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Perhaps you should read a bit more widely before embarrassing yourself with public displays of colourlessness?

He spoke with a mechanical colourlessness that scared the hell out of Monica.

The observable characteristics were drabness, colourlessness, all negatives.

With all the achromatic clearness, the unromantic colourlessness of the early morning.... Yes.

Urizen is represented as white, which is connected to snow, colourlessness, atheism and the unknown.

Its length, its colourlessness, and the space it devotes to subsidiary matters render it unattractive.

The small size and colourlessness of the eggs make them invisible to the naked eye, except in barely visible clumps of thousands of eggs.

On the contrary as the English critic John Opie pointed out in 1809, the colourlessness of the Deluge was one of the main factors for the "pathetic solemnity, grandeur and simplicity of its effect".

In the original recording "the vocal colourlessness at which Beckett was aiming was achieved by placing a microphone right up against [the actress's] mouth and, as her voice was being recorded, both high and low frequencies were filtered out."

It is not even the studied colorlessness of the prosecutors.

From the lines and the colorlessness of his face I would guess that he was close to seventy.

But his voice had lost its wary colorlessness.

At a cursory glance, the scene appears lost in gloom and colorlessness.

Tori turned her head, stared out the window at the colorlessness at 35,000 feet.

There are not enough such moments; this tale tends too much to the colorlessness of dust and ashes.

If only he also played and staged it in a manner and tone beyond colorlessness.

The sky began to bleach out toward a gray-white newsprint colorlessness.

"It lets me avoid the colorlessness of winter.

Then too, it's Foundation colorlessness that probably keeps these people in their rainbows-just to emphasize their independence.

Mr. Pale closed his eyes smilingly over his colorlessness.

He had felt it before, sitting on the ledge of the mountain path, a sense of colorlessness, harshness, hostility.

He exhaled noisily, letting the congregation know that he was sorry to fail them with his colorlessness.

His very colorlessness inspired dread.

Her pale hair was twisted into complicated designs at the back of her head, her eyes glassy in their colorlessness.

But Mr. Medina was also hurt by his perceived colorlessness, failing to inspire enthusiasm among some members of his own party.

They celebrated that the desert's apparent emptiness, and colorlessness, its flatness and dryness, are in many senses a mirage.

The story delicately plays off American regional fiction, but instead of the usual local color we get a peculiar absence of place - a "local colorlessness."

The dress was light blue, and gave something to the rose of the coat, so she was a-shimmer with the delicate colors that her general colorlessness needed.

Beyond the pink ramparts, colorlessness and urban sprawl prevail - with encampments of heart-wrenching pavement dwellers in the area around the train station.

Ms. McArdle's colorlessness is but the central flaw in a wrongheaded production that ends an 11-day run after today's matinee.

The director, Andrei Belgrader, keeps his characters leaping and tumbling, sound judgment in view of the colorlessness of the love interests.

Mira fed the psych data into the painting that graced her wall, which assimilated it like a thimbleful of dye spread to colorlessness on an ocean.

Passing from purple twilight to fizzing blue-white neon, her skin was white to the point of colorlessness, her lips naturally scarlet, her hair pale blonde.

If any failing in the production is worth mentioning, it's a certain colorlessness, a lack of fleshed-out personality, in many of the performances, including Mr. Gero's.