Word: lifelessly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...names to aid students with their selections. The nicknames not only describe the courses in more vivid and evocative terms, but they often also warn a student of the course's difficulty, or lack thereof. Lit and Arts C-14, "The Concept of the Hero in Hellenic Civilization," is lifeless compared to "Heros for Zeros;" "Abnormal Psychology" much less enticing than "Nuts and Sluts." Or Folklore and Mythology 107, "Literature of the Fantastic" vs. "FM107: Easy Listening." "Technology, War and Peace," and "Bombs." "American Architecture Since the Civil War" or "Bricks for Dicks...
...cooked it up and shot it into a vein. A few minutes later my whole body was going cold. It felt like I was going to faint or was getting seasick. The whole world was going gray, everybody in the room getting real distant. I was going limp and lifeless, and the only thing I could think about was to concentrate on my breathing...
...turning the Toutle River into a flood of sludge that swept away several bridges. The eruption killed 34 people, demolished 178 homes and devastated hundreds of thousands of acres, much of it rich timber land. By the time the dust cleared, 150 sq. mi. of once green countryside lay lifeless, under what looked like a heavy fall of gray snow...
...wooden-board floor echo through the house. Occasionally, one of the more confident dancers lets out a strained cheer or cutious exclamation. The footwork is fascinating, but so lacking in cluberance that it seems more like an exercise than a dance. This jig-perfectly executed vet perfectly lifeless-sets the mood for almost the entire production...
...neither the depth nor the freshness of Knowles' earlier novel. The "rolling fields" and "limitless blue sky" of the New Hampshire countryside seems telescoped into a two-dimensional backdrop, against which Knowles manipulates his characters like a puppeteer--not to create life, but merely to drive a lifeless moral home...