Sentence examples for or nothingness from inspiring English sources
The idea of love as something tied to emptiness or nothingness is central to psychoanalysis.
LR: Is it a desire for the impossible, or nothingness, to become real?
The novel form is not conceived for depicting indifference or nothingness; a flatter, more terse and dreary discourse would need to be invented".
In the 20th century the question was treated in a revolutionary way by the German existentialist philosopher Martin Heidegger, who summarized the function of Not-Being in the neologistic words das Nichts nichtet ("Not-Being, or Nothingness, Denied").
Ronson is asked by the friend of a friend to investigate the appearance of an elaborate handmade book, Being or Nothingness, that has begun appearing in the pigeonholes of academics and other wonks across the world.
The Psychopath Test begins with Ronson being called upon by a friend of a friend to investigate a mysterious and lavish handmade book, Being or Nothingness, that has been circulated throughout a worldwide community of academic wonks.
I can't explain to her the all-or-nothingness that drives even people we love to sign off on the legality of high-capacity weapons for civilian use, under the provably false logic that any restriction is bad because it might keep them from ever owning a gun.
Emptiness, also called Nothingness, or Void, in mysticism and religion, a state of "pure consciousness" in which the mind has been emptied of all particular objects and images; also, the undifferentiated reality (a world without distinctions and multiplicity) or quality of reality that the emptied mind reflects or manifests.
Eckhart says ever again that the created is of itself pure nothing, indeed, even nothingness or nullity (nihileitas, nulleitas).
(We are said to catch glimpses of it when things alter their form or disappear; when things change or are destroyed, Nothingness or the Abyss becomes "visible" for "a fleeting … moment").
One could be balancing between one of the seven deadly sins and one of the virtues, over the tender heart of one's mother, or over nothingness on a wire strung between being and existence, or over the Pacific Ocean suspended between a Chinese birthplace and a new home in Hartford".
