Tom Hodgkinson

Indolence, of course, is an absolutely crucial part of the creative process: you do not find poets sitting in rows in cavernous word factories, staring at screens. They are rather to be found lolling on the sofa or strolling through the groves, nursing their melancholic temperaments and losing themselves in extended reveries.

British Writer

David Dobkin

Laughter is binary: It either happens or it doesn't. As each joke arrives in the course of a film, the cavernous space of the theater is either filled with joy and laughter or with the quiet of cringing embarrassment. Every time you step to the plate to make a joke, you're going to experience one or the other.

American Director

Esther Williams

I remember when I first walked into Mayer's cavernous office. You had to walk 50 yards to get to him, and in that time he could really study everything about you.

American Actress

Enya

It's very homely, this castle. It doesn't have huge ballrooms. I didn't want a cold, cavernous place.

Irish Musician

Used to describe spaces that make you feel small because they are so large.

Imposing Size

Often indicates the area is not just large, but also impressive or even overwhelming.

Impressive Surroundings

'Cavernous' can imply emptiness or a lack of warmth in large spaces.

Not Always Positive

Refers to spaces that either are or resemble natural caves or geological features.

Natural Formation

Used in geology or engineering to describe spaces carved out by nature or humans.

Technical Contexts

Can be metaphorically used to describe situations that feel vast or complex.

Metaphorical Use

Mostly used to describe facial features that are notably indented or deep-set.

Physical Traits

Used to convey a sense of depth or intensity in someone's expression.

Emotional Expression

 As plankton levels peak in the bay, the mantas swim closer and closer together in a unique behavior we call cyclone feeding. And as they swirl in tight formation, this multi-step column of mantas creates its own vortex, sucking in and delivering the plankton right into the mantas' cavernous mouths.

Dive into an ocean...

 Well, it's like a vast, cavernous expanse, where there are people talking about sports, arguing about politics, yelling at each other, flirting, trying to get a job, all in the same place, with no walls, no divisions, and the owner gets paid more the louder the noise is.

What obligation do...

 One of them is near. Because red light is quickly absorbed by seawater, most deep-sea inhabitants can’t see it. The dragonfish emits red light from organs by its eyes, using an invisible headlight to locate unsuspecting prey that its scoops into its cavernous jaw.

Could you survive the...

 there's a big idea on the table -- that we support civil disobedience, that we favor free trade -- and one group of people who speaks in favor of that idea, and one against. My first debate in the cavernous auditorium of Canberra Girls Grammar School

How to disagree...

 and acting as food for deep-sea animals. Largely thanks to that, abundant life forms exist in the darkness, adapting to a harsh reality where only the weird and wonderful can survive. Fish with cavernous mouths, spiky teeth jutting from their jaws,

The otherworldly...

 A colleague asked me to guest teach his undergraduate geology class. I said, "Sure." But when I showed up, the lecture hall was cavernous and dark. As I tracked the history of the carbon cycle through geologic time to present day,

The most important thing...

 I enter a world that's hidden by tons of ice for seven months of the year oh my god it's cavernous down here we've just tightened this just perfectly otherwise

Foraging Under the Ice PIPE...

 find themselves in a cavernous control room. Here the last artifact— the Node of Memory— is suspended within a force field and powering a supercomputer.

The Factory PIPE Think Like...

 I want you to listen to something do you hear it I hear it all the time it's the cavernous sound of things not being said

The sound of things not...

 his cavernous jaws create a suction effect when he strikes he swallows his prey whole

Cavernous

Imposing Size

Impressive Surroundings

Not Always Positive

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