vacantness

But I could tell there was vacantness behind it."

There was a great vacantness somewhere.

When ideals of femininity are still, quiet, cool females in ads whose vacantness passes for sophistication.

Through the vacantness within him, one thought came with startling clarity: none of this had brought him back to Dark Harbor.

Molly kept her well groomed, and Evie, blond and slender, was good-looking, if you could forget the vacantness of her face.

Ostensibly, like real Rorschach inkblots, these paintings also assert the ultimate vacantness of abstraction - that meaning is purely in the eye of the beholder.

Hating to be caught in a lie, I followed him across the room to his quarter, a painfully featureless place whose vacantness only accentuated his plans not to stay long.

The ledge was about ten meters below him, an easy drop in this weight, but it was less than a meter wide, and next to it yawned a vacantness a full two meters across.

They had not wanted to move him from there until he'd gained fifteen pounds, until his muscle tremors [549] -is had ceased and his speech had lost the daydreaming vacantness of malnutrition.

What troubled her, now, was that she'd just seen this familiar vacantness on the face of Homer Wells when he'd lifted the stationmaster's body-it wasn't the absence of strain, it was that look of zero surprise.

Their elegance and physical perfection have a corporate sheen and Minimalist vacantness that take over in "Tetrapod Wall," the largest and weakest piece in the show - very much a sculpture in search of a stylish mall.

It was not that she was troubled by the heaviness of her face, or how close together her eyes were, or how her hair rebelled; it was her own expression that upset her-the vacantness, the absence of energy (formerly, she imagined, she had at least had energy).