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Hollowness

noun
1.
The state of being hollow: having an empty space within.
2.
The property of having a sunken area.
3.
The quality of not being open or truthful; deceitful or hypocritical.  Synonyms: falseness, insincerity.





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"Hollowness" Quotes from Famous Books



... spoke and smiled her heart ached to see the hollowness of his cheeks and the lines of pain about his young mouth. She guessed that his poor body was all twisted and deformed under the rug that covered it. Signora Aurelia took her out on to their little terrace garden ...
— Olive in Italy • Moray Dalton
... the ignorance, the social prejudices, the inexplicable dissatisfaction which really haunted all things, all combined to undermine this brilliant social life, and there was a general consciousness of its hollowness. ...
— Paris from the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Volume 1 • William Walton
... figures—warriors on horseback, foot-soldiers with lance and shield, dancing maidens, animals, trees and fruits, and in fine, says the old chronicler, "all things that could delight the eye and the heart;" the hollowness having the further advantage that men could stand inside these hyperbolic tapers and whirl them continually, so as to produce a phantasmagoric effect, which, considering the towers were numerous, must have been calculated to produce dizziness ...
— Romola • George Eliot
... fellow," said the School-Master. "He is full of pretence and hollowness, but he is sometimes ...
— The Idiot • John Kendrick Bangs
... principles of morals, ecclesiastical malignity of the most frantic kind. There are parts of Mr. Froude's volumes which we have read with real pleasure, with real admiration. But the book, as a whole, is vicious in its conception, vicious in its execution. No merit of detail can atone for the hollowness that runs through the whole. Mr. Froude has written twelve volumes, and he has made himself a name in writing them, but he has not written, in the pregnant phrase so aptly quoted by the Duke of Aumale, 'un livre de ...
— The Life of Froude • Herbert Paul


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