Word: flaccidly
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...book is a monstrosity: flaccid, mawkish, stuffed with the wrong kind of speculation and unnecessary detail. (Blotner notes not once but twice that Faulkner had "shapely" feet.) How can even the most fact-crazed scholar need to know the names of the Little League players whom Faulkner occasionally watched in Charlottesville...
This casual form fits the author like an old sports coat. Indeed, he used it ten years ago in Powers of Attorney. The characters are distinctly and intentionally minor. This includes Beekman ("Beeky") Ehninger, whose amiably flaccid presence is spread thinly but creamily throughout the book. At 56, Beeky is more legal lap dog than beagle. By his own admission, he cares more about the firm than he does about the law. His main contribution to Shepard, Putney & Cox was to have saved the firm in 1946 by retiring the aging, respected founder and then pirating two brilliant school chums...
...watery brown eyes stare out from sockets sunk into folds of flaccid flesh. Thin purple veins straggle across the high cheekbones, so close to the surface that they almost seem etched on the first layer of skin. The second chin sags into a second throat. Black dye has been used on the swept-back hair, but the cosmetic is not enough. Juan Domingo Perón, almost 78, looks his age -and feels it. He tires easily; he has trouble concentrating. Yet he must try to marshal his failing faculties. Nearly two decades after he was run out of Argentina...
...Despite withering fire from critics outside the Administration, Treasury Secretary George Shultz, President Nixon's economic coordinator, has remained imperturbably committed to the flaccid wage-price controls of Phase III, which he largely formulated. Lately, though, Shultz and his chief supporter, Herbert Stein, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, have been under increasing pressure from within the Administration itself to take a more vigorous-and visible-stand against soaring prices. Leading the push is former Treasury Secretary John Connally, now a White House consultant. His position has the strong backing of Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burns...
About all you get from the likes of Private School Girls is a laugh (albeit a hard one). The dialogue is atrocious. Between exclamations of ecstasy, almost every audible line is little more than a sick, flaccid joke. Two examples from Private School Girls will show you what I mean...