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Soullessly


Definition:

  • (adv.) In a soulless manner.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This looks like a soulless mass of concrete and glass that Soviet Russia made famous in their government buildings.
  • (2) The majority, however, are soulless, charmless glass boxes with no personality and, if not actively ugly, are not exactly beautiful either.
  • (3) "If you go there after dark, it is soulless," he said of the Westminster enclaves.
  • (4) If there was a fear before this Olympics began that it would be a corporatised, soulless event, the effort and enthusiasm of the volunteers have filled it with a likeably amateur and properly human warmth.
  • (5) Today it is pressed up against new office blocks in a rather soulless business district.
  • (6) The follow-up Glass Spider tour was castigated for its soulless over-production.
  • (7) The only entertainment within walking distance of E3 is LA Live – a sort of bar and restaurant theme park, an alcoholic Disneyland, which is precisely as soulless and desperate as it sounds.
  • (8) Despite the deaths of two brothers and his best friend, Amer said he felt content and liberated to have left behind the materialism and soullessness of a secular society.
  • (9) In his preening, know-it-all professional arrogance, Cruise thinks he's bulletproof, but the mouse roars, and the hitman pays (incidentally, when casting a soullessly efficient, emotionally unavailable professional, could there be a more perfect candidate than Cruise?).
  • (10) After Obama's re-election, Nugent said on Twitter: "Pimps whores & welfare brats & their soulless supporters have a president to destroy America."
  • (11) He was losing part-time jobs in call centres as fast as he could get them ("for wearing the wrong shoes, for telling the bosses they were soulless money-hungry pigs").
  • (12) Like journalism without grammar, the land without the family farm is meaningless, soulless, it goes to the core fabric of our nation,” he said.
  • (13) Comparisons between present-day China and the soulless, dreary totalitarian socialist state immortalised in Orwell's masterpiece are difficult to sustain after seeing clutch after clutch of Chinese teenagers, dressed in the latest quasi-Japanophile fashion, walk down a mobbed Beijing pedestrian shopping arcade nibbling at bouquets of candy floss and prattling on as if the phrase "commodity fetishism" had never crossed their young lips.
  • (14) This is an evil place, as airless and soulless as the inside of Pamela Geller’s head.
  • (15) Asked if Kilamba was somewhat soulless, he insisted: "It has character.
  • (16) It’s the unholy marriage of that soulless debate culture that works so well in Britain, transplanted to a nation with no social safety net and half a billion guns.
  • (17) The Baltimore city jail is a squalid, gray and soulless place.
  • (18) Now, he seems to be grudgingly continuing the impression , but his joy at the mocking the soullessness of the president-elect is clearly gone.
  • (19) Nehlen, like Trump, has railed against factory closures, promised to “repatriate” jobs to the US and branded Ryan a “soulless globalist”.
  • (20) The hospital is a sterile, soulless, modern unit and, visiting on a warm day, it’s a relief to escape to the garden outside.

Spirit


Definition:

  • (n.) Air set in motion by breathing; breath; hence, sometimes, life itself.
  • (n.) A rough breathing; an aspirate, as the letter h; also, a mark to denote aspiration; a breathing.
  • (n.) Life, or living substance, considered independently of corporeal existence; an intelligence conceived of apart from any physical organization or embodiment; vital essence, force, or energy, as distinct from matter.
  • (n.) The intelligent, immaterial and immortal part of man; the soul, in distinction from the body in which it resides; the agent or subject of vital and spiritual functions, whether spiritual or material.
  • (n.) Specifically, a disembodied soul; the human soul after it has left the body.
  • (n.) Any supernatural being, good or bad; an apparition; a specter; a ghost; also, sometimes, a sprite,; a fairy; an elf.
  • (n.) Energy, vivacity, ardor, enthusiasm, courage, etc.
  • (n.) One who is vivacious or lively; one who evinces great activity or peculiar characteristics of mind or temper; as, a ruling spirit; a schismatic spirit.
  • (n.) Temper or disposition of mind; mental condition or disposition; intellectual or moral state; -- often in the plural; as, to be cheerful, or in good spirits; to be downhearted, or in bad spirits.
  • (n.) Intent; real meaning; -- opposed to the letter, or to formal statement; also, characteristic quality, especially such as is derived from the individual genius or the personal character; as, the spirit of an enterprise, of a document, or the like.
  • (n.) Tenuous, volatile, airy, or vapory substance, possessed of active qualities.
  • (n.) Any liquid produced by distillation; especially, alcohol, the spirits, or spirit, of wine (it having been first distilled from wine): -- often in the plural.
  • (n.) Rum, whisky, brandy, gin, and other distilled liquors having much alcohol, in distinction from wine and malt liquors.
  • (n.) A solution in alcohol of a volatile principle. Cf. Tincture.
  • (n.) Any one of the four substances, sulphur, sal ammoniac, quicksilver, or arsenic (or, according to some, orpiment).
  • (n.) Stannic chloride. See under Stannic.
  • (v. t.) To animate with vigor; to excite; to encourage; to inspirit; as, civil dissensions often spirit the ambition of private men; -- sometimes followed by up.
  • (v. t.) To convey rapidly and secretly, or mysteriously, as if by the agency of a spirit; to kidnap; -- often with away, or off.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Sheez, I thought, is that what the revolutionary spirit of 1789 and 1968 has come to?
  • (2) The spirit is great here, the players work very hard, we kept the belief when we were in third place and now we are here.
  • (3) Eight of the UK's biggest supermarkets have signed up to a set of principles following concerns that they were "failing to operate within the spirit of the law" over special offers and promotions for food and drink, the Office of Fair Trading has said.
  • (4) Olympic games are a competition between countries, but here spectators can freely choose which star to cheer for and unite as one,” said Inoki, a lawmaker in Japan’s upper house who was known as “Burning Fighting Spirit” in the ring.
  • (5) "I wanted it to have a romantic feel," says Wilson, "recalling Donald Campbell and his Bluebird machines and that spirit of awe-inspiring adventure."
  • (6) I would like to add the spirit within the dressing room, it is much better now.
  • (7) United have a fantastic spirit, we don't have the same spirit.
  • (8) Following exposure to white spirit vapour, the effect of the expired solvent on evidential breath alcohol equipment was investigated under controlled exposure chamber conditions and in a simulated painting exercise.
  • (9) Meeting the families shows how well-adjusted they are, their spirit and determination and the way they have acted is an absolute credit to themselves."
  • (10) Gin was popularised in the UK via British troops who were given the spirit as “Dutch courage” during the 30 years’ war.
  • (11) The main cause of oesophageal cancer in western countries is consumption of alcoholic beverages, the degree of risk being much greater for certain spirits than for wine or beer.
  • (12) Per adult (greater than or equal to 15 years) consumption of beer, wine, spirits and absolute alcohol for a 14-year period (1971--1984) was related to female breast cancer morbidity rates in Western Australia.
  • (13) At the front of the march was Lee Cheuk-yan, a former lawmaker of 20 years, carrying a banner calling for Liu’s spirit to inspire people.
  • (14) The country goes to the polls on Thursday in what observers see as its most spirited presidential race.
  • (15) People like Hugo forgot how truly miserable Paris had been for ordinary Parisians.” Out of a job and persona non grata in Paris, Haussmann spent six months in Italy to lift his spirits.
  • (16) This suggests that a surgical scrub should be used more widely in clinical practice, and that a spirit-based hand lotion might with advantage become a partial substitute for handwashing, particularly in areas where handwashing is frequent and iatrogenic coagulase-negative staphylococcal infection common.
  • (17) Horrocks plans to summon the spirit of Margaret Thatcher to make his case: “The [1970] Conservative government came in with a manifesto commitment to kill the Open University, to kill Harold Wilson’s brainchild at birth.
  • (18) And yet, the spirit of '68 endures, perhaps mythical, perhaps as a lingering sense of the possibilities that mass activism once had.
  • (19) In our time of rapidly changing life styles it is useful to understand that voices also mirror the spirit of an era.
  • (20) An increasing incidence of methylated spirit burns in barbecue users is documented in a three year retrospective survey.

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