So so," replies the eloquent Jones, feeling intuitively the deep vacuity of his friend answering to his own.
I am inclined to think that there is something in the utter vacuity of the refrain in this song which especially commends itself to the young.
The horror of the Desert does not lie only in its aridity, in its vacuity--this vacuity is not absolute; in default of life, Death peoples its solitudes.
We must remember, moreover, that the immensity, uniformity, and vacuity of the Desert, singularly contribute to render optical illusions frequent.
Those who perceive them to suffer production are really traversing the reason of vacuity (khe), for all production is but false imposition on the vacuity.
Fortunately, nothing so conduces to vacuity as a baby.
With him that pleasant vacuity had soon been ended by an early marriage, and its unhappy consequences.
A fortnight spent in the perfect vacuity of an English watering-place restored the boy wonderfully.
To look at his face you would have supposed he was thinking; but it was only that sort of foggy vacuity which goes by the name of 'a brown study.
Tis thus the understanding takes repose In indolent vacuityof thought, And sleeps and is refresh'd.
He takes advantage even of the nakedness and drearyvacuity of his subject.
They people the vacuity of Time, and make it green and worthy.
There was the very niche he had fallen from under the influence of the fire heat, the very recess, exactly in his shape in every detail, whence he had stood gazing into vacuity all those years.
They go gadding about restless and feverish because of the empty vacuity of their lives, a prey to worry because they have nothing else to do.
Yet so it is; and the popular author finds it convenient to fill up the declared deficit by the emission of Christmas books--a kind of assignats that bear the stamp of their origin in the vacuity of the writer's exchequer.
Why twit me with my poverty; and what can the Times' critic know about the vacuity of my exchequer?
Sargent and others have well pointed out that athletics afford a wealth of new and profitable topics for discussion and enthusiasm which helps against the triviality and mental vacuity into which the intercourse of students is prone to lapse.
And these things around and about us, enormous in size, infinite in number, owe their orderly arrangement, as you suppose, to some vacuity of wit?
The vacuity in the centre of the cluster had permitted us to discover the first manoeuvres of the bees, and the art with which they laid the foundations of their edifices.
The bees were unable to fill up thevacuity left above it, because they do not build combs of old wax, and none new could be then obtained.
The curtain of vacuity parted just a crack--let through a gleam of intense intelligence.
It was like a door closed in the face of their hope--that falling inflection, that blank of vacuity that settled over his face, and his whole drooping figure.
But if the philosophy of the eighteenth century has left us a vacuity for an inheritance, it has also left us an energetic and fecund love of truth.
On the other hand, these truths do not subsist by themselves; they would thus be only pure abstractions, suspended invacuity and without relation to any thing.
A method of Vacuity pure and simple--the exact opposite of Mental Assimilation.
This is the method of Vacuity or Dawdling formerly mentioned.
And on the side of realism there is an almost equal vacuity and lack of veracity.
Only a glance is needed to show the vacuity of all this brutum fulmen.
