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In contrast, we continue to resist the idea that we might love things and spaces which signal their passive inanimateness: a blank stone, a chair seat, or a flat landscape.

From Salon • Jun. 24, 2023

The monads completely fill the world; there is never and nowhere a void, and never complete inanimateness and inertness.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858 by Various

It was hard to say whether her expression implied ill-temper or apathy; but Wyant was struck by the contrast between the fierce vitality of the doctor's age and the inanimateness of his daughter's youth.

From The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton — Part 1 by Wharton, Edith

Crabbe's poetry is like a museum, or curiosity-shop: every thing has the same posthumous appearance, the same inanimateness and identity of character.

From Lectures on the English Poets Delivered at the Surrey Institution by Waller, Alfred Rayney

There is no pause, no meagreness, no inanimateness, but a flow, a redundance and volubility like that of a stream or of a rolling-stone.

From The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits by Hazlitt, William