This emotional emptiness means that it is hard to draw any reaction from people, even against leaders who have taken the country to economic disaster and ruin.

They describe the emotional emptiness and the despair of the prisoners who are separated from their families and loved ones.

It takes the tarot cards to immerse a doctor (Ms. Close) in her own emotional emptiness.

They are reflections of personal wealth and emotional emptiness, conditions that Shaw would say have been with us since the advent of capitalism.

Anhedonia refers to an inability to experience pleasure, and may be described as a feeling of emotional emptiness.

The playwright points out the fundamental spiritual and emotional emptiness of the playboy lifestyle for which the younger sibling desperately yearns.

His emotional emptiness and paralysis is graphically displayed.

But there is another void in this city: the social, emotional and economic emptiness of New York's poorest and weakest people.

Obviously, such bleak settings are meant to mirror the emotional emptiness of the characters' lives.

There was a certain satisfaction in all this that, in a small measure, compensated for the emotional emptiness of my life.