sparkless
English
Adjective
sparkless (not comparable)
- without a spark
- 1939, Arthur Quiller-Couch, On The Art of Reading:
- But when we come to a fine thing in our own language--to a stanza from Shelley's "Adonais" for instance: He has outsoared the shadow of our night; Envy and calumny and hate and pain, And that unrest which men miscall delight, Can touch him not and torture not again; From the contagion of the world's slow stain He is secure, and now can never mourn A heart grown cold, a head grown gray in vain; Nor, when the spirit's self has ceased to burn, With sparkless ashes load an unlamented urn. what can you do with that?
- lacking in creativity or energy
- 1996 January 26, Neil Tesser, “Motion Poets”, in Chicago Reader:
- Live, though, this youthful Minnesota-based band performed a somewhat sparkless set that seemed to bury the conceptual strengths, the stark voicings, and the crisp rhythms that on the album helped shape the arrangements and link the horns.
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Translations
without a spark
lacking in creativity or energy
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