| 单词 | featureless |
| 例句 | We were sitting in our room, on either side of the single large window framing a square of featureless gray sky. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Montag's face was entirely numb and featureless; he felt his head turn like a stone carving to the dark place next door, set in its bright borders of flowers. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z We strolled past the featureless stone walls of the Archives, past a cooper, a bookbinder, an apothecary.... The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The featureless clouds of Venus reflected our own predispositions. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Without electrical forces, there would no longer be things in the universe—merely diffuse clouds of electrons, protons and neutrons, and gravitating spheres of elementary particles, the featureless remnants of worlds. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z An eccentric, which involved a perfect circle around an unmarked point in featureless space, seemed to him an impossibility. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z As the light grew a little he saw to his surprise that what from a distance had seemed wide and featureless flats were in fact all broken and tumbled. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Slightly to the north was the gray, featureless hospital. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z His long fingers brushed the thing’s black, featureless body. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z From Ben’s descriptions I knew what it would look like: featureless, grey, and square as a block. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Buildings and featureless shapes flowed by him noiselessly as though borne past immutably on the surface of some rank and timeless ride. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z The roof of Special Circumstances had looked flat and featureless from way up on top of the hill. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z I didn’t have a clue as to how to locate the tent on the featureless glacial plateau. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Then we came out into open, featureless countryside and travelled on along a near-empty road. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z The ghosts walked on steadily, and the road ran straight ahead across a landscape that was almost featureless. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Maybe when you die you don’t really disappear, but you fade into a shadow, dark and featureless, only your outlines visible. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z In the midst of the Elmuthaleth, sky had met ground in an unbroken circle, flat and featureless, as far as the eye could see. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The room might look like a featureless desert to Rosa, but to him, it was a kingdom of hidden delights. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The moonlight comes through the slats behind her, and her profile is black, featureless. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z But after landing, the spacecraft returned a twenty-second fragment of a featureless television picture to Earth and then mysteriously failed. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Since the outset of their voyage through featureless ocean and anonymous ice pack, the officers and crew of Endurance had been able to track their exact location and chart their zigzagging progress on their maps. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z One arm reached up and touched its featureless face, as if it was adjusting something. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Looking out from the covert he could see only a dun, shadowless world, fading slowly into a featureless, colourless gloom. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Never mind that James Hutton had shown long before that any such static arrangement would eventually result in a featureless spheroid as erosion leveled the bumps and filled in the divots. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z It would not be good news to learn that we are all roped together intellectually, droning away at some featureless, genetically driven collective work, building something so immense that we can never see the outlines. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z She had to tilt her head up just to see its featureless face regarding her. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Northward beyond the dwindling downs the land ran away in flats and swellings of grey and green and pale earth-colours, until it faded into a featureless and shadowy distance. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z I don’t wait to see if the bullet hits him—I aim at each featureless man in turn, as fast as I can. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z He stood very straight and listened to the person on the dark bed in the completely featureless night. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z They walked down an avenue lined with white stone lions, the faces weathered almost featureless. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z They cursed their way through the featureless corridors and finally hit-and-missed their way into the short passage to the air lock. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z The room falls away and I’m in a featureless white landscape dotted with open doors that lead nowhere. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z At first nothing appears apart from a grainy, featureless wash of midnight blue. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z His Noise goes as gray and featureless as a cloudy day and I can’t read a thing off him. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z I went past field after flat, featureless field, with virtually no change except when occasionally a flock of birds, hearing my engine, flew up out of the furrows. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Thus the vanishing point in Masaccio’s Trinity is just above the top of the tomb, in apparently featureless space. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The wide featureless land denied all sense of progress. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Looking around, she wondered how she could find the Smokies in this featureless desert of orchids. was the last line of Shay’s note. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Attorney Fitzgerald’s door is at the end of a long, gray, and mostly featureless hallway. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z Overhead there hung a heavy roof, sombre and featureless, and light seemed rather to be failing than growing.' The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z She’d been taught in school that they were full of life, but this one was like the deserts she’d imagined as a littlie—featureless humps stretching into the distance, one after another. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z The sun fell on the girl’s face, on her large green eyes and her smooth brow, on her high cheekbones and the appealing, thick eyebrows, which were nothing like Mariam’s own, thin and featureless. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z It was a building unremittingly unrevealing of what it held inside, with thick, featureless walls pale blue in colour and high, narrow windows impossible to look in through. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z “The most excellent place one could be in a lightning storm is stranded in the middle of a wide, featureless plain, chest-deep in water.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Charles and Andrew were face-to-blank-face with a row of four featureless mannequins. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z Despite the low clouds— an almost featureless carpet a thousand feet above our heads—perspiration stippled his temples. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Above him the sky was iron gray, featureless and flat as a mirror. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z I blink, and two men appear at his left and right, just as still as he is, but their faces are featureless—skin-covered skulls. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z The warmth of my breath closed around me, and when she tilted back to scan the upper story of my house, her face was featureless. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z The window is crowded with women’s hats perched on gray, featureless heads, with sloping necks nearly a foot long. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The sky was a featureless grey sheet of cloud that looked as if it wanted to rain but couldn’t quite work up the energy. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z It involved Queenie getting off her bicycle at every single crossroad—each one wet, windy, and featureless—and climbing a wall or gate or tree to get her bearings. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z The deputy pivoted in the direction of the doorway and shouted at a featureless face broken up in equidistant penumbras by four bars, “Who’s there?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Theresa analyzed the relative merits of action versus inaction until her choice seemed not so much between paths, as between going blindly left or right in a featureless wood. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z The last picture showed policemen lifting a long, limp blanket roll with a featureless cabbage head into the back of an ambulance. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z We walked behind the scriv’s desk and down a flight of stairs to a small featureless room with a table and two chairs. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Ruth Maclennan finds realms of suggestive significance in the most apparently featureless of terrains. This week's new exhibitions 2011-08-12T23:08:44Z Pausing portentously in a featureless passageway, Reder points out a thickly painted, undistinguished arch. Brighton festival – review 2013-05-11T23:07:30Z It's a featureless orange building, on a block of discount cellphone stores and inexpensive Central American restaurants on the southern edge of the Hollywood flatlands. Fade to Mind, a record label and more, extends its cultural reach 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z “A Christmas Story Christmas” seems destined for swift obsolescence — lost to the featureless sweep of the streaming ecosystem, where nostalgic cash-ins like this seem to vanish as soon as they materialize. ‘A Christmas Story Christmas’ Review: Nostalgia Is Fragile 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z The streets are dilapidated, paint peeling from every surface, colourless skies looming over featureless landscapes. My streaming gem: why you should watch River of Grass 2020-06-29T04:00:00Z Where “Outlander” is almost baroque in its production and appeal, “The Girlfriend Experience” is a spare, indie affair of a modern, almost featureless Chicago—essentially trading one much-romanticized setting for another. Erotic and empowered: “Outlander” and “The Girlfriend Experience” are turning women on with their “prestige porn” 2016-04-10T04:00:00Z And the view from an airplane isn’t exactly inviting: a flat and featureless plain of generic towers sprawling into the horizon. Weekend in Houston 2010-05-07T04:04:00Z From Windhoek, we drove four hours through an alternating backdrop of featureless plains and undulating hills before taking a break. 7 Days, 1,500 Miles in Namibia 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z From the puppetmaker's workroom we go to a misty, featureless limbo. Review: 'Dark Matters' at On the Boards is spellbinding dance 2011-02-18T17:57:04Z Through a door in a featureless whitewashed wall is a different world: fine china and crystal, a minimalist open-air dining room and an open kitchen. A Chef’s Dream Villa in Costa Rica 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z On “The Suburbs” the Arcade Fire ruminates on memory and modernity, and about childhoods spent, like the Butlers’, in featureless, interchangeable suburbs: their family lived near Houston. The Arcade Fire, a Thriving Throwback 2010-07-28T16:09:00Z Borrowing from Virginia Woolf, Masud comes to consider that impression of a deserted, featureless land the “base that life stands upon.” From Lahore to Orford Ness, Searching for the Roots of Trauma 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z This is classic Graham Swift territory, a place where the present always feels caught between a richer past and a featureless future. A Love Triangle and a Variety Show in Seaside England 2020-09-22T04:00:00Z How comparatively helpless are the rest of us as we contemplate the featureless mirror of the computer screen or the smooth sheen of the smartphone. Before Glitter and Glue Sticks, ‘Craeft’ 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z It looked rubbed into shape rather than carved, like a melting, featureless Willendorf Venus. African Art Is Under Threat in Djenne-Djenno 2012-08-02T12:00:00Z If the interesting edges continue to get sliced away at this rate, then The X Factor will soon become a smooth, grey, featureless nub of bland musical competency. The wonder of Wagner 2010-10-18T12:58:00Z But Akin's film turns out to be as flat and featureless as the Turkish desert itself. Venice film festival: thunder clouds and silver linings 2014-09-06T04:00:00Z As if ecological devastation weren’t enough, Bug and Aurelia must also deal with the machinations of the disembodied Technalis ruler, Doyenne, a featureless head floating above her lair. ‘The Immortal Jellyfish Girl’ Review: A 26th-Century Love Story 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z The rooms themselves are stark, bright, featureless, anonymous and modern: models of the 20th-century American service economy. My favourite Hitchcock: Psycho 2012-07-23T10:57:21Z It is all behind dozens of locked doors up and down a series of featureless hallways. Swiss Freeports Are Home for a Growing Treasury of Art 2012-07-21T18:52:48Z At other times, filmed footage of the performers shades into pulsing, featureless cartoon blobs. Review: Seattle dancer-choreographer Catherine Cabeen explores a dreamlike 'Void' 2011-04-29T21:00:05Z The robot's face they left as a visor, smooth and featureless, on the premise that humans will anthropomorphise anything. Robot & Frank: vision of the future? 2013-03-08T09:21:04Z Pipes and other skeletal metal forms appear to stand in front of the mostly featureless facades, and sometimes open sky frames the usually flat roofs. In the Galleries: Exploring Cuba via the artwork 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z But it’s telling that the places Aussie writers are inventing are often so geographically vague — so generically featureless, so uniformly desolate — they could be plonked almost anywhere on the national map. Murder in the Brain-Broiling Heat and Red Dust of the Outback 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z One solution to such mindless overeating would be to eat in a silent, featureless room by yourself. Eating in Front of the TV? Action Movies Lead to Gluttony 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z Maybe this is because, in its purest form, it is featureless: smooth, transparent and cold. Mark Miodownik: an obsession with materials 2013-05-24T15:53:00Z The surrounding area is junky, too, with a strong resemblance to the featureless streetscape of suburban California. From Hiroshima to Tule Lake, Films About Japan and America 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z Richard has no patience for the weird slide show his designer unveils in an effort to “develop a shared aesthetic vocabulary,” but when the designer comes back with a featureless black shell, it offends him. ‘Silicon Valley’ Season 3, Episode 4: Irrepressible Genius 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z The featureless space — it resembled the venue for a B-list fashion show — looked pretty crowded onscreen, though, and the presenter Seth Rogen agreed, crying, “There’s way too many of us in this little room!” Review: At the Emmy Awards, TV Celebrates Its Own Survival 2021-09-19T04:00:00Z Stewart continues to battle her role to a draw, lending an air of contemporary, exasperated girlness to one of the most featureless female characters in fictional history. "The Twilight Saga: Eclipse": Edward, Jacob and Bella's hot three-way 2010-06-30T00:30:00Z In “Northeast from Flagstaff Mountain, Boulder County, Colorado,” 1975, an ominous shadow across the bottom of the picture underscores a denuded mountain, which overlooks featureless housing developments that extend drearily toward the horizon. Sunlit Apocalypse: The Imperiled World of Robert Adams 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z His figures are as slender and featureless as Giacometti’s. He Makes Physics Funny 2020-04-13T04:00:00Z When you step inside — as I did, virtually — it looks like a featureless, all-white capsule, the walls interrupted only by round portholes for the cameras and the outline of the door. Dancing for Many Cameras, in the Round: ‘It’s Muybridge on Steroids’ 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z It’s less a cabinet of wonders than a featureless box. Not Exactly Golden Tickets: “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” and “Anastasia” on Broadway 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z Tyler is a writer “rooted in a place that is so comfortable, unthreatening and familiar that it becomes almost featureless, a state of psychic stability that needs no explicit expression.” Reading the Hidden Racial Life of American Fiction 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z The installation is what Turrell calls a Ganzfeld, a German word that denotes the loss of spatial perception that occurs in a featureless, uniform visual field, such as a fog whiteout. Up to My Eyeballs in Art at Superblue 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z The artist’s digital avatar strolls across a flat, featureless limbo, enduring several gruesome deaths. The Many Lives of Martine Syms 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z He doesn’t have to do a Goldblum and lower his sights to the featureless, never-ending goo of Law and Order. Which big-screen actors deserve a small-screen reinvention? 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z Each pictures a featureless woman from the elbows up, seen as if through a fog. Milton Resnick Exhibition at Mana Contemporary 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z With their eyes staring from otherwise featureless faces, they’re human, but not; culturally specific but broader than that, broad enough for her to introduce a range of cross-cultural references. How an Afro-Cuban Visionary Made a Man’s World Her Own 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z And that’s exactly where Renee, a spunky single mother, spends large chunks of her time after being kidnapped by three members of a weird cult and transported to a featureless medical complex. Review: ‘Rupture’ Justifies a Fear of Spiders 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z It traced the journey of two characters from a featureless laboratory, crisply tailored in head-to-toe half-moon print and recycled black moiré suiting. Who’s a Fashion Victim Now? 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z Texas goes “on for 12 hours, much of it featureless,” he writes. A Road Trip Novel Distills America Through Gary Shteyngart’s Hipstamatic Mind 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z In the kind of featureless trunk used to store blankets or winter coats were 25,000 pages of writings. Fernando Pessoa: Office Worker, Occultist, Galaxy of Writers 2021-07-13T04:00:00Z Meeting journalists one after the other in a neutral and featureless setting, I suggested, might not be the most fun part of a movie actor’s job. Maggie Gyllenhaal on sexual liberation 2012-05-18T13:50:00Z Her semiabstract canvases center on featureless heads and truncated bodies that match and usually fuse with their backgrounds, wreaking havoc with the modernist ideal of non-illusionistic monochrome paintings. Sascha Braunig 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z A short drive from the lake lie the hatching ponds and processing factory, a featureless building where employees in head-to-toe sterile white protective clothing work in a chilled, spotless interior. The cool new thing in French haute cuisine? Madagascar caviar 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z These included a woman peddling a “skinny mirror” and two men hawking the “NoPhone,” a featureless, iPhone-sized piece of plastic—a millennial’s Pet Rock. The Emmys 2016: The Season’s Most Memorable TV Moments 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z The structures are simply gray masses, cleanly outlined but featureless. In the galleries: Celebrating nature 2016-02-10T05:00:00Z Men huddle around tables in featureless hotel rooms, their silent quest illuminated by dreary cinematography and explained only by onscreen notes. Review: ‘Magnus’ Delves Into the Life of a ‘Mozart of Chess’ 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z Sometimes they will be two almost exactly similar shots of the same featureless sky, with the non-matching vertical join line almost invisible. Cannes 2013: As I Lay Dying – first look review 2013-05-20T16:11:33Z In particular, Berlin this year looked dull, stodgy and featureless. Cannes 2010: Hollywood movies bookend a blue-chip lineup 2010-04-15T16:49:00Z In small oil paintings, abstract strokes and daubs of color coalesce into sketchy, featureless figures; in related ink drawings they resemble large-headed African sculptures. Review: African Art in a Game of Catch-Up 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z This is because what at first appears “utterly flat and featureless” reveals, as you learn to look, “countless subtle variations of landscape.” A Strange Australian Masterpiece About Our Relationship to the Land 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z Albert Nobbs is a small man with a face that's pale and almost featureless; it's as if he's been partially erased. 'Albert Nobbs': Gender-bender is wistful, intriguing 2012-01-26T22:08:01Z Today all that remains of Caesarea’s Augustan temple is the podium, a featureless platform that I missed altogether as I strolled from the harbor to the hippodrome. Herod the Great’s Israel 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z Alternating these two options in form as well as content, Mr. Caissy places us in a featureless room while a fixed camera captures a parade of troubled teenagers in conversation with mostly unseen authority figures. Review: ‘Guidelines’ Is Jean-François Caissy’s Look at High School 2015-05-25T04:00:00Z I was reminded of George Stubbs’s 18th-century horse paintings, in which all but featureless, flat backgrounds serve to honor the equine subjects’ individualities. From the Highest Heights to the Lowest Depths, in Photographs 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z In their featureless grandeur Mr. Adams’s works create containers for a kind of listening that dissolves expectation and constantly turns attention back to the present moment. Musical Travel Companions for a Year of Going Nowhere 2020-11-26T05:00:00Z It is flat, largely featureless, the vegetable fields and grazing acres dotted now and then by a factory or a forbidding convenience store with men in front swigging Gatorade or more numbing beverages. I Hopped a Plane Just for a Barbecue Sandwich. I’d Do It Again. 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z All the same, every line of perspective you follow ends in vacuity: glassy water, the depopulated hills across the bay, the milky, featureless sky. Eadweard Muybridge 2010-08-28T23:06:00Z For hundreds of years, the Buddhas of Bamiyan managed to be simultaneously featureless and eloquent; their faces had been rendered blank. The Buddhas of Bamiyan by Llewelyn Morgan ? review 2012-05-18T21:55:08Z The novel ends with Stella at 50, in a dull if dependable marriage, with a vision of her life as “a featureless bland landscape.” Tessa Hadley’s ‘Clever Girl,’ and More 2014-03-26T20:42:56Z In the beginning, all the scenes had these featureless avatars that didn’t look like anybody. ‘The Blacklist’ Draws Up a Novel End to Its Season 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z The terrain around the lake is flat, featureless Arctic tundra. Federal report sheds new light on Alaska helicopter crash that killed 3 scientists, pilot 2023-08-08T04:00:00Z Migrants, Libyan border guards and rights groups accuse Tunisia of expelling migrants across the frontier into a featureless wilderness far from towns or villages in the height of summer as part of a months-long crackdown. Sudanese woman tells of 'horrible' desert journey after expulsion from Tunisia 2023-08-08T04:00:00Z But Saemangeum, a reclaimed site, is a largely featureless landscape lacking natural shade, pushing temperatures inside tents even higher. South Korea scrambles as global Scout gathering swelters in ‘heat trap’ 2023-08-04T04:00:00Z As well as ticket machines being a flat featureless touchscreen and inaccessible to visually impaired people, they also say some people with learning disabilities prefer to use cash, but not all ticket machines accept that. Railway ticket office closures: Legal bid over ‘finding where the humans are’ 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z And passengers have traded Orange County’s scenic ocean views for a bus bridge that shuttles them inland from Irvine to Oceanside along featureless, often heavily congested freeways. Amid crumbling cliffs, Orange County considers moving its famously scenic rail line inland 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z Desert ants living in the featureless salt pans of Tunisia count their steps and erect tall entrances at their nests to find their way back home. These Ants Are Probably Better at Navigating Than You Are 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z How does the featureless blob that is the early embryo know what to make and where to make it? Synthetic Morphology Lets Scientists Create New Life-Forms 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z On one side is the high, featureless wall of the Hamilton Hotel rising ten storeys. My country won't protect me - young South Koreans feel let down 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z Crossing a nearly featureless Pacific Ocean without navigational cues required an internal “map to define position and a compass to tell direction,” they said. The Godwit’s Long, Long Nonstop Journey 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z We swim through the chocolate milk and then, on the far side, problem-solve how to climb out of the featureless rock. In Utah, a canyoneering trip is a lesson in embracing limitations 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z The report added that in the opinion of an ophthalmologist, the Guardsman's "blurred vision, caused by the low light conditions... would have caused significant disorientation, further exacerbated by the featureless landscape". Sgt Gavin Hillier shot dead by soldier with 'poor eyesight' 2022-08-28T04:00:00Z On Uranus, we see no obvious cloud layer at all, but only a deep and featureless haze. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z Hawking showed that a black hole can evaporate, gradually transforming itself and anything it consumes into a featureless cloud of radiation. How the Inside of a Black Hole Is Secretly on the Outside 2022-08-22T04:00:00Z A black hole presents an almost completely featureless façade to the universe. How Physicists Cracked a Black Hole Paradox 2022-08-20T04:00:00Z According to the Thordsen listing for the same product, “featureless” gun parts modify assault weapons to be compliant with state laws, such as by replacing an adjustable stock with a fixed one. EBay tightened its ban on assault rifle add-ons. They're still easy to find. 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z Pedestrians on the Grove Drive, which abuts the mall’s eastern boundary, might feel themselves virtually shouldered off its narrow sidewalk by the mall’s flat, almost featureless exterior wall. The business of Rick Caruso: How a mayoral candidate amassed his fortune 2022-06-04T04:00:00Z The darker parts of the surface appear to be cratered, but adjacent to them is a nearly featureless light area in the lower right quadrant of this image. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z And what happens to those women, forced to shelter under head-to-toe fabric like so many featureless ghosts? Opinion | In the Taliban’s Afghanistan, control of women begins at home 2022-05-14T04:00:00Z Susskind and others also find that black holes are frenetically chaotic systems, swirling and seething underneath their featureless façades. How Physicists Cracked a Black Hole Paradox 2022-08-20T04:00:00Z The spacecraft found that the dwarf planet, far from being a featureless and frigid orb, was an ostentatious world with epic impact craters, methane ice and nitrogen snow. Ice Volcanoes Reshape Pluto and Hint at a Hidden Ocean 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z This is a much more difficult task than that of ground radar, which tracks missiles as they move across the cold and featureless background of the sky. Hypersonic Weapons Can’t Hide from New Eyes in Space 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z The challenge for theoreticians is to understand how a nearly featureless universe changed into the complex and lumpy one that we see today. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z The featureless face of the bust, wrapped in a bronze hoodie emblazoned with the Bitcoin logo, is heavily polished to make it reflective like a mirror in which viewers can see themselves. Hungary: Statue honoring mysterious Bitcoin founder unveiled 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z And, besides, there was nothing between Europe and that destination but a vast, featureless ocean. Perspective | History’s most boneheaded predictions were compiled in this government report 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z More confusing were the featureless, light-swamped skies you might expect in suburbs: The beetles just went in circles. What Animals See in the Stars, and What They Stand to Lose 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z Flat and smooth—nearly featureless save for scattered rocks and impact craters—the site was the perfect place for the stationary lander to study the Martian interior. InSight Lander Makes Best-Yet Maps of Martian Depths 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z Others may expand so quickly that they remain essentially featureless with no stars and galaxies. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z But these birds, forced to navigate many kilometers across a featureless sea, seemed exceptional. Textbooks say most birds can't smell. Scientists are proving them wrong 2021-07-07T04:00:00Z Speaking of vast and featureless, nearly 400 years later, New York Rep. Orange Ferriss couldn’t believe the United States paid Russia $7 million for the Alaska Territories. Perspective | History’s most boneheaded predictions were compiled in this government report 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z In this featureless landscape, the algorithm can’t find the downward slope; there’s no clear path to the energy minimum. Black Holes, Quantum Entanglement and the No-Go Theorem 2021-07-04T04:00:00Z The village is a gigantic, somewhat featureless array of newly built apartment blocks on Tokyo Bay that are being sold off for occupancy after the Olympics and Paralympics close. Tokyo: Olympics like no other with Olympic Village to match 2021-06-20T04:00:00Z Researchers at last identified the origin of translucent spheres, up to a meter wide, found by divers off western Norway: the almost featureless blobs each carry hundreds of thousands of squid eggs in mucus. In Case You Missed It 2021-06-06T04:00:00Z The most I ever got out of a round with him was on a flat, featureless $15 muni, a day that reset my equilibrium when I was a lost and struggling college student. I smuggled my father's remains into the Masters. There he'll rest for eternity 2021-04-07T04:00:00Z The women are rubbed down into featureless nubs, the men deflated caricatures — popped balloons. Review: How Haruki Murakami fell down a literary well 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z Both Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head toys will still be sold, but the umbrella brand name was changed to reflect what was always true about the toy: featureless potatoes have never had a gender. Mr. Potato Head, Dr. Seuss and trans kids: How Democrats are already letting Republicans win in 2022 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z Set in 1927 Chicago and based on August Wilson’s play of the same name, the film’s primary location is a cramped, featureless recording studio with few redeeming qualities. Here are 4 key films — and 4 great moments within them — for this awards season 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z Warehouses, featureless rectangles located in exurbs and commercial districts, are far from the plant-filled orbs and office perks of Amazon’s Seattle headquarters. Amazon Has Turned a Middle-Class Warehouse Career Into a McJob 2020-12-19T05:00:00Z But as a landscape of fear, this time of year, it is smooth and almost featureless. Landscape of fear: why we need the wolf 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z It’s far easier, of course, to be drawn in by Ripley in the book, where he remains as featureless as a Waldorf doll. How ‘The Talented Mr. Ripley’ Foretold Our Era of Grifting 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z The pit plunged into darkness, surrounded by the table-flat, featureless tundra. Land in Russia’s Arctic Blows ‘Like a Bottle of Champagne’ 2020-09-05T04:00:00Z My Lovely Wife and I decided to hang 10 pictures in our featureless downstairs powder room. Perspective | Archaeology of Washington retail is in our basements, attics and garages 2020-09-06T04:00:00Z Sometimes soldiers filmed their own crimes – executions, for example, carried out on featureless terrain. 'A chain of stupidity': the Skripal case and the decline of Russia's spy agencies 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z The new building was an ugly, featureless concrete nothing. Feedback: What readers think about petition to name Dr. Anthony Fauci 'sexiest man' 2020-04-26T04:00:00Z As he looked at the dreary, featureless landscape, he dreamed of color and light and art — and vowed to include it in his life. Perspective | Answer Man goes in search of sculptor David Smith’s shiny, shiny boxes 2020-04-18T04:00:00Z Gray whales, which migrate over 10,000 miles a year through a featureless expanse of blue, might be relying on a similar hidden sense. Sunspots and Stranded Whales: A Bizarre Correlation 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z The interior of a silhouette is featureless, with the silhouetted object usually black — hence, the silhouette does not convey a clear story. The Backstory: Using artistic silhouettes to help keep Washaway Beach from washing away even more 2020-02-23T05:00:00Z Even if you don’t have any fond memories of flip phones, you can still appreciate that it’s something different from the usual featureless rectangles most phones have become. Motorola Razr review: folding flip phone flops 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z Common examples include overly fingered hands, featureless faces and people with mouths for eyes. Dating apps need women. Advertisers need diversity. AI companies offer a solution: Fake people 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z Snowfields may be featureless to human eyes, but reindeer are sensitive to ultraviolet light, an evolutionary development that only occurred after the animals moved to Arctic regions. Weatherwatch: reindeer adapted to snow but not climate change 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z It looks like a typical action movie warehouse, filling the background of every shot with featureless gray metal and drab wooden boxes. Review: Nicolas Cage on the high seas, bloody 'Ballet,' a little Dolph Lundgren and more 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z I resent, every time, that my identity will be assumed into a featureless, monolithic bloc of whiteness and ascribed to an established majority I neither identify with nor aspire to. Opinion | The Bigotry Toward Italian Immigrants 2019-10-19T04:00:00Z Mr. M imagines the ritual as an exercise in democracy: it’s the freedom to choose between apples and oranges, he says, as he draws both fruits on a chalkboard as featureless circles. Ryan Murphy’s Netflix series The Politician pairs perfectly with Election 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z None of that can be found in their Zacatecas city neighborhood, characterized by featureless apartment blocks, graffiti and occasional gunfire. Life after deportation: A family with roots in the Seattle region starts over in Mexico 2019-09-22T04:00:00Z “It’s flat and featureless. So his gauge may read differently from mine, but he can’t say he’s gone deeper.” So You Think You Dove the Deepest? James Cameron Doesn’t. 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z Otherwise, a black hole must be featureless, or so says Einstein’s theory of gravity, general relativity. Black hole reverberations suggest the cosmic beasts are as ‘bald’ as cue balls 2019-09-13T04:00:00Z According to it, the vast zoo of particle species are different vibration patterns of a single type of primitive and featureless thing called a string. The Search for Truth in Physics 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z Unless a cell is specially stained, it appears featureless under a microscope. Starfish enterprise: finding RNA patterns in single cells 2019-08-18T04:00:00Z That featureless glow of our nocturnal skies is called “light pollution.” Opinion | Is the Evening Sky Doomed? 2019-08-17T04:00:00Z Although there’s not much data to draw from, Hunter, of the Brady Campaign, said there’s reason to think making semiautomatic rifles featureless via these modifications decreases their deadliness somewhat. EBay bans assault rifle parts, but that doesn't stop sellers 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z Perhaps people place so much importance on this revelation because, until that point, the child remains an idea, a featureless abstraction. When Gender Reveal Videos Go Spectacularly, Cathartically Wrong 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z On the way down the Mississippi, we could see the infrastructure of that economy—bulbous, white, featureless refineries and plants. A Louisiana Republican Reckons with Climate Change 2019-07-27T04:00:00Z The complicated relationship between Henry and Charlie is meant to be the core of this story, but they’re both relatively stoic, as are the flat, featureless supporting characters. Reviews: Sylvester Stallone and Dave Bautista in ‘Escape Plan: The Extractors’; and more 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z They are standing on a lagoon protected by the curve of Point Barrow, the northernmost spur of Alaska, where the frozen sea is nearly as flat and featureless as a skating rink. - The Washington Post 2019-06-11T04:00:00Z As if to prove the point, 14 surprise sunspots appear, seething on the surface that had been so featureless for so long. Scientists tackle a burning question: When will our quiet sun turn violent? 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z The challenges of navigating across the featureless Atlantic were formidable, and distance tested the fuel limitations of the planes of the time. Chatham departure of first trans-Atlantic flight recalled 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z The characters all feel like they’ve been copied and pasted from hundreds of other movies that end with armed standoffs in some featureless field or warehouse. Reviews: Big names lend brief support in ‘Crypto,’ plus ‘Billboard’ and more 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z Black holes have gravitational fields so strong that even light cannot escape, so they are defined by a black, featureless sphere called an event horizon. First-ever picture of black hole revealed 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z Black holes themselves are entirely dark and featureless. Here’s what scientists think a black hole looks like 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z The film, like its title location, becomes just another featureless box, designed to agitate and confound anyone who enters. Reviews: Indie ‘No Alternative’ dives into the ’90s, Olivia Wilde is ‘A Vigilante’ and more 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z She tried not to get excited when, a few hundred feet from the shore, her sonar picked up a rectangular object on what should have been the blank, featureless lakebed. The amateur sleuth who searched for a body - and found one 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z The L.A. of “Gloria Bell” isn’t the one of palm trees, beaches and invidious glamour shots, but the featureless sprawl that tends to be overlooked in glossy layouts and Hollywood fantasies. Review | ‘Gloria Bell’ is a different kind of rom-com. The laughs are there, but they’re subtle. 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z It had stopped raining, and the sky was white and featureless. Family Medicine 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z A glowing feminine form that seemed to be made of starlight, featureless in every way, stood there with her hand outstretched to Alexandra. An AI video game moderator goes rogue in "Machine of Loving Grace" 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z It’s justifiable for things like the company’s battery cases where aesthetics play a bigger role, but it’s less so for a featureless battery brick. Mophie’s new USB-C PD battery packs are an expensive way to get faster charging 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z “Ryugu is featureless from an albedo, color and spectral perspective,” he says. Getting the Dirt on Creation--Inside OSIRIS-REx's First Close Look at Bennu 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z That little bit of fantasy schtick adds nothing to a movie that very quickly becomes yet another story about people with guns chasing other people with guns, through featureless forests and abandoned buildings. Reviews: Jack Black in 'The Insufferable Groo,' Sylvester Stallone (barely) in 'Backtrace' and other movies 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z In her presentation, she played a video showing that a common facial-recognition algorithm didn’t even recognize her face as a face—until she covered it with a featureless white plastic mask. Should We Be Worried About Computerized Facial Recognition? 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z But a featureless, and hopefully quiet, landscape is precisely what InSight needs for its mission to map the interior of the planet. Nasa’s Mars InSight probe touches down on Mars 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z There would be no other reason, in the fairly featureless Fens, to dig giant holes to a depth of four metres. A mammoth, woolly rhino and a medieval village: the unexpected treasures beneath the A14 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z But all these nice folks are worthy of more than such a flat, featureless story. Reviews: Frank Dillane in supernatural thriller 'Astral,' Clayne Crawford in 'Tinker' and other indie films 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z Iraqi troops and Shiite militiamen outside Qaim watch over a giant earth barricade topped with barbed wire that runs along the long, featureless desert border, trying to prevent IS infiltration. Iraqi town fearful as battle against IS rages next door 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z The bottom half was featureless, the top carved into the torso of a frog, regal and upright, his lips drawn back in an expression at once benevolent and severe. “The Frog King” 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z And a weathered bank building standing alone — no town around it — on a featureless desert landscape: Didn’t we see that in a Sergio Leone movie? ‘The Ballad of Buster Scruggs’: Coen brothers’ Western hits the right notes 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z Frozen, flat and featureless, it seemingly offers little more than windblown dust and drifts of crystallized carbon dioxide for any aspiring explorer to see. Deep Within Mars, Liquid Water Offers Hope for Life 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z Narrow passages are great in Europe between short, ancient structures, but it was positively “let’s-get-out-of-here” uncomfortable between the flat, featureless, cardboard-thin high-rise facades. Opinion | D.C.’s waterfront development is far from a sure bet 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z The Anangu believe that in the beginning, the world was unformed and featureless. The sacred stories behind the Uluru climb ban 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z The two are lay-of-the-land designers, uninterested in working on featureless domes. Trinity Forest is presented with Golf Digest's 2018 Green Star environmental award - Golf Digest 2018-04-22T04:00:00Z “I strongly condemn this type of behavior,” Ms. Wang says in a monotone, sitting inside a featureless room. How China Uses Forced Confessions as Propaganda Tool 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z He is looking for anachronisms on the otherwise rather featureless underwater cliff. Life on the Rocks 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z Ultimately, the author's right: "Global flows of capital course through your metropolis, wearing down every bump and cranny... until the day it’s finally as smooth and featureless as a river rock." When ‘Gentrification’ Isn’t About Housing 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z Set at slightly different angles, they are featureless except for a single aperture aimed at a portion of the store. Amazon Go cashierless convenience store opening to the public 2018-01-21T05:00:00Z The smooth, featureless surface of the marbles show off the swirls of color inside perfectly. Trapped in glass: Glassblower blends art and memories 2017-12-23T05:00:00Z He is typically depicted as a spidery figure in a black suit with a featureless white face. Slender Man case: girl who stabbed classmate gets 25-year hospital sentence 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z In 2013, President Ian Khama issued a national hunting moratorium, accompanied by an order to convert hunting operations — many located in featureless, remote areas — into photographic safaris. Hunt Elephants to Save Them? Some Countries See No Other Choice 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z They will continue until the day it’s finally as smooth and featureless as a river rock — and you’re shopping around for a reasonably cozy van. When ‘Gentrification’ Isn’t About Housing 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z Ben Stockdale, the mining firm’s chief financial officer, quips that the biggest risk with Clean TeQ is that its miners “die of boredom”—the mine is on flat, featureless land. Australia is the new frontier for battery minerals 2017-11-23T05:00:00Z Liza’s face flickered, revealing the featureless plastic beneath for just a moment. eLiza The most powerful image in “Last Flag Flying” is a man, a father, sitting on a folding chair beside a casket in the featureless white-painted interior of a warehouse building. ‘Last Flag Flying’ review: Heartfelt war tale tells of a father’s loss 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z From a high of 40 percent of Iraq’s territory in late 2014, it now only controls a few isolated villages, and small chunks of largely featureless desert. Climate Change and Water Woes Drove ISIS Recruiting in Iraq 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z Hutcherson is likable as Josh, but even the show’s protagonist is a featureless conduit for his creators’ narrative needs and personal obsessions. It’s the wrong time for Future Man’s brand of dude comedy 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z The images are just a few pixels across and nearly featureless. Earth-sized alien worlds are out there. Now, astronomers are figuring out how to detect life on them 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z “I was never bankrupt,” the 63-year-old says mischievously in an interview at his featureless office park on the outskirts of this gloriously gargoyle-and-spire-pierced city. In center of Europe, politics takes a Trumpian turn with rise of anti-immigrant billionaire 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z In the early hours the explosion appeared blue and featureless — the light signature of a very young, very hot new celestial body. Scientists detect gravitational waves from a new kind of nova, sparking a new era in astronomy 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z As the title suggests, “Drive By” is a journey through an audible landscape that is almost entirely flat but never featureless. My Obsession With the Necks, the Greatest Trio on Earth 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z These cairns, also known as inukshuks, were originally used for orientation in the often featureless Arctic tundra. Airport art angers some Inuits 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z The researchers placed a featureless metal plate on a side wall at the end of a flight tunnel. Bats slam into buildings because they can't 'see' them 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z The featureless visage is the subject of Mr. Calek’s latest film “Sir No Face Lives.” ‘American Ghost Hunter’ host Chad Calek on new film ‘Sir No Face Lives’ and tour 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z Sections of the convoy lost their way in the featureless wilderness. Hezbollah takes journalists in Lebanon on a tour to prove Trump wrong 2017-07-30T04:00:00Z A pair of armed Border Control agents and a towering metal pole bristling with surveillance cameras keep tabs on visitors to the American side’s flat, featureless expanse of paved concrete. Driving the Most Controversial Strip of Land in Trump's America 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z And to an extent, it did: That volcano, to human eyes, just happened to look like a gray, featureless mass. How AI detectives are cracking open the black box of deep learning 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z The moment in question occurred in 2002, in one of those featureless construction-site trailers, being used by workers who were renovating Harding Park Golf Club in San Francisco. What golf will miss the most about Sandy Tatum - Golf Digest 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z The loudest sound in the featureless expanse is a mechanical one, made by untended pumps. A battle for supremacy in the lithium triangle 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z McIlroy is coming off a month-long layoff, though, and Day seemed to have trouble gauging some of his sightlines on the featureless horizon where landing areas appear tighter than they are. How will Erin Hills fare? One prominent local isn't even quite sure - Golf Digest 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z Megan West stars as Jaclyn, a feisty lawyer who gets kidnapped and awakens in a featureless bunker alongside a group of strangers. 'The Eyes' confines characters and silly twists into one-room drama 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z The New York Times complained about “the dawdling featureless” of the early episodes. Netflix/Marvel’s ‘Iron Fist’ epic fail, say viewers, critics 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z The stocky lawman arrived in the featureless interview room on the morning of Dec. 13, 2013, placed his soda cup on the table and apologized for not getting there sooner. Murder or Self-Defense if Officer Is Killed in Raid? 2017-03-18T04:00:00Z The researchers used motion-capture technology to record the moves of women dancing to a drum beat, before turning them into featureless avatars and showing them to both men and women to rate. Study reveals which moves can take you from disco disaster to dancing queen 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z The geophysics shows archaeology of exceptional scale and magnificence below the featureless surface. Despite landmines, snakes and dodgy gin, Iraq is an archaeological paradise 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z From afar, these peaks had appeared forbidding and featureless. Death Valley Is Alive 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z On the lower left-hand corner of my desk sits a wooden box, roughly the size and shape of a smallish jewelry case and featureless save for a small metal switch on its uppermost surface. Letter of Recommendation: The Useless Machine 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z From afar, the course seems flat and featureless. Why the 1989 British Open at Troon resonates - Golf Digest 2016-07-11T04:00:00Z And instead of the straight golden walls, there’s a round and nearly featureless gray labyrinth, turning us in circles forever. Dream Park: From giant robots to haptic spiders, the real future of virtual reality 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z “What we are actually witnessing is the equivalent of two internet memes dating – featureless avatars for our own hopeless need for human connection.” Democrats force gun concessions in 14-hour filibuster | The daily briefing 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z What we are actually witnessing is the equivalent of two internet memes dating – featureless avatars for our own hopeless need for human connection. Taylor Swift and Tom Hiddleston: as close as we'll get to two memes dating 2016-06-15T04:00:00Z One man stared in wonder at a featureless pile of bricks and stones. Behind the Barricades of Turkey’s Hidden War 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z From the troubled child who communes with the beyond to the featureless suburban home that hosts malicious spirits, this movie ticks all the boxes for modern mainstream shockers. Hello 'Darkness,' my old friend, the same old horror once again 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z The featureless buildings concealed in plain sight indicate the way evangelical America works: disguised within the quotidian landscape, pumping commercial spaces with pious significance. Megachurches: photographing America's drab new cathedrals 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z We spoke for an hour in a featureless gray room while a sergeant stood watch. The Torturing of Mentally Ill Prisoners 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z Head west, through a landscape of flat, featureless farmland, and the Detroit skyline appears in even less time. Powerhouse Junior Program Becomes a Springboard Into the N.H.L. 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z Elsewhere, Hiroshima looks much like any other Japanese city: featureless office and apartment blocks, pockets of neon-lit nightlife, and the ubiquitous convenience stores and chain coffee shops. Story of cities #24: how Hiroshima rose from the ashes of nuclear destruction 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z Magnitogorsk lies near the northern edge of the steppe: the tawny, featureless grasslands that extend west toward the Volga River and east into nearby Kazakhstan. Story of cities #20: the secret history of Magnitogorsk, Russia's steel city 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z Vodka’s line, by comparison, was stolid and straight, featureless as snow. A Liquor for the Farm-to-Table Movement 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z Even though the steppes are flat and featureless for thousands of miles, the search team’s giant wheeled trucks are surprisingly hard to spot, and we have several false starts. See the Happy Chaos at Astronauts' Landing Site 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z The cemetery was far from town, a great, featureless field where the municipality buries its homeless, penniless and nameless under planks used as grave markers. The missing: what have they done with our sons? | Lily Hyde 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z Other than a large, featureless warehouse on the other side of the street, there was little in sight. Fake Online Locksmiths May Be Out to Pick Your Pocket, Too 2016-01-30T05:00:00Z The Rabbit wine was a bit better, but the frozen wine was flat and featureless. The Best Way to Preserve Half-Drunk Bottles of Wine 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z He makes his way to his room, fiddles around with the phone, orders room service and looks out the window into the featureless night. ‘Anomalisa’ contemplates desire, love and loneliness, by way of puppets 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z Most biologists agree that at some point around two billion years ago, one featureless cell swallowed another, and the two began to work together as one. Mongrel Microbe Tests Story of Complex Life 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z The city’s double-decker buses, scanned over and over again, become time-stretched into featureless mega-structures blocking whole streets at a time. The Dream Life of Driverless Cars 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z It was a featureless stretch of highway near Dubbo, in central New South Wales. 'No one is listening to them.' Meet the former white supremacist helping police engage with extremists 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z The new circuits may be in exotic locations but they all look the same: a bunch of lines painted on endless, featureless deserts of asphalt. F1 is in deep trouble and Bernie Ecclestone is not the man to save it | Richard Williams 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z The less detail, he argues, the more engaged the audience will be: “A loose abstraction allows audience members to project their own desires onto an essentially featureless goal.” Donald Trump May Not Have a Second Act 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z From inside a head-mounted display, though, the drone is a hovering sphere in a nearly featureless virtual landscape. Inside USC’s crazy experimental VR lab 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z The terrain, once flat, windswept and featureless, accommodated a military base before being targeted as a possible site for a nuclear power plant. Players brace for 'Beauty and the Beast' at PGA 2015-08-12T04:00:00Z The ships were lonely specks in a featureless gray expanse: it was hard to imagine them ever finding anything without the P-3 to guide them. Asia-Pacific Countries Buy Surveillance Planes to Outfox Rivals 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z For 85 years, it was little more than a featureless grey blob on classroom maps of the solar system. Pluto pictures: Nasa reveals first high-resolution images of planet's surface 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z It’s also not clear why the heart appears to be so smooth, or “absurdly featureless,” as Spencer called it. First Pluto Flyby Pictures Are 'Complicated and Fascinating' 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z Some galaxies are so distant, they appear only as featureless points of light to observers on Earth. Astronomers find 11.6-billion-year-old star nursery in ancient galaxy 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z Clara had her arm around her date, who looked doughier than I recalled, his round face almost featureless, his eyebrows vanished; even the point of his green toothpick seemed blurred. “The Prospectors” 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z This flat and featureless slab defines the comatose state of smartphone design today. Innovative smartphone design isn’t dead, it’s just taking a really long nap 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z Getting used to the miles, the tedium, the green rolling hills of the midwest that began to run together into one featureless knoll. Does it really take a special breed to be a truck driving man? We find out 2015-05-24T04:00:00Z Many of the comments here reaffirm America's punitive, featureless and vengeful penal system. The Radical Humaneness of Norway’s Halden Prison 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z The small park next to the Supreme Court down the street is pretty modest, too — a nameless and featureless bit of green space now used mainly as a shortcut to a parking lot. An Immodest Proposal Rankles a Capital Known for Modesty 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z When he first considered the Dawn Wall, Caldwell and his wife at the time, the professional climber Beth Rodden, rappelled its vertical face, exploring if it could be free climbed despite its featureless surface. On El Capitan and Beyond, Tommy Caldwell’s Drive Pushes Him Toward the Impossible 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z Yes, they look like all the others: Lithe bodies with featureless faces that would be spooky in a dark museum at night. Psst! It’s Me, the Mannequin. This Would Look Great on You. 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z In the right light, there’s a kind of grandeur to its vast, featureless sweep, where every truck stop and water tower can take on totemic power. The Ride of Their Lives 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z However, genetic insights9 transformed a featureless landscape into one with real scientific toeholds. Mental health: Depression needs large human-genetics studies 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z That’s where Prelude will soon be towed, then fixed to what “The Biogeography of the Australian North West Shelf” describes as “the relatively featureless sedimentary sea floor plains.” The Biggest Ship in the World (Though It Isn’t Exactly a Ship) 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z With that restriction, bacteria, cells, and viruses looked either blurry and indistinct or like featureless blobs. Updated: Barrier-breaking microscopy methods that revealed cell's inner life win Nobel 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z An eel larva is almost flat, and its see-through body is almost featureless except for the bones. A World of Creatures That Hide in the Open 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z Lou deploys fascinating images of the big city in daytime: eerily colossal new buildings and gigantic pedestrian piazzas — impressive in some ways but weirdly featureless, without the poetry conferred upon Manhattan by its denizens. The top 10 … cities on film 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z He commutes from his three-roomed farmhouse of grey concrete, reached down a track on a featureless plain, 20 minutes from the centre of Montevideo. The sage of Montevideo 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z In Germany, the target is the featureless blob that passes for party politics. For curvy cannons and extra sleep 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z Its faceplate became as featureless as a pebble on a beach. Cargo cult : Nature : Nature Publishing Group 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z They are terrorised by a seeming over-abundance of featureless, monotonous time. English explodes in India 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z But the article also noted, for good measure, that “English football players say the American college game is brutal and featureless.” With World Cup in Headlines, a Debate Continues on What to Call the Game 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z The ghostly Slenderman has a featureless face and wears a bowler or fedora, according to Creepypasta.com, the site where prosecutors believe the girls learned of him and started to become enamored by him. Wisconsin stabbing puts focus on fictional Slenderman 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z "The crudely incised featureless block of stone is viewed as insensitive and disrespectful, and the accompanying dark stone with his name and details seemingly reflecting Shakespeare's Black Legend," Ms Langley said. Richard III rows set to rumble on 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z Even the most austere desert or apparently featureless moor is a dense, intricate network of thousands of species of photosynthesizers, predators, prey animals, parasites, detritovores and decomposers. An elegant chaos 2014-03-12T18:50:02.533Z As do fairly featureless blue Neptune and extremely chilly Triton: −235 °C. Me and my flying saucer 2014-01-29T18:51:59.174Z The Sun is revealed in exquisite detail, but its face is strangely featureless. Is our Sun falling silent? 2014-01-18T00:54:49Z To get there, you pass through a fortified gate and enter a featureless yellow building. DealBook: Into the Bitcoin Mines 2013-12-21T18:43:19Z Sighing, Curtis pauses the holo-program to answer the door: The room is restored to its usual featureless backdrop. We Wish You A Vicarious Holiday [100 Words Into The Future] 2013-12-20T15:15:00Z But up close - or at least as close as you get in a large, featureless hall in Des Moines with 600 guests packed around 60 or so tables - the junior senator from Texas is different. Ted Cruz, off the cuff in Iowa 2013-10-28T15:12:30Z 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 If they were all of one type, we would be featureless heaps of protoplasm. The Surprising Origins of Evolutionary Complexity 2013-07-16T14:15:00.577Z If we don't mark such moments, then I fear that our years will just become a featureless smudge in time. Solstice and the lack of symbolism in Britain 2013-06-21T16:53:07Z Useful in guiding us over large featureless expanses but not much else. The Economist explains: How did the global poverty rate halve in 20 years? 2013-06-02T23:50:00Z It’s a nearly square, nearly featureless block, in black or white. State of the Art: Canon N Takes on Phone Cameras 2013-05-01T19:30:32Z Many have exclusively communicated by fingerspelling words on their hands over the centuries but it is time consuming and seen as featureless and boring by many deaf people. Fingerspelling - the alphabet on your hands 2013-04-30T01:12:43Z Gallo described them as “crushed sand castles” jutting from an otherwise featureless plain. What Lives at the Bottom of the Mariana Trench? More Than You Might Think 2013-04-15T00:15:05.547Z Environmental engineering simplifies subterranean locomotion, he explained, often limiting studies to a flat, featureless surface, which doesn’t shed much light on how ants cope in real-world conditions. Tunnel Vision: Probing the Physics of Fire Ants 2013-03-29T16:15:05.293Z A four-year-old girl sits at a table in a featureless room. To Predict Success in Children, Look Beyond Willpower 2013-03-11T12:45:00.257Z But instead of travelling through a dark forest, the setting is a beach, largely featureless. Review: Bientôt l'Été by Tale of Tales: Enigma. Variations? 2013-02-07T15:43:19Z The surrounding landscape is desiccated and featureless, encrusted with black rocks that bake under a merciless sun. Can France restore the magic of northern Mali? 2013-02-05T01:57:10Z The plant’s production towers rise suddenly and starkly out of the nearly featureless desert landscape at Tiguentourine after a 45-minute drive from the nearest Algerian settlement, the town of In Amenas. Hostage Accounts Detail Events at Saharan Gas Plant 2013-02-02T23:47:21Z I felt as if I was in a lifeboat in the middle of the ocean, surrounded by nothing but flat, featureless ocean on all sides. How Inbox Zero Became Inbox 50: The Evolution of a Resolution 2013-02-01T19:44:57Z The vast majority of the seafloor once you get >50 miles offshore is barren, featureless mud. Why Don't We Spend More On Exploring The Oceans, Rather Than On Space Exploration? 2013-01-31T17:11:25Z I grew up in southern California where the mountains are featureless, so we decided we'd build board parks to do jumps, and it really accelerated the progression of riding. A guide to Jackson Hole: the serious skiers' and snowboarders' resort 2013-01-19T07:00:00Z If any architect doesn't think the ninth, probably the flattest, most featureless, most boring hole in championship golf, couldn't use an improvement, then he lacks not just imagination but credibility. St. Andrews: Nothing New Here 2012-11-30T05:00:00Z A decade on from the first British assisted suicide at the now well-known Swiss organisation on a featureless commercial estate outside Zurich, the law has not changed but the debate rages on. Assisted suicide: 10 years of dying at Dignitas 2012-10-21T00:03:05Z In contrast to the lively spiral galaxies, which tend to be actively forming stars, the ellipticals are more like featureless blobs containing little gas and few new stars. Galaxy formation: The new Milky Way 2012-10-03T18:21:29.637Z And unlike endurance races on land, the horizon is going to be bleak and featureless. 'Human hamster' in sea challenge 2012-09-25T11:29:52Z Instead, on disc two, we get a long and slightly featureless mix by musical directors Underworld. Various Artists: Isles of Wonder – Music for the Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games – review 2012-08-04T23:01:07Z After a few slight rises the road surface improves dramatically and stretches far into the distance, taking the shortest route over the featureless ridge. Britain's top 10 toughest cycle climbs 2012-07-20T14:36:42Z Windswept and open, this isn't a climb for adverse conditions – the featureless Arkengarthdale moor to your left and Sleightholme moor to your right would become very hostile in bad weather. Britain's top 10 cycle climbs 2012-07-13T08:15:37Z Ten days later that featureless performance was completely forgotten. The Joy of Six: European Championship memories 2012-06-01T09:36:05Z The old priest she had known was dead, as the nuns had sent her word, and she had to picture a priest, unknown, featureless, instead of him. Mariquita A Novel 2012-04-24T02:00:19.737Z Just amphipods — tiny shrimplike creatures swimming across a featureless plane of ooze that stretched off into the primal darkness. For Director at Sea Bottom, a Dark World of Tiny Creatures 2012-03-26T21:58:59Z The expectation that that hazy, featureless image which had resided in his mind for the past five years would soon stand forth in the flesh and with the mist lifted made Pavel restless. The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia 2012-03-18T02:00:21.430Z Trot, trot! through a. grey world so featureless, so unreal that the riders, now dozing in the saddle, and now awaking, seemed to themselves to stand still, as in a nightmare. Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France 2012-03-15T02:00:24.837Z 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 Often a featureless garden, blooming well, yet somehow unattractive, has been completely transformed by the planting of hedges. Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth 2012-03-06T03:00:22.850Z The preservation of memory became an obsession, doomed in the featureless ocean wilderness. Knowledge 2012-02-29T18:21:10.917Z A feature of the otherwise featureless landscape is the frequent occurrence of towers like martello towers, on hill-tops, placed there for the shelter of the guards who formerly kept a look-out for robbers. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:15.857Z The march to Babarashan is for twenty miles along a featureless irrigated valley about a mile wide, with grass and stubble, several beehive villages, and mud hills never over 150 feet high on either side. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:11.843Z According to James Overduin, a physicist at Towson University in Maryland who specializes in gravitation, a universe without gravity would be "completely flat and featureless." What If There Were No Gravity? 2012-01-10T16:15:20.327Z The furniture is featureless, but not altogether unpretentious, and the engravings and pictures are of a sort that nobody cares for. Empires and Emperors of Russia, China, Korea, and Japan Notes and Recollections by Monsignor Count Vay de Vaya and Luskod 2012-01-08T03:00:16.523Z If the Moon were simply a featureless, homogenous sphere of rock, the distance between A and B wouldn't change. Spacecraft Twins Arrive at the Moon 2012-01-01T14:05:00Z And where do you plug a charger into a featureless white orb? State of the Art: Remote-Controlled Ball Holds Potential Delights - State of the Art 2011-12-21T21:16:06Z Verna picks up one of the quarters, examines the layers, each year black, gray, black, gray, black, and at the bottom the featureless core. Margaret Atwood: “Stone Mattress.” 2011-12-12T05:00:00Z Then came the splashing of horses, and I knew that Caraballo was coming to look for me, and a good line he took in the dark and featureless morass. Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration 2011-12-05T03:00:38.980Z Platforms, booking offices, waiting rooms, are perfect copies of all that the Western mind has produced to be useful, but from an artistic point of view featureless and colourless. Empires and Emperors of Russia, China, Korea, and Japan Notes and Recollections by Monsignor Count Vay de Vaya and Luskod 2012-01-08T03:00:16.523Z The landlady, a shapeless, featureless, middle-aged blonde, read the note; herself gave a long glance of scrutiny, and showed the room. Out of the Air 2011-11-21T03:00:14.460Z Even with the Hubble telescope, Eris looks like a featureless pinpoint. Pluto Has a Twin Sister: Frigid Dwarf Planet Eris 2011-10-31T09:15:00Z Right and left of him and embracing much of the bay, the confusion of stars swept, culminating in the towering flame surmounting the Pharos to the east, and failing in featureless obscurity to the west. Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians 2011-10-28T02:00:22.437Z We see the struggling forms, tangling and tumbling, We hear the noise from the featureless mass around them, But the dusk divides. Poems - Second Series 2011-10-28T02:00:21.670Z Involuntarily he came to the surface and found himself confronted by a high, overhanging shape, bulking featureless in the darkness and chilling him with a sort of superstitious despair. "Persons Unknown" 2011-09-28T02:00:23.683Z The stone was featureless, ill-proportioned; the inscription recorded nothing but her name and the dates of her birth and death. Out of the Air 2011-11-21T03:00:14.460Z Such events come, seem of great consequence, happen, and therewith sink down into the featureless mass of things which happen only once and then are in the past forever. Rough-Hewn 2011-09-20T02:00:15.147Z An exuberant wealth of forms built up that forest which was so featureless from a little distance. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z The dredging ripped much of the integrity of the river’s substrata away, creating the equivalent of a featureless canal through much of its course. In Ireland, Fishing for Salmon That Like a Crowd 2011-08-29T03:28:12Z It was as if, going so quietly on such an errand, some evil of devilish mockery looked out from behind that featureless face, as from behind a mask. "Persons Unknown" 2011-09-28T02:00:23.683Z He stuffed the envelope into a pocket and sat looking out of the window, regarding morosely the featureless landscape. The Ranchman 2011-08-27T02:00:21.017Z To him nothing wore a neutral tint, and no man or woman was featureless. Dickens English Men of Letters 2011-07-13T02:00:19.017Z When I saw it first on the Para River it appeared to my wondering eyes but featureless green cliffs. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z They were across the border now, between Wyoming and Idaho, in a featureless white region, a country of small Mormon ranches, far from any considerable town. The Cup of Trembling and Other Stories 2011-07-07T02:00:29.180Z He’s downsized from the more than 40,000-square-foot offices for Duff Capital to a featureless space with warm, blond wood accents. DealBook: A FrontPoint Founder Tries Again With a New Firm 2011-05-31T01:23:19Z The edge of the Semipalatinsk Test Site is a two-hour drive from the nearest large city, across an expanse of dun-colored, featureless steppe. Old Soviet Nuclear Site in Asia Has Unlikely Sentinel: The U.S. 2011-05-22T00:56:13Z They held their right of way acquired on the featureless erosion plain and cut deep trenches through the edges of the hard layers which crossed their courses. North America 2011-05-05T02:00:20.027Z In open and featureless ground, where the rifle and gun have full play, the trench is to the modern soldier very much what the breast-plate was to the man-at-arms, an absolute essential. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" 2011-04-22T02:00:08.637Z In the London Evening Standard this week, veteran art critic expressed dismay at a "featureless" building he called "alien, brutal and bleak". Tears for Margate 2011-04-15T17:00:34Z Said one: "To-morrow we shall be Plod, plod along the featureless sands, And coasting miles and miles of sea." Essays 2011-04-15T02:00:16.160Z One might say it was a featureless and irresolute old fabric. She's All the World to Me 2011-04-09T02:00:16.923Z The scenery of these featureless plains is ordinarily depressing when once the novelty of being adrift on a sea of grass has passed away. North America 2011-05-05T02:00:20.027Z On flat featureless ground the general trace of the trenches should be irregular. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" 2011-04-22T02:00:08.637Z From the stands the course stretches away into the distance, merging with flat, featureless surroundings. Claims Five: Why I love the Grand National 2011-04-01T11:33:19Z The courthouse was its base, an array of featureless gray buildings along the city’s Mediterranean seafront. Magazine Preview: On Libya?s Revolutionary Road 2011-03-30T14:23:43Z In addition there is much marketing in France, which adds colour and human interest to what might otherwise be a featureless street or square. France 2011-03-27T02:00:11.847Z Monotony is the one word that best describes the lives of those whose lot is cast on these broad featureless surfaces. North America 2011-05-05T02:00:20.027Z And all found it featureless, till Bobby picked out a couple of dun-gray shapes. The Messenger 2011-03-26T02:00:14.523Z Titus Price and his son lived in what had once been a farm-house at Toft End; every morning and evening they traversed the desolate and featureless grey road between their dwelling and the works. Anna of the Five Towns 2011-03-08T03:00:38.117Z He is based in Siquirres, one of the featureless towns that has grown up in the pineapple frontier. Bitter fruit: The truth about supermarket pineapple 2010-10-01T23:04:00Z The ants have a cozier relationship with the green coffee scale, a flat, featureless insect that is a serious coffee pest in some regions, but not on the farm where the study was done. On Organic Coffee Farm, Complex Interactions Keep Pests Under Control 2010-08-30T14:50:00Z At first glimpse, Giltner's landscape seems featureless, a fading horizon of corn and soybeans. Financial Overhaul Hits Farmers 2010-07-14T14:18:00Z Even in a featureless game it was blatantly obvious that the scorer is one of a small number who hold out some prospect of lifting England beyond the mundane. World Cup 2010: Capello's purpose served as England toil and trundle 2010-06-07T22:05:00Z The matches in last season's Champions League group phase both ended in 1-1 draws and now they share a mood of anti-climax over their featureless domestic campaigns. Liverpool 2-1 Atl?tico Madrid (agg 2-2) 2010-04-29T21:56:00Z The line of faces on either side of him appeared now curiously featureless. The Hillman She went through a period of despair, all the worse because, like a face in a nightmare, it was featureless. Manslaughter The surface upon which the cretaceous sediments were deposited, appears to have been reduced by erosion to a very low relief, so that the land was a featureless plain when the cretaceous subsidence began. The History of Cuba, vol. 1 Burl noticed that though the Neptunians were apparently featureless, he could sense a distinct tightening up in their actions. The Secret of the Ninth Planet Hence matter as it is in itself, before the image of the Ideas is stamped upon it, must be absolutely without quality, featureless, formless. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy On the far side of it was the Moorish village, a minute collection of low huts like hovels, featureless and filthy. Bye-Ways Fragments of the motorcycle were strewn from the corner to where in a ditch at the foot of a telegraph pole the man was lying, a featureless mass. Manslaughter Compared with the rugged and picturesque scenery of the Lower Carboniferous rocks, that of the Coal Measures is, as a rule, featureless and monotonous. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 4 "England" to "English Finance" He had seen pictures of the ocean, that featureless blue with its concrete wall stretching away for thousands of miles. The Genius It is absolutely featureless, indefinite, without any quality. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy The fierce white sun of Ophiuchus IX broiled down on the Empty Places, a featureless desert two-thousand miles across and as lividly white as bleached bone. Think Yourself to Death Their chest lamps lit up the interior, which was as gray, knobby, and featureless as the outside world. The Giants From Outer Space He left the big shining case, which was oblong and featureless and seemed made of metal, to pass to something else. The Buttoned Sky Occupying most of it were three grey, ellipsoidal objects, smooth and featureless. The Thing in the Attic It is rather a formless, indefinite, and absolutely featureless matter in general. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy Its mellow uninflection evoked a briefly disturbing memory of a slight gray figure, jointed yet curiously flexible, and a featureless oval of face. Pet Farm It was a gray, wrinkled featureless thing, except for pinpoint eyes and the tiny clawlike legs upon which it scurried. The World with a Thousand Moons The pink walls were smooth and featureless, well over his head so that he could not tell where he was. The Enormous Room All the way to that brink, as to every other horizon, the woven ocean of the treetops flowed gently in long, unbreaking waves, featureless as some smooth oil. The Thing in the Attic It is an utterly featureless, characterless Being, perfectly empty and abstract. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy Farrell, still pondering the problem of balance between dominant and dominated species, found himself wondering for the thousandth time what went on in the alert positronic brain behind the mechanical's featureless face. Pet Farm Except for the neat, even checking that covered it, the little three-by-four inch object was entirely featureless. Instant of Decision At that distance her face was a featureless oval. The Portal of Dreams Every part of it was featureless—no dials, switches or any unfamiliar counterparts. The Old Die Rich The sea stretched out in such blank, featureless reaches! The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 81, July, 1864 He turned back to the screen and stared at the still featureless dot that was the Earth. An Empty Bottle The memory of it warmed my heart a thousand times when long weary miles were between us, and a desolate sky shut down around the far desolate plains of a silent, featureless land. The Price of the Prairie A Story of Kansas This microscopic, featureless creature is already a human individual, with certain of its future traits--those that we call "native"--already settled. Psychology A Study Of Mental Life I remembered the existence of hills, certainly, but the picture in my memory was low, featureless, and uninteresting. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XXII (of 25) Juvenilia and Other Papers They were, I think, harder than metal, yet they had been here long enough for the elements to erode them into featureless shards. Where the World is Quiet The revealed surface was smooth metal, featureless and hard. The Ethical Engineer It was a little featureless agent's house on the edge of these pine-woods. The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman The landscape was pleasant, but rather featureless, except for the bulk of Monte Maggiore blue to the south-east. The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia I believe if I made an effort I could disinter some dozens of such memories, more and more faded until the marginal ones would be featureless and all but altogether effaced. The Passionate Friends Four feet in diameter it was, and featureless save for three ivory elastic tentacles that supported it and a fringe of long, whip-like cilia about its diameter—its waist, I thought. Where the World is Quiet The black opening of the air lock seemed to wink, then was solid, featureless metal as the doors slid shut. The Helpful Hand of God The deposition took the form of broad, featureless, uninteresting plains—material for a new series of stratified rocks, out of which other future Grand183 Cañons may be carved. Under the Maples As we stood behind the barn, the bombarded village which we had just left lay below and behind us, and in front featureless fields sloped away toward some low wooded hills half a mile distant. The Note-Book of an Attaché Seven Months in the War Zone The dawn was just beginning to break up the featureless blackness of the small hours. The Passionate Friends Gordon had one horror-stricken glimpse of a featureless blob of rubbery bluish-gray flesh in which fiendish eyes of blue-green fire blazed in malignant fury. Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1931 It was the formless, featureless fear that came closer. Tante “I asked you,” she added, “because you seem to be quite featureless.” The Crimson Tide A Novel It shone full upon him—past him—to light up and give detail to those faces that had been featureless before. The Finding of Haldgren They were there, too, tiny, featureless dots of white, like nothing so much as holes in a black wall, in the smoke-drift that alternately hid and revealed them. Once to Every Man The houses opposite and all down the road were exactly alike, all featureless and grey, roofed with slate, three-storied, with basement kitchens. Olive in Italy There was a fear formless and featureless; and there was loss, dreadful loss. Tante The assembly and guidance of so large a force over ground untrodden by us previously, and featureless save for a nullah and some scattered sand hills, demanded something like genius in discipline and organization. The Story of the Great War, Volume V (of 8) Battle of Jutland Bank; Russian Offensive; Kut-El-Amara; East Africa; Verdun; The Great Somme Drive; United States and Belligerents; Summary of Two Years' War No human sees my face, because Crime and Night are featureless!... A Nest of Spies It had filled out; it had bloomed in her happiness; it was shadowless, featureless almost, like a flower. The Flaw in the Crystal Yesterday that face had been no more to him than a smudge, without character, and almost featureless, while to-day.... The Dust Flower The cardinal's mansion remained flat and featureless, revealing nothing. The Saracen: Land of the Infidel His school life is a weary, colourless, featureless part of his autobiography. The Countess of Albany Here were features so mathematically flawless that they became practically featureless; here was bodily balance so ideal that the ultimate standards of Greek perfection seemed lop-sided in comparison. The Gay Rebellion It is much more exacting to express the truth one wishes to convey, by silent, featureless symbols than by that wonderful organ of communication, the human voice. English: Composition and Literature I recall with tenderness the tortuous and featureless streets, which looked liked the streets of a village and were paved with villainous little sharp stones, making all exercise penitential. A Little Tour of France The plain was almost featureless, but glancing to his right from time to time, he noticed certain twisted trees and black boulders he was sure he had passed before. The Saracen: Land of the Infidel On this trip one passes through scenery of the most monotonous and melancholy character, flat and featureless, made up of forests of fir-trees, interspersed with the white birch, and long reaches of wide, deserted plains. Foot-prints of Travel or, Journeyings in Many Lands For five minutes or so they ran quietly and steadily along a featureless road through barren pastures. Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905 Aside from these things, a featureless landscape—just grassy ground down here and blue cloud-splashed sky up there. Winning the Wilderness But for these fine Roman remains and for its name, Orange is a perfectly featureless little town, without the Rhone—which, as I have mentioned, is several miles distant—to help it to a physiognomy. A Little Tour of France Save for low hills on the Hupeh frontier, it runs the whole way through a flat, featureless country, cultivated by hand, almost every square foot of it. A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia But his advice was neglected by the vacillating and peace-loving monarch, his proffered proclamation was put aside, and a weak, featureless production substituted in its place. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" He floated in a featureless dull gray void, without stars, without worlds. Starman's Quest They become featureless by 'featuring' the same part. What I Saw in America There was one place in Lac Tremblant where, high water or low, a man might always stand—if I could hit it in the smothering, featureless snow. The La Chance Mine Mystery It was a sodden, unkempt, featureless country, and I found myself longing for the journey's end. A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia The truth is that all feeble spirits naturally live in the future, because it is featureless; it is a soft job; you can make it what you like. G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study She outruns sympathy of crowds; Her dwelling is above the clouds; She stoops to kiss the rose to crimson— Her face no featureless mask enshrouds. Song-waves Twice as long as mine, and three times as wide, but kind of featureless because the sand's loose and dry. The Dope on Mars We were miles from the mine, around a turn where the spruce bush ceased for a long stretch of swamp,—bare, featureless, and frozen. The La Chance Mine Mystery Ahead the grey wall rose up, blank, featureless. It Could Be Anything It was pleasantly bracing and clear in the early desert morning, and Mac felt light-hearted and happy, as he gazed across the distant featureless dunes of sand. The Tale of a Trooper With some, time is mere duration, a blank, featureless thing, gliding swiftly and insensibly by. The Map of Life Conduct and Character The Dovenilid gave him a piercing look, but Marlowe presented a featureless facade of bulk. Citadel There was Amos B. Tripp, whom Radbourn said resembled "a Chinese god"—immense, featureless, bald, with a pout on his face like an enormous baby. A Spoil of Office A Story of the Modern West Stunted indeed they are, several with the expressionless, almost featureless, visages of hereditary misery, others with fearfully refined loveliness, but all are plump, well-fed, and at ease. Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster Both of them are more featureless, show less of the family likeness, than the boys. A Poor Man's House Many editors would consider it faulty, but it illustrates one way of writing the lead of a featureless fire story. Newspaper Reporting and Correspondence A Manual for Reporters, Correspondents, and Students of Newspaper Writing The outside world was featureless and very cold. The Dark Tower His gaze also went into the west; and he blinked against the white glare of sun and distance, squinting his eyes and scanning the featureless waste with appraising glances. 'Drag' Harlan The sensation continued for almost a minute rather than brief seconds, however, and the viewscreens, when they cleared, showed swirls of shifting color instead of the featureless gray of hyperspace. Fearful Symmetry A Terran Empire novel The prospect to the north is of sea only: a broad sweep of landscape so flat and so featureless that the great sea dominates it. Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti This may be taken as typical of all featureless stories. Newspaper Reporting and Correspondence A Manual for Reporters, Correspondents, and Students of Newspaper Writing As you walk through them they look like interminable lines of featureless streets, full of those sweating, screaming, squabbling masses of humanity that take away all your pride in the dignity of man's estate. The Drama Of Three Hundred & Sixty-Five Days Scenes In The Great War The last fifty years of it are featureless, save for an attempt to abolish the Bishopric. The Little Manx Nation - 1891 Kranath gasped in shock as he made a fast scan of the featureless white room he now stood in. Fearful Symmetry A Terran Empire novel The desert outside the bus windows was utterly black and featureless, but once a convoy of trucks passed, going to the Shed. Space Platform If the location were of such significant importance as to be played up, the story would no longer be a featureless story. Newspaper Reporting and Correspondence A Manual for Reporters, Correspondents, and Students of Newspaper Writing The low flat plain is dreary and desolate, featureless and melancholy, when the sky above it is filled with clouds. Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John Finally, far below them, the featureless gray surface skimmed by. The Native Soil The waste was featureless, then and for a seemingly interminable time afterward. Long Ago, Far Away It was featureless save for sage and mesquite and tall thin stalks of yucca. Space Platform The commonest of featureless stories is the simple fire story in which nothing out of the ordinary happens, no one is killed, no striking rescues take place, and no tremendous amount of property is destroyed. Newspaper Reporting and Correspondence A Manual for Reporters, Correspondents, and Students of Newspaper Writing A little above her forestay a small window, uncurtained and brightly lit, broke the long stretch of featureless black wall. Shining Ferry Standing in semi-darkness, the landlord's face was a blur of brown shadow, featureless, save for a pair of enormous eyes burning with an emotion which was no longer hospitality. The Car of Destiny There were the vast, featureless "mares,"—those plains of once-liquid lava which had welled out when monstrous missiles the size of counties buried themselves deep in the moon's substance. Long Ago, Far Away There were low, featureless structures silhouetted against the sunrise. Space Platform There are certain other points to be noticed in the report of a featureless fire. Newspaper Reporting and Correspondence A Manual for Reporters, Correspondents, and Students of Newspaper Writing It was almost featureless until, as he watched, several sections seemed to slide aside. This World Must Die! On dull days the long, plain, featureless walls of the Hradšany seem the very expression of life under the later Habsburg Kings of Bohemia. From a Terrace in Prague The west front is so featureless that it scarcely deserves the title of façade. Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1 The hills, which look somewhat featureless from the city, are riven in a hundred places by rocky gorges or gullies, and many well-made roads cross the range at various points. The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 2 But the bowed head was still a rough, featureless mass of stone, not yet shaped. The Worshippers Now, facing the featureless door, he had a sharp knife of fear. The K-Factor In the viewscreen, the sea tilted, drew farther away, then became a level, featureless blue expanse. The Players But the landscape remains equally featureless and monotonous, redeemed only, as evening falls, by the tints of purple and violet which glow upon the low ridges or swells of ground that rise in the distance. Impressions of South Africa All day long he watched the pen travelling over the paper, all day long I was aware of him, featureless, shadowy, expressionless, with a vague cheek near my own. Schwartz: A History From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray After three days at Millencourt the Battalion moved forward into that featureless waste for the possession of which so much blood had been shed. The War Service of the 1/4 Royal Berkshire Regiment (T. F.) Beyond this figure rose a dead wall of black and colored patch-work emphasized by featureless white splashes; the whole punctuated, here and there, with gleams of light betokening jewels. The Genius The little woman, whose face seemed almost featureless to Roger Sands, was interested in the man as well as in the mission. The Lion's Mouse It consists of seven or eight scattered frame houses, with roofs of corrugated iron, set in a dull, featureless flat on the banks of a muddy river. Impressions of South Africa The Captain stood rigidly, staring at the featureless intrusion. Breaking Point A cold woman, almost featureless because of her long years of training, but with a hot heart deep down, and characterized by an intense devotion to her mistress. Theft A Play In Four Acts Dawn found us eagerly looking round for a change in the landscape if a featureless chaos of tumbled sand is worthy of such a name? but I, at any rate, could see nothing. A Rip Van Winkle Of The Kalahari Seven Tales of South-West Africa Navigation was obviously done by compass on this almost featureless desert. Planet of the Damned His young heroes are sometimes reckoned rather feeble and featureless. Sir Walter Scott A Lecture at the Sorbonne All of them flow together into a featureless mass of elegantly stereotyped forms and sounds. A Survey of Russian Literature, with Selections Expecting another such hollow victory as the other Hexan vessel had won over the defenseless Arcturus, the small stranger flashed nearer and nearer that huge and featureless football of armor steel. Spacehounds of IPC By the disk's action, they deduced that their guide had drawn them to this featureless black steel with the precision of a beam-controlled ship. Storm Over Warlock The only outstanding feature of its virtually featureless hulk was a tower which struck upward from its northern side. Rebels of the Red Planet No doubt there are places in the English chalk counties which resemble this sweep of country, but I know of none so bare or so featureless. The Old Front Line There seemed a sort of featureless face below it. The Young Mountaineers Short Stories They were dropping vertically downward toward the center of a vast plain of white, featureless and desolate; and Nadia stared in disappointment. Spacehounds of IPC It met me here a featureless, brimming ditch, and wound away in torpid coils to the monotonous horizon. Earth's Enigmas A Volume of Stories The fearlessness of the Chicago confession was melted down into a featureless alloy. A Preface to Politics His round featureless face showed his fright and indecision before this critical quarrel of husband and wife. The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2) An odd distortion crossed the vague, featureless face—like a leer, perhaps. The Young Mountaineers Short Stories In and almost filling the space, at least a mile in width, between the inner and the outer walls were huge, seven-sided structures—featureless, squat, forbidding heptagons of dull green metal. Spacehounds of IPC The place was lighted by a small hot glare of gas, which made it look white and featureless. The Bostonians, Vol. I (of II) Hands stronger or weaker than this by the value of a king or less may be described as featureless. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" But from a distance, as from above, they all blended into a featureless white monotony. The Keeper Here, the Peninsula looks a tougher nut to crack than it did on Lord K.'s small and featureless map. Gallipoli Diary, Volume I At first very little, almost nothing, only uninteresting, ugly death, gloomy, ghastly, dismal, but dull and largely featureless, blank and negative. Raemaekers' Cartoons With Accompanying Notes by Well-known English Writers Still facing that featureless blob in the tree, the man retreated, alert for the first sign of advance on the part of the creature above. Star Hunter At the end of seven days they came to Shof-el-Ain, a tiny well set in a barren valley between featureless ridges, and by the side of that well they camped. The Four Feathers Every branch, every twig, was laden with its sparkling burden of down-flickered flakes, and threw long lovely shadows on the smooth featureless dazzle below. Alec Forbes of Howglen A corner of the horizon was winter blue; a whole sweep of it was dead, featureless black. The Sky Is Falling |
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