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Definition of Colorlessly
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Colorlessly
Literary usage of Colorlessly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings by National Speech Arts Association (1893)
"And yet, how colorlessly the most solemn and thrilling passages are presented !
How nearly destitute of meaning! How drearily monotonous the rendering '. ..."
2. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1896)
"He lacks simplicity of idea, and his style is an opal which takes all lights and
hues, rather than the crystal which lets the daylight colorlessly through. ..."
3. The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine (1903)
"... and saw her life, devoid of career, reaching endlessly and colorlessly out
before her. Then came the end! The professor towered over her like a madman. ..."
4. Tragedy by Ashley Horace Thorndike (1908)
"... a revision of his early "Elfrid," is colorlessly conventional; "The Roman
Revenge" (1753) is an alteration of "Julius Caesar"; "The Insolvent" (1758) is ..."
5. Tragedy by Ashley Horace Thorndike (1908)
"... a revision of his early "Elfrid," is colorlessly conventional; "The Roman
Revenge" (1753) is an alteration of "Julius Caesar"; "The Insolvent" (1758) is ..."
6. Instigations of Ezra Pound: Together with an Essay on the Chinese Written by Ezra Pound, Ernest Francisco Fenollosa (1920)
"They are a constant source of weakness if colorlessly translated. Take, for
example, the five forms of “I.” There is the sign of a “spear in the hand” = a ..."
7. Lincoln the Lawyer by Frederick Trevor Hill (1913)
"His father was an ignorant man, amiable enough, but colorlessly negative, without
strength of character, and with no ambition worthy of the name. ..."
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