Sentence examples for up the emptiness from inspiring English sources
It does fill up the emptiness inside — but only for a moment.
As in Paul Bowles's The Sheltering Sky, Africa is an emptiness that shows up the emptiness of those who come to experience it.
To Harrison's credit, he does more than play the situation for laughs, finally pointing up the emptiness of erotic engagement as a sole criterion for happiness.
The chancellor herself, when speaking about her childhood years, tends to focus on nonpolitical details — the peacefulness of the countryside around the town between Berlin and the Baltic Sea where she grew up, the emptiness of shelves at the state-run Konsum shops, her delight at jeans shipped from her aunt in West Germany.
The great strength of Alice and the Fly lies in its wickedly satirical portrayal of a world in which everyone tries to cover up the emptiness of their existence by means of "metaphorical phantoms", to borrow Greg's expression for his imaginary spiders.
Hence, acquisition of brand has stepped in order to fill up the emptiness which was left over by paid acquisition of user.
Wilde might have said that such things were too important not to write trivially about them; but O'Hara almost never faces up to the emptiness beneath this high life and low desire — if there's a subconscious revealed, it's very hard to detect.
Other times it shows up in the emptiness that our best friend feels when he has found himself going through the motions at work, rather than being fully present and engaged; he wants to do things that stretch him and applies his strengths, values and passions in the pursuit of something worthwhile.
I had been sleeping, and woke up to sense the emptiness of the house.
If you asked for directions to the fabled hole in the suburban soul, you might end up here, where the emptiness has been wrapped in the tightest gauze of retail.
Its kinetic editing, exotic locations and general atmosphere of high-stakes espionage can't quite cover up the shallow, cynical emptiness at its heart, but "Spy Game" does offer some fun on its noisy journey to nowhere.
