On account of their lifelessness and lack of vitality, they are rather easily attacked by disease, or broken by a blow or fall.
"A Handbook of Health"
Woods Hutchinson
He felt the lifelessness and perfunctory movements of being a noodle worker further exorcized from him and became enriched in the freedom of his own impulses.
"Corpus of a Siam Mosquito"
Steven Sills
It was curious and uncanny-the utter lifelessness of the place they came to capture.
"From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917"
Philip Gibbs