Word: airlessly
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...looked at me skeptically. "Giving someone tickets to an Alan Alda movie is not the moral equivalent of giving them a vacation in the Florida sun. It's more like giving them a vacation in a dank and airless...
...this record had begun as live riffs, spontaneous bits of popish nonsense in the best Squeeze tradition, they might have gone somewhere. Rather, the Fab-Four-that-almost-was (they're actually five now) worked very hard on pulling off a masterpiece in the sterile confines of an airless studio. The result doesn't snap, it rarely crackles, and it never pops...
That evening, hundreds of anxious parents gathered in the school's airless auditorium. They chanted, "Two, four, six, eight, no AIDS in any grades!" and waved placards proclaiming OUR CHILDREN WANT GOOD GRADES, NOT AIDS! Local politicians stirred the pot. "This is not meant to scare you," City Councilman Joseph Lisa of Queens began, "but leading medical researchers throughout the world truly believe that this epidemic may well be the most serious epidemic in recorded medical history." Chimed in State Assemblyman Frederick Schmidt: "There is no medical authority who can say with authority that AIDS cannot be transmitted in school...
...tubes terminate inside an airless 16-ft.-wide aluminum chamber, each entering it from a different direction. Inside, the focusing lenses are arrayed around a pellet of deuterium and tritium, two heavier varieties of hydrogen atoms. Scientists hope that when the beams simultaneously hit the pellet, which is smaller than a grain of sand, the temperature of the pellet's outer surface will be raised to 100 million degrees, causing it to vaporize explosively. Just as a rocket is pushed forward by its tail exhaust, the vaporizing surface would exert a force inward, compressing the pellet to a density...
...requires a perceived harmony or integrity both within the object and between the object and ourselves. The form and function of a glum, glass office building may be adequate to the financial needs of the Glum & Glass Corp., but the structure offends and dispirits the employees, who work in airless boxes, as well as those outside the building who are forced to see the thing. "Has there ever been another place on earth where so many people of wealth and power have paid for and put up with so much architecture they detested?" asked Tom Wolfe in his contentious book...