lifelessness

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He wasn’t much more spirited as a co-presenter with America Ferrera who, bless her, stretched her enthusiasm to places that would challenge Weird Barbie’s flexibility to compensate for his lifelessness.

From Salon • Jan. 8, 2024

Then his eyes found it: a seedling, brittle and brown, overlooked because of its lifelessness.

From Science Daily • Nov. 3, 2023

Less intriguingly convoluted than concussed into lifelessness, “Marlowe” is the cinematic equivalent of a word salad: It parrots all the right lines while striking all the right poses, without saying much of anything at all.

From Washington Post • Feb. 15, 2023

Many Native communities prefer the term “collections space” over “storage” because the latter implies lifelessness and inactivity.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 16, 2022

The way to achieve the ultimate liberation through lifelessness is to cease paying heed to the illusion of reality.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife