bloodlessness

They have a rooted aversion to it and never employ it in their clothing, because it suggests to their fancy the idea of bloodlessness -- of anaemia and death.

Alone Norman Douglas 1910

His early solitude narrowed his affinities, and gave a kind of bloodlessness to his style; clear in hue, fine in texture, it is apt to want the mellow tinge which indicates a robust and copious life.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867 Various

The comparative "bloodlessness," however -- the absence of life and colour in the earlier and older writer -- acts as a sort of veil to them.

The English Novel George Saintsbury 1889

Christopher Bigelow, a devout Mormon bored by the bloodlessness of mainstream Mormon culture, created the Sugar Beet, a website of Mormon satire modeled on The Onion, then started Zarahemla Books, a publisher of edgy Mormon literature.

Holly Welker: Latter-Day Saints and Modern-Day Pioneers Holly Welker 2010

Christopher Bigelow, a devout Mormon bored by the bloodlessness of mainstream Mormon culture, created the Sugar Beet, a website of Mormon satire modeled on The Onion, then started Zarahemla Books, a publisher of edgy Mormon literature.

Holly Welker: Latter-Day Saints and Modern-Day Pioneers 2010

“Many” suggests some quantification, and a willingness to have terror and rockets to keep land suggests a deep bloodlessness.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Bernstein (Robert!) Denounces Human Rights Watch: 2009

At least a part of the social process that leads these minds through that particular looking glass is the personal bloodlessness of their product.

Oppenheimer James Killus 2008

All I wondered was, why was the approach to the "positive impact model" of game design taken by these industry luminaries simply to build familiar violent conflict and dress it up with a little side-order of moral intrigue or bloodlessness?

Archive 2008-03-01 Steve gaynor 2008

Whatever dramatic effect is achieved by Batman's vicious "interrogation" is dulled by the film's general bloodlessness and the Joker's seeming imperviousness, etc.

On Violence and Restraint in The Dark Knight Ed Howard 2008

The icy bloodlessness of bureaucratic language is usually directly proportional to the horrors it is trying to disguise.

Think Progress » Cheney Calls Katrina an “Exercise.” 2005