Girls would look for shells just as their grandmothers did generations before them, boys would help bail out the rain from their fathers' boats every morning, and the shoreline would never be empty of naked children laughing, swimming and doing handstands in the surf.
The flatness of painting simply didn't fill the space, leaving it feeling empty and naked.
Not just are they a status symbol, but without them, people feel "lost, empty, and naked". Many of my patients described this separation in such dramatic terms.
The meadow had emptied of naked women.
All you can see are naked, empty plains; leafless, treeless".
The mere solitude would, of itself, ere long force him away, since there was no staying to guard empty houses and naked walls.
Fakhri El Ghezal, a Tunisian photographer, shows empty walls and naked picture frames that once displayed the portrait of the dictator, Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, who was removed from power by a bloodless coup.
The room itself was a shell: a few hundred square feet of empty concrete floor, naked wires hanging out of holes in the ceiling and white walls marked with stripes of tester paint.
we would ask them, eager to be free of it all, of the towels and swimsuits and bottles of juice and fruit, imagining ourselves alone on an empty stretch of beach, naked, with a rucksack.
