Word: colorless
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...Delacroix, this antiquity involved color, as for Ingres -- his opposite -- it did not. David and Ingres had given France a colorless antiquity, an abstracted classicism of white marble. What Delacroix got from the arts of Morocco -- woven and dyed fabrics, leather, tiles and pots -- was a sense of extraordinarily vibrant and free color, "barbaric" in French eyes but wholly natural (or so he now realized...
...assassination of Luis Donaldo Colosio, the presidential candidate of the Institutional Revolutionary Party and Salinas' hand-picked successor. As a replacement, Salinas pressed the party's Old Guard to choose his Education Minister and Colosio's campaign manager, Zedillo, a Yale-educated technocrat. As a campaigner, Zedillo was so colorless that at one rally his wife had to nudge him to throw his arms into the air and shout "Viva Mexico!" at the appropriate moment. But he was committed to the Salinas reforms. Then in September came another blow: the killing of Zedillo's main political adviser, Jose Francisco Ruiz...
...former Defense Secretary and a respected leader in the House, Cheney positions himself as a conservative concerned about America's place in the world. But he has a history of heart trouble, and what may be more harmful to him as a candidate, a personal manner so colorless he can make Al Gore seem like Robin Williams...
...been tainted by scandal and are distinguished across the land only by the weight loss of their skipper. (Their apparent recipe for success: delicious shakes for breakfast and lunch and a sensible meal for dinner.) The Angels bought two division titles in the 1980s but now flounder, dull and colorless...
...though process of a specific individual .Irene is seen only from the outside, through the eyes of her husband and Sophie, while Sophie herself, who, almost pressed into the position of indentured servant, should be the most sympathetic character, seems so devoid of human emotion that she is as colorless in personality as in visual depiction. The audience perceives the principal characters as they perceive each other, solely through sight and sound...