airless

• “We’ve turned revelation into drudgery, shut ourselves in airless rooms, and covered over the windows.”

  I Killed Literature « Gerry Canavan

• “There are also some interesting and original new maps, such as airless moons and other planetary environments.”

  Wertzone Classics: Ground Control

• “In his much-discussed Introduction to Best American Short Stories 2007, Stephen King complained about reading lots of stories that felt "airless".”

  Archive 2008-02-01

• “The plastic chairs lining the perimeter of the musty, airless room eventually fill as twenty-two girls and their two facilitators, one of whom is Elena Martínez, the parish receptionist, wander in.”

  Simon & Schuster: American Grace

• “After this dull, airless misfire, which is a failure on almost every level, it's no wonder that Craven again journeyed back into the Weinstein pit see or don't: Cursed for Scream 4.”

  The Huffington Post: Scott Mendelson: 2010 in Review: The 'Worst' Films of the Year

• “Only later did I learn that both Borgonie and Derek Litthauer, a rugged and experienced professor and mine diver from Bloemfontein, have on occasion been evacuated from an especially hot or airless tunnel and sent back to the surface.”

  The Washington Post: Space Odyssey: Scientists go to the extremes of the earth to divine the secrets of extraterrestrial life.

• “So painfully over-written, airless and devoid of any shred of human emotion it makes me long for the old-time charms of 30 Seconds to Mars.”

  The Guardian: This week's new singles

• “Right through the summer, Jeremy would stand at the top of a tall wooden ladder in those boxy, airless rooms in the Leeper building, wearing, I recall, comparatively tight-fitting shorts, while I did my best to read off the shelf lists (meaning drawers densely laden with cards), performing this function from as advantageously configured a vantage point below.”

  The Earth Goddess

• “And to me, a plot that's "airtight," his preferred sort, makes a fiction airless - little more than an argument, as you suggest, and, worse, an argument of the sort in an advice column, or a politician's speech.”

  Thinking

• “We spend most of our time in an airless booth arguing with each other," said Mr. Abumrad, 37, who seemed in awe that several hundred people would stay seated for two hours.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Friendship Via the Radio

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