How to Use vacuity in a Sentence

vacuity

noun
  • We tired of the vacuity of their conversation.
  • Is this a biting farce about the vacuities of celebrity industry?
    — Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 24 Jan. 2026
  • Hilton became a symbol for excessive wealth, celebrity vacuity, and moral decline.
    — Serena Turner, Vanity Fair, 29 Dec. 2025
  • But her refusal to investigate why the system is so broken is the natural outcome of her studied vacuity.
    — Literary Hub, 17 Dec. 2025
  • But the project’s musical vacuity is matched only by the curious obscenity of its existence.
    — Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 30 July 2019
  • 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
  • The vacuity of the space around an ion qubit means that its state (0, 1 or both) is relatively unimpacted by state-destroying air particles.
    — Katherine Wright, Scientific American, 28 Sep. 2023
  • 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
  • In assigning him that seemingly perverse task, Scorsese tapped into the vague air of vacuity at the center of a star who’s always seemed present and absent all at once.
    — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Kaokept, who charms as the Balladeer, recedes into sympathetic vacuity when playing Oswald.
    — Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2022
  • 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
  • His article in Harper’s has something of Joan Didion’s wry bemusement about the vacuity of modern celebrity.
    — Alexander Nazaryan, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2023
  • 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
  • For decades, the industry and the media have mistaken Anderson’s introverted nature for vacuity.
    — Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 26 Jan. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • In Sarajevo, the sight of rows of white headstones bearing the names of thousands of victims killed by Milosevic gives stark testimony to the moral vacuity embedded in the practice of conveniently naïve diplomacy.
    — Bill Keane, Hartford Courant, 15 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • John Cowan, a neurosurgeon in northwest Georgia whom Greene beat for the Republican nomination in her district, has called her Empty G, a homophone for her initials which captures a persistent belief in her vacuity.
    — Charles Bethea, New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2026
  • 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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