How To Use Deadness In A Sentence
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The adamant assertions that the plane that had been found was Oceanic 815, and that there are no survivors, is in fact disconfirmed, unless there is some sense in which being alive on the island is a form of "deadness".
Confirmed LOST
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Survivors frequently complain of chronic depression and an inner deadness, unable to experience lasting pleasure or excitement.
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Well, this here comes from those times which seem oh so very far away now and seemingly forever moving in the direction of awayness as we get yet another series of the embarssing unimaginative deadness that is Shooting Stars.
Vic Reeves & The Roman Numerals - Born Free (12")
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Compared to human mortality, spiritual deadness is much more devastating.
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His last thought before the sweet deadness of sleep overcame him was that he had to be rescued quickly or else not at all.
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Then her beautiful locks are submitted to the tonsure; and to signify her deadness forever to the world, she is clothed in a dress of coarse grey cloth, called serge, in which she is to pass the miserable remnant of her days.
Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal
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Psychic deadness, erasure of intersubjectivity, refusal of meaning-making, perversion of agency, and an inability to bear desire constitute the core features of the post-traumatic psychic landscape of torture.
Think Progress » Former Bush Speechwriter Attacks Reporter For Pointing Out Bush Techniques Were Used By Khmer Rouge
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It might be described as a deadness — or an absence of life; something that no face, upon an upright figure, should be.
Last Posed Photo of Jack London
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Well, the "deadness" of anything anthropomorphizable is up for grabs of course.
Recipe
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He had a great many other things to say; but this was what we were willing to hear: a reaction against the gross contempt for soldiering which had really given a certain Chinese deadness to the Victorians.
The Victorian Age in Literature
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in an instant all the deadness and withdrawal were wiped away
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Besides, that blindness, ignorance, darkness, deadness, which is everywhere ascribed to us in the state of nature, doth fully comprise that also whereof we speak.
Of Communion with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost
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You were called out of spiritual deadness and sinful darkness by mercy, through mercy, and for mercy.
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Sighing he looked around him at the deadness of the forest.
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I thought this terribly symptomatic of the deadness of his feelings, no doubt the result of too much shock treatment.
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Heaven for sending Jeanie safe down from the land of prelatic deadness and schismatic heresy; and had delivered her from the dangers of the way, and the lions that were in the path.
The Heart of Mid-Lothian
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I saw the deadness in kids' eyes become an amazing sparkle.
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Most people also describe an intense quietness, except for thunder that may accompany the ash fall, giving a "deadness" to the normal sounds of life.
What's it like during an ash fall?
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Rabbinic characters, committed portions of the Hebrew Old Testament to memory, &c.; and this I did with prayer, often falling on my knees, leaving my books for a little, that I might seek the Lord's blessing, and also, that I might be kept from that spiritual deadness, which is so frequently the result of much study.
A Narrative of Some of the Lord's Dealings with George Müller Written by Himself, First Part
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A man at first, perhaps, feels a kind of grudging and uneasiness all over his body, a deadness upon his stomach, and a drowsiness upon his senses, and he cannot well tell what he ails; but after a few days these uncertain beginnings come to rage in a burning fever, or to strike him with an apoplex; and then it appears what those symptoms foreboded and tended to all along; and the great question now is, not when or how soon the man shall recover and be well, but whether or no he shall live.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. IV.
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he objected to the deadness of the tennis balls
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That's to say, you look at inhabited faces, faces that have stopped being flesh in that negative sense in with which we began, the untenanted, the empty space where relation doesn't happen, the spark doesn't kindle, where there is a kind of deadness and a kind of isolation which makes us less than human.
Hildegard Lecture, Thirsk
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'I should have thought the deadness was a mild word for it, if it had been named to me when we brought you in.
Our Mutual Friend
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She has examined hundreds of war pictures in family photo albums where soldiers exulted in the ‘deadness’ of the enemy.
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He objected to the deadness of the tennis balls.
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To _promote separation from the world_ and deadness to it, and so to increase heavenly-mindedness in children of God; at the same time warning against fanatical extremes and extravagances, such as sinless perfection while in the flesh.
George Müller of Bristol And His Witness to a Prayer-Hearing God
