Sad feeling

Usage examples of emptiness.

Because the evacuees are attuned to the forms, genres, and in fact the larger aesthetics of television, they experience a lack, a sense of emptiness.

Being on the outermost reaches of the galaxy - and hanging well underneath the galactic plane, where the last vestiges of stars and gas gave way to the emptiness beyond - did not necessarily mean that a place was inaccessible, providing it was close to an arteria portal.

All around there was nothing but a black, smothering emptiness darker and more forbidding than the blackest chasm of the Underdark.

Two worn bootheels they could see, standing on emptiness, and above that a man-sized bulk of gray dust so thick it looked like fur, joined to the ceiling and walls by lazy, dusty arcs of cobwebs that must be as thick as ropes.

She could sense the emptiness around her, the deserted cabins, the lack of distant bustle.

As the dawn broke full over the horizon, Caliban stood at the edge of where the map said there was only emptiness.

I was stationed in Paris and occasionally in London at that time, and fascinating though those capitals were to a young American happy to have escaped from the incredible smugness and emptiness of the Calvin Coolidge era, they paled a little when one came to Berlin and Munich.

But worse than all that was the feeling of emptiness, of disconnectedness, she had.

Had the ship been other than an engineless wreck, falling through a hundred and fifty million miles of emptiness into the flaming photosphere of a sun, everything would have seemed quite normal, including the errand Baird and Diane were upon, and the fact that they held hands self-consciously as they went about it.

Miraculously the fires had missed two or three Inns but around them was stark emptiness, ash and embers, up to the charred encircling fence and the moat beyond.

The dead streets and the ghoulies haunting the rad-blighted emptiness.

That feeling of emptiness and panic, the result of her interview with the Guatemalan general at the apartment house, vanished magically.

With the return of passion, the old emptiness reared alive within him as the ancient difference between Hades and the other immortals reawakened.

The hobbies plunged into one of the slits of emptiness and darkness closed upon us.

Emptiness, and not through a regressive dissolution of dialogical intersubjectivity into atomistic monological states and reductionistic mindless cognitive mechanism, the path the authors all too often stray into.