As the public sphere became hollowed out, a fear of change would create an opening for retrograde politics.
Farther south, in a small house in the capital of Skopje, a farmer from Opae named Salih and one of two brothers badly beaten by the police this week, sat hollow-eyed with fear considering a future without a home or an income.
The argument that innocent people have nothing to fear rings hollow.
Japan, South Korea and Taiwan fear a "hollowing out" of their industries, as factories move to low-cost China.
The settlers' warnings that they'd resist proved hollow, and the government's fear that they might, baseless.
The excitement, however, has rung hollow for many Iraqis, who fear that their country's security forces are not ready to stand alone and who see the government's claims of independence as overblown.
Just a few months after Detroit emerged from the largest municipal bankruptcy in US history,the city now faces an economic crisis of a different kind: tens of thousands of its residents cannot afford to pay the taxes on their homes, leading to what activists have called a "conveyer belt" of tax foreclosures that some fear could further hollow out the city's already-beleaguered neighborhoods.
Pessimists fear this will hollow out middle-income, middle-class jobs on an unprecedented scale, with the WEF itself predicting that more than 5 million jobs could be lost in 15 major economies by 2020.
Some Yazidis fear that the hollowing out of local services and life may be intentional.
In general, the bullets that are the easiest to stop are the ones that unprotected people often fear the most: hollow-point, or dumdum, bullets, which are designed to fragment and spread on impact.
