balefulness

Here the technique of under-describing, withholding, comes startlingly to the fore, that other great technique for communicating balefulness.

Mieville on Tolkein Tripp 2009

Matters were not helped by the presence of Alex, whose totally withdrawn silence and dark, bitter and brooding countenance could be all too easily misinterpreted as balefulness: the von Karajans were not to know that Alex regarded his parents, whom he held in vast respect and affection, with exactly the same expression.

Partisans MacLean, Alistair 1982

At this, she looked full upon him, and already she had something in the nature of a surprise for him; for so powerful was the still balefulness of her glance that he was slightly startled.

Gentle Julia Booth Tarkington 1907

The girl's indifference could not be real; and if it was not, her good acting only betrayed the depths of her experience and balefulness.

The Princess Priscilla's Fortnight Elizabeth von Arnim 1903

Regarding politics and the art of government as, equally with arms, their natural vocations, they have never given the Nation a statesman, and their greatest politicians achieved eminence by advocating ideas which only attracted attention by their balefulness.

Andersonville John McElroy 1887

Regarding politics and the art of government as, equally with arms, their natural vocations, they have never given the Nation a statesman, and their greatest politicians achieved eminence by advocating ideas which only attracted attention by their balefulness.

Andersonville — Volume 4 John McElroy 1887

Although her picturesqueness did not swarm on him with images illuminating night, subduing day, like the Countess Livia's, it was marked, it could tower and intermittently eclipse; and it was of the uplifting and healing kind by comparison, not a delicious balefulness.

The Amazing Marriage — Volume 3 George Meredith 1868

Although her picturesqueness did not swarm on him with images illuminating night, subduing day, like the Countess Livia's, it was marked, it could tower and intermittently eclipse; and it was of the uplifting and healing kind by comparison, not a delicious balefulness.

The Amazing Marriage — Complete George Meredith 1868

Although her picturesqueness did not swarm on him with images illuminating night, subduing day, like the Countess Livia's, it was marked, it could tower and intermittently eclipse; and it was of the uplifting and healing kind by comparison, not a delicious balefulness.

Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

Under the paternal demeanor all anyone ever detected was a terrible waste balefulness.

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