limpness

• “And I don't think his overall limpness is just a case of his getting carried away playing his character's subtext.”

  Finding Amanda, losing Matthew Broderick

• “How shall I spread-eagle myself under a boy, who will emit long before I can go off and forestall me in limpness of penis and clitoris; and leave a man who, when he taketh breath clippeth close and when he entereth goeth leisurely, and when he hath done, repeateth, and when he pusheth poketh hard, and as often as he withdraweth, returneth?’”

  The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

• “While one part of her brain was absorbing the significance of that kind of limpness, Jane remembered that Henry Slocum had spent the morning displaying his new tweed overcoat to her mother.”

  The Criminal C.O.D

• “It was raining steadily, and the atmosphere had that singular feeling of total relaxation and limpness which is only to be felt in the rain-ridden districts of Central Africa.”

  With Edged Tools

• “Empathy is a perfect word for them because it can be said with an implied flounce and limpness of wrist.”

  No empathy for empathy

• “Something cracked and echoed in the middle of Ernie's skull, an internal sound that preceded a deep limpness.”

  Fictionaut: Summer Hits

• “The warning signs triggering an exception report include struggling to breathe, nausea, vomiting, limpness and abnormal redness to the face.”

  The Guardian: Extent of injuries to children in private jails revealed

• “Like so many ghosts haunting our inner most lives, we can't see them clearly and out limpid limpness forbids even a passing glance.”

  Fictionaut: A Mess

• “The point he makes about the limpness and aimlessness of what is supposed to be a tough and constructive process deserves attention.”

  The Washington Post: Savvy blogger suffers real-life school reform

• “Those flickering eyes with the lack of focus, the blood dripping from the corner of his mouth and absolute limpness of his body was brutal to watch in the best of senses.”

  Supernatural: Hammer of the Gods - Pink Raygun.com

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