: lacking imagination, creativity, or liveliness : not interesting or stimulating
Despite being superbly crafted and well acted, The White Ribbon does not break new esthetic ground; the overly convoluted and airless narrative makes one yearn for the viscerally shocking provocations of earlier Haneke films …—Richard Porton, Cineaste, 22 Sept. 2009
Krasznahorkai's novel has the airless feel of a work with a settled view of things.—Robert Boyers, New Republic, 29 July 2002
airlesslyadverb
But Gaston is bored by everything in his airlessly perfect life, even the cruel womanizing that his uncle (Maurice Chevalier) keeps encouraging. —Ted Loos, Wine Spectator, 3 Nov. 1997
airlessnessnoun
Because just beyond the metal walls was the black airlessness of space … —Michael J. Daley, Rat Trap, 2008
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