deadness
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"There was one point where there was a visible kind of deadness in the shipmates' eyes", he recalls.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
In 2014, England lost to Italy and Uruguay before drawing 0-0 with Concacaf’s Costa Rica in an episode of a deadness that felt deader than dead.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 24, 2018
“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
Unable to find a publisher for “Why No Revival?” — a protest against hypocrisy and spiritual deadness in churches — he borrowed $800 from the company credit union to publish it himself.
From New York Times ● Oct. 26, 2016
He was standing at the edge of the deadness.
From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien
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