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Turning first to economics, De Gaulle began with a 20-minute justification of the De Gaulle policy�midway between the "excesses" of totally free enterprise and "sullen, colorless and savorless" socialism.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mr. Royce knew a few of them, too, and introduced me to them, but I found their talk somehow flat and savorless.

From The Holladay Case A Tale by Stevenson, Burton Egbert

She had joined that simple circle over the way; she had mingled in its plain, provincial talk; she had shared its meagre and savorless pleasures.

From The Europeans by James, Henry

And if you lack such a pattern, the end of the war is to you what it was to so many good people, an anticlimax in a dreary and savorless world.

From Public Opinion by Lippmann, Walter

Salt which is savorless is fit neither for the land nor the dunghill.

From Love to the Uttermost Expositions of John XIII.-XXI. by Meyer, F. B. (Frederick Brotherton)