Example sentences for: hollowness

How can you use “hollowness” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The Shopping Avenger would like to hear from more--to show Burke and the bossmen at U-Haul the hollowness of their concept of "confirmed reservations."

  • This story of a long and stormy love affair between a fallen angel and a 19 th century French vintner is described alternately as having "a ferocious display of inventive power" ( Kirkus Reviews ) and as having "a disconcerting hollowness" (Richard Eder, the Los Angeles Times ). The critics agree on the flashes of brilliance in her writing; the disagreement is over how consistently Knox puts it all together.

  • But when it comes to international monetary matters, Canada has often been a very interesting case--the country that defies the trends, that demonstrates by example the hollowness of the conventional wisdom of the moment.

  • Today it is applied in a wide range of circumstances, especially when the noises being talked of invite a presumption of hollowness, sanctimony, or hypocrisy.

  • "I think that that is a profound reaction to the materialism of our time and to the hollowness of life if you're only interested in material things."


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