leadenness

Teasdale felt the air become hot in his lungs and leadenness draped his body, like chains holding him down.

It was a struggle, but finally he made it, sweating from the exertion despite the icy leadenness of his limbs.

Surprisingly, "The Iphigenia Cycle" is not much to look at, and that only adds to the leadenness of a long evening.

Most of the supporting performances have the leadenness of characters being impersonated instead of embodied.

It was not as if this fallow season of the soul was unexpected, and its feelings of leadenness and futility.

Yet it couldn't have been the valise alone that seemed to pull her arm down so, it must have been the leadenness of her heart.

Perhaps best described as the love child of a potato and a white asparagus, black salsify, while agreeably starchy, does not have a boiling potato's occasional leadenness or a russet's fluff.

A leadenness flared into being in my shoulder and spread like an oil fire all through me, and the last thing I knew was dropping my sword and falling toward my two erstwhile opponents.

It was the blink of an eye to the massive Zentraedi, but for the Robotech Masters, who were essentially human in spite of their psychically evolved state, time moved with sometimes agonizing leadenness.

Every deficiency, every scrap of false pride, the leadenness of your feet, the awkwardness of your tongues, and the pallor of your young buttocks will be there for all to see.

The leadenness is compounded by Allen's flat connective narrative, in which every new speech seems to begin with the equivalent of "And then I . . . " (Don't even get me started on the aspiringly clever double entendres that pass for sophisticated dialogue.)