Sentence examples for upon empty from inspiring English sources

Philosopher William James once wrote of how meaning in his brother's less than innocent fictional prose 'was ingeniously formed by mirrors upon empty space'.

Repeatedly, this superbly intelligent biography falls upon empty archives, archives one wants to believe were shrewdly emptied by Fitzgerald or by her three children (who wants biographers spelunking in family darknesses?), but which one fears, rather, were never full to begin with, because little was ever said, let alone recorded.

"But they become vectors of disease upon emptying or flooding".

The downcast, unsure-of-himself man remembered a quotation from Dr. Peale: "To eliminated abnormal worry, empty the mind daily... Upon emptying the mind, practice refilling it..."...

The downcast, unsure-of-himself man remembered a quotation from Dr. Peale: "To eliminated abnormal worry, empty the mind daily... Upon emptying the mind, practice refilling it..."....

"The radicalization models that US government agencies have relied upon are equally empty of substance and are also little more than covers for the organized suspicion and demonization of Muslim populations," he added.

Avicenna did not burst upon an empty Islamic intellectual stage.

To paraphrase: Last night upon an empty chair We met a man who wasn't there.

The gunman lights a cigarette, watches despondently as dusk falls upon the empty alley.

Colonel Madere said the soldiers came upon an empty training camp that the Army believed may have been a base for Iraqi paramilitaries or Palestinians and other foreigners seeking to help defend Iraq.

In the melancholy after battle, as evening fell upon the empty dead, below the broken fortress melting into blood, within earshot of a little waterfall's nightingale song — bul-bul, bul-bul, it sang — the Emperor in his brocade tent sipped watered wine and lamented his gory genealogy.