You looked at his backside and there was a kind of hollowness to it. From Wordnik.com. [James Given in no doubt Dandino can prove Classic material] Reference
Maybe others in the pueblo feel the same sense of frustration, a strange kind of hollowness and loss. From Wordnik.com. [Beautifully Arranged] Reference
Interviewees include Pete Seeger and, understandably lamenting the "hollowness" of the American dream, Robert Meeropol, son of the Rosenbergs. From Wordnik.com. [The weekend's TV highlights] Reference
Your inability to communicate your philosophy categorically only shows your 'hollowness' and ignorance. From Wordnik.com. [United We Blog! for a Democratic Nepal] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Gizmodo] Reference
Benson says that compulsive buyers will generally attempt to fill the "hollowness" with material things, which can result in severe consequences. From Wordnik.com. [AlabamaFamilyLawBlog.com] Reference
But its hollowness and falseness they feel at times most keenly. From Wordnik.com. [Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness.] Reference
They must be weary of the hollowness of the world, for it cannot satisfy. From Wordnik.com. [And Judas Iscariot Together with other evangelistic addresses] Reference
The hollowness of courtesies, and substance of deceits, idleness and pastime. From Wordnik.com. [The Christian Home] Reference
Upon Wayland's sensitive ear the words fell with a hollowness almost unbearable. From Wordnik.com. [The Pleasant Street Partnership A Neighborhood Story] Reference
The evidence for the crown showed the utter hollowness of the plaintiff's claim. From Wordnik.com. [Celebrated Claimants from Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton] Reference
I never realised my weakness, my pride, my hollowness so much as I did at my ordination. From Wordnik.com. [Letters to His Friends] Reference
Yes, but how many nebulous ideas, think you, would it take to stuff out their hollowness?. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864] Reference
O-liver weighing the hollowness of it all had thought whimsically of an old nursery rime. From Wordnik.com. [The Gay Cockade] Reference
You are Canadian -- in you I can banish the coldness, hollowness, and degeneracy of Europe. From Wordnik.com. [The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette] Reference
But satiety and chagrin surely follow such triumphs, and she lived to feel their hollowness. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864] Reference
There were no tears in his eyes, but a feeling of hollowness about his heart, and a great pain. From Wordnik.com. [Riders of the Silences] Reference
But "Kane" is a great film about hollowness, about the hollow men who keep thrusting to the top. From Wordnik.com. [Citizen Welles] Reference
The hollowness of her wish was clear to her, but she still wished for this night that she now had. From Wordnik.com. [The Marriott Hotel, Downtown Brooklyn] Reference
So a heart that is not particularly bad, but only lacks true principle, will soon expose its hollowness. From Wordnik.com. [Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness.] Reference
To combine English good sense without its heaviness, French vivacity without its hollowness, and the exuberance of. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 4, April, 1864] Reference
I can't call to mind any stage row I ever listened to that I shouldn't have spotted the hollowness of in a brace of shakes. From Wordnik.com. [An Old Meerschaum From Coals Of Fire And Other Stories, Volume II. (of III.)] Reference
The pie was cut; but alas! for the hollowness of human triumphs; the knife met a wilderness of crust and vacancy, but no cherries. From Wordnik.com. [A Grandmother's Recollections] Reference
Deep down in the hearts of all people there is a sense of the hollowness of Fashion, and a just loathing of its pretension and show. From Wordnik.com. [Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness.] Reference
There was an odd note of hollowness and uncertainty in the sound, and those who clapped could not have said themselves why they did so. From Wordnik.com. [Oberheim (Voices)] Reference
Scriptural doctrine of salvation, frequently faded from his notice, and perished even before he was fully conscious of their hollowness. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Luther] Reference
As long ago as last June you exposed the hollowness of peace offered under such conditions as are now set forth by the German Chancellor. From Wordnik.com. [Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him] Reference
His right hand, 'was the thought which comforted me at my own ordination, when I felt, as seldom before, my own hollowness and incapacity. From Wordnik.com. [Letters to His Friends] Reference
Thackeray's hatred of the snob, more than suspected him of being a snob himself; and Thackeray felt not less convinced of the hollowness of. From Wordnik.com. [The History of "Punch"] Reference
In North Kohala the remote beauty brought you to resolve about Y's predecessor, X., an ache and hollowness in your gut, gasping tears of relief. From Wordnik.com. [What You Catch a Glimpse of, Forget As Soon] Reference
For men facing an increasingly hollow, consumerized world, that path lies not in conquering women but in uniting with them against the hollowness. From Wordnik.com. [It's 'Thelma And Louise' For Guys] Reference
After her conversion I asked her if the life of the world had satisfied; her answer was, "It is hollowness and sham almost from beginning to end.". From Wordnik.com. [And Judas Iscariot Together with other evangelistic addresses] Reference
Their hollowness prevents incumbrance from weight, while their power of resistance is increased by having their traverse sections rounded in form. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
But it's hard to overlook the vehicle's hollowness, a kind of strangely unsupported sound to it — especially when my right foot was fully engaged. From Wordnik.com. [A Stylish SUV With a Hollow Core] Reference
At last the hollowness of his pretensions was detected, and there was no mincing of epithets for the man who had befooled and destroyed a great party. From Wordnik.com. [The Contemporary Review, January 1883 Vol 43, No. 1] Reference
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