| 单词 | characterless |
| 例句 | The great mass of American citizens estimates us as being a characterless and purposeless people; and hence we hold up our heads, if at all, against the withering influence of a nation’s scorn and contempt. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z And who are these people whose idea of decorating is matched pictures of mallard ducks in flight and whose house is perfectly characterless and pristine even before the model maid sets to work? Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The Mess is a giant characterless cafeteria, like you’d find in a public high school or a prison. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z Like the “coloreds” in the years following emancipation, criminals today are deemed a characterless and purposeless people, deserving of our collective scorn and contempt. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z And each intricate environment started with essentially a blank slate, a characterless space. Inside Art: ?New Photography 2010? Coming to MoMA 2010-07-29T20:43:00Z Eight months in the making, his debut album aims for the sparkling disco insouciance of the Scissor Sisters and Mika, but is stymied by McElderry's perfectly characterless vocals. Joe McElderry: Wide Awake - review 2010-10-21T22:40:00Z Click to see full In a characterless hotel in Gibraltar, a pleasant if not remarkable man in his late 50s is in his room. A Delicate Truth by John le Carré – digested read 2013-04-28T16:00:01Z Where the traditional mountain cuisine of the Dolomites is hearty and no-frills, its wine is precise but somewhat characterless, owing to the cooperatives that predominate in Alto Adige. In the Heart of the Dolomites, Hiking and Haute Cuisine 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z The hastily built, characterless, isolated houses that sprawl beyond recently booming cities may be haunted too. | 'Fright Night': Those Good, Old Vampires, and Now They?re in 3-D 2011-08-18T22:53:48Z That would be the ninth season, in which the winner was the characterless, gruff rock crooner Lee DeWyze. Critic’s Notebook: Candice Glover Prevails, but ‘American Idol’ Is Losing Spark 2013-05-17T05:25:41Z The centre's own director, Robert Goodman, has described it as "nondescript and characterless". Milton Keynes shopping centre becomes Grade II listed 2010-07-16T17:03:00Z But the notion of a characterless, emotionless, mechanistic story, which is what you almost inevitably get in a video game — that was never in the cards for me.” Film: Jordan Mechner?s Multiplatform ?Prince of Persia? 2010-05-22T07:09:00Z When her voice is returned in Act III, for every clear, creamy phrase there was another — often in the middle or low range — that was faint and characterless. A ‘Rusalka’ Shows Two Sides at the Metropolitan Opera 2014-01-24T10:13:05Z With it, Walt Disney intended to right the wrongs he perceived in Los Angeles: too many cars, no pedestrian access, no civic centre, characterless modern architecture. Tomorrowland: how Walt Disney’s strange utopia shaped the world of tomorrow 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z Both looked lovely and simultaneously characterless, although perhaps mature expressions of style are too much to expect from those in the Belieber demographic. Fashion Diary: At the Winter Olympics in Sochi, the Opening Ceremony Uniforms Looked One and the Same 2014-02-12T21:58:09Z They move to a large, characterless modern home, the kind that never seems like it could be warm; their voices echo in it, ominously. 'We Need To Talk About Kevin' is unsettling and sticks with you 2012-03-01T23:08:29Z The town around Gudauri, by contrast, is characterless — a collection of mostly bland rental apartments, hotels and a handful of restaurants and bars. The Rockies, the Alps, the Caucasus? Georgia Plans for the Future 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z Stephen Pilgram, a northwest Australian folk singer, sang a few characterless ballads. 'The Reef' concert had a chance to catch a new wave of fans by pairing surf sounds and scenes 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z Most of the audience members sit in a large circle, as if we, too, were in Hannah’s beige, characterless living room. ‘White on White’ Review: American Grotesque 2022-07-11T04:00:00Z His flow, his technique, is cool if characterless, and the content is a little flavourless, too. New band of the day: Joey Bada$$ (No 1,302) 2012-07-05T15:50:28Z Occupying the third, fourth and fifth floors, in rooms that are windowless to preserve the photographs and characterless to allow for flexibility, hang the works that are Fotografiska’s purported reason for being. A Gorgeous Center for Photography, Far From Picture Perfect 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z And it's all topped off by Maple's oddly characterless voice, its very blankness being the quality that allows it to fit seamlessly into this softly sultry setting. New band of the day - George Maple (No 1,422) 2013-01-02T15:16:34Z They're like a horde of identical and characterless myrmidons or clones. Paglia on Taylor: "A luscious, opulent, ripe fruit!" 2011-03-24T02:58:00Z For the first half of his set, he was received enthusiastically but looked catastrophically bored, playing a largely characterless set of electro with bits of Nirvana and MC Hammer mixed in. Music Review: United States of Bass, at Santos House Party 2013-05-24T21:39:44Z Like Soave, Orvieto has had to overcome a reputation for characterless wines. 20 Wines Under $20: Plenty of Variety and Not One Chardonnay 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z Heaven, How Long starts off with inoffensive ambient burbles and Doyle's pale and pleasingly characterless voice as the music shimmers into lustrous life. New band of the day – East India Youth (No 1,455) 2013-02-19T17:01:00Z Only the characterless base village was a letdown, with its weird empty plaza piping tinny pop music to nobody, and fast-food restaurants where chairs were on tables by 8.30pm. Ski safari in Utah 2010-12-18T00:07:45Z And will the town's historic train station — where the neighborhood holds their annual Christmas party — be saved from becoming a characterless mass-transit kiosk? TV's first crop of queer Christmas movies range from saccharine fun to superficial flops 2020-12-13T05:00:00Z What’s Fair” shows some basic literary problems – the characters are utterly characterless, the plot is cartoonish, the language ordinary – but let’s concentrate on the way politics drives the tale. Meet our new Ayn Rand: Ben Shapiro’s hamfisted propaganda fiction is even worse than you guessed 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z Interludes bridge many of the scene changes, but even if these are generally bustling, they tend to feel like vamping, oddly characterless. Review: In ‘Antony and Cleopatra,’ John Adams Goes Conventional 2022-09-11T04:00:00Z And in the finale the cello section's rapid articulation was curiously characterless in tone. Review: Israel Philharmonic plays familiar Mahler with unfamiliar lightness 2011-02-27T20:30:05Z In his deposition, former Trump campaign spokesman Jason Miller is answering questions in muffled tones from behind a face mask while sitting in a stark, characterless room. Perspective | The president’s men and women, under interrogation 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z “I won’t play that kind of characterless role any more, even if I have to go back to starving.” Cicely Tyson, an Actress Who Shattered Stereotypes, Dies at 96 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z This couple is no more animate than the sculptures that they display outside their characterless house. Opinion | Readers critique The Post: This Barrett photo caption could have used more context 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z One author, Jenny Raggett, said: “Garden villages were put forward as an alternative to characterless estates – but they may well end up with more tarmac than garden.” Garden villages 'locking-in car dependency' 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z But he could be almost anywhere, and not only because the walls behind him are white and characterless, left blank to protect his identity. This wave of global protest is being led by the children of the financial crash | Jack Shenker 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z When I said "spit", he told me Tinder wasn't a place to answer such questions unless I wanted to be labelled a "characterless woman". Turning Tinder dates into art 2018-10-28T04:00:00Z Critics say that the 1012 plan has had unwanted side effects: By shrinking the red-light district, the city has effectively given the area over to characterless shops selling tacky souvenirs or refreshments. Amsterdam’s Plea to Tourists: Visit, but Please Behave Yourselves 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z Politics of this sort was “the most formless of monsters … whatever it touches becomes, just like itself, docile, characterless”. The death of consensus: how conflict came back to politics 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z However much Gimeno worked to remove the cultural detritus streaking Grieg’s score, replacing it with a characterless resounding prominence wasn’t enough. Review: A young pianist helps Grieg feel fresh again at the Bowl 2018-07-28T04:00:00Z He is left with a stale, disjointed squad whose performance at Bournemouth was just the latest in a series of characterless away showings – all the more frustrating given the improvement in their form at home. Premier League: 10 talking points from the weekend’s action 2018-01-15T05:00:00Z BBC News recently suggested some everyday stops that offer commuters a little more than hurrying hordes and characterless coffee shops. Track suits: More railway stations worth lingering at 2017-12-02T05:00:00Z Many of these books, homogenized and characterless, look and read as if they had been put together by a computer. Maurice Sendak’s Wild Things 1966-01-14T05:00:00Z Once, in another life, he was a loving husband and father and a sleep-deprived night clerk at a characterless hotel. 9 movies open May 5; our reviewers weigh in 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z Why battle the Seattle traffic when I could get that same faceless and characterless experience in nearby downtown Bellevue with its sanitary and uninvolving streetscape below its cluster of shiny skyscrapers. Don't destroy the fabric of a neighborhood 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z Instead of feeling bland and characterless, the game's full of subtle details that draw you in. The Mad Max game has little to do with the movie, but could be just as good 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z Even as the investigation began, a senior police official told reporters that Aarushi was "characterless". Was Aarushi Talwar murder verdict a miscarriage of justice? - BBC News 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z Most lifts are characterless cocoons we put up with every day. Lifteye attempts to give elevators a live virtual window - BBC News 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z One young boy in their village told me the "girls are characterless". India's 'fightback' sisters and the video questions 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z Crab cakes were not the lump style, but rather pulverized together with filler, so while nicely browned, they were characterless and soggy. A Review of Blue Plate Kitchen in West Hartford 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z This is no featureless former aerodrome, like Silverstone, or characterless monument to a government's ambition, like so many of F1's newer circuits. The magic of Monza 2013-09-06T23:01:09Z A set of third-rate platform games starring a slightly characterless dragon. Tomb Raider to Wolfenstein: the reboots with infinite lives 2013-03-08T14:00:00Z The teams now meet in the characterless bowl of Wellington's "Cake Tin" on Friday for the decider of the three-match series. England could approach final T20 in New Zealand with one eye on future 2013-02-13T22:00:01Z Clean up your photo albums – but don't sanitise your pics to the point where you appear bland and characterless. Students: how to be boss-friendly online 2013-01-31T13:01:29Z Tesco and the other supermarkets accumulated vast land banks of empty sites, ripe for development, and made an art of securing planning consent for even the most characterless carbuncles. There's more to life (and to our ailing high streets) than shopping 2013-01-20T00:06:29Z Powerful ladies think ordinary women folk on street are characterless. India's rulers 'too slow' over rape protests 2012-12-24T08:01:37Z Was it possible that he had misread the girl; whom he had deemed characterless, when she was not shy? Starvecrow Farm 2012-03-15T02:00:29.617Z Every individual is an infinite treasury of sensations, ideas, acquired lore, thoughts, &c.; and yet the ego is one and uncompounded, a deep featureless characterless mine, in which all this is stored up, without existing. Hegel's Philosophy of Mind 2012-03-07T03:00:14.327Z I subordinate to my interests spiritually the stupid, conservative, characterless lower middle-class, just as it is subjected to me materially. Dictatorship vs. Democracy (Terrorism and Communism) 2012-02-27T03:00:14.477Z It was printed; the letters were smooth and even, but perfectly characterless. Out of a Labyrinth 2012-02-17T03:00:38.887Z The characterless, slovenly, indifferent housekeeper is a factor in destroying property, because of the destructive character of the tenants who will tolerate her and her methods. The Leaven in a Great City 2011-12-05T03:00:48.150Z A mean, characterless entrance admits you to the far-famed palace. Southern Spain 2011-11-11T03:00:28.423Z The outskirts of Calne are not prepossessing, nor does the long, stony street of mean characterless stone houses that leads to the centre of the little town alter the stranger’s view. The Bath Road History, Fashion, & Frivolity on an Old Highway 2011-11-06T02:00:11.073Z There is nothing assuredly in this lyric of the 'pulpit twang,' to which Miss Robinson refers, nor is it a 'weak and characterless effusion.' The Bront? Family, Vol. 2 of 2 with special reference to Patrick Branwell Bront? 2011-10-27T02:00:25.173Z But Suchiloff was so characterless, so insignificant, so null, that he could scarcely even be laughed at. The House of the Dead or Prison Life in Siberia with an introduction by Julius Bramont 2011-09-27T02:00:18.213Z He was a large and handsome man, with soft blond hair and beautiful hands; there was something about him, said his son, a little characterless and feminine. The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine 2011-09-21T02:00:27.670Z Her scrutiny became severe, but softened again at the sight of his clutched wide-awake and curiously characterless, shapeless suit. The Thousandth Woman 2011-08-15T02:00:25.383Z Pray go on," said Heinrich, bitterly; "I shall remain a characterless weakling, who balances to and fro like a juggler on the narrow line between right and wrong! A Twofold Life 2011-07-21T02:00:21.433Z "No, I don't know nothin' about it," he protested, lifting his characterless eyes to hers. The Last Straw 2011-06-27T02:00:58.100Z The saints are no more uniform and characterless in their blessedness than are the unrepentant sinners in their tortures or the repentant in their contented pain. Dante Six Sermons 2011-06-24T02:00:17.117Z His features had something vague and characterless; something like milk, and in this milk-face often mingled, half sweet, half bitter, an expression of sorrow. The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine 2011-09-21T02:00:27.670Z But her face, without a sign of expression, seemed characterless. The Old Blood 2011-06-13T02:00:22.897Z A coward is always a coward until he proves his own courage, and these grandchildren of mine are cowards, worthless, characterless cowards. The Motor Maids by Palm and Pine 2011-06-05T02:00:14.760Z Written in a characterless round hand, it covered so many pages that he was halfway down before, after tearing it in shreds, he tossed it to the winds. The Mystery of The Barranca 2011-05-25T02:00:16.720Z It is as characterless as a number, and it lacks the number's one excuse for being. Abroad at Home American Ramblings, Observations, and Adventures of Julian Street 2011-04-27T02:00:23.800Z Instead of the city of my dreams, majestic and imposing, full of ancient temples, antique monuments, and picturesque ruins, I saw a mere provincial town, vulgar, characterless, and, in most places, very dirty. Autobiographical Reminiscences with Family Letters and Notes on Music 2011-04-12T02:00:25.667Z A stray whom no one would claim as child, sister, friend; who went away characterless in a world ever ready to believe the worst. Mattie:?A Stray (Vol 2 of 3) 2011-02-17T03:00:19.937Z But there's no use in trying to manage a girl like Alice Fielding,—a little, soft, say-nothing, characterless thing,—there's nothing in her strong enough to get a good firm hold on. Oldfield A Kentucky Tale of the Last Century 2011-02-13T03:00:19.953Z So grey, so effaced, so absolutely characterless was the man's exterior! Who? 2011-02-09T03:00:47.380Z Still, she feared this man, whose dominant will succeeded always in bowing her characterless nature under his rod. The Sign of Flame 2011-01-27T03:00:43.087Z They're not as good as a pipe for that, but they're better than the eternal characterless clean smell of unselfish women. In the Mountains 2011-01-27T03:00:37.910Z An essay, apparently, in Rosalind's unmistakable writing, which was like herself, pretty, but entirely characterless. Briarwood Girls 2011-01-11T03:00:30.337Z The rest, though, are a characterless bunch, the dearth of star quality and charisma perhaps best summarised by Koman Coulibaly of Mali, who lists "used to play volleyball" as his hobby. Harry Pearson: Webb has revived England's fortunes 2010-07-08T21:09:00Z Here might be seen the characterless “characters” of the place, in which every prison is sure to abound. In Jail with Charles Dickens And how flat and flabby and yellow and characterless was the hand that held it close! The Reclaimers Bit by bit was the narrow system of government and of characterless officials destroyed; the nation acquired a feeling of active growth; everywhere there was a youthful interest in life; everywhere energetic activity in individuals. Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. II. It is an utterly featureless, characterless Being, perfectly empty and abstract. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy “This is insulting, and from a characterless girl at that!” the guide exclaimed, advancing a step. Little Oskaloo or, The White Whirlwind It was no longer an utter stranger, but an eccentric acquaintance; a character, as characterless people call them. H. R. Now I keep asking myself how a woman can be so charming, on the one hand, and so characterless maybe, shallow anyhow, on the other. The Reclaimers Her hands were firm, white, and beautifully shaped—strong hands, generous hands, faithful hands; not the little, idle, characterless, faithless palms so common in America, small, dainty, delicate, and shapeless, coming from a composite origin. Anne It was pleasant, rather characterless living on a limited little part of the surface of life. Fidelity A Novel The characterless men of the world are always cowards as to responsibility,—they feel that there is a flaw in their natures that must smash them if pressed upon; and so was it here. Davenport Dunn, Volume 1 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day Nothing could be more commonplace or characterless in color and form than Steen's rendering of the dinner at Emmaus. Artists Past and Present Random Studies The heart sinks at the sight of the sky, when a characterless night succeeds such a blaze of light—like dull reality dashing the last vestiges of the brightest of dreams. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) The room was characterless, but finely and generously proportioned, and not so blatantly new as the rest of the colonel's house still looked. The Wishing Moon It is the revenge taken by characterless people upon those who have a vigorous and spontaneous one. The Grandee A hall may be long and narrow, but not both long and wide; in which case the proportions would neutralize each other—you would have a simple square, characterless. The Painter in Oil A complete treatise on the principles and technique necessary to the painting of pictures in oil colors So much the more unaccountable is it that, with such excellent books, the evil of such characterless books, partly inadequate and partly in poor style, should still exist when there is no necessity for it. Pedagogics as a System Aurora, when taking pains, wrote the cleanest, clearest, most characterless hand that was ever seen outside of a school copy-book, and took pride in it. Aurora the Magnificent His features were drawn, the brown tint of his face had changed to a characterless gray, his eyes looked sunken and brighter, as if some fever brought a flame into them. The Peace of Roaring River This is not to say that the Shah de Perse was a characterless cat, a lymphatic nonentity. Lords of the Housetops Thirteen Cat Tales A 18 few pretentious dwellings, homes of white men and the well-to-do Mexicans, arose among long low adobe structures that were as brown and characterless as the sun-dried bricks of which they were built. In the Shadow of the Hills "A rock," the old masters appear to say to themselves, "is a great irregular, formless, characterless lump; but it must have shade upon it, and any gray marks will do for that shade." Modern Painters Volume I (of V) Her whole person, which at first sight had impressed him with its emphatic individuality, now struck him as characterless and conventional. Audrey Craven “Nothing vapid, thin or characterless there!” he added, holding it before the blaze in the grate. The Strollers Jane, however, was no more disposed to fall in love with rank than with wealth, and took no fancy whatever to the characterless young nobleman. Madame Roland, Makers of History She accused him of wanting to marry Aunt Margaret, and called her a characterless, faded blonde. Turn About Eleanor Despite the furious passion which he had for horses, and the hysterical, one might almost say epileptic passions which he experienced for women, he remained characterless, chaotic, only half alive. The Countess of Albany The result is a feeble, characterless tone which rarely fills an auditorium as it should. Great Pianists on Piano Playing Study Talks with Foremost Virtuosos. A Series of Personal Educational Conferences with Renowned Masters of the Keyboard, Presenting the Most Modern Ideas upon the Subjects of Technic, Interpretation, Style and Expression I have not done that since, because I do not wish to encourage physical memory, an impermanent and characterless faculty, developed to excess in every current theory of education. Child and Country A Book of the Younger Generation The wide main street of the village swam characterless before his eyes. The Rough Road Delving into a battered biscuit tin, he produced some characterless dried flour tiles, a tin of bully and a tin of apricot, the choicest of Deakin. The Tale of a Trooper We could not, however, have missed this or the other pictures of characterless persons whether young or "having attained no proficiency by their stay in the world." Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters If the student is permitted to play with the flabby looseness which some confuse with natural relaxation, characterless playing must invariably result. Great Pianists on Piano Playing Study Talks with Foremost Virtuosos. A Series of Personal Educational Conferences with Renowned Masters of the Keyboard, Presenting the Most Modern Ideas upon the Subjects of Technic, Interpretation, Style and Expression Her hat was a characterless black straw trimmed with a bunch of yellow daisies; and by its shape alone, Susan discerned that Virginia had ceased to consider whether or not her clothes were becoming. Virginia He found himself face to face with an amorphous, characterless sort of Peggy whom he did not know. The Rough Road Its pale spirituality, which once set his brain on fire, appears characterless. When the Birds Begin to Sing Few, indeed, are the Parish Magazines which could not show among their contents poems and articles greatly superior to the weak and characterless effusions of the father of the Brontës. Emily Brontë What a helpless, childish creature she was, with her pretty face, and her baby, and her characterless, frightened way. That Lass O' Lowrie's 1877 God, the Godhead, is thus the absolute "Dark," "the nameless Nothing," an empty God, a characterless Infinite. Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries Hundreds of pretty, inane, senseless stories in attractive bindings with pretty, characterless illustrations tempt the children to vitiate their taste in reading, long before they are able by themselves to read the best literature. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide Nothing more meagre nor dreary can be conceived than the façade with its three, poor, characterless portals. Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1 He recalled himself characterless, despairing; he contrasted his old lot with the present. Despair's Last Journey Then his tender compassion for the unfortunate Rosamond, a most difficult character—nay, a characterless character—for any actress to play! Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, February 18, 1893 Bébée looked also up at him; he was very handsome, or seemed so to her, after the broad, blunt, characterless faces of the Brabantois around her. Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida In the dark smoky rooms alcoholic drinks were the principal beverage, and characterless women shared and indulged in the drunken revels. The Son of Monte-Cristo, Volume I It seems to imply the old Greek conception of an inert, passive, characterless hule which can only be acted upon from without. Philosophy and Religion Six Lectures Delivered at Cambridge No mouth is more voluble than that of a characterless man of feeling. The Trial and Death of Jesus Christ A Devotional History of our Lord's Passion Coleridge was probably wrong when he said that "Shakespeare's poetry is characterless; that is, it does not reflect the individual Shakespeare." Milton The Count had a rather characterless and cruel lower lip like a bit of rubber. Europe—Whither Bound? Being Letters of Travel from the Capitals of Europe in the Year 1921 Without this struggle it would have been characterless, staminaless, nerveless, and its grain would have never been susceptible of high polish. Pushing to the Front His best poetical efforts, beautiful as they are in external form, are characterless, and remind one of Zhukóvsky's, in that they were influenced by foreign or Russian poets—Lérmontoff, for instance. A Survey of Russian Literature, with Selections To-day Narbonne has to content itself with the humble renown derived from its delicious honey and its characterless full-bodied red wines. Facts About Champagne and Other Sparkling Wines To be sure, the Socialist press is growing, but simultaneously grows the partyless and characterless press that poisons and unnerves even wider circles of people. Socialism As It Is A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement His murderous career was facilitated by his characterless victims. Europe—Whither Bound? Being Letters of Travel from the Capitals of Europe in the Year 1921 His face is small, sharp, and discolored with the sun, his eyes grey and restless, his hair fair, his mouth wide and characterless. An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith His strong, straight nose and abrupt forehead formed a marked contrast to the rather characterless nose and retreating forehead of the girl. Other Main-Travelled Roads As if the perfection of her dress and the characterless beauty of her face were more important than anything else in her life. Highways in Hiding This characterless irresponsibility of the average unmarried mother is known to every social worker. Women's Wild Oats Essays on the Re-fixing of Moral Standards The strong, straight nose and abrupt forehead formed a marked contrast to the rather characterless nose and retreating forehead of the girl. Wayside Courtships I learned to smoke fairly well, but that did not conciliate anybody, and I remained a poor thing, and characterless. Chapters from My Autobiography She had the same tired droop in the shoulders, the same colorless dress, characterless with much washing. Other Main-Travelled Roads His native picturesqueness was rather effaced by a black, characterless suit of "store clothes." Overland Red A Romance of the Moonstone Cañon Trail One wonders whether any has used themes more saccharine and characterless than those of the last movement of the Third Symphony, or the adagio of the Fourth. Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers Bert thought how much she looked like his mother in the back—the same tired droop in the shoulders, the same colorless dress, once blue or brown, now a peculiar drab, characterless with much washing. Wayside Courtships Mrs. Howard, over the characterless soup, wondered what it was about the little English artist that seemed so "different." The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VII. (of X.) It was a tinted intriguing thing, faintly odorous of patchouli; its contents without date, superscription, or signature, though for the reader the scent was Mrs. Hilliard writ large; a single straggling line of characterless script. The Henchman Many singers have sweet but characterless voices that lack the fulness, power, and ring they might have because they fail to avail themselves of the augmenting power of the resonance cavities. Resonance in Singing and Speaking He was positively characterless, so Beryl Denvers told herself a dozen times a day. The Swindler and Other Stories If there were any Utopia its inhabitants would certainly be very insipid and characterless. What Social Classes Owe to Each Other This love could be turned into the fanatic's zeal; this boy could be led to the extreme of martyrdom, if the strings of his characterless nature were played upon with a skill sufficiently consummate. The Lighted Match In regard to religion, he finds the modern school amalgamating everything in characterless masses of generalities. Among Famous Books The carriage went briskly towards her hotel, traversing those wide characterless streets which are typical of a Russian town. The Second Class Passenger Fifteen Stories The Commandant proved a good friend to us in this, choosing three somewhat characterless men, with good "characters." Pieces of Eight Frank had tried to cultivate a low and characterless kind of voice, as of a servant or a groom out of work. None Other Gods The ladies themselves liked to look like nymphs, characterless and pretty, so the fashion of painting portraits in this way became common. The Book of Art for Young People She has been spoken of as characterless; to us it seems as if few characters of more exquisite loveliness p. 112have ever been portrayed. The Ethics of George Eliot's Works It was very old-fashioned writing and very characterless, the hand which had in his youth been called "Italian," and it seemed to him to have nothing distinctive about it. Secret Bread If the string vibrates as a whole merely, the tone given out is simple, and seems dull and characterless. General Science The room is as bare, square, and characterless as other hotel rooms; nevertheless, its occupant may have left a hint or two of himself about, which would be of use to us. Idolatry A Romance Musically the work is feeble and characterless, but the contrast which it offered to the stiff and serious works of the tragic composers made it popular. The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory. That they read too many weak, untruthful, characterless stories is also beyond question; and in this respect also they are like their elders. Famous Stories Every Child Should Know She had, however, copied the masterpiece without investing herself with its soul: her face was vague and characterless, her whole personality void of that eloquent womanliness which had so wrought upon me. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880. But with it all, she feared this man, who, in his energy and force, was striving to bend her characterless nature to his will. The Northern Light Suddenly the characterless silence of the place was flooded with tragedy, for the man groaned, and a child would have known that the sound came from a torn soul. The Militants Stories of Some Parsons, Soldiers, and Other Fighters in the World Feodor, who succeeded his father, was twenty years of age, weak, characterless, though quite amiable. The Empire of Russia The faces are round, the eyes large, the expression mild and characterless. Manual of Egyptian Archaeology and Guide to the Study of Antiquities in Egypt In regard to the character-drawing I may say that I have tried to make my figures rather "characterless," and I have done so for reasons I shall now state. Plays by August Strindberg, Second series His draperies also are always beautifully drawn and full of variety, never feeble and characterless. The Practice and Science of Drawing The faintly pencilled outlines, the characterless figures, the nerveless structure, give little presage of the boldly effective scenery, the strong delineations and the dexterously managed plots of the later novels. The Tale of Terror A Study of the Gothic Romance Bébée looked also up at him; he was very handsome, and looked so to her, after the broad, blunt, characterless faces of the Walloon peasantry around her. Bebee By its light Hugo saw on his right Eugene's big features and massive shoulders and on his left the pinched and characterless features of Peterkin. The Last Shot Watts' earlier portraits, while being far from characterless, are not instances of the application of this principle. Watts (1817-1904) The personal figures in the old tale are in themselves unmeaning and characterless. Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England The youthful, fresh and fiery tone of the Journal is to be in sharp contrast to the characterless, worn-out Leipsic criticism. The World's Great Men of Music Story-Lives of Master Musicians Lucy's promise of beauty had never seemed to her so characterless, or her words so empty of sense. The Second Violin The other, in distinction from this, was that you were to consider yourselves an appendix to the Prussian Progressive party, and to furnish a sort of characterless chorus or sounding-board for it. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 10 Prince Otto Von Bismarck, Count Helmuth Von Moltke, Ferdinand Lassalle In this and in no other sense can we say that Grecian art in its highest development rises into the characterless; but it did not aim immediately at this. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 05 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English Viewed by itself, that period seems a characterless one of confusion without cause, of movement without direction, of agitation without result. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 11 — Ancient and Mediæval History Its church is a characterless little building at the bottom of a lane. Somerset "I have never seen a more characterless apartment," was his final comment. The Mystery of 31 New Inn The few country homes she had seen had been of the rambling, unrelated bungalow type, with paneled redwood walls either stained to a dismal brown or quite frankly left to their rather characterless pink. The Blood Red Dawn She was traveling with two companions--a fluffy, fluttering, characterless shadow of womanhood, and a man--an invalid who seldom left the privacy of the drawing-room which he occupied. The Eyes of the World The monotony of that broad, characterless street seemed more than usually depressing. The Damned Every plant and flower and vegetable and animal has been so refined by ages of careful, scientific cultivation and breeding that the like of them on Earth dwindled into pale, gray, characterless nothingness by comparison. A Princess of Mars A hundred times I have taken the characterless cap from my mother’s head and put the mutch in its place and tied the bands beneath her chin, while she protested but was well pleased. Margaret Ogilvy And that characterless capability becomes the most in tense narrow-mindedness. The Rise of Silas Lapham He was an unhealthy, dissipated-looking young man, with lustreless eyes, a characterless chin, and an underfed moustache. Viviette Yet with all these creditable things known to them, I could not stand for a moment in their estimation against this characterless new-comer! In the Valley From the characterless ranks of young-ladyhood this particular damsel stood out with unwonted distinctness. The Lovels of Arden Nameless, friendless, characterless, he has to begin life afresh, with every man's hand against him. Henry Dunbar A Novel She had a wonderful passion for presents; and, in this point, the third teacher—a person otherwise characterless and insignificant—closely resembled her. Villette Had Cornelius not been ill and helpless, and characterless, he would probably have refused to go home; but he did not venture a word of opposition to Hester's determination. Weighed and Wanting Thus is he shortened in on every side, until his individuality is all gone, and the humanity in him becomes as characterless as its expression. Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays He saw now, in the dusk, a pale, ordinary little face, with rather large gray eyes, a rather characterless, tiny, up-turned nose, and a rather pretty mouth. A Rough Shaking I sought in vain at Aix for a photograph of the Merry Monarch taken from the authentic picture, and was offered one from the characterless statue, which I declined. In Troubadour-Land A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc Shakspeare, who knew man and woman much better, saw that it, in fact, was the perfection of woman to be characterless. Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge If she differed from that nebulous and characterless paragon, were less ethereal, more human nature's daily food, so much the better. The Mountebank The husband met with no sympathy from the public; he had always been a characterless and sterile writer, had published only two books, written in a diametrically opposite spirit, flatly contradicting one another. Recollections of My Childhood and Youth Isabel looked up and gazed through her tears at the pale, characterless face, bent in weak displeasure upon her. The Old Homestead The handsome face is a very effeminate face, and not even the light, carefully trained, carefully waxed mustache can hide the weak, irresolute mouth, the delicate, characterless chin. A Terrible Secret One of those characterless rooms which are only found in furnished apartments. Psmith in the City In them we see shirt-sleeves opposed to evening dress; naturalness, sturdiness, sun-tan, and open sky, opposed to the artificial, to tameness, constriction, and characterless conformity to prescribed customs. Our Friend John Burroughs There were tutors at Yale quite as colorless, characterless and indefinite, and immensely more forceful. Going Some In almost every Utopia—except, perhaps, Morris's “News from Nowhere”—one sees handsome but characterless buildings, symmetrical and perfect cultivations, and a multitude of people, healthy, happy, beautifully dressed, but without any personal distinction whatever. A Modern Utopia Why, out of all my ladies, do you come back to me characterless from your situations? Once Aboard the Lugger The light itself also is too characterless and too white and too nearly of the same quality as the light reflected by the snow to allow of judging distances delicately and accurately. Over Prairie Trails No end of people whose skins are dull and characterless modifications of the tint which we miscall white. Following the Equator, Part 5 It is a feeble, characterless, uninspiring sort of stuff, and almost as undrinkable as if it had been made in an American hotel. A Tramp Abroad — Volume 07 Mabel's husband was not a simpleton, or characterless; but if he had been, his prospetts of success would not have been materially damaged by her knowledge of his deficiencies. At Last Characterless, and worse than characterless, how was she to get any such delightful post? Once Aboard the Lugger The letter within was written in the same straggling, characterless caligraphy,—I should have said, had I been asked offhand, that the whole thing was the composition of a servant girl. The Beetle The stairway led to a sort of storeroom, full of barrels and boxes, but otherwise characterless. The Exploits of Elaine It is a term of reproach, and means, as nearly as may be, "characterless." The Fiend's Delight Opposite was the long facade of characterless houses, like to that in which she lived; the steps, the door-columns, the tall narrow windows; above them, murky vapour. The Crown of Life The pretty, characterless face betrayed some unusual feeling. Born in Exile She was pretty, he admitted, but then of such a feeble, characterless type; doubtless her understanding corresponded with the weakness of her outward appearance. The Unclassed Till that time not a shearer will come to your gate, except, perhaps, one or two useless, characterless men. Shearing in the Riverina He is characterless, so far as character involves subjection to the accidental influences of life. The Renaissance: studies in art and poetry My hostess lounged in a low characterless seat amid a mass of heterogeneous cushions. Simon the Jester And I had only to look at his even, handsome, characterless face to perceive a creature weaker and no better than myself. In the Days of the Comet Pinkey's father was a silent, characterless man, taking the lead from his wife with admirable docility, and asking nothing from fortune but regular work and time to read the newspaper. Jonah She had resolved that they were just selfish, inconsiderate, characterless people. Peg O' My Heart Our Social Work for men, women and children, for the characterless and the outcast, is the largest and oldest organized effort of its kind in the country, and greatly needs help. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists But when they had gone and left her to the silence of her pretentious and characterless suite, Maggie did not rest. Children of the Whirlwind Her soap, so characterless in the chilly morning basin lathered freely in the warmth and was fragrant in the steamy air. Pointed Roofs Pilgrimage, Volume 1 My teacher, I repeat, is a lackey, a characterless and dumb creature, who must obey the orders of the mayor. The Man Who Was Afraid She was to be a weak, fearful, tearful, characterless, inferior creature, with just sense enough to understand the soft nothings addressed to her by the "superior" sex. Character At first sight he had struck her as undefined, characterless. Virgin Soil It was a face of a type that fixes you in a moment among a host of characterless faces that fail to draw a second glance, a face to set you thinking. A Woman of Thirty His voice was characterless, his restraint almost unnatural. Kingdom of the Blind The waiter, a small man, with a face which was pale and characterless, brought in the samovar and quickly hastened out of the room, with short steps. The Man Who Was Afraid The feeble, characterless man quietly submits to his chains; the bold, generous, strong man breaks his fetters, and helps others to do the same. Russia Blank verse is a test of poets in this respect, and Shelley's blank verse is limp and characterless. Shelley She was tall, boyishly handsome, and characterless; her figure might be described as "fine" or "strapping", but her face was very cold—nearly colourless. Over the Sliprails |
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