lifelessness

Example Sentences

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

From Science Daily • Nov. 3, 2023

Something about the way the taxidermist positioned the tiger or the haunting lifelessness of its eyes.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 23, 2023

Working each day in the cold and wind, I became accustomed to the lifelessness.

From Salon • May 29, 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

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