Sentence examples for devoid of obvious from inspiring English sources
The faces are devoid of obvious emotion, yet are focussed by meditative feeling.
Now the 52-year-old returns to a Premier League landscape devoid of obvious openings for him.
In "Hanna" she enters with a face nearly as blank as paper and devoid of obvious emotion, her eerie, translucent blue eyes here transformed into opaque pools.
Much of the slang would be unintelligible to today's readers (even to those, like Mr. Bueller, well schooled in, er, French) but it sounds plenty bawdy even devoid of obvious meaning.
Himes called the black American "the most neurotic, complicated, schizophrenic, unanalyzed, anthropologically advanced specimen of mankind in the history of the world," and his exploration of that complicated character, in prose that is devoid of obvious lyricism and unencumbered by ideas that are not naturally woven into the fabric of the roiling narratives, accounts for his best work.
Maddeningly, nearly all are empty, devoid of obvious clues to what they once held.
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.
Among his solo releases, Extra Texture is notable as the only album whose lyrics are devoid of any obvious spiritual message.
Moreover, with the exception of its single, α-helix-forming TMD and two predicted intrinsically disordered (unstructured) segments located at its N and C termini (Figure 1a), OEP9 is devoid of any obvious structural and/or functional domains.
It was full of gnomic phrases ("fast and bulbous" is one of the better-known ones) and music devoid of cliché or obvious logic.
