Sentence examples for without vitality from inspiring English sources

Without vitality, all that beauty decays into kitsch.

His feints and flinches have lost their spontaneity, and his aggression is without vitality.

He seemed entirely without vitality... Sad merriment was in his eye, and about him a perpetual air of sickness and debility".

At best, they have substance without vitality: as Virginia Woolf said of Arnold Bennett, he tries "to hypnotize us into the belief that, because he has made a house, there must be a person living there".

But if we consult a "ghost" in our attempt to come closer to a holy life--if we rely on a well-worn practice that has no meaning for us, which is dead for us or to which we are dead--we are turning to something that may be comfortable, but is without any vitality of its own.

(With rather hamfisted symmetry, the novel's other one-sentence chapter describes the bachelor routine of the shoemaker, who is a sort of anti-Victor. He has Nureyev's perfectionism without his relish for life, while Victor has Nureyev's vitality without the sluice of art).

However, anyone can adopt strategies to enhance learning and vitality without significant organizational support.

It implies that formal beauty is cold, lonely and sterile without the warming vitality of erotic urgency.

It had its own parameters to become a classical music without losing its vitality or its roots".

It had its own parameters to become a classical music without losing its vitality or its roots". He is survived by his wife Alice and son Jock.

Here, music, dance and design are independent of one another; the way that dance maintains rhythmic vitality without connecting to musical pulse is invariably arresting.