blankness

Johnny is a lost soul whose blankness translates as depth on a movie screen, apparently.

Marshall Fine: Movie Review: Somewhere Marshall Fine 2010

Their blankness is a screen on which he projects his own ideas.

Turn on Your Hot Light 2005

Their blankness is a screen on which he projects his own ideas.

September 2005 2005

That blankness is part of the package being hawked so aggressively.

Print - Cult of Personality | PopPolitics.com 2004

That blankness is part of the package being hawked so aggressively.

Cult of Personality | PopPolitics.com 2004

That blankness is part of the package being hawked so aggressively.

Cult of Personality | PopPolitics.com 2004

In another sequence, an African-American dancer's monologue says she wants "blankness" - but only after her character has gone into histrionics when another dancer claims she can take on the racial appearance of the people she's around.

Independent Weekly: All Recent Stories 2008

I couldn't decide whether the 'blankness' of the Matt Damon character was deliberate or a deficiency in the script/acting.

Reviews Too Late: The Good Shepherd Walter Jon Williams 2010

The result of Cameron's experiments, for the patients, was often considerable loss of short term and even long term memory and a subsequent lifelong feeling of "blankness" on the part of the patients

Jane Smiley: The Shock Doctrine 2008

The reality of his feeling reference to the painful position of the defendant's father, the sincerity of his regret on behalf of the bank, for the deplorable exigency under which proceedings had been instituted, spread a kind of blankness through the court; men frowned thoughtfully, and one or two ladies shed furtive tears.

The Imperialist Sara Jeannette Duncan