Sentence examples for great emptiness from inspiring English sources

A great emptiness sending people back to themselves".

"When the government collapsed, there was nothing left except a great emptiness.

Colm Toibin's first book of stories begins with a man on an upper balcony, looking out on a city that is a "great emptiness".

Heaney saw poetry itself, no matter what its content or tone, standing against the dull thought of life as a great emptiness.

Indeed, most of these authors would dismiss (and seem altogether untroubled by) the possibility that the materialists are correct and nothing but a "great emptiness" exists beyond our psyches and our selves.

Electric lights glowed a soft orange against the brick of the homes, and then, high above, there was a dark line where the mountains gave way to stars and the great emptiness.

"There was nothing there, behind that blank, but the great open emptiness of the world".

Amis called her "the poet of the Great Californian Emptiness", and it is as much for their mood of lonely disenchantment as for the stories they tell that her pieces are still worth reading.

As he strode purposefully through the great stone emptiness, his face carefully illuminated and his shadow thrown long upon the noble ramparts, his heels made a percussive staccato rhythm against the strains of Beethoven's "Ode to Joy".

For decades architects have looked on its great, tempting emptiness and felt an irresistible urge to propose beaches, inhabited bridges, lidos, zones for festivals fluttering with pennants and balloons, places to promenade as if it were the edge of the Mediterranean.

"The Great Australian Emptiness" is a thing of the past.