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The land itself was a desolation, lifeless, without movement, so lone and cold that the spirit of it was not even that of sadness. There was a hint in it of laughter, but of a laughter more terrible than any sadness—a laughter that was mirthless as the smile of the sphinx, a laughter cold as the frost and partaking of the grimness of infallibility.
Source: tatoeba (12169496)
This one was almost featureless, as if still in the making, with an aspect of monotonous grimness.
Source: wiktionary
This is a good example of Huxley's method of setting off against each other the frivolities of the artificial world and the grimnesses of the real one […]
Source: wiktionary
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