comfortlessness

It is those desolate East Prussian flatlands still within him, the comfortlessness of his childhood, so different from her own.

Rachel Cusk | Portraits 2011

The boat was a forty-meter column of steely comfortlessness, standing among its fellows at the end of Nomad Valley.

Starways Anderson, Poul 1956

At his words, the picture of the little shack -- her home now -- as it had looked the first time she saw it in all its comfortlessness, its untidy squalor, rose before her eyes.

The Land of Promise D. Torbett

Short leave to Paris ought to bequeath a main impression of swift transition from the dirt, danger, and comfortlessness of the trenches to broad pavements, shop windows, well-dressed women, smooth courtliness, and restaurant luxuries; to fresh incisive talks on politics and the Arts, to meetings with old friends and visits to well-remembered haunts of the Paris one knew before August 1914.

Pushed and the Return Push George Herbert Fosdike Nichols

So that even in the sunshine the crude comfortlessness and inferior savagery of the place only repelled her.

The Lost Girl 1907

As they talked, Mrs. Field again chilled with the cold gray comfortlessness of it all: to be sick in such a place!

Other Main-Travelled Roads Hamlin Garland 1900

As they talked, Mrs. Field again chilled with the cold gray comfortlessness of it all; to be sick in such a place!

Wayside Courtships Hamlin Garland 1900

It looked wretched enough as the two young men made their way in, but everywhere looked wretched, only the bareness and comfortlessness impressed one doubly when viewed in connection with physical suffering that would have been hard to endure even with all the alleviations and tenderness of friends and home about one.

Grandmother Dear A Book for Boys and Girls Mrs. Molesworth 1880

Vast, sheer walls, unbroken by even an attempt at ornament; row above row of windows in the mud-coloured surface, upwards, upwards, lifeless eyes, murky openings that tell of bareness, disorder, comfortlessness within.

The Nether World George Gissing 1880

She invited the farmer laird to enter that charmed ring, which, of course, he could not help contrasting with the loneliness and comfortlessness of Bourhope.

Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes Sarah Tytler 1870