What is "blankness"

Usage examples of "blankness".

It is full moon here, and last night I was out on the pergola for hours, staring away at the shining blankness that hides so much.

All the while the guest had been smiling more and more broadly, and as Carter slipped into blankness the last thing he saw was that dark odious face convulsed with evil laughter and something quite unspeakable where one of the two frontal puffs of that orange turban had become disarranged with the shakings of that epileptic mirth.

And worst of all, they never spoke or laughed, and never smiled because they had no faces at all to smile with, but only a suggestive blankness where a face ought to be.

As he did, he looked out through the glass wall and imagined he could see down there in the hidden tapes the units of data fading into blankness and the new, false information flashing into existence.

There was nothing painful nor unnatural in their look, save, perhaps, the blankness of gaze which I have before noticed.

The gaunt face held a cheerful blankness, and the hollow eyes flashed with a merely momentary interest.

Percy pursed his lips and put on a blankness that would have done Modred credit.

The eyes relished darkness, conjuring up hints of what it might contain, but the borderlight flooded his vision with incontrovertible blankness.

Though twice the height of the Hurrians and more than twice the breadth, there was a blankness about their eyes, something completely submissive about the way they stood, with their thick-sinewed necks slightly bent, their bulging arms hanging listlessly.

Perry focused in on Ula, who gave the elided camera the startled-doe gaze of one caught in a crime she had momentarily forgotten was illegal, the blankness persisting for only a beat before she flashed the loosest grin of the night, blew the lens a soulful kiss, and scampered nimbly for the house.

Sisko said sharply, seeing the blankness of an ansible trance start to creep over her face and steal away its expression.

His sudden surge over Becher's melted his jockey's defensive blankness and thrust him into freshly vivid fear.

The wire lattice of the screen vanished and was replaced by the watery blankness of the operating Bhattacharya field.

The world must be full of such anguished biographies, David thought, unravelling as they sank into the past, effects preceding cause, pain and despair falling away as the blankness of childhood approached.

The last two days had been so unutterably boring, and he had been away for so long from his instruments and team of mathists, that Hari Seldon welcomed the brief blanknesses provided by short naps.