| 单词 | vacuity |
| 例句 | He reached for the doorknob that opened the way out into the unlit hall, then shrank back as he glimpsed the vacuity of the rest of the building. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z The canvases bear little resemblance to one another but operate together as a meditation on the word “wonderful” itself, on its vacuity and overuse in American culture. Rochelle Feinstein Makes Work That Is Purposefully Hard to Define 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z A hot-blooded, Irish nationalist and proto-feminist during her youth, she raged that women were forced into lives of “vacuity, inanity, vanity, absurdity and idleness.” ‘Wilde’s Women’: the surprising force behind Oscar’s fame and success 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z In terms of tone, The Blind Side is breezy and uncomplicated to the point of vacuity. You review: The Blind Side 2010-03-29T15:01:00Z If it weren’t a perceived transition that got people’s attention, it’d simply be an affiliation with a group that are shorthand for celebrity vacuity. Bruce Jenner's Interview With Diane Sawyer: What It Could Do 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z Not to worry: Therese Anne Fowler’s “A Well-Behaved Woman” eschews the “Dynasty” approach in favor of a gimlet-eyed look at the vacuity and hypocrisy of life among the 400. Review | A look back at the ‘supreme hostess’ of the American gilded age 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z We play these attitudes and these practices for real, but in a context which, we hope, betrays their vacuity. Death of The Author: how did my play fare in LA? 2011-03-07T17:31:16Z Not to mention that immersive theater can be gimmicky and frustrating — too often, it is merely a distraction from a show’s vacuity. Rib-Eye Steak With a Side of Shakespeare 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z “Spencer” seems to me the more coherent film, partly because the directness of Stewart’s performance stands out so poignantly against the moral vacuity and aesthetic constipation of her surroundings. ‘Spencer’ Review: Prisoner of the House of Windsor 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z “The choice was so heroic and unoriginal that it left them forever after with a feeling of gaping vacuity,” he writes. In Robert Lowell’s ‘Memoirs,’ Mental Illness, Creative Friends and a Takedown of Dad 2022-07-25T04:00:00Z Most gossip isn't extraordinary, or particularly harmful; it's usually inconsequential, as Moon Unit Zappa's mesmerising stream of vacuity demonstrates. Readers recommend: songs about gossip ? the results 2011-03-03T13:03:50Z Meanwhile, traffic still roars over the Theodore Roosevelt Bridge, and visitors must still cross the dispiriting vacuity of Virginia Avenue to get to the center. Perspective | At 50, Kennedy Center can no longer be a cultural island 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z Rather like her character, it’s a performance that’s easy to dismiss without a closer look: Bong’s film isn’t morally one-sided in its class war, and her oddly sympathetic vacuity is instrumental to that tension. For your consideration: this season's most overlooked film performances 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z Hirst's statue in Devon revives the ugly vacuities of art in the age of the dictators. Damien Hirst's new statue is a dangerous monstrosity 2012-10-11T14:23:22Z And there are also emotionally and intellectually precocious 14-year-olds who will appreciate the game’s sharp skewering of contemporary American vacuity as seen through the eyes of a Balkan immigrant named Niko Bellic. Critic?s Notebook: The Court Has Ruled; Now Games Have a Duty 2011-06-28T22:04:38Z I have “a terrible vacuity about me and with me and a nostalgia for Cleveland,” he wrote to a friend in 1920. America’s forgotten poet 2012-10-04T20:02:00Z The effect of these paintings is miraculous: As you approach, a kind of darkness looms in the center of the canvas; as you retreat, the canvas seems to fade into a white vacuity. Art so good it needs a spoiler alert 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z This is made explicit on Super Rich Kids, which rips into the vacuity of excessive privilege and "Too many joyrides in Daddy's Jaguar". Frank Ocean: Channel Orange – review 2012-07-14T23:05:46Z Compare the vacuity of this with the oratorical climax of Chaplin's The Great Dictator to remind yourself that comedy needn't turn its back on reality. Why The Dictator isn't Great 2012-05-16T14:38:23Z The piece’s many solos are its weakest spots, exposing the dancers’ patchy technique and the aimless vacuity of much of Mr. Neoral’s choreography. Dance Review: Focus Cia de Dança Performs at the Joyce Theater 2014-03-11T21:02:30Z And the film’s structure, which evokes the shiny, breathless vacuity of “all-access” promotional documentaries like “Katy Perry: Part of Me,” does not crowd the riffing and noodling with too much plot or sentiment. Review: Andy Samberg Spoofs Pop Stars Without Spite. And That’s 4 Real. 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z While skewering its vacuity and vulgarity, Langsdorf captures the sensuous allure of confident, over-the-top American consumerism. Families Banter and Bicker Their Way Through Three New Novels 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z Morales’s short-lived reintroduction did provide a jumping-off point for comparisons between his decline into badness and Rick’s – and by extension those of all the other so-called Good Guys circling the drain of moral vacuity. The Walking Dead: season eight, episode three recap – Monster 2017-11-05T04:00:00Z Cam’s platform consists of a smiling family and three words — “America, Jesus, Freedom” — and he seems secure in the assumption that his cheerful vacuity and aggressiveness will win him a fifth term. Movie Review: Movie Review: ‘The Campaign,’ Starring Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis 2012-08-10T03:56:14Z Many complain about the dross Big Hollywood produces, the dreck that major networks air, the vacuity of big-time industrial pop music — products that require mass audiences to pay back their investment. TV's new microaudiences are shaking up the business 2014-08-08T04:00:00Z Granted, long takes of the leading man’s face are often a sign of directorial indulgence or vacuity. Rampart: Woody Harrelson Shines as L.A.'s Dirtiest Cop 2011-11-26T14:00:46Z The 1925 novel lays bare the moral vacuity at the heart of the American Dream, and it finds a modern companion in Frank Ocean's 2012 album Channel Orange. Great Gatsby and Channel Orange – the perfect soundtrack 2013-05-30T03:11:38Z He describes these violent men as "lost boys", seeing in their faces "this horrible lostness, this horrible vacuity". Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: David Greig on making a musical to rival Matilda 2013-06-18T07:00:00Z Art that flaunts its content in an immediately readable way risks vacuity. Marc Quinn's giant baby sculpture infantilises art 2013-01-21T13:41:50Z All the same, every line of perspective you follow ends in vacuity: glassy water, the depopulated hills across the bay, the milky, featureless sky. Eadweard Muybridge 2010-08-28T23:06:00Z And the numbing sameness of every single scene is nothing short of courageous, standing as an indictment of empty consumerism, political gridlock, spiritual vacuity and the general stagnation of our age. Critic’s Notebook: Sprout Channel’s ‘Snooze-a-Thon’ on Christmas Eve 2012-12-23T22:47:32Z All of it unfolds in the atmosphere of gaudy, portentous vacuity that is Mr. Singh’s trademark. Review: In ‘Self/less,’ Immortality at a Cost 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z But he has also organized exercises in frenetic vacuity like “AngloMania,” “Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy” and the overreaching “Punk: Chaos to Couture.” Review: At the Costume Institute, Couture Meets Technology 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z It's just a carnival of vacuity, a shimmering mirage, not just a victory of style over substance, but a total hammering. TV review ? Barbara Windsor: A Comedy Roast and Louie Spence's Showbusiness 2011-01-06T08:00:02Z It rescues our meetings from vacuity, creates fabulous places to work, brings humanity to leadership and leadership to humanity. Let me finish: how to stop interrupting… and change the world 2020-10-24T04:00:00Z “The Tomorrow War” is betting its flash will blind us to its vacuity. ‘The Tomorrow War’ Review: Future Schlock 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z We also knew that there is still something we “like” about this powerful figure’s hapless vacuity from Sofia Coppola’s pop-flavored 2006 film, though David Adjmi’s drama is significantly darker as it chronicles history’s grim march. A mod ‘Marie’ in bikini and wigs at Woolly To some, however, she will forever epitomize the Trump administration’s intellectual vacuity and narcissism. Louise Linton Has Made a Movie 2021-01-09T05:00:00Z Had their roles been taken by well-known principals, the vacuity of the material would be soon evident. Critic’s Notebook: Taking Stock of City Ballet’s Secret Weapon 2014-03-03T22:56:00Z All those legitimate concerns about the expense and vacuity of the end result were brushed off as examples of sheer, wilful negativity. In praise of cynicism 2013-07-10T17:27:31Z That wall is studded with video monitors where the vacuity of American life is prominently displayed. Alienation sings! 'American Idiot' comes to B'way 2010-04-20T23:17:00Z And its use as a front for the fake-town studio in The Truman Show is an apt comment on the vacuity of the film industry. Hugh Hefner saves the Hollywood sign 2010-04-27T19:00:00Z Really, though, all he advertises is the vacuity of his imagination, which he mistakes for the moral emptiness of his characters and the society that spawned them. Review: Bored, Beautiful Terrorists With a Taste for Luxury Brands 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z Is the whole thing some elaborate, Kaufmanesque hoax: Phoenix and Affleck's attempt to escape the straitening vacuity of 21st century Hollywood cinema? I'm Still Here trailer deepens Joaquin Phoenix mystery 2010-08-17T14:11:00Z Russian society, he wrote, was ruled by "arbitrariness, hypocrisy, lying, rapacity, treachery and vacuity". Paul Foote obituary 2011-04-05T17:45:40Z A: There was definitely an underlying element of a cautionary tale, be careful what you wish for in terms of fame and glamour, and the vacuity of it all. A Minute With: Gugu Mbatha-Raw on women in music, facade of fame 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z The problem here is not beauty, but vacuity. Movie Review: ‘Twice Born’ Stars Penélope Cruz and Emile Hirsch 2013-12-05T22:27:14Z What saves “Everybody Rise” from emotional vacuity is the portrait of Evelyn’s parents, Barbara and Dale, and of her relationship to them. Review: ‘Everybody Rise,’ Stephanie Clifford’s Debut Novel, Features That Old-Money Scent 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z Bankman-Fried exploited the vacuity of crypto as an asset by slathering it over with what sounded like profundities but were vacuous at their core. Column: Sam Bankman-Fried's seven guilty verdicts expose crypto as a swindle through and through 2023-11-03T04:00:00Z His article in Harper’s has something of Joan Didion’s wry bemusement about the vacuity of modern celebrity. L.A. tech reporter Taylor Lorenz falls down the influencer rabbit hole 2023-10-02T04:00:00Z Certain modernist artists attacked the system, while others exposed its vacuity, its emptiness or shallowness, against the darker, more complex reality they thought lay underneath. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z One of the secondary subjects of this tough, absorbing, meticulously controlled movie is the creeping vacuity of so much contemporary teen culture — a culture in which Lea participates without feeling entirely of it. Review: The teen drama 'Palm Trees and Power Lines' tells a searing story of abuse 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z Kaokept, who charms as the Balladeer, recedes into sympathetic vacuity when playing Oswald. Review: East West Players revives a disturbingly timely 'Assassins' 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z Republicans in the House have done their best to set a standard of deadly misinformation, poisonous bigotry and mental vacuity. Opinion | How is the GOP’s coronavirus recklessness compatible with being pro-life? 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z They make up for their intellectual and moral vacuity with a zealous subservience to power. The corporate state came for human rights lawyer Steven Donziger — and we're next 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z Abortion rights advocates challenge every state regulation of abortion and routinely obtain injunctions against such laws by federal trial judges whose discretion is essentially unfettered by the vacuity of the law. Opinion | Critics of Texas’s convoluted abortion law have a point. The solution is to overturn Roe v. Wade. 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z The infamous, incredulous ending has Ramirez suddenly realizing the vacuity of his fast, fun life and returning to the Eastside “back where I belong ... with my own people.” 'Bordertown' to 'Bordertown,' this Mexican writer's journey through Hollywood 2021-06-13T04:00:00Z While their intellectual and moral vacuity is often darkly amusing, it is murderous and savage when directed towards their victims. Unraveling of the American empire: A series of military debacles point toward a tragic end 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z But really, the deeper issue is a moral vacuity of framing a violent attempt to overthrow the government as if it's an everyday horse race story. Media tries to "both sides" an insurrection: No, anger over the Capitol riot isn't "partisan rancor" 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z Yet the Republican decision this year to adopt no policy platform whatsoever shines a light on the democratic significance of the exercise - and the alarming vacuity of the Republican Party under President Trump. Editorial Roundup: US 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z Yet the Republican decision this year to adopt no policy platform whatsoever shines a light on the democratic significance of the exercise — and the alarming vacuity of the Republican Party under President Trump. Opinion | The Republican Party announces that it stands for nothing 2020-08-24T04:00:00Z Their martyrdom, it seems, is ideological: They support Trump despite his countless moral failings and spiritual vacuity, because they believe that sacrifice will open a gate to heaven. Kayleigh McEnany, Mike Pence, and the narcissistic apocalypse of the new evangelicals 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z This is the secret of their dutiful sameness and dreary vacuity. Perspective | Every pandemic-themed TV commercial is an empty advertisement for advertising 2020-06-03T04:00:00Z The safer route for a billionaire trying to avoid social media predators is idle-rich vacuity. Bill Gates is the most interesting man in the world 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z But ultimately they all smack of strategic desperation, ideological vacuity and racial pandering. Nationalism needn’t be negative – but it has to be honest | Gary Younge 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z The lyrics hint at Warhol’s aura of vacuity and his callousness toward the deaths of regulars at the Factory — Warhol’s studio — such as Candy Darling and Eric Emerson. Perspective | How I discovered a dozen new Lou Reed songs 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z “For when you ask yourself, ‘If you must die, what are you dying for?,’ an absolutely black vacuity suddenly rises before you with startling vividness,” Bukharin said in the courtroom. The Desperate Plight Behind “Darkness at Noon” 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z And by what magic of moral vacuity has the infamous Access Hollywood tape disappeared down the memory hole? Jeffrey Epstein is Donald Trump's idea of the perfect man 2019-07-13T04:00:00Z Is there a future beyond the rapaciousness of agrobusinesses and the vacuity of twee tourism? Voters are right to fear for their dying villages as Spain goes to the polls | Giles Tremlett 2019-04-27T04:00:00Z And if you’re old, perhaps it’s just another sign of the vacuity of modern life. Instagram is stripping its devotees of their basic humanity | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z Even for a White House that regularly sets new Olympic records in implausible vacuity. Like Trump's favorite steaks, Roger Stone is well and truly done | Richard Wolffe 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z In sharp contrast to the inhuman vacuity of Superman, Lee’s superheroes were plagued by anxieties, ambivalence and a messy interface with an imperfect world. Stan Lee, the progressive genius: Michel Faber pays tribute to Marvel's mythmaker 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z “You guys,” she always begins excitedly, her best-friend confessional manner treading a fine line between vacuity and brilliance. Busy Philipps: 'I've been on three big TV shows but was broke by the age of 28' 2018-10-21T04:00:00Z One director’s vision of metaphysical vacuity had mutated into another’s pulp horror, and, in both cases, we were seized with apprehension. “Halloween” Is Hellbent on Making a Fresh Start 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z It means to willingly accept nonstop lies, intellectual vacuity and naked incompetence and pretend they are signs of stable genius. I have no choice: I am a liberal 2018-07-08T04:00:00Z The president’s approach to the issue is burdened by a degree of vacuity. Trump: protesting athletes 'maybe shouldn't be in the country' 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z In his Dec. 27 op-ed, “My New Year’s wish for Trump: Respect the haters, too,” Gary Abernathy demonstrated the vacuity of the reasons for the continued support of President Trump. Opinion | A New Year’s wish for Gary Abernathy: Respect the truth 2017-12-31T05:00:00Z According to Timothy Egan, it seems that the root of Mike Pence’s vacuity is his “theocratic construct,” a deduction he derives from Pence’s propensity for proposing prayer for victims of our various domestic tragedies. Egan vs. Pence: An affront 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z Corker has talked of Trump’s vacuity: He acts “like he’s doing ‘The Apprentice’ or something.” Opinion | Republicans, it’s time to panic 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z These responses demonstrate that responding to the President and his moral vacuity is not a matter of resistance. ADL President: What the Lynching of Leo Frank Shows Us About Hate 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z You could say that its chief concern is with its characters’ moral vacuity, the banality of their particular evil. Bertrand Bonello's 'Nocturama' is a haunting portrait of young French terrorists in action 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z The document — “shorter than a drug store receipt,” says Wyden — was one page long, contained 218 words, eight numbers and a thumping vacuity, the promise to “eliminate tax breaks for special interests.” Opinion | The Democrat who knows the tax code is a ‘rotting carcass’ 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z Speaker Paul Ryan may try to excuse the president’s behavior as that of a novice, but let us not confuse political naivety with ethical vacuity. Donald Trump Jr offers the closest thing to a smoking gun | Lawrence Douglas 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z Firstly because Le Pen is in the second round and secondly because Macron is a marketing product full of vacuities. 'Death of the French left': why voters are hesitating over Macron 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z The moral vacuity of Republicans in Congress, and the unlikelihood that they’ll act as any check on the president, becomes clearer with each passing day. Goodbye spin, hello raw dishonesty 2017-03-05T05:00:00Z You don’t have to read or watch many interviews to see that the principal qualities now sought in a celebrity are vapidity, vacuity and physical beauty. Celebrity isn’t just harmless fun – it’s the smiling face of the corporate machine | George Monbiot 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z Fitzgerald questioned the moral and ethical vacuity of the rich in his works. Trump's Great Gatsby government will be a gift to the rich | Nomi Prins 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z There's been much moaning about the vacuity of the campaign. EU referendum: Inside the voters battleground - BBC News 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z The vacuity of Trump’s politics, the pantomime of religious sincerity, and the vulgarity of his very public private life should make him a pariah for them. This is an American tragedy: Republicans must step up and defeat Donald Trump 2016-05-28T04:00:00Z There’s no doubt that it spawned all manner of vacuity, and yet much of the early work retains its questing power, its unsettling occupation of the boundary between object and idea. Conceptual art: why a bag of rubbish is not just a load of garbage 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z Trump, however, is all edge and no conservatism, although his shambolic syntax disguises his vacuity. Are we finally reaching ‘peak Trump’? 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z Doused in doses of chemicals, platelets, diuretics, anti-nausea and sleeping and pain medications, she found herself “called back” from vacuity only by a caring spectator. Living With Cancer: Shedding Tears 2015-12-23T05:00:00Z “The vacuity and tendentiousness of so much legal reasoning are concealed by the awesome scrupulousness with which a set of intricate rules governing the form of citations is observed,” he wrote. Yale Finds Error in Legal Stylebook: Harvard Did Not Create It 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z "Given the vacuity of the script, it must be admitted that Hathaway achieves something of a triumph," Farber says. Reviews commend Hathaway and De Niro's platonic friendship in 'The Intern' 2015-09-26T04:00:00Z The Vatican’s majesty does not disguise the vacuity of this. Pope Francis’s fact-free flamboyance 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z So Drake resurfaced on July 29 with a slightly more muscular tune, “Back To Back,” perhaps now aware of the vacuity of his endeavor. Beef jerky: Listening to Drake and Meek Mill after the smoke clears 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z Last week, I suggested that the vacuity of his message would ultimately catch up with him, a position that I am sticking with. How Durable Is Donald Trump’s Surge? 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z I think Stewart’s show demonstrated the decline and vacuity of contemporary comedy. Camille Paglia takes on Jon Stewart, Trump, Sanders: “Liberals think of themselves as very open-minded, but that’s simply not true!” 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z As time goes on, he will face more questions about his evasions and exaggerations, and the vacuity of his rhetoric will be increasingly difficult to ignore. Donald Trump’s Troubles Are Just Beginning 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z No GPS yet invented will tell you, and that, of course, is the beauty of its fine blend of vagueness, vapidity and vacuity. The Unstoppable Appeal of ‘Going Forward’ 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z It induced “a temporary feeling of invincibility but masks weakness and vacuity.” The Seven Deadly Sins Of Activist Hedge Funds 2015-02-15T05:00:00Z For many voters the scandal exposed a vacuity at the heart of British politics and sealed their contempt for politicians. Westminster wakes up to change 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z Today, away from the eager vacuity of spin, Alex Salmond turned to a great icon of the 20th century for inspiration. Alex Salmond turns to Zsa Zsa Gabor 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z On the flipside of his youth and energy are inexperience, improvisation and moments of vacuity. Atwitter about Matteo Renzi 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z We lament the bastion of misogyny, gratuitous capital and emotional vacuity that represents much of mainstream hip-hop today. Hip-hop’s profane victory: How corporations co-opted black cool 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z It is an attack by economics on society of Neronian savagery, one unequalled in intellectual vacuity since the gold standard and the Great Depression. Eurozone crisis: the bankers are happy to play Nero as Europe burns 2012-07-31T20:00:01Z His manners were without reproach, but were derived rather from mental vacuity than nobility of character; for with the deportment of an hidalgo he combined the intelligence of a permanent official. A Safety Match 2012-03-19T02:00:23.817Z He must have experienced, for some considerable time, a miserable vacuity of soul, and a discontent with every thing in the world. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z In order to become thoroughly warm it was necessary to walk long and briskly on the roof, and this brought all the villagers below it to stare the stare of vacuity rather than of curiosity. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:15.857Z It has a fine lot of old pictures, but otherwise it is a nightmare of pretentious vacuity: a city of chalky stucco—a Florence and Athens in canvas and planks. The Letters of Henry James (volume I) 2012-02-08T03:00:15.197Z The very vacuity of the present version will be sufficient evidence, I hope, of my endeavor to be as faithful as possible to the original. The Unpopular Review, Number 19 July-December 1918 2012-01-09T03:00:24.167Z An idiotic wistfulness marked the blond vacuity of his face. Gargoyles 2012-01-05T03:00:27.063Z They take comfort in their detachment, and are apt to speak of themselves, with mock humility, as "plain, blunt persons," for whom the alleged vacuities of such an order of art are-186- comfortably negligible. Aspects of Modern Opera Estimates and Inquiries 2011-12-12T03:00:24.900Z Well may the ploughman seek, by chanting old-time ditties, to avoid utter vacuity of mind. Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration 2011-12-05T03:00:38.980Z This sphere of material vacuity extends beneath us to a depth that I am sure you will be astonished to learn is over six thousand miles. Etidorhpa or the End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and The Account of a Remarkable Journey 2011-10-18T02:00:20.997Z There sits another fellow staring into vacuity, while between his lips, profusely covered with a heavy beard, the growth of a quarter of a year, sticks a stub-stemmed pipe. Forest Life and Forest Trees: comprising winter camp-life among the loggers, and wild-wood adventure. with Descriptions of lumbering operations on the various rivers of Maine and New Brunswick 2011-10-11T02:01:03.847Z The palatine is slightly rounded at its anterior end, which extends anteriorly to the posterior margin of the vacuity containing Jacobson's organ. A Revision of Snakes of the Genus Conophis (Family Colubridae, from Middle America) 2011-09-25T02:00:14.967Z Rigid, watchful, enigmatic, its presence was constant, but without so much as one blossom in all its green vacuity to show the least friendly familiarity to one who had found flowers and woodlands kind. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z There is only one circumstance when this vacuity, this suspension of all real life, is in its place; when one is hurrying to some dreadful goal, a death-bed or perhaps a fresh-made grave. Limbo and Other Essays To which is now added Ariadne in Mantua 2011-08-25T02:00:33.233Z It is nearly the same as vacuity, mind being a comprehensive reality. Etidorhpa or the End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and The Account of a Remarkable Journey 2011-10-18T02:00:20.997Z Frequently they will keep their eyes fixed to some object for hours together, or continue them an equal time “bent on vacuity.” Observations on Madness and Melancholy Including Practical Remarks on those Diseases together with Cases and an Account of the Morbid Appearances on Dissection 2011-08-23T02:00:29.227Z The aim was precisely to enable him to dispense with all study, and to spin words out of absolute mental vacuity. Social Rights And Duties Addresses to Ethical Societies Vol II 2011-08-05T02:00:45.557Z It may express comprehension or merely indicate vacuity. A Grammar of Freethought 2011-07-30T02:00:13.083Z Fascinating, accomplished, of siren-like beauty, she has every outward grace combined with a singular inward vacuity. Mathilde Blind 2011-07-27T02:00:25.473Z Modern Atheism is falsely regarded as a mere negation, as a species of criminal vacuity of the understanding. The Limits Of Atheism Or, Why should Sceptics be Outlaws? 2011-07-22T02:00:16.300Z If too wide, they will include much vacuity beside the intended matter. The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education 2011-07-19T02:00:17.220Z Her eyebrows were pencilled with deep black, the heavy eyes shared the vacuity of glass, with an evil and steadfast glitter of welcome. House of Torment A Tale of the Remarkable Adventures of Mr. John Commendone, Gentleman to King Phillip II of Spain at the English Court 2011-07-15T02:00:24.257Z Again and again, with entreaties and threats, we stated our business; but nothing could excite the gaping vacuity of his countenance, or induce him to open the gate. A Tour throughout South Wales and Monmouthshire 2011-07-08T02:00:18.387Z Convinced that Quard was coming to himself, she was no longer troubled by solicitude; her wits wandered in a vast vacuity, sensitive only to dull impressions. Joan Thursday 2011-06-25T02:00:19.897Z He was not without hope that fortune, as formerly, would favor him, and give him opportunity, by some lucky speculation, to repair his losses, and fill up the vacuity of his coffer. Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) 2011-06-22T02:00:23.137Z He was the type of the valet ennobled, a mask of incomparable vacuity, a secret smile that missed nothing, internal rather than outward, yet still chained to the servant's habit of picking up his feet. The Salamander 2011-06-10T02:00:22.890Z Then there was sleep that was turbulent and conscious, and wakefulness that was lethargic and dim, and then infinite weariness, and then lapses of utter vacuity—the occasional ominous impinging of the shadow of death. Gabriel Conroy 2011-06-08T02:00:19.217Z The theatre was not yet raised, but the listlessness of vacuity gave birth to all the variegated artists of revelry. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z Is there any happiness like that escape on a summer's day from the dull struggle with vacuity, brown paper-covered books, dates, ink-blots, cramps, and crotchets, into the open air of birds, sounds, flowers, liberty everywhere? Old Kensington 2011-05-29T02:00:09.797Z But if the philosophy of the eighteenth century has left us a vacuity for an inheritance, it has also left us an energetic and fecund love of truth. Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good 2011-05-25T02:00:17.943Z Her daughter strolled sometime listlessly in the garden, in that vacuity of mind which nearly resembles despair. Trevethlan: (Vol 2 of 3) A Cornish Story. 2011-05-16T02:00:19.270Z In cases of great prostration with mental debility, in the hopeless vacuity that precedes death by inanition or starvation, it is sometimes very effective. Gabriel Conroy 2011-06-08T02:00:19.217Z This “ornate style” introduced sesquipedalian Latinisms, words of immense dimensions, that could not hide their vacuity of thought. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z Actual pain would have been almost a relief to the despairing vacuity of that which must have been the second day of his confinement. Corse de Leon, Volume I (of 2) or, The Brigand; a Romance 2011-05-07T02:00:29.347Z On the other hand, these truths do not subsist by themselves; they would thus be only pure abstractions, suspended in vacuity and without relation to any thing. Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good 2011-05-25T02:00:17.943Z Burton was forcing himself against an immovable resistance; projecting a thought, live, warm, charged with the germs of a million inspirations, against a stone wall of mental vacuity. The Bail Jumper 2011-04-16T02:00:19.103Z After an uncertain age VB swam back from that mental vacuity to reality. I Conquered 2011-04-15T02:00:19.800Z Fair, slow, slightly bored; his prominent, gray-green eyes seemed gently to seek vacuity. The Messenger 2011-03-26T02:00:14.523Z The cosmology of the Oriental sage would have fallen into the vast vacuity of space had he not brought to its support a hypothetical foundation. The Funny Philosophers Wags and Sweethearts 2011-03-19T02:00:11.277Z Present-day Socialism in England seems to have risen to sudden magnitude from vacuity, to have permeated this cautious island over night. Socialism and Democracy in Europe 2011-03-15T02:00:12.887Z Rhamphorhynchus is distinguished by the small size of the antorbital vacuity, which is placed lower than the nostril on the side of the face. Dragons of the Air An Account of Extinct Flying Reptiles 2011-02-20T03:00:13.067Z "Or the vacuity of the unlucky, possibly," said Tom, with an easy laugh. Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume I. 2011-02-18T03:00:17.957Z His vacuity of expression vanished, and a keen intelligence took its place. Mattie:?A Stray (Vol 3 of 3) 2011-02-16T03:00:37.273Z "Before" had the vacuity of the village idiot, "After" the triumphant cunning of the maniac. What Not A Prophetic Comedy 2011-02-09T03:00:50.423Z Having unseated his rider, the country bred, forgetting all about the tiger, stood looking with complacent vacuity at the groom, who now held him by the rein. The Three Sapphires 2011-02-07T03:00:24.770Z The aperture is always imperfectly defined in Pterodactylus, and is a relatively small vacuity compared with the long nostril. Dragons of the Air An Account of Extinct Flying Reptiles 2011-02-20T03:00:13.067Z His servant gave him a letter which Massingbred had left on his departure, but he never opened it; and in a listless vacuity he wandered out into the wood. The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II) 2011-02-04T03:00:20.520Z But even without the watering down, his words would have had all the vacuity characteristic of a collective apology delivered by someone uninvolved in the offence. Sorry is the easiest word. It has seldom been so devalued 2011-01-16T00:12:01Z The baronet was not more animated than ordinarily—there was a happy vacuity about him which enabled him to face a dinner, a death, a church, a marriage, with the same indifferent ease. A History of Pendennis, Volume 1 His fortunes and misfortunes, his friends and his greatest enemy 2011-01-13T03:01:13.027Z The savage wrestling bout and the mysterious loss of the sapphire brought a depressing vacuity of speech. The Three Sapphires 2011-02-07T03:00:24.770Z In this vacuity is often seen the sclerotic circle of overlapping bones formed in the external membrane of the eye, like those in nocturnal birds and some reptiles. Dragons of the Air An Account of Extinct Flying Reptiles 2011-02-20T03:00:13.067Z The reminiscences, far too numerous, on which he dwelt produced a disheartening effect on him; he went no further with the work, and his mental vacuity redoubled. Sentimental Education Vol 1 2011-01-04T03:01:07.467Z I conceive the frost to have a great share in their formation, which when it leaves the ground causes a vacuity, and the turf, loosened from the soil, is raised up. Lachesis Lapponica A Tour in Lapland, Volume 1 2010-12-31T03:00:11.350Z The princess and her maid turned their eyes towards every part, and, seeing nothing to bound their prospect, considered themselves as in danger of being lost in a dreary vacuity. Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale 2010-12-29T03:00:31.850Z And confirmation hearings tend to be so carefully stage-managed these days that Kagan herself once called them exercises in "vacuity and farce." Supreme Court Confirmation Preview: 5 Hot Topics for Elena Kagan 2010-06-28T08:10:00Z A fourth vacuity is known as the temporal fossa. Dragons of the Air An Account of Extinct Flying Reptiles 2011-02-20T03:00:13.067Z When it comes to specific curricula, the scientific vacuity of education research is even more exasperating. Why Education Research Is Failing Us: Begley 2010-04-29T14:21:00Z That would be Josh Seftel, whose documentary, "Taking on the Kennedys," introduced a national audience to a young Kennedy who oozed entitlement and vacuity. 2010-02-12T19:01:00Z The marks of fire were left on various houses of stone, and, here and there, were vacuities, covered with blackened wrecks, where, doubtless, had stood more humble and combustible fabrics. Calavar or The Knight of The Conquest, A Romance of Mexico The instances are very rare where a man of fifty can look back upon his career and not see that he has squandered a large portion of his time in senseless vacuity or improper appropriation. Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution Reptile skulls have sometimes one temporal vacuity on each side, as among tortoises, formed by a single lateral bar. Dragons of the Air An Account of Extinct Flying Reptiles 2011-02-20T03:00:13.067Z The leaping fire threw dashes of orange high-lights on his temple and jaw angle and in neither pattern of feature nor quality of eye was there that degenerate vacuity which one associates with barbarous cruelty. The Tempering We have already mentioned that the villager who has been far from home is a conspicuous exception to the general vacuity of mind so often to be met. Village Life in China A Study in Sociology But you must not lie there and allow your mind to get either into a wearisome state of vacuity or unpleasant reflection. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. V, October, 1850, Volume I. It is the trick of those who spend their lives in plumbing the unfathomable; it translates the meagreness and vacuity of their lore. Love's Usuries These vacuities, which correspond to those of mammals in position, are seen from the top of the head, as lateral vacuities behind the orbits of the eyes, and are termed superior temporal vacuities. Dragons of the Air An Account of Extinct Flying Reptiles 2011-02-20T03:00:13.067Z The dreary vacuity of weakness is like a wide and pathless waste. Diary And Notes Of Horace Templeton, Esq. Volume II (of II) The learned and semi-intelligent vacuity of the village scholar is more than matched by the ignorant vacuity of his illiterate neighbours. Village Life in China A Study in Sociology Solitude, though often beneficial to full minds and active intellects, is more than the vacuity of ignorance can support. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 383, September 1847 A full, varied, intense life is a better antidote than a mere vacuity of existence, without toil, pleasure, pain or excitement. American World Policies In Ornithosaurs the lateral temporal vacuity varies from a typically reptilian condition to one which, without becoming avian, approaches the bird type. Dragons of the Air An Account of Extinct Flying Reptiles 2011-02-20T03:00:13.067Z One who crossed the ocean with him has since said that the better part of the time the expression of his face was that of utter vacuity. The Truth About Tristrem Varick A Novel To escape from the dreamy vacuity of my late life, by an actual occupation, was an unspeakable relief; and I felt in the pursuit all the interest of an adventurer. Sir Jasper Carew His Life and Experience There’s a tilt to her cap—” The door opened to admit the Y.W., bearing in her hands the fish, and on her face that expression of concentrated vacuity which denotes acute curiosity. An Unknown Lover The silence, the vacuity of the landscape, was oppressive, as the last echoes died away. Armageddon—2419 A.D. Between the post-frontal bone above and the quadrato-jugal bone below is a small lunate opening, which represents the lateral temporal vacuity; and so far, this is a reptilian character. Dragons of the Air An Account of Extinct Flying Reptiles 2011-02-20T03:00:13.067Z She began to ponder on the vacuity of all about her, on this and that conversation, on the whole whirl around her, and she grew less able to comprehend it. Gertrude's Marriage Mysterious things, therefore, these statues for the child; but theirs is a mystery of mere vacuity, one which does not haunt, does not seek a solution. Belcaro Being Essays on Sundry Aesthetical Questions Some cynical or unsocial character, deeming himself superior to the vulgar vacuity and insipidity, will take no part in the every-day talk which deals so largely in commonplace and truisms. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 94, August, 1865 Nagging, no matter by whom, is just domestic busy-bodying, growing out of the failure to respect the personality of another and out of the vacuity of one's own life. Child Versus Parent Some Chapters on the Irrepressible Conflict in the Home The Solenhofen skulls which give any evidence of the palate are exposed in side view only, and the bones, imperfectly seen through the lateral vacuities, are displaced by crushing. Dragons of the Air An Account of Extinct Flying Reptiles 2011-02-20T03:00:13.067Z Save in these altercations, without which rarely a day passed over, little was spoken; each trudged along either lost in vacuity or buried in his own thoughts. Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas Young people come from these bookless homes to college each year, showing great confusion of ideas, vacuity of mind and utter lack of information. Why do we need a public library? Material for a library campaign The fact is that in this poem all has become purely ideal; ideal to the point of utter vacuity: there is no connection with any human business. Euphorion Being Studies of the Antique and the Mediaeval in the Renaissance - Vol. II How could he appreciate the vacuity of her life,—who had always had young and cheerful company about her, and a mother to pity and cheer her smallest sorrow? Home Life of Great Authors The side of the head is occupied by four vacuities, separated by narrow bars of bone. Dragons of the Air An Account of Extinct Flying Reptiles 2011-02-20T03:00:13.067Z I am reminded of Sir Walter Raleigh's excellent phrase, "Stumbling upwards into vacuity." My Impressions of America I had moments when I thought of him as of a man of pasteboard—as though, if one should strike smartly through the buckram of his countenance, there would be found a mere vacuity within. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. XII (of 25) And all that long while back will have been a long vacuity to me, and Heaven knows what burden to others.... When Ghost Meets Ghost Four Children’s Heads, which it is much to be regretted should be thus lost in filling small vacuities of the ceiling. The Stones of Venice, Volume III (of 3) Further back still is a narrower vertical opening known as the lateral or inferior temporal vacuity. Dragons of the Air An Account of Extinct Flying Reptiles 2011-02-20T03:00:13.067Z It is a perfect entanglement of gun-cotton, and explodes into vacuity wherever one holds a light to it. The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) I had been all my life such a busy man that the vacuity of my first experience after dying had chafed me terribly. The Gates Between He may be straining to utter some secret too deep for human utterance, or he is looking wise to conceal absolute vacuity of thought. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) With it mingled a great, consuming desire, a soul-longing to pour into the vacuity of high society the leaven of her own pure thought. Carmen Ariza The head has the same four lateral vacuities, but the nostril is relatively small and elongated, extending partly above the oval antorbital opening, which was larger. Dragons of the Air An Account of Extinct Flying Reptiles 2011-02-20T03:00:13.067Z The dull or ludicrous creatures, so to be whipped up and baked crisp, revealed, in the light of the analogy, the tempting vacuity of a bowl of white of egg. Tante It seemed likely that these patients were absorbed in their own thoughts, rather than being in a condition of mental vacuity. Benign Stupors A Study of a New Manic-Depressive Reaction Type A lifetime, for his years were not yet half spent,––a lifetime at Waupun, and work for the body, but vacuity for the mind––maybe––sometimes––memories. The Eye of Dread Because there dwell in them triviality and vacuity, which prepare the way of the devil. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V The nostril is rather small and elongated, and ascends over the larger antorbital vacuity. Dragons of the Air An Account of Extinct Flying Reptiles 2011-02-20T03:00:13.067Z Or shall we liken it to Milton's bad angel, flying to his new empire, but dropping into an unexpected "vast vacuity"? The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 86, December, 1864 There is an appearance of apathy and mental vacuity which the dreamer can soon declare to be false. Benign Stupors A Study of a New Manic-Depressive Reaction Type He tried to analyze his feelings, and the thought that possessed him most was wonder at the strange vacuity of the condition of emotionlessness. The Eye of Dread The Doctor shut himself again in his carriage and let himself be whisked away, in great vacuity of mind. Dr. Sevier The orbit for the eye is the largest opening in the head, so that these three apertures successively increase in size, and are followed by the vertically elongated post-orbital vacuity. Dragons of the Air An Account of Extinct Flying Reptiles 2011-02-20T03:00:13.067Z Each, that thus sets the pure air seething, May poison it for healthy breathing— But the Critic leaves no air to poison; Pumps out with ruthless ingenuity Atom by atom, and leaves you—vacuity. Browning's England A Study in English Influences in Browning The final goal is a state of mental vacuity such as probably characterizes the infant at the time of birth and during the first days of extra-uterine life. Benign Stupors A Study of a New Manic-Depressive Reaction Type He used to say apologetically, "I have no small talk," and from the vacuity of the average drawing-room chatter he would silently steal away. War Letters of a Public-School Boy We have visited the ancient caverns of the Lebanon troglodytes in the cliffs overhanging the river of Wadi Kadeesha, and found nothing there but blind bats, and mosses, and dreary vacuity. The Book of Khalid In the principal specimen the teeth were short and wide, the head large and deep with large vacuities, but the small brain case of that skull is bird-like. Dragons of the Air An Account of Extinct Flying Reptiles 2011-02-20T03:00:13.067Z Beyond that was only the velvety darkness—the absolute vacuity of space that carries no sound, refracts no light. In the Orbit of Saturn One case that was mentioned is now of particular importance as demonstrating that an appropriate stimulus may dispel the vacuity of complete stupor by raising mental functions to a point where delusions are entertained. Benign Stupors A Study of a New Manic-Depressive Reaction Type And those features were so sharply designed, free from the adipose layers and cushions that round so many faces into harmonious vacuity. Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 7 A Series of Pen and Pencil Sketches of the Lives of More Than 200 of the Most Prominent Personages in History Then on the wings of Cherubim He rode far into Chaos, and with His golden compasses decreed the dimensions of the universe by circumscribing the vast vacuity of space. The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' In some of the older genera of these carnivorous Dinosaurs of the Trias, the lateral vacuities of the head are as large as in Dimorphodon. Dragons of the Air An Account of Extinct Flying Reptiles 2011-02-20T03:00:13.067Z Then Sally, who was rather incredulous about this complete vacuity of mind, had said to him: "But come now, Mr. Fenwick, you don't mean to say you don't know if you ever had a sweetheart?" Somehow Good This might be an exception to the dictum of complete mental vacuity, or it may be that there are somewhat less pronounced stupor reactions. Benign Stupors A Study of a New Manic-Depressive Reaction Type He was, after all, a different individual from that inane, dull, violent young man who in the vacuity of life had raged and roared in the chains of unworthy love. The Countess of Albany To recognise or to fail to recognise the value of the human soul in other nations, determines its real greatness and grandeur, or its self-complacent but essential vacuity. The Higher Powers of Mind and Spirit In side view the orbits have the triangular form seen in Dimorphodon, and the preorbital vacuities are large, as in that genus, while the lateral nostrils, which are smaller, are further forward in the Dinosaur. Dragons of the Air An Account of Extinct Flying Reptiles 2011-02-20T03:00:13.067Z He looks into his own breast, analyses his faculties, and finds he is only peering into hollow and chaotic vacuity. On the Future of our Educational Institutions I feel very often that if one lived in all this picturesqueness, the horrors of the past, the vacuity of the present, would drive one I know not whither. The Spirit of Rome Signorelli has indeed hardly altered the childish chubby features of the Deacon in the middle, nor the benevolent vacuity of the two Bishops, so different to his own austere types. Luca Signorelli If the First Cause is not eternal, then prior to this Ultimate Cause there was nothingness and vacuity, and pure nothing, by its own act, became something. Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles The back of the head of Archæopteryx is imperfectly preserved in the region of the quadrate bone, malar arch, and temporal vacuity. Dragons of the Air An Account of Extinct Flying Reptiles 2011-02-20T03:00:13.067Z Judging from the vacuity of his expression, the Dutch have no reason to anticipate any difficulty in maintaining their mastery in Soerakarta when he comes to the throne. Where the Strange Trails Go Down Sulu, Borneo, Celebes, Bali, Java, Sumatra, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Cambodia, Annam, Cochin-China Dust on the water, cries on the water, then vacuity and silence. Appearances Being Notes of Travel The vacuity behind that is too dark and abysmal to be a home for their soul, and therefore they will accompany you thus far. The Voyage Alone in the Yawl "Rob Roy" Early on the following morning we began to cross the Luckenwarry Ghaut; the roads were steep and not above ten feet wide, and on each side a vacuity of about 250 feet deep. Narrative of a Voyage to India; of a Shipwreck on board the Lady Castlereagh; and a Description of New South Wales Flattering themselves on their ideals and their high principles, they vegetated in stupid sloth and in a less than animal vacuity. The Hero Ignorance is mere privation, by which nothing can be produced; it is a vacuity in which the soul sits motionless and torpid for want of attraction.—Johnson. Pearls of Thought But this leisure mood is usually one of sheer vacuity, incapable of intellectual effort or imaginative response. Appearances Being Notes of Travel I removed the whole comb, consisting of common cells, from one of my best glass hives, and left that composed of males' cells alone: and to avoid vacuities, I supplied others of the same kind. New observations on the natural history of bees Poor Bates had gone without his dinner, and that dismal yawn of his just now doubtless indicated a painful vacuity of the inner man. Vixen, Volume II. In the first place, no scene so perfectly brings out the absolute vacuity of the British mind when one can get it free from the replenishing influences of the daily paper. Stray Studies from England and Italy Then for the first time since he had dismounted from Purgatory, Harlan’s eyes lost their wide, inclusive vacuity. 'Drag' Harlan And vacuity he pondered unceasingly for, in this train, emptiness rode in him as he was riding in it. An Apostate: Nawin of Thais Then it is indeed nothing but a whited sepulchre, a covering to hide the vacuity or deformity which needs to be removed. The Hidden Power And Other Papers upon Mental Science The discussion of the question brought relief from the horrid feeling of vacuity which oppressed the soldier and introduced him to the new sensations of liberty of choice, freedom of action—full responsibility. Detailed Minutiae of Soldier life in the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865 All day the sky was without a flaw, and the summer silence outside the town, where the dry road goes between hedges of arid prickly pears, was not reticence but vacuity. Old Junk In brief, "unknowableness" is not a property or quality by which a thing may be apprehended; it is a name for complete mental vacuity. Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative “The moonshine shineth in his eye, From which no tear doth fall, Full of vacuity as death, Its slaty parched ball Fixedly, though expressionless, Gleams on the distant hall.” Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 The girl who had sat through a year of war without ever changing the vacuity of her smile! Stubble My endeavour has been to fill in vacuities, to thread together a consistent and connected narrative, and thus, so far as I have been able, to present a true and lucid history. Overbeck Around it and beyond was only the blackness and silence of vacuity. Old Junk The gossip germ is born of ignorance and vacuity and breeds best in idle minds. The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies Its very vacuity told of the man's exceeding unfitness for the rôle thrust upon him by certain desperadoes in the far off Balkans. A Son of the Immortals He could not help looking furtively for just a glance at that upstairs window and caught a flash of white and then vacuity. Stubble He wore a black shiny frock coat—an "Albert" in America?—a high hat, little side whiskers and dark moustache and a look of amiable vacuity. The House of Souls But she could talk to the fellow with her ... a skinny whipper-snapper, whom the breath of a man could shred into remote, eyeless vacuity. Mary, Mary It were but a poor advancement and the gain of a loss, if yearnings were made immortal, and the aching vacuity, which haunts every soul that is parted from God, were cursed with immortality. Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John It is the ignorant, those whose thoughts feed on vacuity, and who, through the want of mental culture, dwell incessantly on degrading subjects, that suffer in the single state. The Young Maiden Tobacco is less a fosterer of thought than a solace of mental vacuity. Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce Their minds were in a state of vacuity. The Adventures of the Chevalier De La Salle and His Companions, in Their Explorations of the Prairies, Forests, Lakes, and Rivers, of the New World, and Their Interviews with the Savage Tribes, Two Hundred Years Ago The present possession fills not up the vacuities of the heart, without the supply of our imaginations, by taking so much in upon the head of the morrow, to speak so. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning He liked pleasant gardens; set a high value on leisure and even vacuity; did not disdain novels; and had the sense to prefer good wine to bad. Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3) Essay 7: W.R. Greg: A Sketch Once more to idleness consigned, He felt the laudable desire From mere vacuity of mind The wit of others to acquire. Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse It combats ennui, lassitude, and intolerable vacuity, soothing the nerves and diverting attention from self. Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce No corner of any place can be empty; there can be no vacuity. Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel So then there is such a fellowship with the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, that leaves no vacuity in the heart, that fills all the dimensions and corners of it with peace and joy. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning "You'd better be off, Mother," said Anthony, who although vaguely aware that she was endeavouring to create an atmosphere of vacuity, could not fathom the advantage to be gained. Men of Affairs Materiality would be dissipated or absorbed in an attempted passage through vacuity; therefore, as we know that light, heat, and gravitation are, necessarily, material, space is but diffused materiality, at its minimum of etheriality. The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Around the ideas of religion she throws her bulwark of invisibility; and the sword of the skeptic and the battering-ram of the materialist fall harmless on vacuity. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 His silence was always eloquent, and in it was neither stupidity nor vacuity. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen Society, in the society sense, is built on vacuity, its favors being for those who reveal a fine capacity to waste and consume. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 13 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers Pure Space, if it means anything, means absolute material emptiness and vacuity. Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge Oppressed with this thought—which had almost become a conviction—I sat in my saddle, bent and silent, my eyes turned upon the earth, but their gaze fixed on vacuity. The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse In the evening, especially in the large western cities, they have balls almost every night; indeed it is a life of idleness and vacuity of outward pretence, but of no real good feeling. Diary in America, Series Two In fact, he did his very best to make the boy’s life miserable, and the occupation of hating him seemed in some measure to fill up the vacuity of an ill-conditioned and degraded mind. Eric, or Little by Little In Congress was vacillation, discord, vacuity; while the people were goaded to the absurd charge, that some of its members were traitors! Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death Thus alone can the contemplation of art bring us back to primal infelicity, and restore in our souls the perfect vacuity of infants and cows. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, February 11, 1914 Language was used apparently to conceal vacuity of mind. The Swedish Revolution Under Gustavus Vasa He staggered at the door, and his head coming noisily in contact with it, he slipped down into a sitting posture with an expression suddenly changed from ferocity to a complete vacuity and indifference. Young Mr. Barter's Repentance From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray In reality, he, like most boys, at first disliked the habit; but it seemed a fine thing to do, and to some, at any rate, it was a refuge from vacuity. Eric, or Little by Little But the darkness is in my ain een," she said, sinking back, after an earnest gaze upon vacuity—"it's a' ended now. The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III Having once parted with reality, he tumbles helpless in vacuity; no rescue for him. The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, May 1844 Volume 23, Number 5 Soon they come to a frightful vacuity—a sort of vasty deep—over which is suspended a narrow wheel, which whirls round with great rapidity. Red Rooney The Last of the Crew The complexity of the interests of life, and the interweaving of its moods, fatigued his mind into an agreeably grave vacuity. Clayhanger Slackness of mind, vacuity of mind, the wheels of the mind revolving without biting the rails of the subject, were insupportable. The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859 May His, may Shiva's meditation be Your strong defense; on the Great Self thinks he, Knowing full well the world's vacuity. The Little Clay Cart Mrcchakatika The Sūdras, it is stated in the Harivansha, are sprung from vacuity, and are destitute of ceremonies, and so are not entitled to the rites of initiation. The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV) It was like a door closed in the face of their hope—that falling inflection, that blank of vacuity that settled over his face, and his whole drooping figure. The Coast of Chance "Cheer up, old boy," said I, with the usual vacuity of thought and stupidity of expression at such times. Lords of the North All church yards, gardens, and unnecessary vacuities, and all trades that use great fires or yield noisome smells to be placed out of town.' Captains of Industry or, Men of Business Who Did Something Besides Making Money It flourishes to a great extent by exaggerating mole hills into mountains with officious vacuity. Villa Elsa A Story of German Family Life Then came a listless vacuity, a tawdry dreaminess. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864 The curtain of vacuity parted just a crack—let through a gleam of intense intelligence. The Coast of Chance They seek to be colossal and achieve vacuity chiefly. Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers Gardening in towns was an art little considered in his day, and contemporary descriptions show us that 'vacuities' were speedily filled with heaps of dust and refuse. Captains of Industry or, Men of Business Who Did Something Besides Making Money She could smile at the mental vacuity she encountered, and think nothing of it, if with that vacuity went those material factors which made for ease and entertainment. North of Fifty-Three They have made a vast vacuity, and it will require no common portion of ability, no ordinary supply of graces, to fill the mighty void. The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 An Historical Novel Yet, in that vacuity, we do not lose the object that we loved. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry And on the side of realism there is an almost equal vacuity and lack of veracity. A Book of Prefaces And yet, less hard to bear, Consuming grief than dull vacuity! The Poems of Giacomo Leopardi The rest of the world already knows his vacuity, his utter uselessness, his criminal decadence. Raemaekers' Cartoons With Accompanying Notes by Well-known English Writers Her eye held him in a heavy vacuity, watched with a trancelike fixity his careful stitches and the armlong stretch of the drawn thread. The Emigrant Trail They people the vacuity of Time, and make it green and worthy. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Plain realism, as in Gorky's "Nachtasyl" and the war stories of Ambrose Bierce, simply wearies us by its vacuity; plain romance, if we ever get beyond our nonage, makes us laugh. A Book of Prefaces Lo, all things are alike; discovery But proves the way for dull vacuity. The Poems of Giacomo Leopardi In the next line but one we discover that— 'No sad vacuities his heart annoy; Blows not a Zephyr but it whispers joy.' Early Reviews of English Poets The words had the pitiful vacuity of a detaining question. The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Akulina's face expressed a blank amazement almost comical in its vacuity. A Cigarette-Maker's Romance Should this not be the case,—then the abyss of absolute vacuity would be open before him. Phineas Redux All my labour was to shun obstructions and to advance whenever the vacuity would permit. Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 A mixture of various kinds of food which people eat recklessly with the natural results,—dyspepsia, inertia, mental vacuity, and general uselessness. The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches He looked at his wife and Ellen; then his face again took on its expression of joyful vacuity. The Portion of Labor Mary saw a listless, empty face, pale eyes, and pale hair, a mere effect of vacuity and weakness. The Second Class Passenger Fifteen Stories The glimmering lights seemed cowed, as they sobbed in vacuity and slowly expired. Visionaries To look at his face you would have supposed he was thinking; but it was only that sort of foggy vacuity which goes by the name of 'a brown study.' The House by the Church-Yard It is as if they were compelled to throw themselves into the chasm of his vacuity—every fresh victim with the fond hope of filling it—but all of them perish. The Evolution of Love They hated the lack of ideas in art, and the lack of character; the silliness and vacuity which belong to the one, the flimsiness and make-believe which result from the other. The Germ Thoughts towards Nature in Poetry, Literature and Art The time of depression, disappointment, vacuity, all but despair, must come. Health and Education After the furious storm of upbubbling curses had spent itself there was a little calm, not of surcease but of vacuity, since even the cursing vocabulary has its limitations. The Quickening No nervous prostration at forty; no arrested development at fifty; no mental vacuity at fifty-five. The Young Man and the World The expression natural to it was, I think, a low, vicious cunning; but his features and little green eyes were so rigidly disciplined that, as a rule, neither had any characteristic save utter vacuity. Guy Livingstone; or, 'Thorough' The denser parts of the atmosphere which surround that so rarefied, rush into the vacuity from their superior weight; endeavouring, as the laws of gravity require, to restore the equilibrium. The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants She hesitated; she had meant to say more; but there was a staggering vacuity. Caste After the supreme advent of Truth in the heart, there comes an overwhelming sense of error's vacuity, of the blunders which arise from wrong apprehension. Retrospection and Introspection Domestic occupations also occupy the thoughts of the wives, and business those of the husbands, so continually, as to leave few moments of mental vacuity for Satan to introduce mischief into. Town Life in Australia What a price she has paid for her great celebrity!—weariness, vacuity, and utter deadness of spirit. Records of a Girlhood The particle absorbed occasions harshness, and the open vowel a vacuity equally inconvenient. The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper For a brief space I had a sensation of vacuity as though I could neither think nor feel. Combed Out The Scots and Picts, attentive to every advantage, rushed with redoubled violence into this vacuity. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 07 (of 12) The same principle will also account for that feeling of littleness, vacuity, and perplexity, which a stranger feels on entering the streets of a populous city. Lectures on the English Poets Delivered at the Surrey Institution He was walking away from Princes Street to his own home now, and the decent grey vacuity of the streets soothed him. The Judge If there wasn't work to do, the sheer shock of it seemed to dull you into mental vacuity and loose ends of time came up and hit you in the face. Kenny "Fwhat would her be?" asked Ted, with a face in which there might be read such a compound of cunning, vacuity, and ferocity as could rarely be witnessed in the same countenance. The Emigrants Of Ahadarra The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two Writers may think justly, and yet write without any effect; while a splendid style may cover a vacuity of thought. Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions Return to Table of Contents In his illuminating essay on The Lantern-Bearers, Stevenson complains of the vacuity of that view of life which he finds expressed in the pages of most realistic writers. The Unpopular Review, Volume II Number 3 For they are as hollow as a drum and as unoriginal as a bride-cake: nothing but vacuity with an icing of phrases. Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 Immediately his rather handsome effeminate face resumed a stolid vacuity. A Splendid Hazard So they did not know that, as nature abhors a vacuum, youth cannot long tolerate the vacuity of grief. The Firing Line He flew to Genoa, leading a life of delicious vacuity. Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions The vacuity turned into a smile, and the smile into a broad grin. The Lever A Novel Do not be puffed up," continued Mr. Churchouse, "for, with charm, you combine to a certain extent the Greek vacuity. The Spinners The vacuity his heart endured of any deep interest in life during his long absence from his native country had had a singular effect upon his ideas. Mathilda The Thames goes down then to a wide grey vacuity, a featureless monotony where men but toil, where life becomes silent in effort, and goes out through fogs to nowhere in particular. London River It secures us from the dark vacuity of soul, as well as from the whirlwind of ideas; reason itself is a passion, but a passion full of serenity. Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions ALL general privations are great, because they are all terrible; vacuity, darkness, solitude, and silence. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) And true it is that there is no happiness in a vacuity of contemplation. Tragic Sense Of Life Such churches are common enough in Italy, where pointed architecture never developed its true character of complexity and richness, but was doomed to the vast vacuity exemplified in S. Petronio of Bologna. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series “Matter?” said Cornelian, opening wide a pair of eyes in which unhealthy intelligence seemed to struggle in undetermined battle with utter vacuity; “why should you suppose that anything is the matter?” When William Came His mouth, like a rent in an old, battered purse, gaped, and though no teeth were there, the vacuity seemed to smile feebly. White Shadows in the South Seas I began to experience at first times of mental vacuity, of cessation of life, as if I did not know why I was to live or what I was to do. Cosmic Consciousness The aim is to attain absolute vacuity of mind and thus complete union with the Absolute. Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic The ignoramus must have lost his way, and drifted into the outer confines of creation, the region of the everlasting lull, introductory to a positive vacuity. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I They scattered, dissolved in thin air, and went off, as Carlyle would say, into endless vacuity, as do sooner or later all shams and unrealities. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6 Nature has appointed happy fields, victorious laurel-crowns; but only to the brave and true: _Un_nature, what we call Chaos, holds nothing in it but vacuities, devouring gulfs. Past and Present Incidents from the Gospels are represented by "The Prodigal," where the outcast is seen crouching on the ground, his face fixed on vacuity, almost in the act of coming to himself. Watts (1817-1904) The practical business man of the West may perhaps find some difficulty in seeing anything particularly religious in ecstasy or mental vacuity. Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic There was a certain vacuity in his expression, for which one found it hard to account. The Lost Ambassador The Search For The Missing Delora She had not eaten for many hours, and out of the vacuity of the stomach a dimness rose into her eyes. Evelyn Innes Deeds have such a life, mute but undeniable, and grow as living trees and fruit-trees do; they people the vacuity of Time, and make it green and worthy. Past and Present They are windows opening on a world as small as your bound feet, a world of ignorances, and vacuities, and kitchen-gods. Profiles from China They demanded sanctions for the moral life and the social order; in response to this need Buddhism gave them Nirvana—absolute mental and moral vacuity. Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic Thence we drifted to education, and the Average Army Man, and the desolating vacuity--I remember these words--of Army Society, notably among its womenkind. A Diversity of Creatures But with all masterly architecture, even enchanting changes of harmony and a prodigal play of melody, the vacuity of poetic ideas must preclude a permanent appeal. Symphonies and Their Meaning; Third Series, Modern Symphonies “Beauty, the foe of excess and vacuity, blooms, like genius, in the equilibrium of all the forces,” says Jean Paul. Essays Æsthetical The cavity within the coated part of the pebble is filled up without vacuity, first, with colourless siliceous crystals; secondly, with fuliginous crystals; and, lastly, with white or colourless calcareous spar. Theory of the Earth, Volume 1 (of 4) In the Buddhistic conception God is an abstract vacuity; in the Greek, a static intellect; in the Christian, a dynamic will. Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic In the silence and vacuity which follow the impromptu on his orchestrion, the composer yearns, broods, aspires. Robert Browning They go gadding about restless and feverish because of the empty vacuity of their lives, a prey to worry because they have nothing else to do. Quit Your Worrying! As I listened to their lazy, fragmentary conversation vast gulfs of mental vacuity seemed to open before me. Spanish Doubloons He can no longer lead Artus and his court, who perish of their own spiritual vacuity. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 07 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes In view of the vast variety of phases in which even man's great ideas have been held, a sense of indifference among them, a vacuity in all, grows up. Heart of Man It is difficult to imagine a life of greater dreariness and vacuity than that of the average Chinese woman. Camps and Trails in China A Narrative of Exploration, Adventure, and Sport in Little-Known China His contemporaries, however, and successors down to Johnson, took his solemn vacuity in all seriousness. Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England He conceals its vacuity beneath forms of a highly-colored style, an amiable negligence and a facility that is benumbing to thought. Delsarte System of Oratory They have given me over to my year of mourning--which means vacuity. The Precipice In reality he, like most boys, detested the habit; but it seemed a fine thing to do, and to some, at any rate, it was a refuge from vacuity. Eric He can, surely, take no wiser course than that of losing himself again in the crowd, and filling the vacuities of his mind with the news of the day. The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 04 The Adventurer; The Idler Compare that embodiment of fashionable vacuity with this face, whose brute-like eyes haunt you with their sadly stunted look. Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D. The men looked at one another with scowling brows, the women stamped their feet and clapped their hands with a stupid vacuity in their looks, as though the music had emptied their brains. The Shadow of the Cathedral Because of our looking at the dark vacuity beyond our atmosphere through an illuminated medium. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 564, September 1, 1832 In fact, he did his very best to make the boy's life miserable, and the occupation of hating him seemed in some measure to fill up the vacuity of an ill-conditioned and degraded mind. Eric It is not rare to meet with a sort of vacuity, e, filled with clearer matter of resinoid aspect, without organization. Scientific American Supplement, No. 481, March 21, 1885 The truth of these remarks will be felt by every one on whom the ponderous vacuity of the interior has weighed. Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts The vacuity of an exhausted receiver is not a force, but it is the indispensable condition of certain positive operations. On Compromise They ought to have neither the external discomfort nor the internal vacuity which have caused drunkenness in other armies. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 49, November, 1861 And then, quite suddenly the pain and distress were wiped from his face by sodden vacuity. The Bent Twig It was his favourite theory, according to Mrs. Thrale, that all human action was prompted by the "vacuity of life." Samuel Johnson They were not, therefore, deterred by the vacuity and poor conceptive faculty of the artists from employing them. Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts Ignorance, I say, for it was not the knowledge of our wise men that whispered such things, but their sense of the vacuity beyond their knowledge. Pantheism, Its Story and Significance Religions Ancient and Modern His usual vacuity of expression was cast off like a mask and alarm twisted his features. Within the Law I had moments when I thought of him as of a man of pasteboard - as though, if one should strike smartly through the buckram of his countenance, there would be found a mere vacuity within. Master of Ballantrae This new friend, though, before his arrival, we were sensible of no vacuity, could not now be spared. Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American Tale It is, as Mr. Blood says, 'the one sole and sufficient insight why, or not why, but how, the present is pushed on by the past, and sucked forward by the vacuity of the future. Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature It reverberated through the grey wastes of vacuity, and crossed the dark oceans of the Outside, even to the black shores of the eternal night beyond. Gulliver of Mars Perhaps some infatuated swain has ere this mistaken insensibility for modesty, dulness for maiden reserve, mere vacuity for sweet bashfulness, and a goose, in a word, for a swan. Vanity Fair Indolence and want of employment—'vacuity,' as Dr Johnson would call it—is the cause of the passion. The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims Volume I (of II) Norman suspected him, but could not believe a human being capable of such fathomless vacuity as he found whenever he tried to explore his brother-in-law's brain. The Grain of Dust And between the two, what a long stretch of vacuity! House of Mirth Each that thus sets the pure air seething, May poison it for healthy breathing— But the Critic leaves no air to poison; Pumps out by a ruthless ingenuity Atom by atom, and leaves you—vacuity. An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry The great traveller became quite interested in sounding the immense vacuity of my dulness to its lowest depths. The Moonstone The priest glanced sharply at him, noting with a swift, informed scrutiny how he sprawled against the wall, and what vacuity his eyes and loosened lips expressed. The Damnation of Theron Ware The tape-like surface of the road diminished in his rear as far as he could see, and as he gazed a moving spot intruded on the white vacuity of its perspective. Tess of the d'Urbervilles It was as though all the weariness of the past months had culminated in the vacuity of that interminable evening. House of Mirth Like a frost-killed bud on a tombstone curled, Crumbling it lies on its crumbling world, Sightless and deaf, with never a cry, In the hell of its own vacuity! The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 2 The creation of man is represented as the consequence of the vacuity left in heaven by the expulsion of the rebels; yet Satan mentions it as a report "rife in heaven" before his departure. Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 Democracy, take it where you will, is found a regulated method of rebellion, it abrogates the old arrangement of things, and leaves zero and vacuity. Thomas Carlyle The sky wore, in another colour, the same likeness; a white vacuity of countenance with the lineaments gone. Tess of the d'Urbervilles It would prove a wise and pleasurable mode of employing some of the intervals of domestic engagement, and furnish both useful and interesting subjects of reflection to fill up the vacuities of thought. Female Scripture Biographies, Volume II His musings merged into vacuity, into a dull gray mist of hopelessness comparable only to the dismal skies then lowering over London-town. The Black Bag There are others, and particularly the Asiatics, who are such slaves to number, as to insert words which have no use nor meaning to fill up the vacuities in a sentence. Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators; also His Orator, or Accomplished Speaker. "The pleasure has been all mine," insisted the gallant bromide, fishing the trite phrase desperately from the grey vacuity of his thoughts. The Fortune Hunter They feel vacuity; a want of something to make them happy; but what that something is they have not yet discovered. Anna St. Ives Letter after letter tells of laziness and mental vacuity. The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller He experienced a sudden sense of vacuity as if his mind were a blank and all words futile. The Slave of the Lamp My suffering had now grown dull by its own excess, and I had moments of restless vacuity, the nearest approach to peace I had yet experienced. Wilfrid Cumbermede From that distinguished moment, though he still felt uneasiness, it was no longer vacuity, it was no longer an uneasiness irrational and unaccountable. Imogen A Pastoral Romance I hope the succession of objects has not been so quick as to leave vacuity in the mind. Anna St. Ives What particularly pleased me in the conversation of Miss Montenero was, that she had none of those fashionable phrases which fill each vacuity of sense, and which level all distinctions of understanding. Tales and Novels — Volume 09 "Madam, I do not like to come down to vacuity." Life of Johnson, Volume 2 1765-1776 At other periods, the most marked feature of the place would be that of utter vacuity and desolation. Lord Kilgobbin Enough of simpering and grimace, Enough of vacuity, trimmed with lace. With Edged Tools It leaves a dismal vacuity in life, which affords nothing on which the affections can fix, or to which endeavour may be directed. Life of Johnson, Volume 1 1709-1765 Despair imparted to his countenance a look of stony vacuity which sat oddly on it. Geoffrey Strong A tolerant, amiable expression saved the youth's smooth, handsome face from vacuity. Tales from Bohemia How one dwells on their simplicity, even vacuity! Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy There was a strange physical feeling of vacuity in his breast which seemed to paralyse his breathing powers, and his temples throbbed painfully. From One Generation to Another Reticulated is defined 'Made of network; formed with interstitial vacuities.' Life of Johnson, Volume 1 1709-1765 The use of lime in mortar, is to fill up the hollow spaces or vacuities between the grains of sand, and to cement them together, thereby forming a kind of artificial stone. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 321, July 5, 1828 Cowper says: "'Tis thus the understanding takes repose In indolent vacuity of thought, And rests, and is refreshed." Why Worry? Outward radiation constitutes health; a too continuous concentration upon what is within brings us back to vacuity and blank. Amiel's Journal In any case Secunda's precocity and Prima's vacuity seem equally incapable of any deception. Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire Without lustre, it indicates or represents vacuity, as, for instance, in the dark mouth of a cavern; add lustre, and it will represent the highest degree of solidity, as in a polished ebony box. Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge She had thought herself out of all sympathy with her environment; she knew its falsehood, its vacuity, its hopelessness; but she necessarily remained in it and of it. Through the Eye of the Needle A Romance I stretched out my hands on all sides, but met only with vacuity. Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker Then closing the door, he lighted a candle, and Mary looking about her could scarcely believe the change that had come upon the miserable vacuity. Mary Marston A plan of this sort could only have been conceived by Spanish professors, who, it may be said in general, are the quintessence of vacuity. Youth and Egolatry But all this self-conscious skill, this ingenious affectation, this ostentatious muscularity, this immense superficiality—I feel always now a spiritual vacuity behind it which leaves me cold and critical. Impressions and Comments Picnics, pageants, encampments and excursions all united in proclaiming its remoteness, its silence, its vacuity. Bertram Cope's Year Had I reached the brink of the same precipice and been thrown headlong into that vacuity? Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker Reggie sat down and stared at his brother, with a perplexed vacuity of eye. Mrs. Day's Daughters She smiled with polite vacuity, wondering what he meant. The Happy End And there can be no doubt that it requires a certain vacuity of mind to go about feeling permanently contented with oneself and all else. Wanderers Beatrice glanced at Stern as the Pauillac sped true as an arrow in its flight, out into this strange and incomprehensible vacuity. Darkness and Dawn On either side, and above my head, there was nothing but vacuity. Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker But "calling names," and echoing the commonplaces of affected contempt, that is too weak even for Timon to chuckle over, except as evidence of mental vacuity. Ars Recte Vivendi; Being Essays Contributed to "The Easy Chair" The Baronet was not more animated than ordinarily—there was a happy vacuity about him which enabled him to face a dinner, a death, a church, a marriage, with the same indifferent ease. The History of Pendennis He did not however pass his time during this seclusion in vacuity and indolence. Lives of the Necromancers Nothing like walking to make an empty stomach aware of its vacuity. Peregrine's Progress I stooped, and stretched my hand forward and downward, but all was vacuity. Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker The works called good are dry and jejune, soon consummated, often of questionable value, and leaving behind them when finished a sense of vacuity. Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies The feeling of vacuity peculiar to such a deprivation, was alleviated by the appearance of old Ochiltree, sauntering beside the clipped yew and holly hedges, with the air of a person quite at home. The Antiquary — Volume 02 The breach caused by this affair induced Sir Philip Baddely, a gentleman who always supplied "each vacuity of sense" with an oath, to endeavour to cut him out by proposing to Belinda. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 04 — Fiction The sheer vacuity of his mind might naturally slide into mesmeric sleep. Phantom Fortune, a Novel The princess and her maid turned their eyes towards every part, and, seeing nothing to bound their prospect, considered themselves, as in danger of being lost in a dreary vacuity. Dr. Johnson's Works: Life, Poems, and Tales, Volume 1 The Works of Samuel Johnson, Ll.D., in Nine Volumes It is mainly because of this inner vacuity of soul that people go in quest of society, diversion, amusement, luxury of every sort, which lead many to extravagance and misery. The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer: the Wisdom of Life That mental vacuity and barrenness of soul to which I have alluded, is responsible for another misfortune. The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Counsels and Maxims Only black vacuity has been left behind them. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 14 The New Era; A Supplementary Volume, by Recent Writers, as Set Forth in the Preface and Table of Contents It lies alone in its lifeless world, As a frozen bud on the earth lies curled; Sightless and soundless, without a cry, On the flat of its own vacuity. A Hidden Life and Other Poems Then, there were number and name, manner and measure, trouble and trial, resolution and revolution, assaults and assassination, voidness and vacuity. An English Garner Critical Essays & Literary Fragments The cleaned skull always shows a large vacuity in the outer wall in front of the orbit, which prevents the lachrymal bone from reaching the nasals. American Big Game in Its Haunts Society, in the society sense, is built upon vacuity; its favors being for those who reveal a fine capacity to waste and consume. Love, Life & Work Being a Book of Opinions Reasonably Good-Natured Concerning How to Attain the Highest Happiness for One's Self with the Least Possible Harm to Others In the scale, wherever it begins or ends, are infinite vacuities. The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 06 Reviews, Political Tracts, and Lives of Eminent Persons In fact, we are often at an entire loss to tell where reality ends and Sufic vacuity commences. The Persian Literature, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan, Volume 1 His departure has left a sad vacuity in the framework which he helped to uphold and adorn. A Discourse on the Life, Character and Writings of Gulian Crommelin Verplanck Exceedingly striking it is, that a thought should have prospered for one hundred and seventy years, which, on the slightest steadiness of examination, turns out to be no thought at all, but mere blank vacuity. Note Book of an English Opium-Eater Patrick Brinn and his wife were sunning themselves with a look of vacuity upon their faces. Woman on the American Frontier A Valuable and Authentic History of the Heroism, Adventures, Privations, Captivities, Trials, and Noble Lives and Deaths of the "Pioneer Mothers of the Republic" He seemed to have been sent to her by Heaven, to fill up those intervals of languor and vacuity which deprived her of much enjoyment. The Abbot That nation is happy, according to a common adage, which furnishes little business to the historian; for such a vacuity in facts argues a condition of perfect peace and silent prosperity. Biographical Essays The greater part of the month was spent, alas! at Windsor, with what a dreary vacuity of heart and of pleasure I need not say. The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 2 I've seen all fashionable society in New York can offer and I am weary of its vacuity. The One Woman Yet I cannot account, why a thing which requires so little exertion, and yet preserves the mind from total vacuity, should have gone out. The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. But the darkness is in my ain een,' she said, sinking back, after an earnest gaze upon vacuity; 'it's a' ended now, Pass breath, Come death!' Guy Mannering — Complete It is a novel of portentous length and utter vacuity. Essays on Russian Novelists Every pursuit or study is a help stored up against the vacuity which renders every care more corroding.' The Young Step-Mother The Warden of Merton took great care of us, but it was sad to think of the vacuity of Balliol. Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3 Everywhere, as in Germany, there was polish and languor, external glitter and internal vacuity; it was not fire, but a picture of fire, at which no soul could be warmed. Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life If she took the tram she would be bound to meet people who had read the Signal, and who would say, with their stupid vacuity: "Going to meet your sister at Knype?" The Old Wives' Tale In Bob's case the cause approached, all unheralded, in the person of Mr. Richard Cady, a youth whose magnificent vacuity of purpose was the envy of his friends. The Auction Block It cannot be glozed over or minimized away by all the treatises on God, and Love, and Being, helplessly existing in their haughty monumental vacuity. Pragmatism "Good-bye, my dear!" said the old lady, adding with an innocent vacuity of manner quite characteristic of Quaker Bridge. The Heart of Rachael His business is to look at the others and to indicate forgetfulness of self, incompetence, unimportance, vacuity, simplicity. The Hohenzollerns in America She had none of the qualities of the great lady, nothing spiritual or mental with which to fend off the vacuity of old age. Saturday's Child To provide a historical process framework, to prevent feelings of aimlessness and vacuity, to motivate its adherents and to perpetuate itself and so on. After the Rain : how the West lost the East It is difficult to imagine a condition of greater vacuity than that in which a man leaves the University after taking a pass degree. From a College Window His good sense, full of acuteness, had early persuaded him of the perfect vacuity of the greater part of political orations, of theological discussions, of philosophic digressions. Life of Chopin She "stumbled upwards into vacuity," to quote my dear friend Sir Walter Raleigh. Margot Asquith, an Autobiography - Two Volumes in One Of his personal appearance, even of cleanliness, he became neglectful, and occasionally it happened that he lay in bed all through the morning, reading, dozing, or in a state of mental vacuity. The Odd Women By no possibility could he have assumed that aristocratic vacuity of visage which comes of carefully induced cerebral atrophy. Demos So poor Elsie's natural tastes were discouraged and thwarted; and after the positive lessons were over, and her education was said to be finished, she felt vacuity and ennui when Jane rejoiced in full employment. Mr. Hogarth's Will To understand the influence upon him of what follows the reader must remember that it was an experience which came amid a deep sense of vacuity in life. Marius the Epicurean — Volume 2 His life there reminded him of a gaudy drop-scene, let down before an empty stage; a painted sham, with darkness and vacuity behind. Australia Felix Sometimes I argued as I have told, sometimes I tumbled along in moody vacuity, sometimes my torment was vivid and acute. In the Days of the Comet The bewildering feeling of vacuity laid hold upon me. A Journey to the Interior of the Earth They stand not aloof with the gaping vacuity of vulgar ignorance, nor bend with the cringe of sycophantic insignificance. Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 2 (1779-1792): the Rights of Man You will be in no danger of weighing a mere maladroitness of manner against a fine trait of character, or of letting a graceful deportment blind you to a fundamental vacuity. Literary Taste: How to Form It With Detailed Instructions for Collecting a Complete Library of English Literature He looked around at the other faces beneath him and saw them settle themselves into their customary expressions of torpor, vacuity and expectation. The Captives If there is no spiritual reflection, then 480:6 there remains only the darkness of vacuity and not a trace of heavenly tints. Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures It is called an atom, by reason not of its smallness but of its indivisibility; in it no vacuity, no passible affection is to be found. Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies They ask with a face of dreary vacuity, 'Have you anything new?'—and on receiving an answer in the negative, have nothing further to say. Table Talk Essays on Men and Manners To my various questions he simply returned a smile of exasperating vacuity. Colonel Starbottle's Client He was a lad of twenty, not ill-favoured in looks, but with an expression of distant and pondering vacuity. Cabbages and Kings Why twit me with my poverty; and what can the Times' critic know about the vacuity of my exchequer? The Christmas Books of Mr. M.A. Titmarsh If the eye may be judge, iron must be reckoned to have a great many vacuities, and to be porous like a honey-comb, yet it is the dullest, and sounds worse than any other metal. Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies The shivering gas-jets lit up the austere pallor of the bare walls, and the hollow, shell-like sweep of colorless vacuity behind the cold communion table. The Argonauts of North Liberty |
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