clamminess

In the mill proper, the air had a tropical clamminess; the dominant olfactory note was of broken-down cardboard left out in the rain.

She remembered the sense of release as the candle burst, the clamminess, Mama’s words.

Ashley’s staging follows suit, going for grandeur but, in its haste, reaching only the clamminess of farce.

There’s a sweaty high school reunion feel to the proceedings — an exhausting clamminess in the air from the “main characters’” desperate efforts to impress one another with their, uh, romantic achievements.

“I felt the clamminess of his palm and kissed his knuckles, wet from both our tears. Staring at the cold white walls, my eyes glazed over. I tried to imagine how we’d heal.”