nervelessness

Harry Reid issued a statement of consummate nervelessness.

David Bromwich: The Ticking Lie Scenario 2008

[N] o medicines produced any effect, and he sank into a state of nervelessness and emaciation shocking to witness.

The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876 2005

His nervelessness left him to be replaced by a mad and continual eagerness for action.

Salammbo 2003

I felt a nervelessness and inability to speak or move, which for the time wholly awed me.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844 Various

The abandonment of the inconsiderate scheme, initiated in obedience to a religious agitation and far too daring for a statesman of Lord Salisbury's nervelessness, having drawn Italy into such difficulties as the result of her obedience to his call, the least that Crispi could expect was that he would be supported by all the moral if not by the military power of England, whose influence in Abyssinia was very great.

The Autobiography of a Journalist Stillman, William James, 1828-1901 1901

With a different voice the words of the song would have sent me out of hearing; now I stood rooted to the spot, as the notes floated out past me to the nervelessness of the Indian Ocean, every one of them a commandment from behind the curtain of a sanctuary.

Mrs. Falchion, Complete Gilbert Parker 1897

With a different voice the words of the song would have sent me out of hearing; now I stood rooted to the spot, as the notes floated out past me to the nervelessness of the Indian Ocean, every one of them a commandment from behind the curtain of a sanctuary.

The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897

With a different voice the words of the song would have sent me out of hearing; now I stood rooted to the spot, as the notes floated out past me to the nervelessness of the Indian Ocean, every one of them a commandment from behind the curtain of a sanctuary.

Mrs. Falchion, Volume 1. Gilbert Parker 1897

"Slow," he muttered, and a strange fit of nervelessness came over him.

Under Western Eyes Joseph Conrad 1890

But her gifts and attainments were not great enough to take her impersonations out of the rut of conventionality, nor to save her singing from the charge of nervelessness and monotony of color.

Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time Henry Edward Krehbiel 1888