And behind the portrait of individual desperation lurks a wider point about a society, six months after Mrs Thatcher's elevation to power, that has nothing much to offer but a savourless materialism. ❋ Unknown (2011)
He has nothing left of man but a physical need for bedtime and a double nightcap; and even his pipe, if he be a smoker, will be savourless and disenchanted. ❋ Unknown (2005)
Love stories she had read, love affairs she had watched, all seemed savourless compared with her own. ❋ Unknown (2004)
And if they do not openly relinquish all duties of religion, yet they will grow so lifeless and savourless in them, as shall evidence their condition; for so it is with them who are lukewarm, who are neither hot nor cold, who have a name to live, but are dead. ❋ 1616-1683 (1965)
Who would write vapid, savourless pages, if it were in his power to set them aglow with rare erudition, and dazzling conceptions of ethical and other abstract subjects? ❋ [pseud.] Vera (N/A)
Tobacco should be smoked after eating a _bida_ according to the saying, 'Service without a patron, a young man without a shield, and betel without tobacco are alike savourless.' ❋ R. V. Russell (N/A)
Osborn did not know why he found himself so sick, and so soon, of what, to the woman at his side, was the breath of her life; he was vexed and disappointed that to him the day was so stupid and so savourless. ❋ May Edginton (1920)
He marvelled to see with what activity men and women played the most savourless of games! ❋ James Stephens (1916)
Mentone was of recent growth -- the old settlement, Mentone of Symonds, proclaims its existence only by a ceaseless and infernal clanging of bells, rivalling Malta -- no history, no character, no tradition -- a mushroom town inhabited by shopkeepers and hôteliers who are there for the sole purpose of plucking foreigners: how should a youngster's imagination be nurtured in this atmosphere of savourless modernism? ❋ Norman Douglas (1910)
If Uncle Blair took the Story Girl away would not life become rather savourless on the hill farm? ❋ Unknown (1908)
The English young man may revel in his coroneted beauties in photograph shops, the young American dwells fondly on flattering, or very unflattering, reproductions of his multi-millionaires 'wives and daughters in the voluminous illustrated sheets of his Sunday paper, without which life would be a wretched and savourless thing. ❋ Unknown (1907)
What Crabbe and the bulk of the parochial clergy called “a sober and rational conversion” seemed to those who had fallen under the fervid influence of the great Methodist a savourless and ineffectual formality. ❋ Ainger, Alfred, 1837-1904 (1903)
And to-night, also, it mattered little, for my mind was preoccupied and a dinner with Lucullus would have been savourless. ❋ William John Locke (1896)
Robert Maper merely provided that possibility of an innocent double life, without which existence would have been too savourless for ❋ Israel Zangwill (1895)
He saw, as clearly and critically as ever, the pleasant forms and hues and groupings of things, but it was dull and savourless, while all the attractive ideas that sprang up like flowers in his mind, the happy trains of thought, in which some single fancy ramified and extended itself into unsuspected combinations and connections, these all seemed hardly worth recognising or pursuing. ❋ Arthur Christopher Benson (1893)
Moreover, his style (always under caution given) seems to me flat, savourless, and commonplace; his thought childish, his etceteras (if I may so say) absurd. ❋ George Saintsbury (1889)
'Would God, that I had died for thee, my boy,' said dead Hilary's father when he looked at the empty chair in the chimney corner; 'and, my darling, life is savourless without thee,' I cried in bitterness of spirit, as I looked at the little plot of garden ground which had been known as Mistress Gracie's garden when my sweet one lived. ❋ Unknown (1888)
In another of his moral treatises he has formulated a long indictment against old age, that hateful state with its savourless joys and sleepless nights. ❋ Unknown (1886)
Already she found her vengeance a poor, savourless thing; she felt that it belittled her. ❋ George Gissing (1880)
