spiritlessness

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In the Museum of the Capitol, there is one bust of an empress in which it is easy to fancy that one sees typified the spiritlessness of the life of the woman of the period.

From Roman Women by Brittain, Alfred

There was a spiritlessness in this man that surprised me.

From The Honour of the Flag by Russell, W. Clark (William Clark)

Munificence is the mean between pettiness and vulgar profusion, good temper between spiritlessness and irascibility, politeness between rudeness and obsequiousness, modesty between shamelessness and bashfulness, temperance between insensibility and intemperance.

From A Critical History of Greek Philosophy by Stace, W. T. (Walter Terence)

The fire had died out of her eyes, and still there lurked something weird in the very spiritlessness, and dull and vacant sadness of her gaze.

From The Honour of the Flag by Russell, W. Clark (William Clark)

The "note" is still more evident in the "London Bootblack" and the "London Flower-girl," in which the outcast "East End" spiritlessness of the British capital is caught and fixed with a Zola-like veracity and vigor.

From French Art Classic and Contemporary Painting and Sculpture by Brownell, W. C. (William Crary)