We live in brightly illuminated rooms on streets devoid of the terror of something moving just outside the lamp light.
"Read this," he seems to be saying, "it will be good for you; it will give you a taste of literary purity, something devoid of political or emotional affect".
Unlike the recent stage version of "The Graduate," which also turned a saucy, widely loved film into something devoid of flavor, "Urban Cowboy" has on its creative team someone who worked on the original movie.
We cannot postulate the existence of an underlying substance distinct from its qualities, for this would commit us to the existence of a naked, bare particular, the absurd conception of a something devoid of all qualities.
Inland, up to 44% of the trees were devoid of dominant arboreal ants, something not reported in other studies.
"And what they're selling is something so devoid of nutritional value that you can't even call it a food product".
For something totally devoid of form would be utterly featureless; it would be pure potentiality, but not actually anything.
Once everything is all set to go, the Christmas Cannon is "loaded with the spirit of Christmas" and "is then aimed at something horribly devoid of Christmas-ness and then blasts it with goodness".
Plenty of ICO projects waste time and precious resources putting out mundane press releases that are devoid of news just to produce something that they hope will placate their thirsty community of retail investors, and miraculously give their token a price jump.
That is to say, he believes that something wholly devoid of common (shared) conceptual content — a haecceity — can explain not only indivisibility into further particulars, but also distinction from all other particulars (Scotus, Ordinatio II, d. 3, p. 1, qq. 5 6, n. 177 (Scotus [OO], 7 478; Spade (1994), 103 104); n. 183 (Scotus [OO], 7 481; Spade (1994), 105)).
