Blankness

Johnny is a lost soul whose blankness translates as depth on a movie screen, apparently. ❋ Marshall Fine (2010)

Their blankness is a screen on which he projects his own ideas. ❋ Unknown (2005)

That blankness is part of the package being hawked so aggressively. ❋ Unknown (2004)

In another sequence, an African-American dancer's monologue says she wants "blankness" - but only after her character has gone into histrionics when another dancer claims she can take on the racial appearance of the people she's around. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I couldn't decide whether the 'blankness' of the Matt Damon character was deliberate or a deficiency in the script/acting. ❋ Walter Jon Williams (2010)

The result of Cameron's experiments, for the patients, was often considerable loss of short term and even long term memory and a subsequent lifelong feeling of "blankness" on the part of the patients ❋ Unknown (2008)

The reality of his feeling reference to the painful position of the defendant's father, the sincerity of his regret on behalf of the bank, for the deplorable exigency under which proceedings had been instituted, spread a kind of blankness through the court; men frowned thoughtfully, and one or two ladies shed furtive tears. ❋ Sara Jeannette Duncan (N/A)

There was always a kind of blankness in their faces. ❋ Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 (1945)

She stopped short, and a kind of blankness came into her eyes. ❋ Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 (1937)

Again and again he told himself that it was fancy that made him see in the faces of these people -- people, it must be remembered, who were not commonplace, but rather enthusiasts for their cause, since they preferred exile to a life under the Christian system -- that made him see a kind of blankness and heaviness corresponding to that which the aspect of their street presented. ❋ Robert Hugh Benson (1892)

But many critics have noted Don Giovanni's "blankness": he talks a lot in the opera, but it's all about sexual strategy, not himself. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Her blue eyes were wide with feigned blankness and surprise at my question. ❋ Susan Engel (2011)

He looked blankly at Lena and in that blankness she was struck by his sorrow. ❋ Carol Edgarian (2011)

After the choking and stifling had passed away, I seemed at first in a state of utter blankness; then came flashes of intense light, alternating with blackness, and with a keen vision of what was going on in the room around me, but no sensation of touch. ❋ James L. Kugel (2011)

She often cultivates an atmosphere of blankness, becoming a vessel for the role being played out, in order to immerse herself completely in the scenario. ❋ Bill Bush (2011)

Three months after her diagnosis in April 2009, the German mother of two sat for a series of portraits with photographer Jackie Hardt to capture her feeling of "blankness." ❋ Mary M. Lane (2011)