Adjective : arid land; an arid climate. ,arid farmland. ,an arid treatment of an exciting topic.    From Dictionary.com. 

During the first dream the dragons had spoken of Krynn's aridness and of Tarris's hidden ability to save people by finding liquid with a stick.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dragons of Chaos]

The combination of aridness related to the altitude and the long dry season and severe air pollution cause irritation of the mucous membranes of the respiratory tract.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mexico - travelers's summary profile] Reference

Her own inward burning offset the heat of air and earth; a sense of the aridness her heart would know without Van's love once more returned, was counter to the aridness of all these barren rocks.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Furnace of Gold] Reference

And yet, the conversations that have arisen along the campaign trail have been uniquely fundamental to our democracy -- reaching beyond the usual aridness of politics and policies to issues that many Americans carry in their hearts every day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bruce Kluger: The Hand that Casts the Ballot] Reference

Much of what some people dislike about Rawls-- the aridness, the detachment from history and psychology, the characteristic Americanness of his uninterest in plumbing the depths of the soul-- is precisely what made his work a success in the way that it was.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jacob T. Levy] Reference

Had it been possible for her to love again, she would have felt the change in her nature far less; but with the stream, the fountain also had dried, and she was conscious that an aridness, unpleasant and unnatural, threatened to desolate her soul, and her conflict with this had been the hardest battle of all.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 37, November, 1860] Reference

But they had narrative problems and an unfulfilling emotional aridness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kansas City Star: Front Page] Reference

Wooded hillsides and mist make a lovely change after the aridness of the plateau.    From Wordnik.com.  [TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com] Reference

But I felt a great aridness within me, and the sources of grace seemed closed against me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clarimonde] Reference

The aridness and infertility characteristic of the soil combine with the detritus of fashion and the follies of the four quarters of the globe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Youth and Egolatry] Reference

In lower levels of the organization, MIM found military rigidity and aridness, and an inability to connect line and strategy, an inability to reason concretely.    From Wordnik.com.  [slackbastard] Reference

But the gallant fellow, with the sturdy common-sense for which the British soldier is renowned, contrasted the clover in which he was living here with the aridness of Flowery End, and declined to budge.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Red Planet] Reference

He knew his weakness in this direction, and now he gladly welcomed the coming of grief, for indeed he had felt not a little shocked at the aridness of his heart, and frightened lest his eyes should remain dry even to the end.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Mere Accident] Reference

Common as is the machine, it is not unworthy a place in this splendid composition, as being, after the sinking of wells, the earliest of those inventions, which in situations of exterior aridness gave ready accession to water.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evolution, Old & New Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin] Reference

A few thorny bushes pushed their straggling way through the dry soil, ineffectively as far as the grace of the landscape was concerned, for they merely served to emphasise the barren aridness of the land that stretched before the tents, sloping gradually to the distant hills.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories by English Authors: The Orient (Selected by Scribners)] Reference

Just like aridness years we should dedicated a prayer for stupidity in the Muslim world instead of chopping our heads with the over repeated speech while almost yelling at us! we should be praying that we will not encounter such stupidity next year or the purpose of our existence is nil.    From Wordnik.com.  [Qwaider Planet] Reference

The mode of life appears to be determined or greatly influenced by climate, though different climatic situations sometimes lead to similar results: agriculture naturally arises from fertility of soil, but the Pueblo tribes have been driven (perhaps under civilized influences), by the aridness of their land, to till the soil.    From Wordnik.com.  [Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV] Reference

Later a large scale aridness was also mentioned.    From Wordnik.com.  [D'Arrigo: Making Cherry Pie « Climate Audit] Reference

It is aridness compared to talented invention.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tapestry Book] Reference