Sentence examples for use of nothing from inspiring English sources

There is an absolute use of "nothing" that excludes literally everything that exists.

"Can you make no use of nothing, nuncle?" the Fool asks Lear, meaning, among other things, can you make no use of your now-impoverished state to see what the world can be, at bottom?

Heidegger's most famous presentation of Van Gogh's painting pivots again on an ambiguous use of "nothing," to which Heidegger now adds an elliptical, intimating locution ("And yet…") in order to encourage his audience to hear a subtle shift and so notice the meaning suggested by his otherwise superfluous addition, "and nothing more".

The use of "aught" to mean "nothing," "zero," or "cipher" is a nineteenth-century corruption of the word "naught," which actually does mean nothing, and which, as in the phrase "all for naught," is still in current usage.

And, even if it does, this theory will come in such a bewildering number of versions that it will be of no practical use: a Theory of Nothing.

It is certain' -- the Frenchman had used this expression of nothing else he had shown me -- that Jesus of Nazareth would have stepped on this stone as he left the city for Golgotha.' "Carroll kneels and kisses the stone.

But Justices Souter and Ginsburg said the use-of-force law said nothing about detaining citizens.

I think of Dante's use of ice as nothing but a mere deception.

His use of power had nothing of arbitrariness; rather was it exerted as an influence.

In many ways the political use of fear is nothing new.

Matthew Haskins's lighting design made handsome use of chiaroscuro but nothing could mitigate the sooty bleakness of it all.