I fancy that, if the truth were told, I loved in that first flash of view the lady who smiled out at me from the lifelessness of ink and paper.
Then, in the dream, she would come out of the picture, as Galatea stepped down from the lifelessness of granite into rosy and animated warmth.
In this silence and lifelessness Jan Thoreau felt a new and ever- increasing happiness.
The exodus left desolate lifelessness at the post.
Naturally the attendance had fallen to a fraction, and utter lifelessness prevailed.
The last professor was a striking illustration of what the essential dulness and lifelessness of Moderatism could produce when matured and crowned by old age and infirmity.
Now lifeless faith is common to all members of the Church, because its lifelessness is not part of its substance, if we consider it as a gratuitous gift.
Now the lifelessness of faith is not essential to the species of faith, since faith is said to be lifeless through lack of an extrinsic form, as stated above (Q.
Now lifelessness is not essential to faith, but is accidental thereto as stated above.
This servility, however, does not belong to the species of servile fear, even as neither does lifelessness to the species of lifeless faith.
Its colossal dimensions, though familiar in the great mosaics, were hitherto unknown in painting; and not less astonishing appeared the deviation, though slight, from ugliness and lifelessness into grace and nature.
