For some people, this sense of total blankness is rejuvenating.
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Sports create patterns out of chaos, meaning out of blankness.
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Sports create patterns out of chaos, meaning out of blankness.
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On a psychological level, this blankness sends a calming signal.
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The story of Blake Lively is a story of innocuous blankness.
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Its members stare into the audience with a perversely insinuating blankness.
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In these moments, his blankness doesn't connote confusion but hidden depths.
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Blankness, moreover, is a function of confidence; only the nervous show off.
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In fact, it's probably fair to say that blankness makes meaning possible.
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They smile in his wake no matter the blankness of his expression.
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Which is to say banality, blankness, something sweet, neat, forlorn, and soul-killing.
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I could see it on her face: its blankness, the fear behind it.
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All communication, from bird chirps to Morse code, is built largely on blankness.
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"I, myself, had a very complicated relationship with emptiness, blankness, nothingness," Lucy explains.
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The conversations largely lack dependent clauses, and have a cool rhythm of blankness.
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Maybe there's something here about fighting back against oblivion, not letting blankness overcome us.
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Late-season Santa Ana winds had scoured the winter skies to a marine blankness.
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His face, which has been fixed in blankness, opens up into a tentative smile.
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Kids fill the blankness of the hours with vaping, video games, swimming, and skateboarding.
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Having pushed the potential of painting so far, he has arrived now at utter blankness.
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I always liked Playmobil as a kid, but I thought its selling point was its blankness.
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Where there had been a lot of promise and hope there was just a sudden blankness.
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Mr. Scott is on there, too, but there is a cardboard blankness to his vocal texture.
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That Green fails to penetrate the emotional blankness of his SMM subjects is not his fault.
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Taylor-Joy affects an appropriate hauteur, though one that, alas, too often solidifies into masklike blankness.
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The blankness of that nihilism, its resistance to understanding, is precisely what makes such violence so frightening.
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In several sections, footage of a chimpanzee in the Berlin Zoo replaced the blankness on the screen.
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A rare few can even paper over Mr. Israel's disciplined blankness with what feels like real conversation.
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The Final Chapter is, in a way, an extended meditation on the essential blankness of Alice's character.
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Veer off the path, though, and you'll find only blankness, as if hedged in by your memory.
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"He came up with a mathematical representation that allows form to emerge from blankness," said Dr. Swinton.
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Ben Addi is a quiet, inexpressive performer, and his blankness places Ahmed's inner life firmly off limits.
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At the same time, she recognizes the value of the color white as a form of blankness.
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The result is more disarming than it is enchanting, though, trading in new age impulses for greyscale blankness.
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" Beyond the apparent contrast between density and blankness, São Paulo and Selma, a similarity: that "continuity of places.
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They've grappled with the inexpressible, the untranslatable, the arbitrariness of word shapes as they are deployed across blankness.
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They treat Reeves' default blankness as an end state, rather than as a useful starting point for something more.
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For the Cars, blankness — repression — is the sum of their art, lacking the human qualities to balance the equation.
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The moon inspires awe — its white blankness is the perfect backdrop for any kind of dream we might have.
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It will point your eyes straight at the nearest wall, whose blankness is a welcome respite from Angels baseball.
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Along with "Young," the album's final song "Last Day Alive" nails the Chainsmokers' uncanny fusion of memory and blankness.
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It's a clever enough cyberpunk idea, but it takes Reeves' essential blankness at face value, and minimizes his formidable physicality.
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On this morning none of that is there, just a blankness to the air that means that summer is over.
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He seemed to be watching in a reverie as terrain emerged—tundra, ocean, blankness, covering the paths he'd just travelled.
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Hello Kitty, whose popularity anticipated the success of online cats, exaggerates this beguiling blankness by having no mouth at all.
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She also gives herself the best scene, snapping off her twinkle for a killer deadpan that becomes an unsettlingly unreadable blankness.
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Otherwise, references to gun control, health care and the blankness with which people consume entertainment have become more, not less, relevant.
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This fascination has been joined by increasing interest in — and frustration with — the blankness of the unnamed Arab stranger killed by Meursault.
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Usually, the question results only in a frustrating blankness, as if she's come to the end of her mind's capacity for thought.
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Egerton is busy and fizzy in the leading role, but there's a curious blankness in his impersonation, and a shortage of charm.
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Even compared to the current reggaeton norm, his deadpan singing and spacey hooks share an affectless quality, as if mechanized into blankness.
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Dexter's fraught blankness is the whole point of the character early on; Jack Bauer has never known a moment of relaxed joy.
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Mr. Keller has the kindly blankness of the character down pat, and you understand Rachel's urge to run screaming from his presence.
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It's less cool when the card's blankness flusters a clerk or sends me scrambling to pull up the number in the app.
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Reeves sinks into the role just as Utah sinks into the surfer lifestyle, allowing Bigelow to use his natural blankness as an actor.
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The beginning is the worst: the confrontation with blankness, then the awful narrowing of possibilities the moment the words foam up and shrivel.
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The large patches of missing paint, in their dull blankness, augment the solidity of the surface and the weight of the plaster panels.
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But they are also frustratingly imprecise, and when the show goes too long without one, the emotional blankness of Jules's world becomes too apparent.
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Time has elapsed, but my memory remains fresh and, sometimes, when I close my eyes, I see the blankness that lived in his that night.
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The blankness of the hand – the same dynamic that makes a Tasty producer's bracelet a distraction — can be used to build a particular hand's brand.
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Confirming people's worst fears about their missing relatives, Bellan-Boyer said he encountered tears, rage and just blankness, and he vividly recalls the first one.
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This album's deadpan tops Carly Rae Jepsen's just as Jepsen's Emotion topped Taylor Swift's 1989, but they all belong in the same file: idealized pop stripped down to the bare formalist bones, marked by a blankness whose achievement says plenty when we expect pop singers to put their emotions on display, a blankness whose mood moves the music ever closer to pure, exemplary abstraction.
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What links Reeves' best performances is that they are investigations into his very blankness— and nowhere is this more true than in 1999's The Matrix.
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Cutting had enabled me to sink into blankness —then, all of a sudden, I was compelled to locate words to describe my urges to a therapist.
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And in the end, what is the world but an island writ large, marooned in a vast blankness, burning through its stores of food and fuel?
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Most comparable bands — Roxy Music, Pet Shop Boys — use blankness as one ingredient in a more complex synthesis, a yardstick by which to measure desire and absurdity.
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One of the girls, Casey — played with an eerie blankness by Anya Taylor-Joy — seems a bit odd, but we can't quite put our finger on why.
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Instead of glorifying nudity as sexual, it is showing it as a vulnerable, baby-like state of blankness, merely the default setting that all bodies come with.
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When Benjamin discusses her dislike of mindfulness and meditation techniques, she remarks that she is terrified of the "stupefaction" and "blankness" to which she imagines they lead.
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But for Frank, pattern held a meditative power that went way beyond the blankness of monochrome (what he viewed as the visual equivalent of a dead end).
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A function of mechanical, robotized distance, the melancholy is rarely expressed in words or even tunes, existing between the lines, implied by the blankness of the presentation.
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The best I felt living there was in the suburbs because there is a kind of blankness there that allows you to superimpose anything you want onto it.
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She talks about pain as an element of blank — like that's how your head feels, emotionally, when you're in a lot of pain, you almost feel a blankness.
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Its brewing coppers are incredibly beautiful and perfectly useless, an embodiment of the process formerly functional architecture undergoes when transitioning into the mandatory blankness of an art space.
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Cascades of tiny stanzas in "The Whip" and "Two Ways of Looking in a Mirror" evoke the smallness of the self peering out of a vast expanse of blankness.
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Called upon to embody all of womankind — and a lot else besides — she is denied the chance to be human, and her blankness empties the film of emotional power.
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All this blankness allows the reader an opportunity to fill in the gaps — to recast the characters, the situations, the feelings in terms of her own enmities, jealousies, loves.
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There was often a kind of blankness to him, a distance that was most pronounced at odd moments, especially when he was pressed about what he remembered from his past.
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Blankness is broken only by the "plume solitaire éperdue" ("solitary wandering feather") in tiny italics and then, just toward the center of the book's spine, the lonely word "sauf" ("except").
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Minimalism was the hot style then, but he found its industrial blankness pretentious and turned to making smallish, rough, gnarly things, that referred to the body, or parts of it.
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I might only be hoping to remember that my ecstatic disposition is the source of the good in me—spontaneity, devotion, sweetness—and the worst things, too: heedlessness, blankness, equivocation.
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We, as a tiny community, hate the double T for a range of reasons, most of those the odd blankness in the actress' eyes, the strange choices of DIYs and 'hacks.
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I think that Emma gave a fine performance considering the material she was given — and yes, her blankness actually worked to her advantage here, making her believable as a corporate pushover.
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The back-and-forths of the character's decisions feel real, and Mr. Dickinson's laconic blankness (you would never guess the actor was British) helps to give Frankie's existential crisis a charge.
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I won't describe the scenes I saw that morning — the blankness on people's faces at the airport, phone calls I overheard — except to say that when I woke up on Nov.
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And the final sequence, with both parents posing uneasily for a photograph, Joe taking the vacant chair between them, and all three staring ahead, makes the blankness of their future seem forced.
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That idea gave her the creeps, the thought of it recording blankness for years and decades and centuries, nothing after nothing, more nothing than any human being could ever watch in its entirety.
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His blankness, his sense of being lost and unwanted, his eagerness to please—to people of a certain disposition, Kyle came across as a wounded puppy, just waiting to be given a name.
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We take them for the euphoria — for that three-minute buzz when our entire bodies hum with pleasure, and for the few hours afterward when our minds lapse into a numb, calm blankness.
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It lilts, meanders, bobs and weaves through its own watery passageway—a song that follows nothing but its own instincts, sailing away on and on into the terrifying blankness of the endless blue sea.
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Large panes of steady blankness still appear in every picture — this time in majestic navy, gaudy lime green, or pale, appealing blue — but they can no longer be counted on to hold the center.
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With the dawn of photography came postmortem photography, where the dead were often posed as if alive, though the swelling of their hands with blood and blankness of their eyes gave away their departed state.
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The tenor Paul Appleby (who has also sung the role at the Metropolitan Opera) embodied Tom's eagerness and his blankness, singing with a sweet lyric tenor that easily projected in the large, mostly outdoor theater.
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Not so with the shot of Malcolm's blasted house: the feeling, the narrative, and the riveting significance emerge from the picture's blankness and emptiness, its avowal of all that is shattered and abandoned — and obscure.
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For many of us who associated wealth and success with interlocking C's, F's and LV's, to see the sublime blankness of a Kate Spade backpack or shoulder bag was like waking up from a boring dream.
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On "Mad at You," she sounds as if she's singing at the end of an exhausting sprint, coughing out the syllables, bolstered by a gospelesque choir that serves only to spotlight the blankness of her voice.
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Kate Middleton — or, at least, the character of Kate Middleton created by the media, and reinforced by the studied blankness of Kate's public appearances — was exactly the kind of woman I did not know how to be.
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Most recently, she's been a senior culture writer for BuzzFeed, where she analyzes how Angelina Jolie used semiotics to refurbish her post–Jennifer Aniston reputation, and the peculiar blankness at the heart of Melania Trump's celebrity image.
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In Mr. Cox's performance, the moments are characterized by a blankness of expression, perhaps a faint eyelid twitch and a hiccup of silence as if the needle on a record had been lifted quickly and moved back.
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Even the barren snow has been shot with a lushness that imbues a majesty in the blankness, and the footage is gussied up with double-exposures predating the arrival of the word "trippy" in the Russian language.
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Facing the opera, above the Café de Paris, is a building-cum-billboard: a four-story likeness of Will Smith, beatific blankness in lotus repose, levitating in a stylish, saffron-colored puffy coat beneath a light bulb.
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Finally, the people now associated with Lapita sailed into the blankness of the open ocean for the first time, crossing the Remote Oceania divide to Vanuatu and, from there, outward to the farthest reaches of the Pacific.
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Reeves' deep blankness is, in some sense, the subject of the movie, the key to its biggest reveal: that the world is an immersive digital fake, ginned up to keep humans passive while machines use them as batteries.
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Each morning they'd wake up in their freezing tents, call McMurdo on the satellite phone to attest that they were still alive, eat a quick breakfast, and move out by snowmobile across the blankness of the ice sheet.
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The tricky thing about a film like Ad Astra is that it's easy to defend its flaws as intentional storytelling choices, to argue its emotional blankness is designed to reflect its thematic interest in stoicism, abandonment, and alienation.
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The interchangeability, ceaseless movement, and symbolic blankness that was once the hallmark of hotels and airports, qualities that led the French anthropologist Marc Augé to define them in 21980 as "non-places," has leaked into the rest of life.
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Yes, the show's gone bigger and even bloodier, but this scene conveys the extent of just how crushed June's spirit is with such startling clarity that it's impossible not to look into her eyes and shudder at their blankness.
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But the young couple, played with stupefying blankness by Matilda Lutz and Alex Roe, are so devoid of personality and charisma that I hardly cared whether they lived or died — in other words, there is no psychology to connect with.
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I remember that feeling, waking up and leaving the protective blankness of sleep and remembering all over again, and realizing it was another day of grieving (or, if it was the middle of the night, another night of not sleeping).
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His mouth dropping into slack-jawed blankness, Mr. Gillen taps unnervingly into the silence, one imagines, that haunts this most supreme of melodists, a man held in fearsome abeyance from his own father and from a reactionary society that cannot easily accommodate him.
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Meanwhile, a decade after "Pattern Recognition," K-HOLE, a marketing think tank modelled on the one in the novel, popularized Cayce's fashion philosophy in the form of "normcore," a trend—forecasted, then real—based on the idea of secretive, informed, intentional blankness.
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The most striking thing about the panels, which alternate between narrow verticals and near-squares, is the sheer blankness of the fields, five of which are activated by a single, wildly expressive figure (in the other two, fish skeletons and black bats hold sway).
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When we next meet the color, though, in a 1955 inverted steel trapezoid punctured with five large circles and a square, it's distinctly the white of typing paper, an artificial blankness that strikes the eye with its aggressive readiness to express anything but itself.
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I'm personally more interested in the moon's blankness than in its specificity; that is, it seems like the lack of life or activity of any sort, combined with its bare geography allows us to project onto it in a way that a more specific location or symbol would resist.
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Be it browser windows, the grid of Photoshop blankness surrounding images, brush gradients, stock photos, or even the notion of refreshing a page, artists have created a continuum of art works that deal with the visual nature of the internet and how our lives have changed because of it.
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Their relationship isn't entirely satisfying — her weakness and his blankness are both detriments to the story — but it does lead to one of the film's most striking visual and emotional moments, as Leo inadvertently gives her a new way to look at the specter of her sexually abusive father.
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Once the episode lets us get to know Laura well enough to understand the blankness behind her thousand-yard stare — not to mention lets Emily Browning act as a full character instead of a rosy-lensed illusion — it puts her in a car with Audrey's husband and kills her off.
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In one particular nonsummer of my teenagery, I spent every day working at the mall in a greeting card store, until the days meshed into a lumpy blankness, and the only song on the sound system, sadly, was Steve Winwood's "Higher Love," to which I would straighten and organize birthday cards.
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In wabi sabi, fallen leaves may carry more meaning than those still on the tree; a ceramic bowl is more beautiful by its lack of uniformity; the composition of a painting or photo more deeply felt through its rejection of centering, the subject somewhere near the frame's edge, amid a field of blankness.
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Probably the better sophomores in the woman's high school English class would have connected that empty coma state expression with the notion of the wife acting as a symbol inside the story: They would have seen that on the one side was her personality and her life; on the other side, blankness and death.
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I must have tacitly understood that those elevated to classical protagonist must be white, as white was not a color but the absence of it; that in narratives, whiteness performs as a sort of blankness, a canvas to paint metaphor and simile on; that it lends neutrality to fraught topics, and allows the story to enter the mainstream.
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You know that feeling when you're staying in an Airbnb, and even though the place has good vibes, and the host magnanimously proffered her best linens, and even though the blinds are good at blocking out all light, somehow you still find yourself listening to your host's refrigerator and contemplating death at 3 AM as you wait for the warm blankness of sleep to return?
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Unlike girls of color, who are not permitted to slip in and out of their fabricated media caricatures so easily, we laugh at the criminal behavior of privileged white girls like Neiers — we mock them and gawk at them — because their privilege comes along with a supposed blankness of history, one which gives us a pass from having to consider their antics within larger paradigms of sex, race, and class-based discrimination.
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I squat down, tighten my abdominals, and, gloriously, find a patch of blankness in front of me that spreads like an eclipse, blotting out the noise of the gym, obscuring the voices without and within, quieting my multitasking brain and making me an instrument of a single function; to stand up, to pull the bar off the ground, to make airborne hundreds of pounds of iron and rubber, to defy three decades of naysayers, to defy myself, to defy thermodynamics, to set in motion an object at rest.
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