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The eerie airlessness of the dollhouse-like settings and the porcelain shine on the puppets are memorably unsettling.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 25, 2022

I think about how much stuff everyone brought in, bags and suitcases of it, all the visitors in their street clothes, hands unwashed, the bustle and the airlessness and the endless touching.

From Slate • Mar. 19, 2020

Sloppy enunciation, glottal mayhem, off-kilter expressiveness and a general airlessness have killed some books read by the very person who created them.

From Washington Post • Aug. 5, 2019

Other critics have held that Joyce was deadly serious in this autobiographical fiction, and that the airlessness of the style is an ineradicable artistic misjudgment.

From New York Times • May 14, 2019

The robots started off, the regular thudding of their footsteps silent in the airlessness, for the nonmetallic fabric of the insosuits did not transmit sound.

From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov