Colourless

Some are more markedly different than others, but we have all seen a so-called colourless woman transformed into surprising loveliness when dressed by an artist's instinct. ❋ Emily Burbank (N/A)

Lastly, there is this value about the colour that men call colourless; that it suggests in some way the mixed and troubled average of existence, especially in its quality of strife and expectation and promise. ❋ Unknown (1905)

Lastly, there is this value about the colour that men call colourless: that it suggests in some way the mixed and troubled average of existence, especially in its quality of strife and expectation and promise. ❋ Harold Begbie (1900)

True faith is what may be called colourless, like air or water; it is but the medium through which the soul sees Christ, and the soul as little rests on it and contemplates it, as the eye can see the air. ❋ Unknown (1861)

Perhaps the most adequate way of putting the situation would be to image the objective mystery as a kind of colourless screen across which a coloured picture is slowly moved. ❋ John Cowper Powys (1917)

Now, among the heresies that are spoken in this matter is the habit of calling a grey day a "colourless" day. ❋ Unknown (1905)

Khush Kumar, 38, was cheered as he suggested a whip-round to send Griffin and his supporters to the "colourless" South Pole. ❋ Unknown (2009)

People used to call colourless zircons Matara diamonds, after a town there.” ❋ Gash, Jonathan (1991)

If you're used to mainstream pop radio – the colourless drone of an old CITV presenter back-announcing Natasha Bedingfield – then listening to Rinse can be a shock. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Normal, formal, and colourless, she was what was to be expected of a loveless marriage. ❋ Unknown (2010)

And even though there is something colourless and neutral about the script, so that no lines leap out at you, and characters rarely distinguish themselves in their self-expression, nevertheless it's obviously credible, polished writing, just to show the actors to such an advantage. ❋ Unknown (2011)

And we began taking it to them, so I ascended the familiar, grotty steps of the colourless stairwells. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Wet as was their hair, it was plainly a colourless, sandy hair. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In fairness, after Wednesday night's enthralling Arsenal–Barcelona match, all the other football on TV last week seemed a little colourless. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The two very colourless people in a colurful time of US history. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Came right up to me, touched my colourless hair and ran his fat little fingers over the wrinkles on my face. ❋ Unknown (2009)

If your character is in a bad mood, they will see things that reflect that mood as they are walking down the street – the overflowing and reeking rubbish bins, the snarling dogs, the overpriced products on display within the shops, the miserable rain or biting wind, the colourless visage of the buildings. ❋ Unknown (2009)

That said, I did see a rectangular bulge in his jacket pocket, which may have a bar of no-nonsense colourless carbolic soap.2.30pm: "John 'Goals' Baird will be staying at Raith Rovers according to one of his latest tweets @Bairdy22 - Not moving anywhere people.," writes Danny Marsh. ❋ Unknown (2012)

In the end, Ferguson's greatest regret may be that the two sides with which he won the European Cup, first in Barcelona in 1999 and then in Moscow in 2008, did so with colourless, tactically incoherent performances notable only for the refusal of his players to be beaten. ❋ Richard Williams (2010)

Most of the Men of the Third Age were ‘virtuous pagans’; those of Númenorean descent, and their subjects, were strict monotheists of a rather colourless and non-sacerdotal type, having neither temples nor priests, but showing their worship of Eru chiefly by resisting Sauron with all their might. ❋ Superversive (2010)

[The football] [match] was a colourless rainbow. ❋ Uttam Maharjan (2010)