Our post-modern culture has embraced the "grayness" of life. From Wordnik.com. [Statement of Faith] Reference
Pragmatists will continuously be bombarded by the 'grayness' of everything. From Wordnik.com. [Are we having Fund yet?] Reference
A kind of grayness moved through me, thick and heavy like the fog roiling overhead. From Wordnik.com. [Hoodwink]
Just wondering: does the "grayness" of a gray market camera pertain to the warranty coverage, or does gray refer to anything else?. From Wordnik.com. [News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)]
It is only the grayness which is always the same. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Illustrious Prince] Reference
"A different kind of grayness in the form of hunger began to stalk the land. From Wordnik.com. [Kingdoms of Light]
The wood and the thatching had the grayness of age. From Wordnik.com. [The Mammoth Hunters]
Something moved in the fog, a swirling in the grayness. From Wordnik.com. [The Dragon Reborn]
Jensen: Allowing the angel of grayness to win, as usual. From Wordnik.com. ['The Best' Quotes] Reference
It got really wearing to be in that grayness all the time. From Wordnik.com. [The Great San Francisco Poetry Wars, 4] Reference
Stetson stared at the grayness swimming in his desk visor. From Wordnik.com. [Operation Haystack] Reference
Andromache looked into her face and saw the grayness of exhaustion. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of the Silver Bow]
She pulled up a curtain and looked out upon the grayness of the street. From Wordnik.com. [The Tin Soldier] Reference
What was that terrible clangor which broke loose in the whiring grayness?. From Wordnik.com. [Hokas Pokas]
A mood of grayness and sullenness seemed to hang over this confrontation. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret and the Madwoman—Simenon, Georges - 100]
The grayness had spread far, but there was only the one marvelous flowering. From Wordnik.com. [A Fire Upon the Deep]
There was a grayness about his cheeks; fine, wire-like lines about his mouth. From Wordnik.com. [O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920] Reference
Such offers are unseemly in a man of your years and already apparent grayness. From Wordnik.com. [Green Valley] Reference
It was dark and the lights from the house picked up the grayness of the granite. From Wordnik.com. [Persuader]
Now far beyond the grayness, to the west, the cone of Fuji flashes into splendor. From Wordnik.com. [The Dragon Painter] Reference
Distant objects seemed blurred by the mist, taking on a somber, brooding grayness. From Wordnik.com. [The Talkative Tree] Reference
I rose in the grayness before dawn and went to help Valeria bathe and dress her hair. From Wordnik.com. [Hadrian's Wall.html]
The last star was fading into the grayness of the sky and already morning was at hand. From Wordnik.com. [The Motor Maids at Sunrise Camp] Reference
I sat back down on the step, leaned my head against the wall, and watched the grayness grow. From Wordnik.com. [To Say Nothing of the Dog]
It was as if the world ended suddenly, exhaled in grayness, just beyond the reach of my hand. From Wordnik.com. [Montlivet] Reference
Did storm threaten, a grayness brooded, a grayness quite capable of changing to ominous black. From Wordnik.com. [Janet of the Dunes] Reference
And the hole coming at me, couldn't throw out my hands to take the fall, grayness … blackness. From Wordnik.com. [Grave Surprise]
The grayness of the closely-packed houses was soon exchanged for the farms lying beneath the elms. From Wordnik.com. [In and out of Three Normady Inns] Reference
And Kerr's figure in the twilight seemed each time it moved to be on the point of vanishing into the grayness. From Wordnik.com. [The Coast of Chance] Reference
Once or twice he had thought of opium when he could not escape, even in dreams, from the grayness of his life. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878.] Reference
Then the sun went down, and grayness followed, and from the thicket came the sad cry of the Chuck Will's widow. From Wordnik.com. [Plantation Sketches] Reference
A red drapery, of a dull color, and a touch of brown-red here and there, warm the agreeable grayness of the rest of the canvas. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859] Reference
The candlestick loomed strangely forth from the still grayness; the bottle took form; the yellowed paper glimmered on the table. From Wordnik.com. [Diane of the Green Van] Reference
Being outside — and then Bob — had been a weird little vacation from reality, but now here was reality again in all its grayness. From Wordnik.com. [Unprecedented weirdness] Reference
The troubles pose a threat to men of flavorlessness and grayness and the loss of essential meanings, a threat of diminished humanity. From Wordnik.com. [The Nation's River A report on the Potomac from the U.S. Department of the Interior] Reference
A few moments before it had seemed a vital matter to find what creatures they were that whispered and rustled past me in the grayness. From Wordnik.com. [Montlivet] Reference
One brief glimpse of this mountain drama; then they sank out of sight, and the numbing grayness and darkness once more closed around us. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman Tenderfoot] Reference
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