deathliness

Literally: We will accompany each other into deathliness, though only one may return to report it.

He'd hunted around Burnt End before, and the deathliness around the blackened wood could be unnerving even at the best of times.

He adjusted his mask, checked the deathliness of his appearance in the mirror, and peered at the script in the empty backstage gloom.

His touch woke her at once, and she reacted to his hungry need for contact, folding herself against him, warm, sensual, alive against his cold deathliness.

Opposing the pretentiousness of science, the deathliness of knowledge systems, Mirbeau invokes the vitality of an art of exploration and creative conjecture.

"First Kiss" is a 20-by-24-inch Polaroid that surrounds the same image by Bellocq with orchids, highlighting both the innocence and deathliness of the girl Bellocq photographed.

Gary Schneider's "Genetic Self-Portrait," with its greatly magnified black-and-white images of such details as a strand of the artist's hair or his DNA have a strange deathliness considering their extreme focus on life.