Word: lifelessly
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...time the ball clubs reached Chicago for the fourth game, a bumper crop of 400 flip-flopping newsmen had made the Cubs 11-to-5 favorites again. Grimm's frisky Cubs seemed to have more life than the lifeless Tigers-even on the bench. Jolly Cholly got kissed by Actress June Haver, and was told by Mrs. Grimm not to come home without a victory. But Steve O'Neill had been busy brewing a batch of pitching TNT-Trout, Newhouser, Trucks...
There were no crowds, no cheers, no bunting in Nanking. Food was plentiful, shops were full of goods, but the people were lifeless...
...formal as the colloquy of Mandarins. The puppets often strike tableaux which have charm, irony and even beauty, of a kind. But it is a kind so rigid and remote from simple human warmth that honest laughs come few & far between. It is an unusual, skilful and singularly lifeless little picture...
Playwright Rattigan (French without Tears, While the Sun Shines) has spun out a commonplace, lifeless comedy about a poor but charming widow who becomes the mistress of a Cabinet minister. Life is gay and she is happy until her priggish Left-Wing young son returns from Canada and is outraged to find his mother living in luxurious sin. He forces her back into virtuous drabness-but not for too long...
...turned on plump, well-fed Donato Caretta, deposed boss of the infamous Regina Coeli jail and a prosecution witness. Men & women spat at him, screeched at him, kicked him, slugged him. They threw him in the Tiber. Boatmen bashed in his head with heavy oars, towed his lifeless body to the jail. Then the people strung him head down and near-naked from his prison's bars. The Government decided to postpone Caruso's trial...