21 adjectives to describe vacuity

His departure has left a sad vacuity in the framework which he helped to uphold and adorn.

The poetic spirit requires to be limited, that it may move with a becoming liberty within its proper precincts, as has been felt by all nations on the first invention of metre; it must act according to laws derivable from its own essence, otherwise its strength will evaporate in boundless vacuity.

The fact is, that the soi disant "teachers" of mankind, in all ages and countriesthe African fetish, the American Indian sachem, the Hindu jogi, the Musalman mulla, and the Romish priest and miracle-mongerhave all agreed on one point, viz., to impose on their silly victims a multitude of unmeaning ceremonies, and absurd mummeries, in order to conceal their own contemptible vacuity of intellect.

The princess and her maid turned their eyes towards every part, and, seeing nothing to bound their prospect, considered themselves, as in danger of being lost in a dreary vacuity.

He had expected, as I said before, at least to hear something of pastoral sentiment, and of genial frolicsome humour; to see some innocent, simple enjoyment: but instead, what had he seen but vanity, jealousy, hoggish sensuality, dull vacuity?

Compare that embodiment of fashionable vacuity with this face, whose brute-like eyes haunt you with their sadly stunted look.

But now he had come to a pause, At once in the net-work entangled, While through it his head and his claws In hopeless vacuity dangled.

In the scale, wherever it begins or ends, are infinite vacuities.

It is mainly because of this inner vacuity of soul that people go in quest of society, diversion, amusement, luxury of every sort, which lead many to extravagance and misery.

They ought to have neither the external discomfort nor the internal vacuity which have caused drunkenness in other armies.

'I find little but dismal vacuity, neither business nor pleasure,' iii. 380, n. 3; 'Madam, I do not like to come down to vacuity,' ii. 410.

That mental vacuity and barrenness of soul to which I have alluded, is responsible for another misfortune.

The sinking frame, exhausted and worn down by anxiety, confinement, and the poor allowance of a felon's gaol, drew a short respite from the cordial; and he listened to my words with something of self-collectednessalbeit slight tremblings might still be seen to run along his nerves at intervals; and his features collapsed, ever and anon, into that momentary vacuity of wildness which the touch of despair never fails to give.

The truth of these remarks will be felt by every one on whom the ponderous vacuity of the interior has weighed.

The sheer vacuity of his mind might naturally slide into mesmeric sleep.

And then, quite suddenly the pain and distress were wiped from his face by sodden vacuity.

His contemporaries, however, and successors down to Johnson, took his solemn vacuity in all seriousness.

He can no longer lead Artus and his court, who perish of their own spiritual vacuity.

The men looked at one another with scowling brows, the women stamped their feet and clapped their hands with a stupid vacuity in their looks, as though the music had emptied their brains.

Even little Wright, one of the very few lower boys who had risen superior to Brigson's temptations, seemed to keep clear of him as much as he could; and, in absolute vacuity, he was obliged to associate with fellows like Attlay, and Graham, and Llewellyn, and Bull.

Yet I cannot account, why a thing which requires so little exertion, and yet preserves the mind from total vacuity, should have gone out.

21 adjectives to describe  vacuity