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hollowness

[ UK /hˈɒlə‍ʊnəs/ ]
NOUN
  1. the quality of not being open or truthful; deceitful or hypocritical
  2. the state of being hollow: having an empty space within
  3. the property of having a sunken area

How To Use hollowness In A Sentence

  • At the Kennedy Center, during "Le Corsaire" 's opening marketplace scene, we saw a stageful of distinct characters, all telling their individual "stories" with wit, finesse and flair, but never play-acting hollowness. Bolshoi Embraces the Pre-Soviet Past
  • Their faces have taken on a sort of hollowness as they have aged.
  • There were not a few who saw things blackly in this respectand flayed the planlessness and heedlessness of the Reich's policies, andwell recognized their inner weakness and hollowness but these were onlyoutsiders in political life; the official government authorities passedby the observations of a Houston Stewart Chamberlain with the same indifferenceas still occurs today. Mein Kampf
  • [E] ssentially, The Good German is a parallel universe version of Casablanca, which both makes the film interesting and ultimately lends it a certain hollowness," writes Drew Morton at Dr Mabuse's Kaleido-Scope. GreenCine Daily: Shorts, 11/24.
  • The main com channel, only moments before so busy with professional, businesslike voices, now echoed with a distant electronic hollowness, meaningless clicks and scratches of static. Delta Search
  • Can imagine a hollowness and lonesome library, perhaps a computer, be it is all.
  • But the motivation behind it was an earnest bitterness at the hollowness of success.
  • Also, when I talked to my mommy, the call quality wasn't bad-it was very clear-but it also had a weird kind of hollowness to it. Gizmodo
  • He leaned against the carved doorframe, hugging himself wretchedly, wondering why he could feel almost nothing, not even real grief -- just a kind of hollowness that nothing, throughout the length of his life, would ever again fill. The Silent Tower
  • Suddenly there was a great hollowness in her chest and she fought the sharp sting of new tears.
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