Word: colorlessness
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...colorless the prayer he said...
...languid walk from door to table the lustre-lacking eye, the half-closed mouth, the colorless cheek, the indifferent greeting with a sideward duck of the head, are undoubtedly considered the accurate external indications of a mind and body which have probed life's complexity, a mind which has said : "Vanitas vanitatum, omnia vanitas;" a body which has answered : "Very true, it is 'the thing' to live and move and have our being, however, we must put up with...
...Colorless, scentless, faded, melancholy...
...picture of good nature and repose which is depicted in the sleek countenance of a well-bred cow. But come, we must catch this sunset from the top of the hill. Nothing to equal this in Italy, eh? Atmosphere there is too thin, and the sky too colorless. Just look at the reflection in the pond below you. You get the effect of infinite space below as well as above, - one sea of gold imperceptibly yet rapidly shifting into all the colors of the spectroscope. What wonderful massing of clouds, too! - Swiss mountains and glaciers with light and shadow perfect...