The ballroom started to empty.
Learn to empty the glands.
Remember to empty your Trash.
As the story progresses, Doerr's style becomes more leisurely, more expansive, with fuller descriptions of landscape, long drifts into meditation, a growing willingness to wander through empty spaces.
Like West, he is happy to admit his faults, and although he discusses sex and money as enthusiastically as any rapper he shares West's willingness to point out how empty and complicated all of it can be.
So the installation of dedicated bike rooms in Manhattan's commercial buildings appears linked to landlords' willingness to take a hit on underused or empty space.
The collective began as a workshop last spring, part of a yearlong exhibition called "Mend," and it runs under a simple, useful premise: people bring broken objects to be fixed, or else come empty-handed with a willingness to help others fix things.
Those households that were empty or did not express a willingness to participate in the study were not subsequently interviewed.
The truth is: Without a genuine willingness to let in the suffering of others, our spiritual practice remains empty.
The common thread of these wanderers was a willingness to be prepared for anything – the true mark of a savvy traveller, suitcase full or empty.
