Hollowness

"[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. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The superficiality, the alienation, the escapism and the hollowness are a result of a steady bombardment of confusing and deadening messages designed to reduce us to passive consumers. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Medium-full bodied throughout, without any of that 'hollowness' that some Long Island reds present on the mid-palate, the tannins are medium strength and a bit angular right now. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Maybe others in the pueblo feel the same sense of frustration, a strange kind of hollowness and loss. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Interviewees include Pete Seeger and, understandably lamenting the "hollowness" of the American dream, Robert Meeropol, son of the Rosenbergs. ❋ Will Dean (2010)

You looked at his backside and there was a kind of hollowness to it. ❋ Chris Cook At Willoughton (2010)

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. ❋ Shatner, William (1997)

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. ❋ Hambly, Barbara (1986)

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. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Your inability to communicate your philosophy categorically only shows your 'hollowness' and ignorance. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The 'hollowness' in claims on women empowerment was evident from the fact that the Congress, despite being headed by Sonia Gandhi, could not introduce the women's quota Bill in the Parliament four-and-a-half years after it came to power. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Benson says that compulsive buyers will generally attempt to fill the "hollowness" with material things, which can result in severe consequences. ❋ Unknown (2008)

"The spirit hypothesis exhibits a vacancy, triviality, and incoherence of mind painful to think of as the state of the departed, and coupled with a pretension to impress one, a disposition to 'fish' and face around and disguise the essential hollowness which is, if anything, more painful still. ❋ A. Alpheus (N/A)

The feeling ebbs quickly enough, but in its place comes a gnawing hollowness that makes me gasp. ❋ Lucy Weston (2011)

More than that, because of the hollowness of these words, nobody is going to accuse you of standing up and trying to do something different of great -- You'll last a good, long time and be known as someone who's easy to work with. ❋ Christopher Herz (2011)

The hollowness of his philosophy was caught on tape in 1980. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Very few people will bother to see it for the hollowness beyond the simple symbolism. ❋ Brian Ross (2010)