Sentence examples for emptiness lack from inspiring English sources

Here, "will" is not an inner emptiness, lack, feeling of deficiency, or constant drive for satisfaction, but is a fountain of constantly-swelling energy, or power.

The Gerald-Gudrun relationship shows his male dominance to be a shell overlying a crippling inner emptiness and lack of self-awareness, which eventually inspire revulsion in Gudrun.

When the discipline was removed, a chasm of emptiness and lack of purpose opened up before a generation of young men.

We need to enable a societal change that means people don't feel this sense of emptiness, this lack of hope and dreams.

But Ms Smith twists her plot so subtly (impossible to explain here) that it is precisely Archie's emptiness, his lack of rhyme or reason, his habit of making decisions by the flip of a coin, that carry the day.

"The door was open and the house was dark", his elegy for David Hammond, ends on a positively Larkinesque note of emptiness and lack of resolution: "here, there was no danger, / Only withdrawal, a not unwelcoming / Emptiness, as in a midnight hangar // On an overgrown airfield in late summer".

Depressivity entails feelings of inadequacy, inferiority, emptiness, and lack of future perspective.

Virtually all Indian Madhyamaka philosophers will claim, in some detail, that an ultimate truth is an object's emptiness, or lack of having a truly existent essence or nature.

Socrates responds to Agathon's fancy speech about love with an elenchus, so that his emptiness, his lack of knowledge, flows into Agathon, destroying the wisdom of great beauty that had won his tragedy a first prize the day before (175e4 7).

So alongside the very human sense of emptiness and lack, I still, on a regular basis, experience a sense of fulfillment, even if I don't always feel 'happy.'happy

Let's start by disregarding such ineptitudes - a "comparative listen" is no proof of culture but a sign of that very contemporary emptiness: a total lack of understanding of what constitutes a major work of art.