In this novel he diagnoses the debilitation of the cold war, by probing into how people rearranged their lives around the moral void of an absurdity, mutually assured destruction.

In any case it doesn't take a high-handed analysis of American celebrity culture to locate the uneasy moral void at the center of this.

Mr. Rhoads appears informed by the sense of moral and existential void "signifying nothing."

Mr. Keyes warns of a "howling moral void."

Even tamped down and without his easy smile, the actor conveys so much natural charm he's a sorry excuse for a moral void.

The rap clan, thereby, offers its members a haven from the seeming rapaciousness of the hip-hop industry, providing solace and security in what would otherwise be a moral and emotional void.

Their terror of annihilation was not of a moral or psychological void, but a realistic assessment of the murderous potential of modernity.

This sprawling wake for the cold war explores how people rearranged their lives around the moral void of Mutual Assured Destruction, with its attending terror and absurdity.

"We became so secular, so partisan that we created a spiritual and moral void," which the 900-pound gorilla filled.

The characters often find themselves existing in a moral void that for all its creature comforts doesn't feel right.