Sentence examples for vast blank from inspiring English sources

(281pp, Granta, £14.99) Only a century ago, the poles lay beyond the known world, vast blank spaces, untouched and unseen.

"Alpha Upsilon," done in 1960 by Morris Louis, repeating the artist's perennial colored curves at either extremity of a vast, blank canvas, sold for $1.31 million.

They're both such vast blank spaces that the film has to make them describe each other, just so we can see what the appeal is.

Tautou fixes me with those amazing eyes, those vast blank black pupils that make the dark eyes of other beauties look like anthracite dots.

But Mr. Guare puts other big symbols into play, including the idea of the tolerant, ethnically diverse New Orleans as a doomed Garden of Eden and the uncharted West as a vast, blank alabaster page.

Lake Tai, on whose shores Ni Zan lived, was a favourite subject of his: the centre of his works is often dominated by a vast, blank lake.This tranquil simplicity contrasts starkly with the layered brushwork of Wang Meng, whose surfaces are dense with ink.

Taking its lead from Bertolt Brecht and the black box theatre, Dogville arranges its inhabitants in a vast, largely blank interior where front doors creak unseen and the gooseberry bushes are represented by a helpful caption ("gooseberry bushes!").

That place and what it has come to represent is a vast and blank presence at the periphery and yet somehow at the center of narrative vision in Sebald's work.

For this 12-hour one-off (with the almost genteel timing of 2pm-2am), they set up in the Mayfield Depot, a vast barrel-vaulted blank canvas with daylight milkily seeping through corrugated plastic windows; a second room at the rear is a plunge into darkness even in the mid-afternoon.

A Friday night in BRC is an abstract-expressionistic painterly stroke of technicolor reality splattered across vast landscapes of earth and blank canvas.

Again, the vast majority of receipts are blanked out.