Word: characterless
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...yearning to breathe more rarefied air. His apartment is done up in white-on-white style--chic photos on the wall, excellent Scotch on the coffee table, which is, of course, artily shot from the floor, looking up through the glass. This is, we think, a provisional environment, blank, characterless, impersonal. What he really wants is something darker, more traditional...
...some when the morning sun catches those check-in desks. But it's also like so many international airports nowadays: somewhat soulless and homogenized. You could be in Schipol or Singapore. One reason Kai Tak is still held in such great affection is precisely because today's airports are characterless monoliths?vast, out-of-town hyper-malls with a few planes around...
Women don't mind if a model is thin and beautiful, but if she's dumb or characterless, they're turned off. Not surprising, says Quinlan, because what women really want is something quite basic: respect. --By Janice M. Horowitz
...especially on Saturday morning, when a good amount of it is strewn about the house awaiting the weekly muster, and missing this opportunity to prepare my things for redeployment presents an unwelcome wrinkle in my routine. But here I am, preparing to spend the weekend in this resolutely characterless establishment, and wondering what the heck I'm doing here...
Musically speaking, Fantasia 2000 is a dumbed-down dud. The performances, mostly by James Levine and the Chicago Symphony, are competent but characterless. The selections are all abridged in one way or another, and some are mangled virtually beyond recognition. The first movement of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, which normally takes between seven and eight minutes, here is over in less than three. The sole exception is the uncut version of The Sorcerer's Apprentice extracted from the original Fantasia, in which Leopold Stokowski hypnotized an anonymous band of Hollywood studio musicians into sounding just like the Philadelphia Orchestra...