Word: lifelessly
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...passionate eloquence of St. Augustine (whom Mumford compares to "the wild eye and the snorting nostril of the stallion in heat") "degenerated" through the ages into the logical but lifeless dida tics of Descartes, Spinoza, Locke...
Conclusion: "Producers of radio serials take pride in asserting that they give their audience exactly what it wants to get. . . . The consequence of such neglect is art that fails to entertain and that misleads instead of educating; education that bores and discourages because it is dry and lifeless ; entertainment that detracts from the aims and real satisfactions of life...
...Czecho-Russian treaty points the way to a "general security system" (as desired by the U.S.). But the U.S.S.R. will have no truck with "artificial and lifeless unifications, such as federations...
...Manhattan last week saw dead animals brought back to life. It was the first public U.S. showing of a film picturing an experiment by Soviet biologists. They drained the blood from a dog. Fifteen minutes after its heart had stopped beating, they pumped the blood back into its lifeless body with a machine called an autojector, serving as artificial heart and lungs. Soon the dog stirred, began to breathe; its heart began to beat. In twelve hours it was on its feet, wagging its tail, barking, fully recovered...
...August 1941, in a more speechifying mood: "Our army is the Soviet people. People are not machines and they cannot be destroyed. People are immortal. The German Army will disintegrate after the first heavy blows struck against it. It is the product of a lifeless, fascist idea, and is therefore doomed...