After his ex-wife moved out, his life was a blank canvas.
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Blank canvas
Synonyms for "blank canvas" (17 found)
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19 entriesart project startcanvas metaphorcreative exercisecreative explorationcreative projectcreative promptdesign assignmentdrawing promptidea promptopen ended activityopen ended taskopen interpretationpersonal expressionplain whiteboardstarter activitystarting point metaphor
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12 entriesart projectblank canvas activityblank canvas approachblank canvas lessonblank canvas paintingblank canvas projectblank canvas spaceclean slatecreative exercisecreative projectdesign taskfresh start
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3 entriesblank canvasesmore blank canvasmost blank canvas
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2 entriesblank canvaslikeblank canvasness
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Her gaze was wide while she was wondering; then her lids drooped low, and lower, as on the blank canvas of her mental view there grew laboriously a conception.
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But when we're truly engaged with the blank canvas of our lives, moment to moment, a timeless quality emerges.
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There are no such personal revelations in The Madonna of the Future, nor anything, indeed, at all characteristic of Mr James. There is beauty in the tale of the American painter who dreams over a model for twenty years, while he and she grow old, and leaves at his death nothing more to show for his dreams than a cracked blank canvas; […]
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