"When I'm empty, I look for emptiness.
These images have a lyrical loneliness that critics have compared to the works of Edward Hopper, but there is something more spectral here too, a haunting emptiness that looks forward to similarly filmed hallways in Stanley Kubrick's "Shining" (1980).
Rather than it being assumed, said Jaques, that the prehistoric ritual landscape was built by Neolithic people arriving from the continent to emptiness, "it looks as though they are meeting with a long-lasting Mesolithic community... therefore Stonehenge becomes a much more multi-cultural place.
A sense of emptiness when looking into the future can overwhelm you.
If Gove is pacing the ramparts in search of narcissism and emptiness, he need look no further than his own childish, prejudiced ejaculations, unfettered by reasoned argument or any hint of real engagement in the matter before him.
Looking inward, he felt "a disconcerting mixture of nostalgia, regret, claustrophobia, emptiness, and fear"; looking forward, he saw only "a projected sequence of accomplishments stretching through the future to retirement, decline, and death".
'I've gone for a look of emptiness and stillness,' she was telling the picture editor.
The world of "2001" was designed ex nihilo, and among the first details to be worked out was the look of emptiness itself.
This immensely elegant dancer moves as if possessed by all the forces of evil, combining a fang-like sharpness with a thuggish, monstrous strength, flashing with scintillating mockery, but evoking a spiritual emptiness that makes him look a thousand years old.
Cabral is magnificent, and utterly believable when she tells her story, except when she stands on a sand dune looking into emptiness.
