Word: characterless
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...Black, as the ultimate in unliberated femininity (what was she before JJ came along?), takes him into her apartment (and her heart), calling out from the kitchen, "I can tell you're nice," as he carefully helps himself to loose objects decorating her living room. Mindless she may be, characterless she is not. I can't remember any of her lines, but in spite of a banal script she makes a delightful happy-go-lucky sucker to Segal's dangerous charm...
...officialdom in the host governments is essential to any appraisal of that agency's goals and effectiveness. This information is not available in any of the published research carried on by the DAS in Cambridge, nor is it provided by the so-called "substantive documents," which are dry, characterless statements of economic theory or of single policy recommendations rudely dislodged from the decision-making context in which they evolved...
...ritual murder (primitive societies sacrifice their great man) and as an act of political punishment (his integrity is in question, his hubris at fault). But Marat/Sade is a play without plot (for the slaying could be done in a trice) and without characters (who are all insane and presumably characterless, obsession taking the place of personality). It is a protracted spectacle...
...continuo, giving to each both entire sections and incidental passages, bounded by two movements in unison. Jackson's approach emphasized accents and pulse rather than singing line; he propelled all but the ponderous Overture quite effectively. Solo playing varied from highly impressive (the oboes in the second Bouree) to characterless (the strings in the Trio...
...Hollywood to the cheap and shoddy-is not only a dubious one (especially in the light of this year's Broadway scatology), but seemed to come with poor grace from television-where the play was regularly interrupted for hard-selling commercials by Westinghouse. Diana Lynn was somewhat characterless as the dedicated girl who spurns Hollywood's gold; Peggy Ann Garner shone briefly as the disappointed actress who tries suicide but (in TV's version of the play) doesn't succeed, and Nita Talbot, as a wisecracking bystander, got the few laughs registered by the studio audience...