Word: lifelessly
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...guard says, panning his hand across the 336,289-sq-m marina. "It's rotting." Rather than serving as a home to the sport for which it was built, he complains, the $144 million facility is now used as a depot for a handful of vehicles. The compound is lifeless, with not even a seagull in sight. Across the road at the Helliniko Olympic Complex, venues for another seven sports - baseball, basketball, canoeing and kayaking, fencing, handball, hockey and softball - gather dust. Posses of stray dogs roam across the expanses of untended grounds, loose electrical cables hang over dented fences...
...throw me out of this 350-pound, four-wheel marathon carriage,” Kumin says. As Deuter returned toward the fallen Kumin, “he swerved—and pulled the carriage across my body,” she says. She lay on the field, nearly lifeless...
...been discussing the effects of Hiroshima on the world and on the presidency in his office in a federal building in downtown Manhattan. The building's air-conditioning system is off because of the national holiday, but the room is not yet hot. Outside, the streets are empty and lifeless, except for a McDonald's. Nixon wears a blue-gray suit, a white shirt and a red-and-white-striped tie. The chair he occupies is backed into a corner of the office. Wide windows on either side of him offer a view of antiquated wooden water tanks...
Even these characters though, who provide a welcome relief from the monotony of many of these descriptions, are too flimsy to ever really come to life. Perowne’s wife and daughter are lifeless: the former appears too infrequently and unmemorably to spark interest, while the latter comes across as slightly demented in her cloying girlishness...
...after St. Lawrence looked almost lifeless as Harvard rolled over the Saints, the Golden Knights fought for every loose puck and played the Crimson to a tight contest before giving up two key goals late in the second period...