In these days of hollowness and hypocrisy, an ingenuous straightforward character is a refreshing spectacle, and commands our admiration, be the principles it represents just what they may.
But the hollowness of Cally's speech had mocked the sudden sympathy upwelling within her.
Wasn't there a hollownessin all this, something wanting?
And what, under general circumstances, would have exposed the hollowness and insufficiency of his establishment, was for him, in particular, the seal and attestation of his extraordinary grandeur of mind.
After resignation of all things from the mind, its hollowness is filled with full knowledge of them, which is highly gratifying to the soul; as an empty box, is stored with rich gems and jewels in it.
As one sees the diverse appearances of ghatas and patas, pots and painting in his dream, and all lying within the hollowness of his mind; so the world appears of itself, in the vacuity of the Divine Intellect, at the beginning of creation.
The disclosure of these methods and, with them, of the hollowness of Rhodes's alliance with the Afrikander Bond, alarmed and incensed the whole Dutch population of South Africa.
Do I not know by experience the hollownessof love?
Have I not found out the hollowness of all things?
Hence, the corruptness and hollowness of all official transactions and political life.
Like a great many others in that strange, restless era when our Lord came, this man seems to have become tired of the hollowness of heathenism, and to have been groping for the light.
Then followed the council of the theologians, with its solemn illustration of the difference between orthodoxy and life, and of the utter hollowness of mere knowledge, however accurate, of the letter of Scripture.
They could not produce a single man who could expose the imposture of the Frankists and the hollowness of their creed in well-turned or even tolerable language.
If Iago is detestable enough when he has business on his hands and all his engines at work, he is still worse when he has nothing to do, and we only see into the hollowness of his heart.
Also these veins spring out of the left hollowness of the heart.
It is only an illustration of the hollowness of the major part of the life of the educated community in this great land.
There was a hollowness at the heart of his life, for his conscience did not now approve what he was doing.
His understanding saw through the hollowness even of accomplished deceivers; but there was a generous credulity in his Heart.
I have looked back so often in the past year, and I think the hollowness began from that time.
Fix thy thought on what Christ did, what Christ suffered, what Christ is--as if thou wouldst fill the hollowness of thy Soul with Christ!
This was a cloak for many sins; by flattering the vanity of Knox and the other gospel-ministers, he contrived to cover the hollowness of his character, and to patch up a reputation for sanctity.
At St Andrews, she issued a proclamation, exposing the hollowness of the grounds upon which arms had been taken up against her, and showing that religion was only made a cloak to cover other more ungodly designs.
She felt somewhat too sensitively the hollowness of the great world, and had a low opinion of human nature.
But be it well remembered that there is very much more needed than the stripping of self, and the discovery of the hollowness and deceitfulness of the world.
If the heart be not brought to find its all-satisfying portion in God, then a reverse of fortune leaves it desolate; and the discovery of the fickleness and hollowness of men fills it with bitterness.
The hollowness of life, the fatuity of your hopes, the treachery of that human nature of which you speak so tenderly and reverently.
I have learned at a terrible price the deceitfulness of riches, the hollowness of this world's pleasures; and both have writhed under the poisonous fangs that always dart from the dregs of the cup of sin, which you and I have drained.
He compared her life with that of Sally's, the ghastly hollowness of it in contrast with this child's simplicity of faith.
They were better than nothing; better than the hollowness of such an end as the writing of a letter would bring.
