Johnny is a lost soul whose blankness translates as depth on a movie screen, apparently. From Wordnik.com. [Marshall Fine: Movie Review: Somewhere] Reference
Their blankness is a screen on which he projects his own ideas. From Wordnik.com. [September 2005] Reference
That blankness is part of the package being hawked so aggressively. From Wordnik.com. [Cult of Personality | PopPolitics.com] Reference
That takes the blankness from the wilderness. From Wordnik.com. [Poems: Descriptive, Dramatic, Legendary and Contemplative, by William Gilmore Simms, Esq. In Two Volumes: Vol. II. I. Southern Passages and Pictures; II. Historical and Dramatic Sketches; III. Scripture Legends; IV. Francesca Da Rimini] Reference
There was always a kind of blankness in their faces. From Wordnik.com. [Died in the Wool]
She stopped short, and a kind of blankness came into her eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Vintage Murder]
R. KUKLINSKI: I would see the blankness come over them. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 26, 2006] Reference
The same cottonwoods swayed, horrifying in their blankness. From Wordnik.com. [The Snow Child and the Fiendish Lover] Reference
The woman, he said, because his mind was complete blankness. From Wordnik.com. [How dare you?] Reference
He remembered his wife screaming -- after that only blankness. From Wordnik.com. [Strange Alliance] Reference
But his spiritual sight was blinded by a firm, deadening blankness!. From Wordnik.com. [Joyce of the North Woods] Reference
Judith's face assumed a smooth blankness that passed unnoticed by both. From Wordnik.com. [Miss Pat at School] Reference
Nan's eyes met hers with a blankness of expression which betrayed nothing. From Wordnik.com. [The Moon out of Reach] Reference
But Thorvald was staring back at him with the blankness of non-recognition. From Wordnik.com. [Storm Over Warlock] Reference
Maud Grace's flat, expressionless face took on a really imbecile blankness. From Wordnik.com. [Janet of the Dunes] Reference
A blankness came over the girl's face as a light cloud will cross the moon. From Wordnik.com. [Hilda A Story of Calcutta] Reference
Then she tried indifferent German and I looked at her with puzzled blankness. From Wordnik.com. [The Secrets of the German War Office] Reference
I wanted Kelly here immediately, filling the blankness in my apartment. From Wordnik.com. [Seasonal Discord] Reference
It went off, and Turnbull's mind spiraled into blankness before he could react. From Wordnik.com. [Dead Giveaway] Reference
Such decor does have a suggestion of blankness papered over with borrowed style. From Wordnik.com. [The Coming Of Mao Zedong Chic] Reference
I switch off the TV and sit staring; the blankness of the screen reflects my mind. From Wordnik.com. [Red Fox Rampant] Reference
But that what is called advancing knowledge is violation of the sense of blankness. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the Damned] Reference
McChesney to shake his head, ever so slightly, and assume a blankness of expression. From Wordnik.com. [Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day] Reference
Five hundred pairs of eyes sought each other with the blankness of terror-numbed minds. From Wordnik.com. [The Return of Blue Pete] Reference
The ship was unchanged, only outside of the port was the red-shot blankness of jump-space. From Wordnik.com. [Planet of the Damned] Reference
Chessman turned and it took a brief moment for the blankness in his eyes to fade into life. From Wordnik.com. [Adaptation] Reference
Jimmie's momentary expression of blankness passed and Gertrude did not press her advantage. From Wordnik.com. [Turn About Eleanor] Reference
He humored me as one hushes an ailing child, but I saw the caution and blankness in his look. From Wordnik.com. [Montlivet] Reference
Over the wall's blankness the eucalyptus defined its crooked lines against the blue Egyptian sky. From Wordnik.com. [The Fortieth Door] Reference
Not a ray of recognition lightened the blankness of that stare as Herb's big figure passed before him. From Wordnik.com. [Camp and Trail A Story of the Maine Woods] Reference
He was always there, alone, stuck in the same spot, surrounded by blankness, in a world without a story. From Wordnik.com. [She's a Mystery Girl] Reference
In small biographical details, he recovers their humanity from the blankness of an ever-growing death toll. From Wordnik.com. [Johann Hari: Gideon Levy: The Most Hated Man in Israel -- and the Most Heroic] Reference
And this is more especially the case when the mistakes and the blankness have been caused by our own actions. From Wordnik.com. [Antony Gray,—Gardener] Reference
In a few seconds would come utter blankness again; her last chance would be gone for saving Roger and herself. From Wordnik.com. [Juggernaut] Reference
Perhaps they and their increase might furnish meat for the pseudomen who lurked inside the swirling blankness. From Wordnik.com. [The Weakling] Reference
He ruminated, tapping his teeth with a penholder, and eying the pair before him with a maddening blankness of gaze. From Wordnik.com. [Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day] Reference
Behind the blankness of her stare, she was seeing Sabin and her father lying shattered at the foot of a castle wall. From Wordnik.com. [The Falcons of Montabard]
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