| 单词 | blankness |
| 例句 | “You admit yourself that your memory seems to spring full-grown from an absolute blankness of a week ago. I’m giving you the explanation. Donovan and I put you together from the parts shipped us.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z There was an eerie blankness in her eyes. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The abrupt ending and the expanse of blankness at the bottom of the page mirror the finality of the decision to move and the uncertainty of the life that lay ahead. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z A dull blankness slid slowly across his eyes. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z I say nothing, steeling my expression to blankness. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z People look at their pages like the screaming blankness is already invading their fragile minds. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z But there was a scary blankness in his look. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Nevertheless, staring into this blankness, the doctor called, “Are you sick?” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z She’s giving me a look like she’s seeing something for the first time, and I school my expression to blankness, worried that I somehow gave too much away. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z I school my face to blankness, but, inside, my emotions are raging like a creek after a spring storm. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z It came again—a wave of complete blankness. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z She filled his seat at the kitchen table with blankness, cleared him from the revival bench, vanished him from behind the wheel of the truck. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z The music left only this bad hurt in her, and a blankness. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Horror pierced Mom’s face, the first true emotion to shatter her wall of pleasant, half-true smiles and utter, utter blankness. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z And she moved on—muscle, bone, and blankness. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z My wife turned to me with a look of serene blankness. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z And, as though the blankness had never happened at all, the light returned to the child’s eyes. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z There was a shocked blankness on the computer screen after Jen’s entry. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z A representative of the Randall plantation bought her for two hundred and ninety-two dollars, in spite of the new blankness behind her eyes, which made her look simple-minded. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z When he tried to remember her face there was a queer blankness in him. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z It clears up to almost blankness again and she presses her lips together. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z But I am playing the role of a faithful Attendant, so I school my expression to blankness. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Now there’s blankness Where once your eyes held the light But that was so long ago That was last night Well, what was that? If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z But he had gotten into a fight against orders and there was a blankness in his eyes, vacancy and shame. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Taisin tried to school her expression into one of calm blankness; she had the irrational fear that Kaede could see right through her. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Pet had stopped walking when they did and was watching with a patient sort of blankness. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z The first reaction to his killing the six men this morning had caused a period of stunned blankness, then sickness, and now, a strange peace. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z On the pig farm, that passive blankness returned. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z An instant and his face lost its blankness, flushed with the delirium of release, and then he vanished, too. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z No matter what you’re talking about, even if you’re not asking her a question, she has a confused look on her face, and there’s a sort of blankness in her eyes I can’t explain. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z “We used to be able to see all the way down the block, past Carlos’s Corner Store to the church, and then down beyond that the hospital. ¿Ahora? Carajo. The blankness of void vacant estupid.” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z Olanna turned to look at him, and the blankness in her eyes startled him. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The windows now had the closed blankness of night, a deadened look about them, a look of being blind or deaf. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Even his screams and howls seemed to have been smothered in that brilliant blankness. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z Now, in her memory, she could see that blankness—how the word magic flew away, like a bird. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z When she left I would simply lapse into the old blankness. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Ophie stilled her expression to blankness and gripped the increasingly heavy tray tighter. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z Now there was a spotlight on the chair, and the overpoweringly bright blankness of the screen was replaced with a magnified image of the stage before it. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z There is a strange blankness on his face that sends a shiver through me. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Olanna looked out of the window and remembered the slanting lines crisscrossing the calabash, the white blankness of the child’s eyes. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z I felt the blankness of the hospital sheets spread over me, covering my world with white. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z And then, into this black blankness, there came a light so beautiful, so bright, that the squirrel had to turn away. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z The utter blankness which met this question made him smile. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The blankness bothers me, as does the fact that there is not a single person who can fill in that part of my story. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Corporate logos abound, and Monaghan comments on both their ubiquity and their blankness: A spaceship carries the erstwhile “AA” insignia of American Airlines alongside one for another “AA” — American Apparel. In the galleries: Shiny fantasy worlds, undercut by body parts and company logos 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z Collins and Hammer exude a sweet blankness together, rather than lovestruck fireworks, and Roberts seems to spend a lot of time striding through empty rooms acting with herself, or with her outfits. 'Mirror Mirror' looks marvelous but falls flat as film 2012-03-29T18:24:04Z Ki-woo is also fond of identifying events in the real world as “metaphorical,” with the studied blankness of a young person raised on social media to be both sharply observant and entirely ruthless. "Parasite": A prickly, disturbing class-war thriller — and a signature film of 2019 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z Ms. Jolie’s performance is similarly bifurcated, with a controlled physicality that, just when it seems to be edging into catwalk blankness, springs to weird life with grotesque facial contortions and spidery movements. Angelina Jolie Stars in ‘Maleficent,’ From Disney 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z He proved his superlative comic timing and endearing charisma in Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure and, when it comes to drama and sci-fi, no one is better at maintaining an inscrutable blankness. Keanu Reeves: ‘Grief and loss, those things don’t ever go away’ 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z But it is the open space, the blankness of the gulf between man and animal, hunter and prey, that gives this painting its emotional force. At the Met, the artistic riches of India’s Deccan Plateau 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z I sat next to him and looked into his eyes, their awful blankness. 'If anyone was going to wake from a coma, it was my brother' 2015-06-20T04:00:00Z His stylized blankness seems to stare beyond the specifics of the drama toward vast imaginary possibilities. The Troubling Fate of a 1973 Film About the First Black Man in the C.I.A. 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z Its members stare into the audience with a perversely insinuating blankness. Review: In ‘The Damned,’ Ivo van Hove Finds the Mortal Chill in a Nazi Fire 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z Whenever people broke down and wept in front of her, she'd just stand there staring at their misery with a glib, uncomprehending blankness, as if she was Michael Gove or something. Haven't we had enough of murder on the telly? 2012-06-03T19:00:06Z Meanwhile Chauncley, whom Radcliffe plays with a wide-eyed blankness and fool's grin, is a failson of the highest order but one who has a prayer of being taught very basic concepts such as compassion. Sweet but unchallenging, "Miracle Workers: Dark Ages" dresses our modern ignorance in medieval garb 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z There is something opaque and undemonstrative about Oliver, and McGregor portrays this blankness plausibly. Beginners ? review 2011-07-21T14:00:00Z A bit of blankness in the depiction of people, which in another kind of story could detract, here adds to the timeless quality of the words. New Picture Books Pose Two of Life’s Biggest Questions 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z Against these themes, White imbues Brendan with a sensitivity that he wears on his face as a mask of blankness. The sexual frustration of "Mrs. Fletcher" 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z On a psychological level, this blankness sends a calming signal. When Good Beauty Products Smell Downright Bad 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z Rather like the Obliteration Room, in which visitors paste colored stickers over blank, white walls, the selfie is something pasted over the blankness of the experience itself. Perspective | I went to Kusama and all I got was this lousy selfie 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z Its blankness was witty in the context of the draft-night broadcast and the hopes of fans and the arrival of an exciting player. The Evolution of N.B.A. Draft Fashion 2019-06-25T04:00:00Z Characters famous and beloved for their blankness are quite another. This Is How Minions Took Over the World 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z This relative blankness allows adapters to fill in outlines with colors and personalities of their choice. Review: ‘Rear Window,’ the Perils of Voyeurism, With Kevin Bacon 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z Close takes the Little Tramp so deeply to heart she gives a performance that transfixes with its blankness, as if she’d prefer to just mime the whole thing. Albert Nobbs: Glenn Close's Quiet Man 2012-01-26T16:27:54Z It’s an approach exemplified by Seth Rogen’s deflating asides in the current “Green Hornet,” or Michael Cera’s fetal blankness in practically anything. DVDs: Jim Carrey as the Id Unleashed a Bit Before Its Time 2011-02-25T20:14:20Z The role is ideally suited to Mr. Reeves’s deadpan blankness, which some might confuse with a Zen-like serenity. Movie Review: ‘generation Um ...’ With Keanu Reeves 2013-05-02T23:11:56Z The blankness of the early chapters may be a deliberate exercise in a novel exploring the erasure of time. Kate Atkinson moves backwards through a life in 'A God in Ruins' 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z In other videos, like “Motorola,” Yung Lean’s cherubic face conveys blankness, boredom, and the frigidity of his hometown—his nose is bright red in the Stockholm air. Yung Lean, King of the Sad Boys 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z Minimalism was the hot style then, but he found its industrial blankness pretentious and turned to making smallish, rough, gnarly things, that referred to the body, or parts of it. Bruce Nauman Reappears: Pay Attention 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z It is the "blankness" of Antarctica that appeals to Francis's imagination, "the absence of worn paths or cultural memories", "a whitewashed primordial backdrop against which ideas, memories, ambitions, regrets, could be examined without distraction". 1912: The Year the World Discovered Antarctica by Chris Turney – review 2012-11-22T08:00:01Z Sexual ignorance – indeed, sexual blankness – is what their culture requires from them. Ignorance by Michèle Roberts - review 2012-05-25T21:55:01Z Some years ago, he took up meditation and at times breaks off from his labors, as he describes it, “to enter a kind of pregnant fertile blankness.” Ayad Akhtar: On Muslim identity, and life in America Having pushed the potential of painting so far, he has arrived now at utter blankness. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z But since he is portrayed by Mr. Washington, a specialist in layers of feeling, we notice an unsettling, even menacing blankness whenever his face is in repose. Review: In an Energized ‘Iceman,’ the Drinks are on Denzel 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z It just has that blankness of bad sci-fi, like a bad episode of “Doctor Who.” The Crazy History of “Star Wars” 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z We scanned their faces for panic or relief and saw nothing, only blankness. ‘I can’t forget the horror of my son’s birth’ | Leah McLaren 2017-05-07T04:00:00Z Numb, more like it, and faintly irritated, too, as if a prevailing blankness were this production’s hopefully unwitting bequest. Theater Review: Psychological Turbulence Onstage 2011-10-18T13:00:19Z For all her relative blankness, Kayla is emotionally sensitive, and the intricacies and pressures of the social world to which she silently bears witness affect her deeply. The Cringey Teen Spirit of “Eighth Grade” 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z The added value here, if you want it, is the organization and rigor of the blankness. Review: Beach House Releases ‘Depression Cherry’ 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z Medicated to blankness, he goes gentle into the night – thanks to the unfailing dedication of the hospice team who’ve carefully managed his death over two days. Breaking the taboo: the director who has filmed the moment of death 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z They can never trust entirely to form and poetry, but must explain and elaborate and fill in the blankness. America is chock-full of World War I memorials, so why build another one? 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z Her performance is crammed full of bits, seemingly from a dim-bulb checklist: hair twiddling, lip biting, excitable bouncing, wide-eyed wonder, slack-jawed blankness. ‘Lay the Favorite’ doesn’t quite add up | Movie review 2012-12-06T22:05:48Z But the stroke is very powerful, and he uses a lot of blankness, so that you actually just see a lot of solitude in his paintings. Du Yun: A Composer’s 10 Cultural Influences 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z Marsha Ginsberg’s set provides a context of clinical blankness just waiting to be scrawled upon. Review: ‘The Effect,’ About Falling in Love While Taking Antidepressants 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z Beyond the apparent contrast between density and blankness, São Paulo and Selma, a similarity: that “continuity of places.” Teju Cole Pairs Text and Image to Explore the Mysteries of the Ordinary 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z There is a Stepford quality to the six completed buildings, which Washington Post critic Philip Kennicott has described as “immaculately designed glass boxes ... defined by the ostentatious blankness of its surfaces.” 10 buildings you must see around the new boom-time Washington 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z Out our windshield was a perfect Kodachrome image of desert blankness. A Road Trip in Mexico Gone Wrong 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z As Christine begins to drift, a shadow of terrifying blankness crosses her face now and then, a suggestion that for the moment, she’s gone someplace where those around her can’t follow. Review: In Christine, Rebecca Hall Shines as Troubled Newswoman Christine Chubbuck 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z Who was he before he fell into a sort of blankness? In Ishiguro's 'The Buried Giant,' memory draws a blank 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z Yet the questions about their work are met, by and large, with a polite blankness. Yeasayer: men versus mammon 2012-07-26T19:30:03Z But since the movie can't get inside the head of the horse, there's a blankness at its center and a predictability to the storytelling that leaves the movie feeling a little flat. 'War Horse' is beautiful but a bit of a warhorse 2011-12-22T21:37:04Z His face, which has been fixed in blankness, opens up into a tentative smile. Review: In ‘The Prisoner,’ Peter Brook Ponders Crime and Punishment 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z Here, the persona of celebrity blankness he so carefully cultivated is refined to an almost self-parodic extent: a mask of a mask. The 10 best … photographic self-portraits 2013-03-23T16:00:00Z Large panes of steady blankness still appear in every picture — this time in majestic navy, gaudy lime green, or pale, appealing blue — but they can no longer be counted on to hold the center. What to See in New York City Galleries This Week 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z Every time I pass it by, the blankness provokes a feeling that some crime has been committed here. The Shuttered Lincoln Plaza Cinemas Is a Cultural Crime Scene 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z Gosling’s performance is an exercise in studied blankness: you cannot tell if he’s acting or under anaesthetic. Ryan Gosling movies – ranked! 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z It seems only natural that a parent, on hauling the last box of his child’s shinguards and Harry Potter effluvia into the unsupervised blankness of a dorm room, may fear the advent of pumpkin irresponsibility. The Eternal Struggle of the Empty Nester 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z “I, myself, had a very complicated relationship with emptiness, blankness, nothingness,” Lucy explains. The Merman of Her Dreams 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z Davis, playing with mostly the same group, rarefied its electric wildness to a sort of Beckettian blankness. Miles Davis’s Boldest Heights 2015-07-11T04:00:00Z But the place is not as bustling as it has been and everywhere you look, you see signs of imminent abandonment: packing crates and waste-paper bins and the Arctic blankness of the abandoned office. Cannes 2012 diary: day nine 2012-05-24T11:33:27Z Acuity alternates with blankness, anxiety with boredom, silence with chatter. Art Review: Rineke Dijkstra Videos at Marian Goodman Gallery 2010-08-12T21:53:00Z It's just strong enough, almost soulful, but it's also got the requisite blankness to convey – and we're guessing at their lyrical concerns here – numbness, nihilism and all the other stuff appropriate to the milieu. New band of the day ? No 882: The Vaccines 2010-10-07T16:08:00Z And it's all topped off by Maple's oddly characterless voice, its very blankness being the quality that allows it to fit seamlessly into this softly sultry setting. New band of the day - George Maple (No 1,422) 2013-01-02T15:16:34Z Whiteread's sculptures often present a kind of monumental blankness that resists us, while her drawings are more revealing. Rachel Whiteread: Through the eyes of a child 2010-09-06T20:31:00Z Lynsey emerges from a state of anxious blankness, recovering language, memory, physical coordination and the contours of her personality. ‘Causeway’ Review: Companions on a Hard Road to Recovery 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z But Nana’s mind that winter was like a room lit by a faulty fluorescent tube, flashing erratically between blankness and lucidity. A Place Beyond Words: The Literature of Alzheimer’s 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z There's a sort of blankness to his regard. Roy Lichtenstein: too cool for school? 2013-02-18T18:15:39Z Rather, I’ve learned that my mind can actually be in two places at once; that my imagination thrives in the blankness of forward motion. New Audiobooks for Your Summer Road Trip 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z In spite of Rihanna’s fundamental blankness, her best songs are nevertheless the ones that leave her the most vulnerable. Music Review: Guarded by an Icy, Impervious Cool 2011-07-20T13:00:05Z Maybe his well-meaning blankness is a perfect canvas for mass projection? Sam Smith – just a pretty voice? | Concert preview 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z The horizon is whiteness, blankness; there are hardly any houses. The Empty Family 2010-08-27T23:04:00Z The artwork above the buffet is framed gray blankness. | Connecticut: A Review of ‘The Dining Room’ by A. R. Gurney, in Westport 2013-05-10T23:54:41Z And the next, Rain and Snow, is a murder ballad made infinitely more disturbing and eerie by Amidon's unconventional phrasing, the blankness in his voice. Sam Amidon ? review 2011-04-12T17:27:31Z All this blankness allows the reader an opportunity to fill in the gaps — to recast the characters, the situations, the feelings in terms of her own enmities, jealousies, loves. ‘My Brilliant Friend’: A Fairy Tale of Youth Gives Way to Messy Adolescence 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z Ms. Lohan’s blankness may be permanent; it certainly is pervasive. Television Review: Following Lindsay Lohan After Her Latest Rehab 2014-03-10T21:29:04Z Seeing them face to face, it was hard to ignore their similar blankness. Utopia: episode three 2013-01-29T23:11:01Z Reading it, you can hear small museums across the country sigh with relief: Here was something that was accessible, visually pleasing and easily transported, after all that Minimalist sternness, blankness and weight. Pattern & Decoration: A Movement That Still Has Legs 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z Mr. Reed’s music had that room: a lot of repetition, empty spaces, terseness, intuition, blankness, bluntness, talking as singing. Critic’s Notebook: Billy Joel’s New Year’s Eve Concert at Barclays Center 2014-01-02T22:33:44Z And what’s left, I think, must be blankness and rigid veneer, slick surfaces to which memory and sentiment don’t adhere. The day Vida Wayne vanished, wearing a quarter-million dollars in jewels 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z He seems to be pulling different strands together to make a nice dressing for poems that suggest a comfortable blankness of spirit. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2011-01-24T23:19:27Z Mr. Scott is on there, too, but there is a cardboard blankness to his vocal texture. Nicki Minaj and Travis Scott Fumble Toward Yesterday’s Prize: A No. 1 Album 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z Her radiant, confused blankness effectively summons memories of being young, unformed and desperate to be liked. Review: ‘Mean Girls’ Sets the Perils of Being Popular to Song 2018-04-08T04:00:00Z Otherwise, references to gun control, health care and the blankness with which people consume entertainment have become more, not less, relevant. New York Has Its ‘Jerry Springer’ Moment, With Arias and Dancing 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z Its sheer human blankness is the one genuinely eerie thing about it. The Gentrified Ghostbusters of 2016 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z The overwhelming blankness of Hu’s vision of no future finds, among his characters, a range of responses that include resignation, reconciliation, self-destructive behavior, even suicide. “An Elephant Sitting Still,” Reviewed: A Young Chinese Filmmaker’s Masterly Portrait of Political and Intimate Despair 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z The blankness of the wood turns the subjects into something like a puppet or a doll — a thing that looks human but is not. Comic sights, mysterious sounds at Martin Kersels show 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z When it comes to the Occupation, most of what even French officialdom offers is still blankness and denial. Books of The Times: In ‘Priscilla,’ Nicholas Shakespeare Looks at Family Mystery 2013-12-26T19:35:00Z Tony's blankness fused with his complexity; his faithfulness with his infidelity. Goodbye, James Gandolfini 2013-06-20T05:11:47Z Drexler deserves credit for adding a whiff of romantic plot to the deadpan blankness of Pop Art. Mad for Art: A Look Back and Up the Avenue at Women Gallerists 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z The Dallas resident digitally stitches together multiple images to craft scenes of Sun Belt blankness. In the galleries: 3 artists explore 3-D 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z I am struck by the blankness in his eyes. Giles Duley: 'I lost three limbs in Afghanistan, but had to go back … ' 2013-02-10T00:13:44Z I also really liked the doll’s pink-and-white-checked apron and the general air of existential blankness. Kim Gordon: By the Book 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z Chockfull with 30 songs, The White Album made for an intentionally unsettling marriage of opposites: beauty and crudity, sublimity and blankness, harmony and cacophony. The Beatles’ new remixed White Album box set is a marvel 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z At the same time, she recognizes the value of the color white as a form of blankness. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z The situation is one of blankness and emptiness. Deutsche Börse Photography prize show: mashups and moon walkers 2013-04-17T17:23:17Z That Green fails to penetrate the emotional blankness of his SMM subjects is not his fault. The Killers of the ‘Sex Money Murder’ Gang and the Cops Who Went After Them 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z But what intrigued me about his latest novel, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage, is that it’s explicitly about that blankness. Review: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z Like the work of a traditional Chinese ink painter, her words sketch around spots of blankness, leaving suggestive lacunae. The Widow of a Nobel-Winning Chinese Dissident Rebuilds Her Career as an Artist 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z All great writing is infected with silence, but it is very rare indeed to observe a master wielding that vacuum blankness of the unsaid with such elegant precision. The Unsaid: The Silence of Virginia Woolf 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z To make us experience that blankness Garbus captures Moss in a long shot, her head and shoulder floating low in a frame gobbled up by a building's gray and dingy exterior. "The Handmaid's Tale" furious finale could turn the show around – and it's all in the execution 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z But she continued to suffer years of what she called “brutal punitive blankness,” when she tried everything from gardening to listening to Sam Cooke records to break out. Louise Glück, Nobel-winning poet of terse and candid lyricism, dies at 80 2023-10-13T04:00:00Z There was just a total blankness, a pain that really overwhelmed it. 'After Rab left, I stopped being scared on the bike' 2023-07-31T04:00:00Z A substantial supply of gray clouds overhead, often seeming to roll from horizon to horizon, blotting out sunshine, helped to hint at the blankness and bleakness that many associate with winter. Monday suggested a last February effort to be wintry 2023-02-27T05:00:00Z The surrounding landscape is flat and without any distinguishing features, and the sky has a lazy, torrid summer blankness. Review | A forgotten Impressionist is rediscovered at the Phillips Collection 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z It’s as if the murderous satisfaction he feels — and the anxious concern he’s trying to project — have somehow canceled each other out, leaving only a curious, malevolent blankness. Review: Jessica Chastain is good as 'The Good Nurse,' but Eddie Redmayne is bad as the bad nurse 2022-10-25T04:00:00Z As the blankness of the interstate scrolled by, I asked the boys if they were excited. Forget About Perfection. Embrace ‘Mamahuhu.’ 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z The future queen, whom Brown dubs “Kate the Relatable,” has impossibly glossy hair and a Mona Lisa countenance, though her cheery public blankness does not necessarily suggest untold depths. Review | Tina Brown’s royal revelations spare no one, especially Meghan Markle 2022-04-23T04:00:00Z Then there are the hours of staring into blankness, be it of a canvas, page, stage or your own soul. What Does It Really Mean to Make Art? 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z Before seeking treatment at Barrow, Becky, and the few doctors she had gone to, attributed her symptoms — the headaches, the shaking, the blankness — to post-traumatic stress disorder, a common, if incomplete, diagnosis. The Hidden Epidemic of Brain Injuries From Domestic Violence 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z Redmayne, an actor who tends to call attention to his own subtlety, works hard to make that blankness sinister. Review: Jessica Chastain is good as 'The Good Nurse,' but Eddie Redmayne is bad as the bad nurse 2022-10-25T04:00:00Z Culture, like nature, abhors a vacuum, though, which in Warhol’s blankness has filled up with market-oriented enthusiasms. Review: Netflix's 'The Andy Warhol Diaries' is a love story, not an art story — and that's why it works 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z As busy as Arvid’s mind is, it generates only a sense of blankness. Review: Not just another sad-man novel: Why Per Petterson is worth your time 2022-02-02T05:00:00Z Wolfford described the surviving siblings as “sweet children,” but that they have been traumatized and have a “blankness in the eyes.” Sheriff: Kids lived in dire conditions as body decomposed 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z “One of my chief irritations at the time was the blankness of the faces of my young girlfriends,” Mr. Vizinczey wrote in the novel. Stephen Vizinczey, Hungarian-born author of ‘In Praise of Older Women,’ dies at 88 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z Then for a few moments, I sat there at my computer, staring into the screen of an immense blankness. Opinion | Come to the office! We have bees! 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z That’s the history, his majors calendar filled with sprawling deserts of blankness otherwise. At the U.S. Open, there’s a 48-year-old leader who never, ever, ever gave up 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z While Liu’s acrobatic swordplay is as deft as her disguise, there’s a curious blankness to her Mulan, an emotional vagueness masquerading as reserve. Review: Disney's live-action remake of 'Mulan' has more swords and sorcery but less magic 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z Even so, watching them with the naked eye was rewarding in how it revealed the dynamism of what before was merely blankness. The Mysterious Life of Birds Who Never Come Down 2020-07-29T04:00:00Z Perhaps Ghislaine Maxwell will fill in some of the blanks behind their blankness. Perhaps Ghislaine Maxwell can fill in some blanks for Epstein's ‘bewildered’ friends | Marina Hyde 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z As the shooting star sinks into the blankness of the sea, so everything solid melts into fluidity. My favourite book as a kid – Tintin: The Shooting Star by Hergé 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z Then there’s blankness and blackness; the yawning expanse of a night awake. ‘It’s as if I’m falling from a 50-storey building’: a year without sleep 2019-12-28T05:00:00Z “Bombshell” has, like that poster, a blankness at its core. ‘Bombshell’ review: Despite enjoyable cast, film about Fox News scandal ultimately falls flat 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z Foy stands alone, wearing the crown and a look of infinite blankness. How the Man Behind ‘The Crown’ Made the Monarchy Relevant Again 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z The robot is played with chilling blankness by Gabriel Luna, a handsome shield for a skeletoid body whose obsidian-colored guts keep splitting apart and oozing back together, like salt-water taffy from hell. Review: 'Terminator: Dark Fate' brings Arnold Schwarzenegger and Linda Hamilton back for the best 'Terminator' sequel in over 20 years 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z “There is nothing to hold on to, no way to anchor my mind. I try praying, every day, sometimes for hours. But there’s nothing there, just a blankness. I’m talking to myself, not God.” Opinion | It’s been seven years. Let Austin Tice go. 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z Egerton is busy and fizzy in the leading role, but there’s a curious blankness in his impersonation, and a shortage of charm. “Rocketman” and the Art of the Acceptably Outrageous 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z All have expensively blond hair meticulously side-parted and sweeping the right eyebrow; all wear airbrushed makeup with pale lips and dark-lined eyes; all have an expression of composed, faintly steely blankness. ‘Bombshell’ review: Despite enjoyable cast, film about Fox News scandal ultimately falls flat 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z I might only be hoping to remember that my ecstatic disposition is the source of the good in me—spontaneity, devotion, sweetness—and the worst things, too: heedlessness, blankness, equivocation. Losing Religion and Finding Ecstasy in Houston 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z His usual charm offensive takes on a sly double edge here; you can just about make out a chilling blankness behind that easy-on-the-eyes smile. Review: Zac Efron goes dark as Ted Bundy, but ‘Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile’ is irritatingly coy 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z Soon I acquiesced to a dull, pleasant blankness. What It Takes to Put Your Phone Away 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z He seemed to be watching in a reverie as terrain emerged—tundra, ocean, blankness, covering the paths he’d just travelled. An Artist’s Archeology of the Mind 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z One must detach from the mundane activities of life to see this blankness, this freedom. The dark brilliance of Bret Easton Ellis, by Ottessa Moshfegh 2019-03-02T05:00:00Z The blankness of the Pooh toy model made conveying emotion more difficult, especially in syncing the voice performance to how the CG character’s jaw moved. The surprising connection between the year’s Oscar-nominated CG bears 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z Like a spy or a pinto bean, McConnell has used this blankness to his advantage, made it a carrier for designs greater than himself. Mitch McConnell Got Everything He Wanted. But at What Cost? 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z She says many young people recounted experiencing symptoms such as blankness of memory or passing out when they hadn't drunk very little or perhaps nothing at all. Drink spiking: 'Stop blaming the victims' 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z When Benjamin discusses her dislike of mindfulness and meditation techniques, she remarks that she is terrified of the “stupefaction” and “blankness” to which she imagines they lead. Why We Sleep, and Why We Often Can’t 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z All communication, from bird chirps to Morse code, is built largely on blankness. New Sentences: From ‘When Rap Spoke Straight to God’ 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z And the final sequence, with both parents posing uneasily for a photograph, Joe taking the vacant chair between them, and all three staring ahead, makes the blankness of their future seem forced. “Halloween” Is Hellbent on Making a Fresh Start 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z The door, in this case, is attached to the Apollo 11’s lunar module, and on the other side is not a Technicolor wonderland but rather a vast, monochrome blankness. Review: 'First Man,' starring Ryan Gosling as Neil Armstrong, thrills, moves and perplexes - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z They smile in his wake no matter the blankness of his expression. Tiger in Twilight 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z There is to Hunt, as there is to Cruise, a curious, almost otherworldly blankness. Tom Cruise: James Bond with added messiah | Catherine Shoard 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z Confirming people’s worst fears about their missing relatives, Bellan-Boyer said he encountered tears, rage and just blankness, and he vividly recalls the first one. Delivering the grimmest news of all: 'Your loved one is dead' 2018-07-01T04:00:00Z The curious blankness of Tradowsky’s paintings in some ways normalizes this middle-class, male gaze. Kirsten Tradowsky: In turning photos into paintings, she blurs faces, races and the walls between us 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z But then that long, round flange in the back is kind of a plain area of blankness. Q&A: Scotty Cameron discusses the coolest item in his Gallery, how technology continues to change his designs and more - Golf Digest 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z The figure is bust-length and head-on or in profile, like a Renaissance prince or lady, posed with casual gravity before a background whose contrasting blankness heightens the specificity of individual features. Dan McCleary's paintings: Life at its peak beauty, but then what? 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z He is an athlete famed, almost revered, for blankness. What Happens When Athletes Do the Sportswriting? 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z Wood: Maybe it’s that blankness that allows his fans to project their fantasies onto him. Harry Styles brought thousands of teens to the Greek Theatre. We sent two adults 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z Herman Melville described this colour as the “dumb blankness, full of meaning, in a wide landscape of snows – a colorless all-color of atheism from which we shrink”. Watching ice melt: inside Nasa’s mission to the north pole 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z Rated R. Contains nudity and sexual situations, as well as characters of moral blankness. MOVIE REVIEW: ‘Lady Macbeth’ shows a moral vacuum amid 19th century decorum 2017-07-18T04:00:00Z I watched as the panic on his face warped into pain, then the pain slowly faded to blankness. Let me sleep when I die : Nature : Nature Research 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z There’s a blankness to Styles that worked in One Direction, where he and his mates were pushing against the ready-made expectations of a boy band. 'Wanna do one more?': Harry Styles jams with Stevie Nicks at the Troubadour 2017-05-20T04:00:00Z You have to sit in the chair and fight the blankness. So you want to be a writer? Essential tips for aspiring novelists 2017-05-13T04:00:00Z The actor plays him deliberately flat, with an unrelentingly even voice and a dispassionate, anti-social blankness. Review: A superhero CPA in Ben Affleck’s ‘The Accountant’ 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z In several sections, footage of a chimpanzee in the Berlin Zoo replaced the blankness on the screen. Jonas Mekas Gets a Look at His Life Through Another Filmmaker’s Eyes 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z One of the well-wishers, a soigneé lady in a black cocktail dress, tips her flute of champagne and says, with a curious blankness in her voice, “Here’s to living forever.” Sumner Redstone’s Sad, Angry Decline 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z They’ve grappled with the inexpressible, the untranslatable, the arbitrariness of word shapes as they are deployed across blankness. The Sexual Politics of Syntax 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z An album where happiness and sadness, hope and despair, fulfilment and blankness intermingled like confused, mismatched guests at a bizarre aural cocktail party. Was 1966 pop music’s greatest year? 2016-01-31T05:00:00Z "Trump can try to make his blankness a virtue by calling it a kind of innocence," they conclude. Is Donald Trump causing a Republican civil war? - BBC News 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z It reminded me of the blankness South Africa’s leaders suggested the country could start from after 1994: an empty slate. Why South African students have turned on their parents’ generation | Eve Fairbanks 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z He wanted to be rich and famous and he became rich and famous I ask if Andy’s persona – the incandescent blankness, the air of perpetual boredom – was contrived. I shot Andy Warhol: photographer Billy Name on drugs and shootings at the Factory 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z But the singer said his initial blankness was also a product of youth. Jason Derulo on his 'Think You Can Dance' gig: 'It'll give people an idea of who I am' 2015-08-15T04:00:00Z Tsarnaev endured their anger and anguish with the same implacable blankness that he wore throughout his long trial. Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev: 'I am guilty and I am sorry' 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z But the blankness to Claire’s history also reflects the point of the film: We don’t see the wounds people are carrying around, even in the broad daylight of the California sun. Review: A deglamorized Aniston in the drab ‘Cake’ 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z Now, at the corner of Ferry and Fifth Streets, what gets your attention isn’t just the utter blankness of the space beside the vivid murals covering the rest of the Haywood Building. Street art debate challenges Lafayette’s ‘hipness’ 2014-11-15T05:00:00Z In the biggest matches, past teen-age champions typically displayed this mysterious inner blankness, a strange, cold grace that most of us marvel at but cannot imagine possessing. Tennis Gets Anxious 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z The anesthesiologist started an IV drip, my mouth went dry, then drowsiness and blankness. Think you’re too young to treat bad joints with hip replacement surgery? Read this. “We lost all of that,” she said, with a blankness I hadn’t seen from her before. The Jenny Lewis Experience 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z If Hernandez is guilty of these additional murders, all it proves is that NFL executives were as fooled as the rest of us by the blankness of his face. Nowhere to place blame To the left, though, the vista modulated between forest and rangeland, then would fall away in the flat blankness of soy field: mile-long rectangles of bare earth. In Brazil, Attacking the Forest to Save It 2012-09-21T14:45:11.390Z One day over breakfast she suffers a frightening episode that leaves her briefly locked in a mute, seemingly unaware blankness. Critic?s Notebook: ?Amour? and ?Beyond the Hills? at Cannes Film Festival 2012-05-21T10:45:23Z She went to bed tired out with the last night’s work, and woke up in the morning with a sense of blankness at the realization of there being nothing to do that day. The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett 2012-04-26T02:00:17.327Z To watch the gradual unfolding of a mind behind the magnificent blankness of those enormous eyes, would be a study in emotions entirely after her ladyship's own heart. The Tree of Knowledge A Novel 2012-04-05T02:00:35.603Z It was a white house, and in a dim light it had a sad and spectral aspect, a pale blankness as of a dead face. Mitchelhurst Place, Vol. I (of 2) A Novel 2012-04-03T02:00:33.630Z Rather he did not wish to confront the blankness of disappointment. The Suprising Adventures of Sir Toady Lion With Those of General Napoleon Smith 2012-04-03T02:00:29.527Z He thought of how he had gone back to New Romney for his Christmas holidays, determined to kiss her, and of the awful blankness of the discovery that she had gone away. Kipps The Story of a Simple Soul 2012-03-18T02:00:19.567Z A flash passed across the blankness of her expression; her nostrils dilated; a flood of tears gushed from her eyes. Mathieu Ropars: et cetera 2012-03-15T02:00:28.013Z It was certainly nice to have the cherubs' society in a shut-up house in the suburbs, whose safety lay in its blankness; but it was improper to be selfish. The Maid of Honour (Vol. 3 of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-14T03:00:29.027Z The girl was thrown back on an utter blankness of ideas. Mitchelhurst Place, Vol. I (of 2) A Novel 2012-04-03T02:00:33.630Z Some of it is aimless, and all of it is fruitless of anything except to save the mind from utter blankness. Prowling about Panama 2012-02-11T03:04:04.040Z The approving look on the Master's face gave way to a glare of utter blankness. Lad: A Dog 2012-02-08T03:00:19.720Z In the midst of this Charmides stood, half panting, his overwrought mind in a state of blankness. Istar of Babylon A Phantasy 2012-01-31T03:00:15.543Z I struck out fiercely against a sudden blankness that seemed to swim up to the eyes and throat of me. A Woman of Genius 2012-01-18T03:00:09.517Z I saw no more; but after an interval of blankness I was conscious that Maida, left alone in the room, had opened the shutters, leaving only the mosquito-netting between her and the night. Lord John in New York 2012-01-04T03:00:30.077Z Now, her perplexed loneliness brought it all out on the tablets of her mind as the chemical brings out the picture from the blankness of a photographic plate. Out of the Air 2011-11-21T03:00:14.460Z Into the dull baby-eyes, at sight of him, came a look of pleased interest—the first that had crossed their blankness for many a long day. Lad: A Dog 2012-02-08T03:00:19.720Z The old Victorian social Sunday is dust and ashes, and a holy stillness, a repudiating blankness, has possession—which however, after all, has its merits and its conveniences too.... The Letters of Henry James, Vol. II 2011-11-18T03:00:26.730Z In view of what came to me afterward it was a reasonable proposition, but I reckoned without that extraordinary blankness to the processes of art which is common to those most entertained by it. A Woman of Genius 2012-01-18T03:00:09.517Z Utter blankness must mean complete innocence or extreme subtlety. Lord John in New York 2012-01-04T03:00:30.077Z Her lips quivered as the meaning of this vast blankness forced itself upon her mind. The Girl Crusoes A Story of the South Seas 2011-11-03T02:00:16.647Z The change was not all in his dress; the indefinable something that marks the man of experience was upon him and the ascetic blankness was gone from his brow. Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians 2011-10-28T02:00:22.437Z Her old friend had a pause of some blankness. Lady Barbarina The Siege of London, An International Episode and Other Tales 2011-10-06T02:00:37.063Z Karee had dreaded seeing anger or hate on his face, but the blankness there disturbed her more. Here be monsters 2011-10-05T17:20:42.963Z He understood well enough the weakness and blankness of Denny's account of himself. "Persons Unknown" 2011-09-28T02:00:23.683Z Ye would gaze on God With imperceptive blankness up the stars, And mutter, "Why, God, hast thou made us thus?" The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. I 2011-09-20T02:00:18.217Z He had periods of mental blankness from which he aroused with a start. Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians 2011-10-28T02:00:22.437Z Jackson looked with a certain sharp blankness from one of these disinterested judges to the other; even yet they scarce saw how their misdirected freedom wrought on him. Lady Barbarina The Siege of London, An International Episode and Other Tales 2011-10-06T02:00:37.063Z It was her most disconcerting expression, for in the soft blankness and immobility of her look, he read a rebuke which she was either too amiable or too well-bred to utter. The Builders 2011-09-19T02:00:09.067Z I felt as if I could die of weariness and the sick blankness of life. The Claw 2011-08-31T02:01:30.563Z Then, swiftly and sweetly, the whole world slipped away into blankness and silence. The Long Lane's Turning 2011-08-23T02:00:34Z Again and again she caught his glance with its furtive appeal; but each time her own eyes met it, not with studied blankness, but with a naturalness that was almost histrionic. The Locusts' Years 2011-08-16T02:00:41.777Z The blankness of the mental desert which moved about us as we ran along was appalling. My Attainment of the Pole 2011-08-05T02:00:54.720Z "Breakfast is ready," she said, when we had somewhat got over our first blankness. A Tatter of Scarlet Adventurous Episodes of the Commune in the Midi 1871 2011-08-04T02:00:19.957Z Some people have an idea that it is "artistic" to leave a story in a half-finished condition, or with a disappointing ending, or a general feeling of blankness. The Lure of the Pen A book for Would-Be Authors 2011-07-26T02:00:15.573Z Hamlets flashed by—huddles of flaring street-lights—then shadow and blankness again. The Long Lane's Turning 2011-08-23T02:00:34Z After the departure of an inmate of a family, whether that person has been pleasant or otherwise, there follows a feeling of blankness, of something amiss. Peggy Owen at Yorktown 2011-07-17T02:00:35.830Z Out of the blankness of sleep I suddenly wakened again. My Attainment of the Pole 2011-08-05T02:00:54.720Z A man with a soul crosses a vast moor, a blankness of miles, but on one hand-breadth spot he spies an eagle’s feather, which he cherishes. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z With the next turn a blinding glare of light, a moment's blankness, then a vast panorama gradually dawns upon me. The Best Psychic Stories 2011-07-13T02:00:21.943Z The blankness of his amazement started the two off again. The Ruby Sword A Romance of Baluchistan 2011-07-05T02:00:28.367Z The blankness and awfulness of the pall that had settled upon the country after his desertion had not yet been dissipated. Peggy Owen at Yorktown 2011-07-17T02:00:35.830Z In the dull days of blankness which followed, few incidents seemed to mark time. My Attainment of the Pole 2011-08-05T02:00:54.720Z At last, with a sickening sense of blankness—of hope deferred, at her heart, she falls asleep, worn out by the heat and the watching coming upon a night of wakefulness. The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier 2011-07-05T02:00:23.353Z She was looking at him widely, fully, but without blankness. Nobody's Child 2011-06-29T02:00:24.827Z The heavy blankness of his waiting was broken by the gayest sound in the world. A Man's Hearth 2011-06-25T02:00:17.093Z Just then his glance happened to meet Helen's, and hers seemed to convey a repressed irony, which melted into that blankness of expression with its self-effacement that always puzzled him. The Old Blood 2011-06-13T02:00:22.897Z Suddenly she seized a chair, and dragging it to the side window, sat down, her chin in her hands, staring through the glass at the sheer blankness of brick only a few feet away. The Salamander 2011-06-10T02:00:22.890Z Then he felt himself stopped, and then, and then only, everything whirled confusedly by him, and his brain seemed to partake of the motion, and then—the relief of utter blankness and oblivion. Gabriel Conroy 2011-06-08T02:00:19.217Z He said the object we were thinking of would rise before him visually against the blankness. The Secret of Lonesome Cove 2011-06-07T02:00:12.563Z Frau Dremmel was regarding her with sombre, unblinking eyes, eyes that had the blankness of pebbles. The Pastor's Wife 2011-06-02T02:00:23.873Z And he was alone, and sick from the moons, And covered as with a white blankness, Which was the worst madness of all. Songs and Satires 2011-05-20T02:00:37.050Z I was even checking my pockets, blind and unnerved in the blankness of my memory. The Choice: A New Obstacle to College Appears 2011-04-12T15:30:47Z Something in her visitor's face, a certain blankness, suggested to her that probably Daphne knew no difference between high and low, but condemned both with impartial unfairness. Non-combatants and Others 2011-04-11T02:00:11.563Z “Just below the ear there is a sort of blankness, isn’t there?” The Secret of Lonesome Cove 2011-06-07T02:00:12.563Z While this suits the blankness of the material, it doesn't help the sentimental climax, which stakes everything on the emotional clout of revelations concerning Nuri's mother and his father's Swiss mistress. Critical eye 2011-03-19T00:05:58Z He told me he thought the expression on it of stunned, crestfallen blankness would have given him away to an idiot. The Black Eagle Mystery 2011-03-07T03:00:12.497Z As yet she was quite powerless to realize, the blankness of her future life, now that her dream was broken for ever. The Doctor's Wife 2011-03-06T03:00:18.770Z Lady Cecilia stared at me with a blankness that became awe. The High Heart 2011-03-04T03:00:52.683Z The momentary blankness on Frank's face made Lee fear he had been too precipitate, and had routed the young man with this wholly unexpected turn, putting an end to the intellectual enjoyment he had anticipated. A Practical Novelist 2011-02-19T03:01:38.957Z For a second he sat as though paralysed, and the next second he had her in his arms, the grin breaking out from utter blankness. The Streets of Ascalon Episodes in the Unfinished Career of Richard Quarren, Esqre. 2011-02-12T03:00:30.987Z The new blankness, the terrible change, he sees in the beloved face sobers him immediately. Airy Fairy Lilian 2011-02-11T03:00:31.760Z The weather was very fine, cruelly fine; and to Mrs. Gilbert the universe seemed all dust and sunshine and blankness. The Doctor's Wife 2011-03-06T03:00:18.770Z The ship was unchanged, only outside of the port was the red-shot blankness of jump space. Sense of Obligation 2011-02-09T03:00:52.337Z So when the blankness left Frank's face, the child-like happiness which dwelt in every line of Lee's could only be matched by the pictured countenance of some rapt and smiling medieval saint. A Practical Novelist 2011-02-19T03:01:38.957Z Someone enquired, after the moment of blankness which usually follows this invitation, what they would be taught, exactly. What Not A Prophetic Comedy 2011-02-09T03:00:50.423Z Even to Dino there was always a certain mystery about Valdez, but it was the mystery of pure blankness; there were no secrets about him, chiefly because he seemed to own no history. Vestigia Vol. I. 2011-02-04T03:00:23.340Z I was depressed and had a painful sense of blankness, but I would not go home till very late, without, however, seeing her again. The Galaxy Vol. XXIII?March, 1877.?No. 3 2011-01-31T03:00:16.193Z We had been told that there was ski-ing up there and we were anxious to see it, but for a time we found only blankness and dead silence. The Car That Went Abroad Motoring Through the Golden Age 2011-01-27T03:00:39.880Z Beyond, the lake lay in one sheet of blankness and of dumbness, unstirred by breeze or breath; fast bound there it lay, with not life enough to reflect the smallest shrub or twig. Pierre; or The Ambiguities 2011-01-17T03:00:45.163Z Tieck argues that the boy has a good deal of expression, but a cool observer can see only melodrama in the pose and blankness in the face. Tieck's Essay on the Boydell Shakspere Gallery 2011-01-14T03:00:49.540Z No one but a blind man or a fool could have failed to see in those beautiful eyes the blankness of disappointment. Vision House 2011-01-13T03:01:00.407Z To Joan, in the dead blankness that followed the departure of her friend, the great war seemed strangely like a godsend. Why Joan? 2011-01-02T03:00:20.290Z The absence of difference would be continuance, and continuance means stagnation, blankness, negation, death. Through Nature to God 2010-12-24T03:00:36.410Z “Mean what?” she asked, with the blankness of one who has lost the thread of her own thoughts. Max Carrados 2010-12-24T03:00:32.117Z But once outside the front door he felt a sudden sense of blankness. The Man with the Double Heart 2010-12-21T22:55:56.757Z Even the leader, when he is a natural leader and not a professional, has nothing up his sleeve to force on the rest, in their obvious good-will and mental blankness. Character and Opinion in the United States 2010-12-20T17:12:15.253Z It’s like, you’d look into his eyes and you would just see just blankness.” Child?s Journey Shows Dangers of Antipsychotic Drugs 2010-09-01T23:02:00Z A world of completed happiness might well be a world of quiescence, of stagnation, of automatism, of blankness; the dynamics of evolution would have no place in it. Through Nature to God 2010-12-24T03:00:36.410Z To some, the blankness of the faces involved is a good argument for more regulation of "dark pools" that trade securities far away from the prying eyes of the exchanges. 5 things we still don't know about the market plunge 2010-05-16T04:00:00Z When I opened my eyes the whiteness and blankness of the walls of my room seemed to be released by a spring. Woman He rather hoped it was, but in any case its fierce blankness was very disconcerting. Sinister Street, vol. 2 The face of the member of the Foreign Affairs Committee wore a stunned blankness, and the blood went out of it. The Tempering The months which followed emerged but slowly from blankness for these two who had joined their lives together. A Bed of Roses He became now, perhaps from the blankness of her face, aware more fully of Haldicott's unobtrusive presence. The Nest, The White Pagoda, The Suicide, A Forsaken Temple, Miss Jones and The Masterpiece The melting of it would so horribly burn one's hands; and then there would be a blankness, and nothing left to play with any more. The Furnace The door of Lily's lodging had been set in a wall: here on one side was certainly a wall, but never a door to relieve the grimy blankness. Sinister Street, vol. 2 I tried to believe him as he said this; as, seeing my blankness, he repeated it for me in other words. The Book of Susan A Novel Mrs. Gereth, every morning, looked publicly into "The Morning Post," the only newspaper she received; and every morning she treated the blankness of that journal as fresh evidence that everything was "off." The Spoils of Poynton "Mr. Gryce bade me say that he would be up here some time before noon," said the man, seeing me look with some blankness at these words. Lost Man's Lane A Second Episode in the Life of Amelia Butterworth From there he passed into blankness at the end of which stood Sylvia, her face white and drawn. The Perfume of Eros: A Fifth Avenue Incident Nevertheless the certainty that Reed's confession brought was very grateful to him; so grateful that he feared his expression would betray him, and he assumed a look of stern blankness. Come Out of the Kitchen! A Romance She was dry-eyed by this time, and there was a peculiar blankness in her expression that went to his heart. The Garden of Eden His blankness showed for a little that he felt the chill of her cold logic; but as she waited for his rejoinder she knew to which of them it cost most. The Spoils of Poynton What would have made the rare delicacy of the problem was that blankness itself was the most direct reference of all. The Sacred Fount Then it seemed to her that the room was turning around, that the walls had receded, that there was but blankness. The Perfume of Eros: A Fifth Avenue Incident Her expression was as unusual as her appearance, the blankness on most of the passing faces being replaced in her case by a radiant audacity which proved her to be no ordinary character. An Unknown Lover Mona, the bright beacon star that had arisen upon the grey blankness of his latter-day life. A Veldt Official A Novel of Circumstance A sort of blankness came over the group which had gathered. The White Hand and the Black A Story of the Natal Rising Was this now a foreknowledge that, on the morrow, in driving away, I should feel myself restored to that blankness? The Sacred Fount My sight was scorched as with the blaze of a million fires, and then—blankness—oblivion! A Veldt Vendetta Wordlessly he passed me a heavy helmet, and the kind of goggles that present a mirrored blankness to the outside world. Cue for Quiet She felt neither glad nor sorry, interested nor surprised; nothing but a curious blankness, as if a veil had been dropped over the scene of life. Lady Cassandra Already there were figures racing across the blankness. The Plotters It was in fact not till I had begun to help him place himself that, correcting my blankness, I knew him for Guy Brissenden. The Sacred Fount So, where was there to turn, with grim, unanswering blankness on every side? Asteroid of Fear The blankness went out of her eyes and was replaced by a sudden gladness. Day of the Druid She envisaged the home-coming too, the flood of maternal questionings, the blankness of spirit which would descend upon the girl when she attempted to settle down. Lady Cassandra The time, they said, seemed endless in passing, but little when past, no events having diversified its dull blankness. Reminiscences, 1819-1899 A look of blankness came over her face like a mist. The Brightener Matson tried to force his mind to utter blankness, and the alien smiled at him. Assassin Her brow grew dark and a blankness like a film came over her eyes. Command The blankness, caused by the concussion, which at the first enwrapped his mind, rolled away as a dark cloud vanishes from the mountain's brow. The Frontiersman A Tale of the Yukon A waving blankness came before her sight, her knees trembled, her strength seemed poured out like water, and staggering to a tree, she caught hold of it for support. Belford's Magazine, Volume II, No. 8, January, 1889 For the first time he looked into the face of his dream and saw the reality of Vinin—order, discipline, efficiency—and utter blankness. The Instant of Now He was confused, and there was blankness around him, and for a moment he thought he'd lost contact altogether. The Very Secret Agent For those who were sceptic concerning the post-mortem, they offered blankness. The Lords of the Ghostland A History of the Ideal What haggard faces, with low foreheads, sunken eyes, and dogged moody expression or utter blankness of expression! Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. II) Anway's expression graduated from expectancy at the sound of the word friend to blankness as he failed to recognise Evan, and to something like consternation when he did. The Deaves Affair And he could not be sure in that eerie blankness if it even were a ship. Master of the Moondog The odd, in her case beautiful, blankness of fear smoothed Eve's forehead. A World Apart They somehow bore a close resemblance to a pair of eyes that stared and stared and stared with calm, unwinking blankness. The Boarded-Up House The evil is when, without system, and without preference of the nobler members, the ornament alternates between sickly luxuriance and sudden blankness. The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) Instead of their usual blankness or passive intelligence, they had a quality in them now of dream. Clark's Field What do you mean?” asked Leslie, surprised into a very complete blankness of expression. Aurora the Magnificent If Aunt Jessica noticed either the confusion or the blankness, she gave no sign. The Camerons of Highboro Her eyes left his face and seemed to shield her thoughts behind a film of blankness. The Monk of Hambleton She had seen more than one man dally on the brink, and then topple over to the blankness of despair. Hope Mills or, Between Friend and Sweetheart And the brown eyes of the two little fellows, so like his own in the old days, as he well knew, in their blankness and wonder, gave eager response to new things. The Boy from Hollow Hut A Story of the Kentucky Mountains The woman sat staring at the girl, an expression of utter blankness upon her pallid face. Carmen Ariza His round face had a tendency to smile when he was talking or working with his hands; when he was deep in thought, his face usually relaxed into thoughtful blankness. Psichopath The blankness of the entire rear facade of the structure was broken only by one window, built into a deep embrasure. Death Points a Finger He but continued to stare, and she met his blankness with surprise. The Wings of the Dove, Volume II She stared at him as if to pierce the blankness of his gaze. Life Sentence Across the blankness of his features shot a joyous gleam; it spread, brightening till he was radiant. The Million-Dollar Suitcase A reference to the Hardanger woods at night, to the absence of nightingales, absence of the dark—she veiled her eyes with blankness, and finally shut down the topic. Love and Lucy But there was a strange blankness, a hiatus in his memories, that ended with his hated job in the cigar stand. Second Sight Whether this blankness was real or affected men could not make up their minds. The Twins of Suffering Creek In ecstasy is no such blankness: merely the body is perforce inert, it would be entirely forgotten but for its periods of distress. The Prodigal Returns Here, at last, some modicum of reason penetrated into the numbed blankness of his brain. When the Sleepers Woke A moment's blankness—then, what are you thinking? Monday or Tuesday He stood there, swaying, and the incredulous eyes of the natives widened as they saw the condition of his body, and the blankness of his eyes. Happy Ending That gave check to a creeping blankness which was benumbing Pan. Valley of Wild Horses They sat and stared about them as the laboratory held steady and no further intervening periods of blankness intervened. The Einstein See-Saw A blankness of wincing depression came over her. The Rainbow Perplexed, he went to the stairway and peered into the stark blankness which swam up to the third step below him. Peter the Brazen A Mystery Story of Modern China The cold blankness, the narrow groove, would have chilled her heart. Wee Wifie His regret and messages to make myself at home, and the quartermaster’s hearty will to help me to do so could not cure my blankness. Red Men and White Perhaps they and their increase might furnish meat for the pseudomen who lurked inside the swirling blankness. The Weakling A sort of blankness came over the sisters’ faces,—a sudden dying out of the brightness and fun. Not Like Other Girls Peg’s face was noncommittal to the point of blankness. Rose O'Paradise Here and there a girl leaned as if swooning in her lover's arms; her head hung back; her lower lip drooped; her face showed the looseness and blankness of a sensuous stupor. The Combined Maze He remembered his wife screaming—after that only blankness. Strange Alliance That flash of incredulity, followed by sudden, horrified comprehension, then blankness, was becoming perfectly familiar. The Weakling The single defect of the house is the blankness and bareness of its walls, which have none of that delicate parasitic deposit that agrees so well—to the eye—with the surface of old dwellings. A Little Tour of France Could this blankness on Dickie’s face be genuine? Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905 Winny took it with that blankness that leaves the brain naked to all irrelevant impressions, and with a silence that made all her pulses loud. The Combined Maze It was a trifling thing to mind about, yet she did mind, and it was with a sense of blankness that she resigned herself to playing piquet with Miss Clifford. Juggernaut But I lie in some dead waste where nothing moves and all is mist without horizon, lost in an abhorred blankness of dismay to which no positive suffering may be likened. Apologia Diffidentis He missed Phineas beyond all his conception of the blankness of bereavement. The Rough Road Look where she would a blank wall confronted her; and in the midst of the blankness she sat, a dainty, dejected figure, with her pitiless pile of bills. Captain Desmond, V.C. A sudden blankness fell upon each face, as each recalled the last words of Champers when he left them on the Sabbath day in August. Winning the Wilderness In a few seconds would come utter blankness again; her last chance would be gone for saving Roger and herself. Juggernaut After a few minutes he ceased reading and sat, picking at the edge of the paper, staring into the blankness of the little room. McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908. Dozens—till suddenly they ceased to feel those beams, as a strange curtain of waving blankness spread out from the ships, and both induction-beam and death-beam alike turned as aside, each becoming useless. The Last Evolution The idiotic blankness of his expression changed to acute alarm. A Young Man in a Hurry and Other Short Stories A sort of atmosphere of blankness saturated the gloom. A Woman's Will Excess of frivolous excitement is not repaired or undone by excess of mere blankness and nothingness. Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) When he lifted his eyes from the turf on which he stood he could see the white blankness of a closed window through the boughs. Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878 From the outsiders came beams, for now that their slowly created screen of blankness was up, they could work through it, while they remained shielded perfectly. The Last Evolution Seasons of blankness as of snow, The silent bleed of a world decaying, The moan of multitudes in woe,— These were the things we wished would go; But they were staying. Modern British Poetry Or had the horror of the real thing blotted Nils's mind into blankness so far as the events of the night in the Dead Valley were concerned? Black Spirits and White A Book of Ghost Stories I erected ramparts of would-be blankness of intellect to keep them out. A Stable for Nightmares or Weird Tales Their recognition of this fact increased their blankness. No Clue A Mystery Story Ship after ship of the enemy was falling, as hundreds of the terrestrial machines concentrated all their enormous energies on its screen of blankness. The Last Evolution He makes ready solitude for it, blankness, reverie, sleep, silence. The Lost Art of Reading He forced himself to realize it, to dwell upon it, to bring consciously home to his soul the blankness the severance would bring with it. Antony Gray,—Gardener This is deplorable, of course, for it was within a twenty-mile radius, but it is astonishing the frequency with which one meets this blankness in England when looking for information. The Automobilist Abroad Slowly, slowly she opened the unresisting door, and her expression changed from expectancy to blankness as she perceived that the room was empty. The Opened Shutters Gradually a cloud of blankness grew—a cloud, like some smoke that hung about them. The Last Evolution She was entirely exhausted by her emotion, so that all her memories fell away from her and left her in a peaceful blankness. The Branding Iron And this is more especially the case when the mistakes and the blankness have been caused by our own actions. Antony Gray,—Gardener A faint red showed itself on the girl’s haggard cheeks, and she stared at her with indifferent blankness. In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim But, why I know not, that sense of blankness and dizziness always comes over me when I speak on that subject. The Mystery of a Turkish Bath Great ray projectors on the ground drove their terrible energies through the enemy curtains of blankness, as light illumines and disperses darkness. The Last Evolution Five hundred pairs of eyes sought each other with the blankness of terror-numbed minds. The Return of Blue Pete In sum: This child which I was was a semi-embryonic creature, mostly unconscious, whose ten years' career, now chiefly faded into entire blankness, showed not many mental traits. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 The “office” had been stifling hot, and there had been even less to suggest any hope of possible professional business than the blankness of most days held. In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim Xavier's face wore an expression of blankness verging on idiocy; but he was by no means deficient in cunning. Two on the Trail A Story of the Far Northwest They saw the ship restored, and its great screen of blankness out, protecting it from all known rays. The Last Evolution Walking the street was a process of moving from one little golden island of light to another, crossing seas of blankness between. The Penal Cluster They were driving into blankness which had shut down with that smothering density which mariners call "a dungeon fog." Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 Chessman turned and it took a brief moment for the blankness in his eyes to fade into life. Adaptation Elizabeth made out that he was writing or figuring with blue chalk upon the wall's blankness, and although her heart feared the big rough boy she had "fought," she drew nearer. An Australian Lassie It went off, and Turnbull's mind spiraled into blankness before he could react. Dead Giveaway A wave of shyness swept over me; not even to her could I divulge my thoughts, not even from her risk the smile of ridicule or the blankness of non-apprehension. The King's Mirror Yet here and there the blankness of the walls is relieved and broken by richly worked lattices, and specimens of arabesque masonry. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 19 — Travel and Adventure The Father made a startled motion of crossing himself, staring at Dan's lean, somber face in a blankness of consternation. Those Who Smiled And Eleven Other Stories Had not the blankness of the fog brought him help this very morning?—"I know it, but I wish you did not know it too." The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance His blankness was so acute that he slipped for an instant back into a rusticity he had long ago left behind him. The Squirrel-Cage I drove home with a sense of blankness upon me. The Thing from the Lake Mr. Sam's stare lost its blankness, and became one of sharp suspicion. Shining Ferry He looked triumphantly into the intent upturned faces into which had crept a look of blankness. The Fighting Shepherdess Yes, welcome the cold weight against his chest, welcome the silence, the blankness, the dead, ashen pallor of the fog! The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance The confusion of the last days had been such that she had for a moment the not uncommon experience of an entire blankness as to her whereabouts and identity. The Squirrel-Cage Her large eyes were blotted with a hopeless blankness. The King Of Beaver, and Beaver Lights From "Mackinac And Lake Stories", 1899 He ruminated, tapping his teeth with a penholder, and eying the pair before him with a maddening blankness of gaze. Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day Maud Grace's flat, expressionless face took on a really imbecile blankness. Janet of the Dunes If he remarked them at all, it was in bitter welcome, as he had welcomed the chill and staring blankness of the fog. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance As she dressed she felt that, in some way, neither the fatigue nor the illumination had lasted on through the blankness of her sound young sleep. The Squirrel-Cage Judith's face assumed a smooth blankness that passed unnoticed by both Elinor and Patricia, now intent on finishing their breakfast and getting off. Miss Pat at School She had felt no wild grief, no awful sense of blankness; the tears which had risen to her eyes had been tears of pity, of genuine sorrow, but not of despair. Paul Patoff Again a calm blankness fell upon the psychic's delicate and sensitive face, and the hand once more slowly closed upon the pencil. The Shadow World And for the cold silence and blankness surrounding him Richard was grateful. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance He examined the child silently, swiftly, looking with a face of inscrutable blankness at the clinical thermometer with which he had taken her temperature. The Squirrel-Cage The commander watched them, on his face the blankness of unwillingness to believe. Space Prison What a world of difference was made by that sheet of glass between you and the outer bitterness and blankness. Gardening Indoors and Under Glass A Practical Guide to the Planting, Care and Propagation of House Plants, and to the Construction and Management of Hotbed, Coldframe and Small Greenhouse But that what is called advancing knowledge is violation of the sense of blankness. The Book of the Damned Enamoured of his appearance, he saw nothing beyond the blankness of his little soul, or rather he made it the origin and the end of everything. The Choice of Life Was there really some hope, which she had divined where he saw nothing but blankness? Prince or Chauffeur? A Story of Newport The commanding general sat regarding the emissary with a curious chill blankness. The Long Roll He drew from his breast a pocket-book and extracted thence a small unsealed envelope; retaining the latter a trifle helplessly in his hand while Lord Theign only opposed to this demonstration an unmitigated blankness. The Outcry Berridge accepted the offer mechanically—relieved at the prompt fading of his worst fear, yet feeling in himself a tell-tale facial blankness for the still absolutely anomalous character of his friend's appeal. The Finer Grain I stood there blank, but not unaware in my blankness of how history repeats itself. Embarrassments Loneliness, like the sea breeze, blowing off from a thousand leagues of blankness, he did not find, as veteran solitaires do, if anything, too bracing. The Confidence-Man The blankness of the first floor was merely indicative—but when he noted also the dark sash of Farquaharson's window indicativeness assumed a more sinister emphasis. The Tyranny of Weakness A soft, amber-glowing plane of blankness, with a suggestion of receding depths within it. Legacy But the sun stole in and crossed the hard earthen floor, and stole up the wall on the other side, crept up slowly, emphasising the dull blankness of the place. The Moving Finger A Trotting Christmas Eve at Warwingie Lost! The Loss of the "Vanity" Dick Stanesby's Hutkeeper The Yanyilla Steeplechase A Digger's Christmas He swung away as he spoke, thus failing to see the stunned blankness of Cornelia’s expression. Flaming June Darsie looked at him with satisfaction, but with a disconcerting blankness of mind as to what to say first. A College Girl There was a prefatory blankness of sheer amazement followed by an upleaping of latent fires into the eyes; fires that held hints of revived hopes and suppressed yearnings. The Tyranny of Weakness "It wouldn't take us long," said Patty, a spark of mischief breaking through the blankness of her face, "to earn money enough for a carriage—you thump the tambourine and I'll dance the sailor's hornpipe." Just Patty Those few pieces fit, but they're scattered around in vast areas of blankness and you're jumping around like the Swiss miss leaping from Alp to Alp. The Galaxy Primes The same stolid faces that had refused any satisfaction last night met her gaze again in blankness. A Little Girl in Old Detroit The weight was once more upon her heart, the blankness before her eyes. Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo He must not lose a single minute in blankness. The Seventh Noon Two years of such blankness and blackness followed. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 14 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians The reactions of his hearers were varied, showing anxiety, irritation, confusion, and blankness. Herein is Love A Study of the Biblical Doctrine of Love in Its Bearing on Personality, Parenthood, Teaching, and All Other Human Relationships. The suggestion of tenderness and companionship in their low tones seemed to accentuate the lifeless desolation through which they moved, the blankness and uncertainty of the anxious months ahead. The Great Amulet Nothing but blankness as concerned the plans of the Mountain Plains and Salt Lake Railroad. The White Desert But suddenly he realized that there was a blankness about it all. The Cross-Cut That it had really been written, however, very much on the lines he dictated was clear to him from the subsequent surprise which Lady Agnes's blankness didn't prevent his divining. The Tragic Muse They keenly took note of him from an upper window as he walked with a certain studied composure, yet with a blankness of aspect, through the shrubbery. A Houseful of Girls He has quite gratuitously brought it into sight; gratuitously drawn firmly the three lines of stiff drip-stone which mark its squareness and blankness. Lectures on Landscape Delivered at Oxford in Lent Term, 1871 Now the thought that he might at any time, and at a few days' notice, be forced to leave the place, struck him with a feeling of blankness and desolation. The Hippodrome But eventually it was over and I stepped through a door that twisted with a giddy blankness, and found myself outside a bare windowless wall in Charin again, the night sky starred and cold. The Door Through Space But he could not blot from his mind the picture of those lines, nor forget the terrible blankness which made their faces more unhuman, more frightenly alien than those of the Foanna. Key Out of Time There was not even the remnant of a bedstead; not a cheap print, so common in the hovels of the poor, to relieve the blankness of the rough, whitewashed walls. Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City She was done fighting against the blankness that seemed to surround her since Bill went away. North of Fifty-Three The complete blankness of the Frenchwoman at that moment made Charmian uneasy. The Way of Ambition Hodge went through the window at a flying leap and hurled open the corridor door, only to again find silence and blankness. Frank Merriwell's Reward Nothing illustrates the intellectual blankness of the British army better than its absolute dearth of military literature. Anticipations Of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human life and Thought But his spiritual sight was blinded by a firm, deadening blankness! Joyce of the North Woods A slight, inscrutable change had come over her: she was less responsive, often held him with an eye whose blankness told of inner imaginings, when he spoke made no answer, concentrated in her reverie. The Emigrant Trail At first he did not even marvel at the stunned, groping blankness of the unmoving features. A Pagan of the Hills Her deep eyes, dark with the utter blankness of despair, fell before the intensity of his. The Danvers Jewels, and Sir Charles Danvers His countenance wore that expression of utter blankness and conscious unconsciousness which is an attribute of resolute men, and which only kindred spirits are gifted to understand. The Bastonnais Tale of the American Invasion of Canada in 1775-76 For him at least, it depended upon that whether his world should loom back again in a dreary blankness, or waken lit with new and wondrous gleams. Strangers at Lisconnel The memory of Helen's unobtrusive, wonderfully understanding kindness to him during his last days at Merriston, remained for him as the only bright spot in a desolate blankness. Franklin Kane He looked at her as she stood there repressing under a stoical blankness of expression, emotions which he thought must sum up to a worm-wood bitterness of spirit. A Pagan of the Hills At last Dare understood, and the sudden utter blankness of his expression smote Ruth to the heart. The Danvers Jewels, and Sir Charles Danvers There was a blankness about it all which deadened my soul. The House of Martha I have quoted his own allusions to its dulness and blankness, but I confess that these observations serve rather to quicken than to depress my curiosity. Hawthorne (English Men of Letters Series) Its suggestion of "the irresponsive blankness of the universe" was for him too naked and poignant. Nature Mysticism The blankness of the girl's disappointment looked out appealingly from wistful, wide-apart eyes. The Second Latchkey Her face flushed, she saw it all—all in prophetic vision stood out like an etching on the blankness of the future. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 04 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters It did not even contain the religious pictures or the crucifixes which would have relieved the blankness of the walls in a Roman Catholic establishment of the kind. The House of Martha It is characterised by an extraordinary blankness—a curious paleness of colour and paucity of detail. Hawthorne (English Men of Letters Series) On the one hand, the chill, the blankness, the negation, sometimes the horror, of the darkness. Nature Mysticism After that, all would be blankness for her, as before this wonderful night. The Second Latchkey She had herself been daily conscious of that same flatness when, after the long announcement of her aunt's and uncle's names, came the blankness of "Messa Randolf." The Title Market Eustacia By the time that Wildeve reached her name the blankness with which he had read the first half of the letter intensified to mortification. The Return of the Native The spot where he had disappeared stirred and glistened and shuddered, and then the eternal blankness of sand. The Adventures of Kathlyn Now that I know what it is to be loved, I look upon the blankness of your existence with dismay. The Wings of Icarus Being the Life of one Emilia Fletcher With a feeling of blankness they realised that there was nothing else to clean. More William "To go all amongst strangers!" sobbed Bessie; and her philosophy quite failed her when that prospect recurred in its dreadful blankness. The Vicissitudes of Bessie Fairfax Now he determined never to look ahead or picture the blankness of his days as they must become with no hope of ever seeing Sabine. The Man and the Moment The lines that the mercifully deliberate on-coming of age draws on all of us were, it is true, nearly obliterated, but in their place was a certain blankness that was very unbeautiful indeed. The Halo He humored me as one hushes an ailing child, but I saw the caution and blankness in his look. Montlivet Her smile deepened as the blankness increased in his face. The Husbands of Edith So I try sometimes to put myself in Harry's place, and I know there will be fluctuations—perhaps, even a sense of waste and blankness now and then, and a waking up of regret. The Vicissitudes of Bessie Fairfax An unconscious feeling of blankness came over her. Beyond The Rocks A Love Story It dropped from Ian's hand; he sat with blankness of mind in the sunlight. Foes But he did have a feud with circumstance, a profound resentment with the past for its hard dealing with his father, for the blankness of old Donald's last year or two on earth. Poor Man's Rock Nan's eyes met hers with a blankness of expression which betrayed nothing. The Moon out of Reach When the bolt of passion is launched without effect, a horrible blankness faces the passionate one. The Fur Bringers A Story of the Canadian Northwest The days that intervened before Theodora saw him again were uneventful and full of blankness. Beyond The Rocks A Love Story Apparently the blankness and grayness of life itself had been broken for her only by the portrayal of a different world. The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets The blankness of the gaze that met her had, she felt sure, been substituted but the second before for a gaze richly complicated with observation and speculation. The Judge In the blankness of her disappointment she scarcely grasped what he was saying about the dinner hour being early and his sister being indisposed. The Palace of Darkened Windows It seemed an interminable interval of waiting, an interval of blankness filled with voices calling numbers on to further voices, before the Club Central answered. Kenny The shapes of similar enclosures were to be seen everywhere, and the indescribable blankness and grimness of the scene struck a chill to my heart. The Child of the Dawn She gazed at him with a peculiar blankness stealing over her face. The City of Delight A Love Drama of the Siege and Fall of Jerusalem He looked across at her with a blankness she took as part of the business. The Judge On most of the isles where vegetation is found at all, it is more ungrateful than the blankness of Aracama. The Piazza Tales Really, if this continues, Mr. Linford, I shall be obliged——" "A case of it—of this blankness of mine. The Seeker |
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