Word: flaccidly
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...these beer halls, Himmler first heard Hitler. At once, he joined the party of the flaccid man with the frenetic shriek and the square-cut mustache. He carried the standard in the abortive Nazi beer-cellar Putsch of 1923. Himmler was not arrested; the Bavarian police of the Weimar Republic told him to run along and find nicer playmates...
...Formerly I regarded the breathing thorax as a concertina bellows; my present work suggests that it resembles rather a cylinder and piston." But this reverse action of the lungs, he contends, is often missing in actual cases of injury or drowning. Reason: a patient's diaphragm is relaxed, flaccid. So Dr. Eve tried something else...
Retreat from Beauty. When Nadi came to the U.S. in 1935, society ladies mobbed him. Horrified at the flaccid clumsiness of some of his overstuffed clients at Elizabeth Arden's beauty salon, where he was Director of Fencing, Aldo soon quit to devote himself to serious fencers and children, his favorite pupils...
...family called him "Babe" and spoiled him. With the world to play in and his oldest brother, Edward, as tutor, he had a good time. No flaccid sissy, he hunted, golfed, flew, drove his cars faster than the English law or the winding English roads allowed. Sometimes he drank doubles. He knew how to use four-letter words, and how to use anger to dispel opposition. He enjoyed women and slick music, danced well, blithely played the piano and sang his own lusty versions of the season's tunes...
...words. In consequence, much of his later verse (notably his brilliantly loquacious Autumn Journal} is lively but devitalizing reading. It contains humorous, tender and thoughtful patches; but for the most part it reveals an ugly picture of a man writing with a stiff, long upper lip and a flaccid heart...