Adjective : Pure water is colorless. ,a colorless complexion. ,a colorless description of the parade. From Dictionary.com.
Another advantage of the white is its colorlessness. From Wordnik.com. [Handwork in Wood] Reference
The opposite of color is not colorlessness, it's beige. From Wordnik.com. [Pick-a-Pocket, Any Pocket - A Dress A Day] Reference
Their yellowness faded into cream and then into colorlessness. From Wordnik.com. [Fantastic Voyage]
Consider the vexing question of charm, and the colorlessness of life without it. From Wordnik.com. [Moral Fiction] Reference
For a moment, it rendered me sightless until something emerged from the colorlessness. From Wordnik.com. [Energy Eater, from King David] Reference
Giorgione's pictures, -- of that soft and mellow colorlessness that recalls the poet's line. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860] Reference
She was a drab woman, with a colorlessness of face that seemed to match the colorlessness of her clothing. From Wordnik.com. [But, I Don't Think] Reference
At intermission, I overheard a listener complain about an emotional colorlessness despite the piece's exciting surface. From Wordnik.com. [Allan M. Jalon: Arts Lust: Jonathan Biss Beats the CRIS] Reference
Kurkdjian's sumptuous touch shows through the apparent purity of the fragrance, which makes its transparency warm and its colorlessness interesting. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-05-01] Reference
But Ivan noted the color of his hair -- that dead white that is not the snow of years but the ashen colorlessness borne of continuous nervous strain. From Wordnik.com. [The Genius] Reference
Both types of oil were known for their light-reflecting properties, drying capabilities, and easy availability, and each could be purified to colorlessness. From Wordnik.com. [The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe] Reference
Coming down from her rooms, he heard her crying behind her shut door; but in the strange colorlessness of the world, he saw no reason to go back to comfort her. From Wordnik.com. [The Silent Tower]
Across the road from the embankment electric lights shone on melons and other fruit in stalls: a refreshing night scene, after the glare and colorlessness of the day. From Wordnik.com. [Among the Believers] Reference
She did catch a final glimpse of him ducking into the jungle, the colorlessness of his clothes reflecting his regret at leaving her more than the most polished phrase. From Wordnik.com. [The Coelura]
The silence and colorlessness of the heart of the forest; and the color, vivacity, light, and movement in the openings, and among the tree-tops, contrast most curiously. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Chersonese and the way thither] Reference
I have visions of turning into a spectral gray, a mass of colorlessness, a vanguard of lost youth, haunted and hovering over the living with warnings of doing all that you can now. From Wordnik.com. [Countdown] Reference
They identified water by observable characteristics like colorlessness and odorlessness, but also assumed that there was a microstructure which explains these observable properties. From Wordnik.com. [Narrow Mental Content] Reference
Something about being ill on the cusp of spring… By March I have already had more brown and gray than I can stand, but fever and congestion bring a whole new dimension to the colorlessness I already feel. From Wordnik.com. [Polka Dot Cottage » Delusions of Springtime (and a winner!) » Print] Reference
I like the unripe, slightly salty melon of Vanille Galante, the cold lily note, the almost non-existence of vanilla, the pure, calm water in which the ingredients serenely flow, the pastel colorlessness of it all. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-04-01] Reference
I have a dream that one day the state of Iowa will be transformed into a situation where little boys and girls of color will be able to join hands with little boys and girls of colorlessness and walk together as sisters and brothers. From Wordnik.com. [One of our commenters sends iPhone photos from an Iowa caucus.] Reference
She was clothed in velvet, which gave to her cheek and brow the colorlessness of marble. From Wordnik.com. [The Bronze Hand 1897] Reference
The result was a colorlessness of manner which did great injustice to the gentle and delicate soul behind. From Wordnik.com. [Idolatry A Romance] Reference
She looked very beautiful in her unconfined gown, the red tone heightening the creamy colorlessness of her face. From Wordnik.com. [Other Things Being Equal] Reference
Her gaze did not wander, but before his wondering eyes she seemed to fade, fade toward colorlessness insignificance. From Wordnik.com. [The Grain of Dust] Reference
It is the vapid colorlessness, the dull inactivity, the total lack of imagination among men whose power is unlimited. From Wordnik.com. [Editorials from the Hearst Newspapers] Reference
At the breakfast-table Mr. Clifton noticed the colorlessness of his pupil's face, but kindly abstained from any allusion to it. From Wordnik.com. [Macaria; or, Altars of Sacrifice] Reference
Everyone seek oneness, by drawing out readers attention, you will be different than the other colorlessness articles on the web. From Wordnik.com. [Make Money Online With GatherSuccess.com] Reference
Save the scarlet lines which marked her lips, her face was of that clear colorlessness which can be likened only to the purest ivory. From Wordnik.com. [Macaria; or, Altars of Sacrifice] Reference
The clear colorlessness of her face had taken on a transparency and delicacy which did not lessen its beauty, but added to it an unearthly grace. From Wordnik.com. [Cobwebs and Cables] Reference
Yet except when he's with Ms. Finneran (more on whom later), who plays a crazy barfly, his emotions often seem pale to the point of colorlessness. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page]
Although he had labored since dawn, there was no drooping of the muscular frame, no symptom of fatigue, save in the absolute colorlessness of his face. From Wordnik.com. [Macaria; or, Altars of Sacrifice] Reference
The idea of the first page of this barcarolle is one of utter quietness, colorlessness; one is alone on the water; the evening is quiet and still; not a sound breaks the hushed silence. From Wordnik.com. [Piano Mastery Talks with Master Pianists and Teachers] Reference
It was indeed Mr. Fletcher who entered and introduced himself, -- a gentle reserved man, with something of that colorlessness of premature age in his speech which was observable in his hair. From Wordnik.com. [A First Family of Tasajara] Reference
As she spoke her face had the colorlessness and the immobility he had seen in it during the first moments it was turned toward him in the morning, and her features suddenly looked old and drawn. From Wordnik.com. [Many Kingdoms] Reference
With Ida Blair, who had sunk back against years the colorlessness of cold dish water, herself more colorless, it was as if she had fired her one and only shot and run retreating behind the explosion. From Wordnik.com. [Star-Dust] Reference
The rare blue cord on her brow told how fiercely the lava-flood surged under its icy bands, and the blanched lip matched her cheek in colorlessness; save these tokens of anguish, no other was visible. From Wordnik.com. [Macaria; or, Altars of Sacrifice] Reference
In the electric-lighted shed the lady might have been seen to smile at the brevity and colorlessness of this exchange, or possibly at the haste with which Amzi was crossing the platform to the hack-stand. From Wordnik.com. [Otherwise Phyllis] Reference
The young man stood tall and still -- a statue of golden youth in the golden light -- the woman clutching at his arm, her face twisted, her eyes afire, all the colorlessness of her body and the suppressed flame of her spirit pitilessly apparent. From Wordnik.com. [Snow-Blind] Reference
But his voice had lost its wary colorlessness. From Wordnik.com. [Music To My Sorrow]
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