"The corridors in those grand hotels are immense and empty.
It is just steel and stone, a rough line scratched across an immense and largely empty landscape.
To him and to his contemporaries the idea that two bodies could exert gravitational forces on each other across immense distances of empty space was abhorrent.
In marked contrast, though, those for empty, immense, and immutable space are quite different.
Brightly lit in pristine, empty surroundings, the immense animal lies on one side, perfectly still except for an open, blinking eye that is as soulful as anything the size of a bowling ball can be.
Not all of it, by any means; "Soul Mountain" is the emptying of an immense, indiscriminately filled pocket: gems and pack-rat gleanings, both.
It's as if the contents of an immense toy chest had been emptied on top of him, when you need to believe that it's his imagination that summons these gaudy phantoms into existence.
It is a large canvas – in life, it is four feet square – showing an immense blue-grey sea, flat and empty except that, in the far distance, a tiny black triangle breaks the surface.
In one corner of Skolkovo's immense exhibition space, for example, several empty plastic Coke bottles hang from the ceiling with white paper strips infested with black plastic houseflies.
You can see in a sketch of the Green River that he left out the railway junction of the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific, stressing the empty plain stretching toward immense yellow and russet bluffs.
