Sentence examples for gaping emptiness from inspiring English sources

The three pictures strike me as variations on a theme of gaping emptiness.

He later elaborated, "I felt that I couldn't go on, that the pain of what had happened would leave within me an abyss of despair, a gaping emptiness, if I didn't try, in this way, to overcome the monstrosity both intellectually and emotionally; and so I had no other option but to begin my research".

For all her emphasis on, well, emphasis (among other things, "Night Film" may set a new record for italics), Pessl can't disguise a gaping emptiness at the center of the book.

Genet's play may revel in its artificiality, in its belief that being is nothing but an interlude of play-acting covering over a gaping emptiness, but Huppert's mode of play-acting often seems at variance with the rest of this athletic Anglophone production.

In this scenario, where gaping stretches of emptiness and unfinished projects proliferate, the very fact that an operation reaches its completion may be considered a success.

Guido Tondino's grimy but unatmospheric set slides open and shut at intervals to expose a gaping, backlighted emptiness, for instance.

So maybe those attacking them aren't incredibly drunken idiots lashing out at innocent people in a futile attempt to deflect from their own massive inadequacies and the gaping, terrifying emptiness that festers in their souls; maybe they're just very tired?

Despite being informed in advance, they still gaped at the emptiness of the city: its lack of a real city center and its virtually empty 10-lane highways, seemingly poised for the arrival of millions who did not seem to be coming.

Many of those were gaping disparities.

Looming over that is the gaping deficit.

For starters there are gaping security issues.