hollowness

But the closing of one school after another exposes the hollowness of those promises.

My voice sounded cheerful and supportive, properly concealing the hollowness I felt.

In his voluble, guns-blazing manner, Adrover made the hollowness of New York Fashion Week, which ends Thursday, apparent.

We know too much now about the hollowness of institutions and the frailty of their leaders.

There were no tears in his eyes, but a feeling of hollowness about his heart, and a great pain.

They gave off a muffled clink of hollowness when he tapped them.

Then she rapped the floor and walls, and could discover no indications of hollowness.

Had his best days of happiness been, then, nothing but hollowness and self-deception?

We used especially to open our minds, la Mandeville, on the hollowness of human virtue.