Vacuous

There was something obscene about the contrast between the tight allure of her young body and the childish, pouty, and rather vacuous expression on her face.

But was it a threatening smile full of unspoken knowledge, or just some vacuous twitch of an old man’s wrinkled lips?

His ears filled with that silvery sobbing sound, so constant and so chillingly vacuous; the weeping voice of a congenital idiot.

The vacuous beatitude of the plants affected the drivers in the convoy, which only reached the palace by great good fortune, having overturned a number of street-side barber-stalls and invaded at least one tea-shop, leaving the Kifis wondering whether the new horseless carriages, having stolen the streets, were now going to capture their homes as well.

A celebrated tenor had sung in Italian, and a notorious contralto had sung in jazz, and between the numbers people were doing “stunts” all over the garden, while happy, vacuous bursts of laughter rose toward the summer sky.

Govinda knew: he would not become a common Brahmin, not a lazy official in charge of offerings; not a greedy merchant with magic spells; not a vain, vacuous speaker; not a mean, deceitful priest; and also not a decent, stupid sheep in the herd of the many.

My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee I send along; ride forth, and bid the Deep Within appointed bounds be Heaven and Earth; Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill Infinitude; nor vacuous the space, Though I uncircumscribed myself retire, And put not forth my goodness, which is free To act or not: Necessity and Chance Approach not me, and what I will is Fate.’ “So spake the Almighty, and to what he spake His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect.

Now she sat resting in vacuous indolence, watching the card game with dull curiosity as she gathered her recalcitrant energies for the tedious chore of donning the rest of her clothing and going back to work.