Word: flaccid
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Allen’s miraculous transformations into a sheepdog seem to have no real cause. They just happen whenever the filmmakers feel the need to elicit a cheap laugh or drive the flaccid plot forward. Indeed, “The Shaggy Dog” is one of the most contrived films to besmirch the good name of American cinema...
...surprisingly, the comment came off as offensive and insensitive. Scranton almost immediately fired Seif, who ironically had been brought in only weeks before to shake up the flaccid Scranton campaign and initially gotten high marks for giving his candidate a new identity as a reformer in a state where anti-incumbent feeling is running particularly high this year. Seif?s comments ?in no way whatsoever reflect my views or those of my campaign,? Scranton said in a hastily released official statement, while Swann said "it is important this campaign be waged on a higher level of dignity and character...
...beautifully choreographed dance contest goes a long way towards elevating the comparatively flaccid track. Pay particular attention to the way the strobe lighting and Steadicam “stutters” complement the dancers’ movements...
...Picasso. Knowing very well how it would be received by militant modernists, he adopted Jean-Louis Ernest Meissonier, the last word in retrograde Academicism, as the model for his enameled surfaces and high-definition images. The final twist was that so many of Dali's images, all those flaccid watches and fluid shapes, remained utterly ambiguous. He cast the clearest light possible on unnameable things, as if to say that even clarity was of no help in penetrating the deepest enigmas...
...usually get as much attention as the size of the budget deficit. In fact, the Culture War isn't really a war; it's more a public entertainment, a Culture Circus. Wars require combatants. The general public is not up in arms but plastered in armchairs, occasionally roused to flaccid pique by a handful of show-biz gladiators--Rosie O'Donnell, Rush Limbaugh, Al Franken, Jerry Falwell--who fight carefully selected papier-mache lions...