colorlessness

Example Sentences

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Gessen wrote that Putin was disappointed with a humdrum posting in Dresden, considered a backwater, but that then and later, his colorlessness served him well.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 15, 2023

The printer apologizes for the sun’s having got to some of them, fading them into ghostly colorlessness, as if they’d been worked on by an eraser.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 3, 2019

Though cleverly titled to recall the Beatles’ self-titled album and Joan Didion’s collection of essays by the same name, Jafa’s The White Album isn’t striving for purity or colorlessness.

From The Guardian • Dec. 11, 2018

In his book of the same name, from 2000, Mr. Batchelor warned of a creeping colorlessness in high-end interiors.

From New York Times • Sep. 19, 2018

Bailey said there was no such thing as colorlessness, and I argued that if there was color there also had to be an opposite and now he was admitting that it was possible.

From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou