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listlessness
1. ‘It’s gone,’ said Scott, staring at the little screen, feeling a sudden wave of listlessness
2. Rapidly, it didn’t take more than a week, she sank into a state of listlessness, rising late, going to bed early, sleeping long hours
3. There was a washed-out listlessness in the patient’s deportment and skin color, and his breathing was shallow
4. sickness and listlessness is the result
5. I am perpetually hungry; and it is the unpleasant hunger that expresses itself in a dislike for food, in listlessness, inability to work, flabbiness, even faintness
6. "I wonder," she said, with sudden listlessness "why I say all this to you?"
7. youth, in the listlessness of going off sleep, replaced his shirt and the bed
8. Often in prison Faria had said to him, when he saw him idle and inactive, "Dantes, you must not give way to this listlessness; you will be drowned if you seek to escape, and your strength has not been properly exercised and prepared for exertion
9. There was a listlessness in his gait; as if he saw no reason for taking one step farther, nor felt any desire to do so, but would have been glad, could he be glad of anything, to fling himself down at the root of the nearest tree, and lie there passive, forevermore
10. One day, however, when he had been conning one of his music-scores, and by force of imagination was hearing the tune in his head, he lapsed into listlessness, and the music-sheet rolled to the hearth
11. Casaubon to the Vatican, walked with him through the stony avenue of inscriptions, and when she parted with him at the entrance to the Library, went on through the Museum out of mere listlessness as to what was around her
12. It was the dull listlessness which follows despair and precedes the death agony
13. haughty listlessness on a sofa, and prepared to beguile, by the spell of fiction, the tedious hours of absence
14. Noah could do all that was required of him, could read and write, could work and figure, but he didn’t seem to care; there was a listlessness in him toward things people wanted and needed
15. " Perhaps they were; or perhaps there might have been shoals of them in the far horizon; but lulled into such an opium-like listlessness of vacant, unconscious reverie is this absent-minded youth by the blending cadence of waves with thoughts, that at last he loses his identity; takes the mystic ocean at his feet for the visible image of that deep, blue, bottomless soul, pervading mankind and nature; and every strange, half-seen, gliding, beautiful thing that eludes him; every dimly-discovered, uprising fin of some undiscernible form, seems to him the embodiment of those elusive thoughts that only people the soul by continually flitting through it
16. "You're partly right there and partly not," Stavrogin answered with the same indifference, almost listlessness