Sentence examples for lifelessness from inspiring English sources

The results were frustrating; not quite what was expected from lifelessness, but not seemingly compatible with life.

Let us revisit briefly its pre-election conference a year ago as one example of the lifelessness.

Which could explain why there is also a kind of curious, behind-the-scenes torpor present here, a listlessness, and even a lifelessness, about the postures of the actors on this stage set (if that is what it is), which helps to make something of a joke of the extravagant display of vibrant yellow.

And yet this figure isn't stuck in final utopian lifelessness, as you might suspect.

She looked at the skull and at the debris that had floated free of it, and something about it, the emptiness, the lifelessness, repulsed her, and suddenly she couldn't bear the idea of the boy's small hands touching it.

Various readers have plucked out lines in the novel — Kerouac's descriptions of the poet David D'Angeli Philip Lamantiaas as "the perfect image of a priest" or of all the authorities who condemn hot-blooded embracers of life as sinners, when, in fact, "they sin by lifelessness!" — that turn up verbatim or nearly so in Dylan's song.

It is magical in a way, but it also awaits a magician; it is organized lifelessness full of a strange semblance of life.

While that can't cover up weak spots (like the strictly marginal presence of graffiti art and the lifelessness of much of the performance documentation), it does provide plenty of smart and unexpected diversions.

(Did I mention that some of us take this game pretty seriously?) If the official version is to be believed, and there is no apparent reason that it shouldn't, then the lifelessness was hardly surprising: Ronaldo suffered some kind of seizure shortly before the kickoff, and his name was initially omitted from the team sheet.

Having turned his lived days into a joke about lifelessness, his gestural gifts lurked in the conceptual shadows, behind his genius-renunciation of a genius-artist's typical assertions of wisdom or depth.

The most striking quality of his reading was its apparent spontaneity: the sense that however frequently he has played this music, he turns his phrases with an exuberance and nuance that make them sound fresh and in the moment rather than rehearsed to near-lifelessness.