Word: lifeless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...martial law have now passed, the country seems sunk in joyless apathy. Though darkness comes late to Poland's northern summer days, the streets of major cities are empty by early evening. Cracow's ancient market square, normally crowded with youths, folk singers and tourists, seems as lifeless as a clock bereft of hands...
Despite their many erotic moments, both of these stories are curiously lifeless. The effect may be intentional. Hawkes displays the paraphernalia of pornography in a cautionary manner. Both tales end in a kind of hellfire. Seigneur is burned at the stake by some vengeful ex-pupils, and Virginie voluntarily joins him; Bocage's mother puts an end to the latter-day revels by torching her house. These fates are not surprising. Virginie foreshadows her fiery destructions throughout her journals. Other forms of suspense are similarly lacking; the second story recapitulates the first with increasing listlessness. If Hawkes...
...only rejoinder which the over-rated and over-paid (1)wits could think of was to renege on the pregame agreement to pay for lunch. A pregame Lampoon plot to kidnap Crimson president paul M. Barrett failed miserably when Barrett left three dozen 300 th attackers in a lifeless heap. Lampoon president Lisa Hemson refused to comment on it situation, managing only a weak. "If we can't win, we'll just take our flag and go home...
...Gogol's time, three centuries of Ottoman rule had reduced the City of God to a crumbling Levantine village of no more than 15,000 inhabitants (slightly fewer than half of them Jews). "Jerusalem is mournful and dreary and lifeless," Mark Twain wrote in Innocents Abroad. "Everything in it is rotting," said Gustave Flaubert, "the dead dogs in the streets, the religions in the churches." Today, after a turbulent sequence of British, Jordanian and Israeli conquests, after years of sporadic bombings and gunfire, this beautiful and richly diverse city is vibrant with growth and prosperity...
...foreground. Ruisdael's most famous painting. The Windmill at Wijk bij Duurstede, may be as close to portraiture as Rusidael comes--with a three quarter profile of a windmill. The symbolism reveals his conviction that man is subordinate to nature, and even man's creation is lifeless without the natural force of wind...