His nervelessness left him to be replaced by a mad and continual eagerness for action. From Wordnik.com. [Salammbo] Reference
I felt a nervelessness and inability to speak or move, which for the time wholly awed me. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844] Reference
He believes it to be mere nervelessness, indolence. From Wordnik.com. [The Cathedral] Reference
"Slow," he muttered, and a strange fit of nervelessness came over him. From Wordnik.com. [Under Western Eyes] Reference
Thought of the briefest of replies was a mountain of effort, and she moaned at her nervelessness in body and mind. From Wordnik.com. [Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Complete] Reference
Was the enthusiasm and rush of a large popular assembly necessary to overcome the interested opposition of the court and the weak nervelessness of the monarch?. From Wordnik.com. [The Eve of the French Revolution] Reference
Often imitated, never bettered, Antonin Panenka is probably the most famous penalty taker of all time thanks to a combination of innovation and sheer nervelessness. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
She looked back in imagination at that scene with him in London, amazed at her frenzy of power, and again, from that contemplation, amazed at her present nervelessness. From Wordnik.com. [Rhoda Fleming — Complete] Reference
But her gifts and attainments were not great enough to take her impersonations out of the rut of conventionality, nor to save her singing from the charge of nervelessness and monotony of color. From Wordnik.com. [Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time] Reference
Obama seems to suffer from an almost reflexive nervelessness: when presented with almost any foreign dignitary other than Queen Elizabeth, this president so reliably bows at the waist that he is starting to resemble one of those top-hatted drinking-bird toys. From Wordnik.com. [Redskins Insider Podcast -- The Washington Post] Reference
A strange languor beset her; scarcely melancholy, for she conceived the cheerfulness of life and added to it in company; but a nervelessness, as though she had been left by the stream on the banks, and saw beauty and pleasure sweep along and away, while the sun that primed them dried her veins. From Wordnik.com. [Diana of the Crossways — Complete] Reference
The abandonment of the inconsiderate scheme, initiated in obedience to a religious agitation and far too daring for a statesman of Lord Salisbury's nervelessness, having drawn Italy into such difficulties as the result of her obedience to his call, the least that Crispi could expect was that he would be supported by all the moral if not by the military power of England, whose influence in Abyssinia was very great. From Wordnik.com. [The Autobiography of a Journalist]
"ruled herself" to nervelessness, had nothing of the mother, the nurse in her make-up; there was no tenderness in what she did for him. From Wordnik.com. [Captivity] Reference
For instance; if I am surrounded by the enemy and only think of effecting an escape, the nervelessness of my policy will incite my adversary to pursue and crush me; it would be far better to encourage my men to deliver a bold counter-attack, and use the advantage thus gained to free myself from the enemy's toils. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Art of War] Reference
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