You remember that God-awful empty feeling you remember being sucked into your own chest, that feeling of hollowness.

WHITEHOUSE: Vice President Biden gives Remarks at the Pentagon

He surveyed boxes and suitcases, fingered the electric drill, tapped on the wine barrel, which echoed with a dim hollowness.

NEWYORKER: Waiting

Do we think they don't see the hollowness behind our hallowed words?

CNN: 'No more hurting people'

Mr. Bridges has a field day with the behavioral tics of this ostensibly hollow man, but he manages, quite miraculously, to keep finding the man within the hollowness.

WSJ: 'Door in the Floor' Hinges on Performances

The movie has the portentous hollowness of so much bad sci-fi, in which the world is always about to end, but nothing else much matters, or makes any sense.

NEWYORKER: The Matrix Reloaded

It is horrific reminder that for many families here, this Christmas will be unbearable, and every Christmas as long as they live will be have a hollowness at its centre.

BBC: Twenty Christmas trees and what's next for US gun laws

To its detractors, their very multiplicity shows the Third Way's fundamental hollowness: a doctrine that says you can have your cake and eat it too is a recipe for ducking every hard decision.

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