This single great emptiness before him has lots of smaller ones inside it.

With a great emptiness at the center where room had been made.

The plant felt a great emptiness within it and a need for healing.

In the center of his being was a great emptiness.

Still she stood on the platform, feeling a great emptiness about her.

And when the tears had run out of him, his heart was filled with a great, hard emptiness.

"There is a great emptiness when you stop playing," he said.

Soon it would all be gone, as the old man had said, The great emptiness is coming.

I felt a great emptiness within me, which then filled with silence.

That would come later; all he felt now was a great emptiness.