Word: flaccidity
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...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...
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...