There is no better time to speak than right now for a person devoid of curiosity.
This schema imagines smoking persons as devoid of agency.
To the Gillard camp, Kevin Rudd is a man putting his own thwarted ambition above the interests of the party, a person so devoid of "Labor values" he would destroy the party he claims to serve in an utterly selfish bid to get his old job back.
In 2A6 human nature (ren xing) it is said that no person is devoid of a heart (the word for heart in Chinese stands for the seat of thinking and feeling, hence often translated as "the mind") sensitive to the suffering of others, and to illustrate this beginning, Mencius asks us to suppose that a man were suddenly to see a young child about to fall into a well.
It runs the risk of investigators treating persons as things, devoid of any interests of their own.
The palms, fingers, toes and soles of an affected person are smooth, devoid of the subtle ridges that others have.
It may be a direct first-person expression apparently devoid of the author's selection and control, as in Molly Bloom's monologue concluding James Joyce's Ulysses (1922), or a third-person treatment that begins with a phrase such as "he thought" or "his thoughts turned to".
He was a unique sort of holy person, totally human, devoid of posturing.
What is almost certainly arguable is that a person who is completely devoid of loyalties would be deficient as a person understood inter alia as a moral agent.
"On matters concerning language and culture, the distinction can sometimes cease to exist altogether". Part stream of consciousness, part third-person narrative, sparsely punctuated, devoid of chapters and written entirely in the words and cadences of working-class Glasgow, "How Late It Was, How Late" does make for hard reading, which seems to explain some of the objections.
In today's culture of social media quips and online relationships devoid of in-person connections, it's easy to confuse "likes" and "shares" with real friendships.
