Lacking highlights or gloss

Usage examples of flatness.

The overall lighting was dim, enhancing the startling vividness of the centerpiece with its bank of flo less-than xllights and dramatic single searchlight, which gave the tree and its upper branches a peculiar flatness against the night sky.

Sometimes, however, the full gorgeousness of Byzantine art shines through this music, and the gold-dusty modes, the metallic flatness of the pentatonic scale, the mystic twilit chants and brazen trumpet-calls make us see the mosaics of Ravenna, the black and gold ikons of Russian churches, the aureoled saints upon bricked walls, the minarets of the Kremlin.

She told him of the unexpected richness of the Fens, of the terrifying flatness, of the enormity of its sky, how incomprehensible were its people.

Now though, Trennt gauged his mettle and timed the creep of his trigger finger against a new flatness in the seabound breeze.

Not only do the monsoon rains feed that water-hungry crop but when the rains stop, the flatness of the country makes it easy for farmers to irrigate their fields with water from the always deep, swift, surprisingly cold Ganges River.

Down in Sun Country, he would finally feel her mighty grasp, explore the limitless flatness he knew only from holos, discover all her marvels of tree and mountain, ocean and cloud, the splendor of her blue-shining sky.

It wasn't what Ty said but the things he didn't say, and the flatness in his voice and eyes, and the lack of any reference to Tara, that clued Chase in to the reason Ty had arrived unannounced.

She remembered being so afraid, she couldn't breathe, the bitter flatness of the water they'd provided in the flek city, how the Decider had looked at her.

It had cast him in three-dimensional relief against the two-dimensional flatness of the organization and had made him a marked man.

Paul snapped the force button at his waist, felt the crinkled-skin tingling of the defensive field at his forehead and down his back, heard external sounds take on characteristic shield-filtered flatness.

There are two very different kinds of flat fish living on the sea bottom, and they have evolved their flatness in quite different ways.

Perhaps it will prevent the failures that plagued our past efforts-those other occasions when we tried to send messages across the vast desert of flatness between our nexus of galaxies and the myriad spiral heavens we see floating past, tantalizingly out of reach.

Yet amid the strange flatness there clusters a vast formation of globelike forms, strangely bright, floating timelessly, resembling a fleet of moons.

When he felt that I had progressed sufficiently, we turned our backs on the laughing and the shouting, the running and the splashing, the blue-green waves and the bubbly surf, and headed for the proper rectangularity and the formal flatness (and the paying admission) of the ashram swimming pool.

Neither does the flatness of the acting, a style that served the original, but here grows tiresome and imbues Neo and his band of revolutionaries with the sanctimonious stodginess of B-movie saints.