| The point of religion, he used to say, was to reconcile us to the hollowness, the futility, the nothingness of life. |
| Shriveling and hollowness shall be considered only to the extent that they have reduced the meatiness of the kernel. |
| He was mocking the hollowness of the new consumer society before the sexual revolution. |
| Still, as paltry as the pay-offs were, the scandal exposed the hollowness of the ruling party's nationalist rhetoric. |
| His emotional range extends from the bland to the sanctimonious and this hollowness has attracted a huge morning audience. |
| We are not here to consider the appeal of mute ruins, the hollowness of reason, the veneer of American order. |
