Adjective : a dark, airless hallway. ,an airless July day. From Dictionary.com.
But I hate stewing in sultry airlessness even worse. From Wordnik.com. [There's something I like about L.A.] Reference
Fifty-six minutes of heat and stress and airlessness. From Wordnik.com. [The Lady Matador’s Hotel] Reference
No space crewman feels anything but a pure horror of airlessness. From Wordnik.com. [The Other Side Of Nowhere]
China had been closed for decades, and everyone felt stifled by the airlessness. From Wordnik.com. [WILD SWANS THREE DAUGHTERS OF CHINA]
Finally, I decided it had to be the location and the airlessness which were the tests. From Wordnik.com. [Timegod's World]
In the airlessness of the Moon Gordette won't hear us coming up, if he's inside the tempo. From Wordnik.com. [Moonwar]
In the undisturbed airlessness of the Moon it was impossible to tell how fresh the prints were. From Wordnik.com. [Empire Builders]
Struggling through airlessness, weightlessness, lightlessness, hale survivors dragged hurt to the boat housing. From Wordnik.com. [The Rebel Worlds]
She felt exposed, uncovered by a sudden, surprising welling in her heart, as if she swirled in dark airlessness. From Wordnik.com. [The Dark Queen]
SUBTLE BARBER (very bald) -- "Ah, sir, I sacrifice my appearance to bring 'ome to clients the' orror of 'airlessness.". From Wordnik.com. [More Toasts] Reference
In airlessness and rocketblast temperatures, the water molecules crashed over to a low-density form even as they flew. From Wordnik.com. [Three Worlds To Conquer]
As their eyes adapted, they saw well enough through airlessness, by the thronging stars and the cold rush of the Milky Way. From Wordnik.com. [Inconstant Star]
The other craft stood close around, stubby big-bellied shapes that covered the ground with the inky shadows of airlessness. From Wordnik.com. [Three Worlds To Conquer]
Yet somehow CSI, CSI Miami, CSI New York and CSI New Rochelle are still on the air well on the airlessness of space via SKY-TV anyway. From Wordnik.com. [This Is My Movie | ATTACKERMAN] Reference
Although the wind whipped her hair across her face and fed the hungry sails of the phantom ship, she seemed to be standing in a vortex of airlessness. From Wordnik.com. [Thief Of Hearts]
It fights the airlessness of space and the unfriendly atmospheres of exotic planets, using machines, intelligence, knowledge, and human courage as its weapons. From Wordnik.com. [Unwise Child] Reference
Did they think that the airlessness of absolute space, the heatlessness of absolute zero, the yieldlessness of absolute neutronium, could stop QADGOP THE MERCOTAN?. From Wordnik.com. [Children of the Lens]
They were some 240,000 miles from home, but more than half a billion earthlings were watching or listening as the two tried to adjust to the sights and airlessness of this mystical land. From Wordnik.com. [With Their Steps Came Great Relief on Earth] Reference
But the deadliness of it all, the airlessness of her house and her heart!. From Wordnik.com. [The Second Latchkey] Reference
But it lacks the maniacal airlessness of the "Living Dead" series it rips off. From Wordnik.com. [Salon] Reference
In the airlessness, anything anybody said by walkie-talkie could be heard by everybody. From Wordnik.com. [Operation: Outer Space] Reference
In hallway and front parlor she was conscious of dinginess and lugubriousness and airlessness, but she insisted, "I'll make it all jolly.". From Wordnik.com. [Main Street] Reference
With the exception of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, the movies made from Kaufman's scripts have suffered from a certain airlessness. From Wordnik.com. [AltWeeklies.com Site Feed] Reference
They inhaled the immemorial airlessness of the staircase as if they were breathing the free air of the forests depicted on its dirty-brown wall-paper. From Wordnik.com. [The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes] Reference
These latter have all the airlessness, the want of poetry, the frigidity of things constructed after a formula, daring and brilliant though that formula is. From Wordnik.com. [Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers] Reference
There's a feeling of airlessness and dread to the film, which casts our heroines as out-and-out social pariahs based on a mere rumor perpetrated by two monstrous children. From Wordnik.com. [PopMatters] Reference
'After all,' she said, when they were once more on their way to the house, 'it may have been only the airlessness and the dull heat of that place that pressed on my brain. From Wordnik.com. [Ghost Stories of an Antiquary Part 2: More Ghost Stories] Reference
The flashlights, equipped as they were with storage coils for power, were actually powerful searchlights, but in the airlessness of space, the rays were absolutely invisible. From Wordnik.com. [Islands of Space] Reference
They find in it a sort of airlessness; its constraint irks them; they feel that when the author has fixed upon his material a wilful shape life has slipped through his fingers. From Wordnik.com. [The Summing Up]
Ought not to need all that apparatus to transmit voice in airlessness. ". From Wordnik.com. [Operation Luna]
In hallway and front parlor she was conscious of dinginess and lugubriousness and airlessness, but she insisted, “I’ll make it all jolly.”. From Wordnik.com. [Main Street] Reference
There is a certain airlessness, perhaps because there is no scene with more than two participants, and most of the novel takes place in Paul’s head. From Wordnik.com. [A Peaceful Retirement, Suddenly Unsettled] Reference
Kirk waited rather impatiently for the herald to finish scrawling this message, and snapped, "Of course, I know about the airlessness of space; who doesn't?. From Wordnik.com. [Natives of Space]
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