Sentence examples for flat devoid from inspiring English sources

How unkind it would be to make it arduous for us to stay here and compel us to move to a smaller house or flat, devoid of associations and not capable of hospitality.

They lived together in a decrepit Forest Hill flat, devoid of furniture, that doubled as his studio.

The initial surface was found to be totally flat, devoid of defects, and with a measured roughness lower than 1 nm.

Another metaphoric collocation involving the descriptive element of venting (e.g. he vented his embarrassment/anger/frustration by…) underlies the negative character of these emotions and the process which leads to decreased power and weakening of the Experiencer, letting metaphorical air (anger) escape or release from confinement and, similarly to a tyre, making it flat (devoid of tension power).

Apart from increased parking space created by their cul-de-sac like arrangement, their smaller windows and the poverty of their detailing and design, it's hard to see the difference – nondescript redbrick terraces and flats, devoid of character, devoid of offence.

"Eventually, all the buildings of the area - good, bad and indifferent - are replaced with chain stores, supermarkets and blocks of flats devoid of all distinction, and all looking alike". Back in those days, such criticisms could be dismissed as fuddy-duddy polemic.

On this day, though, the flat was devoid of fish.

The resulting photographs are flat and devoid of sentiment.

The surface morphology of the V2AlC crystals is flat and devoid of dendrites.

The results are not so much paintings as crisp, flat objects devoid of spatial illusion.

Or so we must deduce, Mr. McGregor's performance being so flat and devoid of feeling that his character emerges as less than a zero.