Word: flaccid
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...feel like you gambled and lost on Stephen Zallian’s flaccid reimagining of “All the King’s Men,” cheer up. Hollywood, in rare form, has sent you a consolation prize...
...album have I wasted an hour of my life so horribly. Everything went wrong here, and not even a massive payola budget could save these album sales, which will certainly be subpar unless “Girls Gone Wild” is released as a club single. The forgettable, flaccid beats and the presence of Pharrell the Well-Dressed Arch-Demon only explains part of it. With “Release Therapy,” Ludacris has lost his magic. —Reviewer J. Samuel Abbott can be reached at abbott@fas.harvard.edu...
...they never arrested anyone for her murder. But it was perceived by many as a revenge killing. Two months before, Ryan Smith, a key witness in another murder case, was shot dead outside his workplace. Prosecutors, lacking witnesses, back away from all but the most solid cases. And a flaccid judicial system gets weaker still...
...example of the substance and music of politics in its grandest form and highest purpose-to heal, to educate, to lead. Sadly, his speech also marked the end of an era: the last moments before American public life was overwhelmed by marketing professionals, consultants and pollsters who, with the flaccid acquiescence of the politicians, have robbed public life of much of its romance and vigor...
...hidden away on the Facutly of Arts and Sciences website). It’s too bad the ideas in these essays have not translated into a meaningful guiding philosophy for the review or that students are scarcely aware they exist. Instead, we are left with a set of flaccid administrative reforms rather than innovative ideas that indicate, as Professor Julie Buckler writes, “the next step in the evolution of our own thinking, and not as a break from past practices.” What’s worse, most students don’t know these ideas...