blankness

The mostly empty screen’s larger blankness implies that there’s plenty of room for many more pictures awaiting exposure.

Minimalism embraced cheap, mass-produced materials — plywood, granite, brick, metal — in order to, in the late Carl Andre’s words, “get down to something which resembles … some kind of blankness.”

All around him the wind swirled and eddied, spinning snow into whirlwinds of wintery blankness.

Around the same time, The Times also praised Mr. Hill for playing a bouncer at a seedy nightclub “with splendid blankness” in “No Surrender,” a 1986 movie whose screenplay was also written by Mr. Bleasdale.

Yet if you peeled away his blank smile, you’d just find more blankness.