How to Use vacuity in a Sentence

vacuity

noun

• We tired of the vacuity of their conversation.
• How did the party of Ronald Reagan's moral clarity morph into that of Donald Trump's moral vacuity?
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 21 July 2017
• Is nature trying to send a message to the American people about the moral vacuity of this administration?
  — Benjamin Hart, Daily Intelligencer, 22 May 2018
• These responses demonstrate that responding to the President and his moral vacuity is not a matter of resistance.
  — Jonathan A. Greenblatt, Time, 17 Aug. 2017
• That’s how the familiar old criticisms of TV—its vacuity, its low stakes, its familiar formulas—can work, now, as terms of critical praise.
  — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 27 Dec. 2020
• Indeed, the very vacuity that Trump prizes also allows outsiders to project on her the role of being the reasonable moderating force in the administration.
  — Jeet Heer, The New Republic, 2 Apr. 2018
• As the quartet perform, intangible concepts like time -- and gravity itself -- materialize in the form of flashes of clocks and the black vacuity that acts as the backdrop.
  — Jenna Romaine, Billboard, 23 June 2017
• A wedding is also a stunningly efficient way to contrast the rich inner life of the narrator with the soul-eating vacuity of those who throw themselves with abandon into the planning or the enjoyment of the Happy Day.
  — Rosa Lyster, The Cut, 20 July 2017
• But the project’s musical vacuity is matched only by the curious obscenity of its existence.
  — Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 30 July 2019
• Video projections of rippling Nile waters, dispossessed Ethiopians and baleful temple priests did little to relieve the antiseptic vacuity of the stage pictures.
  — John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 22 Aug. 2017
• This frank conversation and its luxe, almost garish setting were apt complements to the series, in which glamour mixes with the various vacuities and indignities of the grinding show business machine.
  — Richard Lawson, VanityFair.com, 14 Feb. 2017
• So the only way to deflect all of this—to prevent the world from realizing the vacuity of his mind, the shallowness of his ambition—is to intentionally blur the line between what is real and what is fake, essentially rendering it all the latter.
  — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 9 Mar. 2017
• Under its compelling influence, we are lured into feeling that these various lives, marked by vacuity and frustration, are in some way destined to end at the point of a gun—that the murderer and his victims coexist on a continuum of despair.
  — Adam Davidson, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2017
• Dad’s vacuity is especially disappointing, by the way, because he’s played by Francis Guinan, a normally fearless actor who communicates all the complexity here of a man waiting for a bus.
  — Tony Adler, Chicago Reader, 13 Feb. 2018
• The country is called to choose between a very effective executive whose behavioral foibles are sometimes outlandish and the dual personification of weakness and vacuity.
  — Conrad Black, National Review, 28 Oct. 2020
• First, after years of appalling ineptitude and moral vacuity under Corbyn’s catastrophic leadership, Britain’s opposition will be led by a credible alternative prime minister whose competence, professionalism, and patriotism are unquestioned.
  — Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 6 Apr. 2020

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