What is "faceless"

Usage examples of "faceless".

So much belief, so much authority seemed to have been invested by the builders in these primitive, faceless idols, guardians of the blithe, naked Ama girls, that Bond had a ridiculous urge to kneel and ask for their blessing as the Crusaders had once done before their God.

Nyarlathotep, the mad faceless god, howls blindly in the darkness to the piping of two amorphous idiot flute--players.

The latest salvo in the struggle for the soul of broadcast television-if not human civilization-and the faceless monster calling himself Captain Audion has been fired.

I found myself arguing with some faceless audience in my mind--the Bunraku puppeteers, I suppose--insisting that, with all the precautions I had taken, I was more likely to be attacked by killer bees than to get pregnant.

And Cog, that faceless fixer who seemed to have connections everywhere, had given him a high competency rating.

For a moment longer they stood facing each other-one masked behind the visored helmet, the other faceless except for the muzzle of the laser cannon-before Boba Fett finally gave a slow nod.

Bren said, and went around shaking hands, doggedly determined to put a face and a name to what had been faceless for two hunded years and three more in orbit about the planet.

There were sufficient numbers of limbless, even faceless, men like me in Manhattan.

Senate of Rome found themselves with nothing more to give that day, and dragged their leaden feet home to live again in dreams that one magical moment when they actually saw the vision of faceless Quirinus rear up to throw his numinous toga over them as a father over his truehearted and unfailingly loyal sons.

It was a very terrible spectacle to see those faceless and rubbery ticklers at their pastime, and tremendously impressive to watch the dense cloud of them spreading through the town and up the winding roadway to the reaches above.

In creating a retailing machine that spun faster and ground finer than any other in business history, Wal-Mart progressively transformed its store workers into faceless, low-cost, and frequently replaced component parts.

Cried, cried, rested, then cried some more, with her face in the crook of her elbow on the counter, listening to her breathlessness, the screen on, crying amid images of moronic grinning Dranees with daisies and Aslow Actioneers with torchers as big as small cannons, patrolling the streets in choir robes and faceless masks, and bodies in alleys, bodies in trucks, bodies stuffed into the back seats of cars, dead, alive, and Dr.

King Bester was of a brilliant living torch, a faceless column of fire that still screamed and leaped in impossible agony.

Faceless, eyeless, unseeing and unhearing, mouthless and yet provided with the most ghastly of mouths, the baleful algae came again.

He looked anxiously at the faceless multitude of people opposite and suddenly noticed the artist Cart Sann sitting in the third sector.