Noun, : the vacuity of the open sea. ,a mind of undeniable vacuity. ,the vacuity of modern existence. ,a vacuity in the earth formed by erosion. ,a vacuity of feeling. ,conversation full of vacuities. From Dictionary.com.
Will she be true to her 1995 self and candidly cut through the "vacuity" that rains down at these hearings?. From Wordnik.com. [Politics Daily] Reference
Then came a listless vacuity, a tawdry dreaminess. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864] Reference
But there was a vacuity in his tone: he was bluffing. From Wordnik.com. [Cube Route]
I wonder, do creationists and ID intellectual vacuity?. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Language was used apparently to conceal vacuity of mind. From Wordnik.com. [The Swedish Revolution Under Gustavus Vasa] Reference
It was their friends tiey preserved for pain and vacuity. From Wordnik.com. [The Quiet American]
I have already realized the baselessness and vacuity of my fears. From Wordnik.com. [ruchiii Diary Entry] Reference
Andre, you are right about our living 'in a sea of moral vacuity'. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Nothing more underlines the vacuity of the claims for compensation. From Wordnik.com. [Dont' feel sorry for Equitable Life policyholders] Reference
Her lips were parted and in her eyes was an odd look of semi-vacuity. From Wordnik.com. ['Smiles' A Rose of the Cumberlands] Reference
Silpakorn University had now been replaced with freedom to ponder vacuity. From Wordnik.com. [An Apostate: Nawin of Thais] Reference
Space, if it means anything, means absolute material emptiness and vacuity. From Wordnik.com. [Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge] Reference
He takes advantage even of the nakedness and dreary vacuity of his subject. From Wordnik.com. [English literary criticism] Reference
Reggie sat down and stared at his brother, with a perplexed vacuity of eye. From Wordnik.com. [Mrs. Day's Daughters] Reference
On the contrary, airs of vacuity and incompetence are deliberately affected. From Wordnik.com. [Stoned, Stupid, and Rich: Caddyshack's Spaulding Lives on in Wasp Enclaves : Jamie Johnson] Reference
But this is only an open confession to mental vacuity, to intellectual poverty. From Wordnik.com. [Questionable Amusements and Worthy Substitutes] Reference
The gossip germ is born of ignorance and vacuity and breeds best in idle minds. From Wordnik.com. [The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 (of 4) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies] Reference
Labour swallowed its suspicions of Blair's vacuity, and look how that turned out for them. From Wordnik.com. [Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?] Reference
Patrick Brinn and his wife were sunning themselves with a look of vacuity upon their faces. From Wordnik.com. [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference
Ah, but Phil I enjoy exposing the intellectual vacuity in the anti-Zionists 'bigoted posturing!. From Wordnik.com. [John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...] Reference
Because of our looking at the dark vacuity beyond our atmosphere through an illuminated medium. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 564, September 1, 1832] Reference
You're supposed to be amused by the vacuity of SoCal culture -- but there are no surprises here. From Wordnik.com. [It's Like, Uh ... Jennifer Grey] Reference
Norm Geras typifies this vacuity with his whole shtick about FKATWOT - he should stick to cricket. From Wordnik.com. [John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...] Reference
And vacuity he pondered unceasingly for, in this train, emptiness rode in him as he was riding in it. From Wordnik.com. [An Apostate: Nawin of Thais] Reference
The real problem was not the brilliance of the Tory conference, but the hubris and vacuity of our own. From Wordnik.com. [GB demolished by TB] Reference
They remain funny and likable to the end, by which point "City Slickers" has evaporated into utter vacuity. From Wordnik.com. [Hollywood Gets Seriously Silly] Reference
I feel these points have to be made because our society and our nation is adrift upon a sea of moral vacuity. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Such is my concern at the vacuity of Conservative Party preparedness to govern (or, rather, drive the car). strapworld. From Wordnik.com. [Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?] Reference
When the thought of the dog was not present there was merely a trail of vacuity in his mind like the swaths of trodden weeds in. From Wordnik.com. [An Apostate: Nawin of Thais] Reference
And the sections on McCain's Web site about domestic policy reveal, as Matt Yglesias noted, "a nearly astounding level of vacuity.". From Wordnik.com. [Staying on Bush’s Course] Reference
At least the lack of actual news (or, as this is Sky, football news) made it easier to enjoy the sense of polished, thrumming vacuity. From Wordnik.com. [Is there ever no sports news on Sky?] Reference
In brief, "unknowableness" is not a property or quality by which a thing may be apprehended; it is a name for complete mental vacuity. From Wordnik.com. [Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative] Reference
In Congress was vacillation, discord, vacuity; while the people were goaded to the absurd charge, that some of its members were traitors!. From Wordnik.com. [Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Cosmic Consciousness] Reference
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