How To Use Listlessness In A Sentence
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It struck him that the truly characteristic thing about modern life was not its cruelty and insecurity, but simply its bareness, its dinginess, its listlessness.
Nineteen Eighty-four
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Rather than titillate or horrify, MTV's Skins elicits a certain acedia -- a lingering spiritual listlessness or torpor that the ancients counted among the Seven Deadly Sins.
Cathleen Falsani: MTV's Skins: Suffer The Little Children
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But can't we have a little listlessness in our lives, some sloth, a dollop or two of drowsiness?
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There is a sort of listlessness -- or, perhaps, more properly, reverie -- in which many indulge, which is as sinful as it is unprofitable; and there are modes of thinking and subjects of thought, which are, to say the least, unworthy of a rational, intelligent and immortal spirit.
The Young Woman's Guide
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For example, schizophrenia often is characterized by a deficit syndrome that includes anhedonia, listlessness, and general impoverishment of thought, speech, and affect.
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Cally had stood listening with a kind of numbed listlessness, ready to go at the first opportunity, now that the real purpose of the interview was discharged.
V. V.'s Eyes
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Despite a mystifying listlessness of manner, so strange in a girl of fifteen, she charmed him.
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Doctors do not know how many relapsed into mental listlessness or took the extreme step.
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For listlessness and boredness and nothing-to-do-ness are the best of soils for the breeding of the worms that never stop gnawing.
Mary Marston
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Common population, especially for those with symptoms of bad appetite, pale face , listlessness and excretory difficulty.
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But her deflated bearing and tone is also a touch obvious - labored, you might say, in its listlessness.
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Possible reactions to immunisation against diphtheria and tetanus and pertussis include fever, vomiting, and listlessness.
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Possible reactions to immunisation against diphtheria and tetanus and pertussis include fever, vomiting, and listlessness.
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Will you understand, I wonder, the excitement that possessed me when, plunged deep in the listlessness of despair, I opened my writing-table drawer, and found a fair and splendid ten-franc piece that shone like a rising star, new and sparkling, and slily hiding in a cranny between two boards?
The Magic Skin
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Re-write men "helloed" indignantly into telephones, repeating with sudden listlessness the pregnant details of the news pouring in; and scribbling it down on sheets of paper ... "dead Grant park bullet unknown 26 yrs silk stockings refinement mystery.
Erik Dorn
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There was no looking at watches, no stifled yawning, no uneasy change of position, no watching the clock; strangers visiting the chapel listened, at first, from real interest, with a feeling that by-and-by they would relapse into their usual listlessness, but before they had time to _relapse_, behold the sermon was done.
The Old Stone House
