Meaning of temperless | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Untempered.
2. Showing no passion; impassive.

Examples

“All of the 60 analysable body sherds recovered from the refuse are plain and possess the temperless to slightly tempered paste with clay granule inclusions that characterized the majority of the previously described rim sherds.”

“It may also be explained aesthetically: Pearl River potters seemed to prefer a more uniform, polished, "temperless" look for serving ware vessels.”

“Random amorphous bits of fired clay, temperless and not identifiable as wall daub, were frequently encountered in the excavations.”

“This shift in settlement and impoverishment in material goods took place as the indigenous polychrome style (affiliated with Lowland Maya polychromestyles such as that of Altun Ha) was replaced by temperless, incised ceramics inspired by contemporary western Maya traditions.”

“However formal and temperless may seem the greater part of the written diplomatic history of a nation, the real facts are often quite different.”

“' I always felt you were no gentleman, and this proves it,' remarks the disconsolate yet temperless Ladlaw, as he pockets his cash.”

“I could now even visualize the son, that impassive, humorless, temperless man, as a kind of lethal vine twisting itself ineluctably around the stout trunk of a venerable oak, or even, more horribly, as a giant anaconda around the body of a strangled steer.”

“They wander aimlessly about in all directions, a sort of joint sacrifice, perpetually tortured and daily offered up on the altar of the diabolical courier, crushed beneath the ubiquitous Juggernaut hotel-keeper, bound continually in new and arid places to be torn by the vulture guide, and ultimately sent home more or less penniless, quite temperless, and perhaps permanently disgusted with one another and with married life.”

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