Sentence examples for sense of empty from inspiring English sources

Haunted by a sense of empty distances, the thirty-nine-minute piece generates an astonishing range of emotions.

The place is vast, but oddly, it doesn't give you that sense of empty space and wide horizons you normally get in a big lake.

In the gaps between the towns and villages it has as strong a sense of Empty Quarter (the desert in the Arabian peninsual) as anywhere in the country.

The novel keeps producing iterations of itself, in different places and times — England in the nineteen-eighties, Iraq in 2004, America in 2025, post-apocalyptic Ireland in 2043 — but instead of formal capability there is a sense of empty capacity.

My first thought on hearing the immeasurably sad news of Seamus Heaney's death was a sensation of a great tree having fallen: that sense of empty space, desolation, uprooting.

A jumble of influences, "Hell Ride" borrows its jump-around-in-time structure and absurdist wordplay from Quentin Tarantino (who apparently doesn't hold a grudge; he's credited as executive producer) and its sense of empty spaces and hovering doom from Sergio Leone.

Sadly, they've both taken voluntary redundancy and now all I'll ever know is this huge sense of loss, emptying into my ears like an olive oil-based anti-wax solution.

Later, as I lay still, fighting vertigo, watching stars, sensing the pull of empty space like hands spinning me backwards into the night, I remembered something Buster had said.

Like Cheever, Highsmith had complex feelings about her mother, and like Cheever she had a pervasive sense of being fraudulent, empty, somehow a fake.

But for the brand too, the product, the general sense of something slightly empty behind the noise that has hovered around our wastrel league for the past two decades.

In its attempt to be all things to all men – "we've got Match of the Day AND Songs of Praise" – BBC One has become an institution without any real sense of identity, an empty shell that's often filled with the insubstantial fluff of dodgy gameshows or, say, a series in which Angela Rippon and Les Dennis dish out consumer advice for befuddled dishwasher owners.