Sentence examples for moldiness from inspiring English sources
noun
The state or degree of being moldy.
- The moldiness of the bread meant that it was unpalatable, if not downright inedible.
How, against a contemporary background, do you mourn an octogenarian father, nearly blind, his heart enlarged, his lungs filling with fluid, who creeps, stumbles, gives off the odors, the moldiness or gassiness of old men.
The real threat to France is not anti-Americanism, which might at least have the dignity of an argument, an idea, and could at least provoke a grownup response, but what the writer Philippe Sollers has called the creeping "moldiness" of French life — the will to defiantly turn the country back into an enclosed provincial culture.
"In 'Madame Bovary,' " he remarked, "all I was after was to render a special tone, that color of the moldiness of a wood-louse's existence".
Despite this hint of a wood louse's moldiness creeping into my day, I pressed on, to look around a bit on my own.
Gustave Flaubert reportedly once said that he wrote his novels to resemble a particular color".In 'Madame Bovary,' " he remarked, "all I was after was to render a special tone, that color of the moldiness of a wood-louse's existence".
