Word: lifelessly
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...Talk in Danger” a female voice cries, “I ain’t here to disappoint you, girl,” over and over again until the words hit the subconscious and the phrase becomes a groove. The lifeless repetition and curious androgyny signal that this music isn’t really about “people”—it’s about you and the record, about changing the way you listen and feel and care about it. When Delay says he’d “like more variety...
...swindle thy shareholders out of their life savings, thou shalt not deceive the public about a major war, thou shalt not steal thy neighbor’s bicycle. When these commandments are broken, the real tragedy is to watch as the carefully painted drop cloths of Justice fall lifeless to the stage floor, unsupported by the strings of illusion. And in these moments, dealing with the loss of our faith in a just world is a far harder pill to swallow than any loss of property, purple or otherwise...
They would soon meet with the media and talk about a lifeless season turned magical, Smith’s serendipitous, game-winning snapper and a 4-2 victory over Clarkson that delivered the school’s second ECAC title in three seasons...
...certain ambivalence about, say, Chairman Mao and his Little Red Book. Or, for that matter, movie madness and sexual triads. That standoffishness (or objectivity) intermittently marks The Dreamers, which is adapted by Gilbert Adair from his novel The Holy Innocents. But it also renders the film dispassionate, curiously lifeless, lacking the energy of either youthful commitment or a deeply engaged re-examination of the past. --By Richard Schickel
...most unique aspect of his music, however, is the way he injects emotion into his tracks, working from source material that would come across as lifeless in the hands of lesser artists...