There is no stigma attached to being unable to interrogate your own feelings or to trundling along in a state of emotional vacuity; it's a condition also known as being male.
The orange light through the drawn blind, the sarcophagus of her figure on the bed, the spot of face, the voice searching the vacuity of her illness and finding only remote abstractions.
But when the coin is degraded below its standard weight, the annual coinage must, besides this, fill up the large vacuities which exportation and the melting pot are continually making in the current coin.