.
It's clear that few among us regard themselves as entirely devoid of some nerdy interests.
It doesn't help that her boyfriend, C, seems devoid of interests that aren't at least tenuously related to Shark Week, and her roommate, B, flips through channels as a form of therapy.
Mary belongs to a recent cohort of female anti-protagonists: Devoid of personality and interests, they are not so much characters as devices through which the author can funnel observations about modern life and thoughtful plots.
