Before long, she would have pain to fill the terrible void.

Then in its place was something even more troublesome: an absence, a bleak emptiness, sharp and painful, a terrible black void.

Into his mind came the conviction that he was walking and running in some terrible void where no one had ever been be- fore.

They filled her mind, helping numb the terrible void.

His beloved Sara would die, leaving a terrible void.

It helped to fill the terrible void of hours.

A terrible silent void stretched all around me.

One of them wrote about "a terrible void."

Now he was being asked to cross that terrible void again.

The audience's bumpy ride down the play's comic surfaces should end with a free fall into a terrible void.