Sentence examples for the same emptiness from inspiring English sources

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The book's unhappy narrator fantasizes about living as another person but always encounters the same emptiness and helplessness that drove him to escape into fantasy in the first place.

The same emptiness that afflicts modern life leads doctors in Cairo and Karachi to vote for doctrinaire Islamists, stay-at-home moms in suburban Colorado and rural Minnesota to dig in as evangelicals, Web designers in Silicon Valley and Park Slope to make a cult of yoga while rejecting pasteurized milk, and Americans everywhere to throw parties with cupcakes filled with pink or blue custard.

Today, two days after the attacks, more people are venturing out but I'd guess, come nightfall, the same emptiness will take over the city again.

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The claim is acquiring the same rhetorical emptiness, bordering on mendacity, as did warnings of Saddam's weapons of mass destruction before the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

The same alienating emptiness shows when a million plus people elect the Mayor of a huge metropolis.

What he could not see was that overindulging in medication prescribed by a doctor was just as destructive as a street drug and was motivated by the same celebrity emptiness.

He shows us that desolation is not the same thing as emptiness, because unlike emptiness, it can fill a space -- in the heart of a person, or even of a city.

Debate, argument, and rhetoric were, in Jinsai's view, little more than empty formulations reflecting descent into the same kind of emptiness that so characterized the Buddhist teachings one sought to oppose.

Void encapsulates the same idea--emptiness as "an initial state when anything can appear". .

I saw the same wild black emptiness in my mother's eyes, 36 hours after the same kind of stroke.

When Garthe writes, in "National sky," of "the hustle of weightless/ furrowing thru tinkling empties," one could as easily say that the poet has summarized America in eight words or that she's done nothing of the sort and has, instead, merely posited a stream of language that breezily enacts in the inner ear the same sense of emptiness the words semantically propose.

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