I can replace emptiness with meaning and purpose.
I remembered the initial shock and numbness, the emptiness, the tears and my pain-filled body.
To fill the boredom and emptiness you have to revile and slander with even more stridency. Once those strident words leave your mouth your feeling of boredome and emptiness will increase.
Apart from its triteness and emptiness, the paragraph above is bad because of the structure of its sentences, with their mechanical symmetry and singsong.
Some observers note that for all their cuteness and flippant humor, these cartoonlike characters evoke a sense of loneliness, anxiety and spiritual emptiness.
Loneliness when I was alone, gave me the space to examine myself. My soul filtered through the wash of gurgling water and filtered away the vanity and emptiness, and threw away the numerous and complicated dust.
Nor do I -- whom the scarlet letter has disciplined to truth, though it be the truth of red-hot iron entering into the soul -- nor do I perceive such advantage in his living any longer a life of ghastly emptiness, that I shall stoop to implore thy mercy.
Canned presentations have the ring of emptiness.
Before long, she saw through the emptiness of the material world and took tonsure.
He denounced materialism and moral emptiness, and lived in increasing seclusion in a remote corner of New England.
That feeling of emptiness, into which I was pouring cocktails out of boredom, was filling up instead with a purpose: to live a full life with an awareness and appreciation of other people.
I felt a great emptiness inside, as if I had been searching for some glimpse, not outside But within myself, and had discovered that there was nothing to be found.
I felt a strange mixture of relief and disappointment, exhilaration and emptiness.
If you are without friends you may wish to have someone in your life who will relieve the emptiness.
Without a clear purpose, you will keep changing directions, jobs, relationships, churches, or other externals-hoping each change will settle the confusion or fill the emptiness in your heart.
Form itself is emptiness;
Claims that "our workers are our most valuable assets" are too often platitudes, the emptiness of which is now being revealed.
So every time I try to talk about him, to bring him back to life, as I'm doing now, I feel a great sadness, an emptiness, as if I were on a cliff, and I have to be silent, or else drink.
But when the effect begins to wear off we are left with even greater anxiety feelings of emptiness or shame from which we also crave to escape.
Buying more stuff serves as a distraction from looking inward and facing the emptiness that so many are experiencing today.
Feelings of loneliness or emptiness, societal prejudices towards singles, and personal fears about being single can make us perceive singleness as a much bigger problem than it really is.
The only vaguely nostalgic character is Hessler himself, who occasionally marvels at the emptiness around him.
