No one is revealed to be shallow or sadistic or emotionally barren.

They possessed a spiritual alienation from a country that appeared to be "provincial, materialistic and emotionally barren."

These two, along with the rest of their generation, are often charged with having reduced music to a set of games, making it schematic and emotionally barren.

If May's mother is emotionally barren, her father is shallow and boorish.

It was painful for them, yes, but it also left them emotionally barren.

Memoir hysteria shapes the publishing world as we read about everyone's emotionally barren childhood.

The piano overture is clunky, and the opening stories of an emotionally barren childhood and escape into movies, however true, can't help sounding canned.

He also has lost either the will or the ability to connect with actors, and his crowded, noisy cosmos is pyschologically and emotionally barren.

As the play unfolds, we learn that Daphne's life has been bleak and emotionally barren.

In the title story, Ms. Engberg's hero is an aging man named Thomas who has resigned himself to an emotionally barren life.