deadness

Example Sentences

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"There's a deadness in people's eyes that really means they don't look real," says Louise.

From BBC • Mar. 26, 2024

It was the deadness of so many weekends in American downtowns only multiplied and deepened.

From Washington Post • Mar. 15, 2020

“There’s as much obvious natural wealth here as poverty there. There’s as much hope in the future here as there is hopelessness in everything there, as much life here as there is petrified deadness there.”

From Slate • Feb. 13, 2017

The Hollywood Reporter quotes an insider at the Austin, Texas festival who said Paul Schrader's film, based on a screenplay by the novelist Bret Easton Ellis, has "an ugliness and a deadness to it".

From The Guardian • Jan. 24, 2013

If he did see the deadness, he must have begun worrying, and maybe it was then that he started feeling sick.

From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien