Sentence examples for without lustre from inspiring English sources

"Weight without lustre is lead," he told his son, and urged him "to shine, not to weigh".

Filament yarns are usually thin, smooth, and lustrous; staple yarns are usually thicker, fibrous, and without lustre.

To quote Lovecraft's poem "Nemesis", he has "seen the dark universe yawning / Where the black planets roll without aim / Where they roll in their horror unheeded / Without knowledge or lustre or name".

Her voice has grown darker and plusher without losing its lustre.

The world has lost its lustre without the presence of Mary Anne Schwalbe.

The Christmas special I can watch again and again without it ever losing its lustre is Blackadder's Christmas Carol, first shown in 1988.

Without looking, I sensed the lustre, the angles, and the facets of immense mosaic cliffs, dazzling precipices, and the mirrorlike glint of multitudinous lakes lying somewhere below, behind me.

The 34-year-old has been studiously knocking out finely crafted pop records – from the Mercury nominated Here Be Monsters to last year's lovely Lustre – for 10 years without great fanfare.

This was not without intense criticism and reduced its much vaunted lustre.

The challenge is in moving to this new dispensation without abandoning whatever standards have brought the business this far and whatever lustre your brands might have.

Most are lead gray in colour with a metallic lustre, brittle (rarely malleable), crystalline, and difficult to tell apart without recourse to X-ray diffraction and electron microprobe analyses.