Word: lifelessly
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...treat like a bag-pipe's bellows. At his will he burps up puff after puff, makes sounds. First controlled sounds are "gut," "hut," "hoot," "who." To the uninitiated they sound like strangled grunts. Although these people eventually learn to enunciate clearly, their voices always have a flat, lifeless tone...
...They held in their lifeless hands the riches of their fathers, without inheriting the spirit which had created and improved that sacred patrimony. They read, they praised, they compiled, but their languid souls seemed alike incapable of thought and action. ... A succession of patient disciples became in their turn the dogmatic teachers of the next servile generation." "That," says James Bryant Conant with quiet firmness, "must not be allowed to happen at Harvard...
...lurking assassins. They have a spice, but just a spice, of sex. And through them all trickles, a rich essence of good food and drink. The latest Oppenheim is no exception to the Oppenheim rule. Reduced to its crude elements of malt, sugar and salt, it might seem a lifeless and unlikely concoction. But to Oppenheim addicts it is a thoroughly lively and likely affair...
...Violet again tried to speak. "Aw, get out!" roared the crowd. Police hustled her away, charged her with "driving through a crowd in a manner likely to endanger life and limb." She was held in $250 bail. Meantime, inside the jail the black flag was run up and the lifeless body of the Hindu doctor was cut down, buried in an open pit of unslaked lime...
...innocent mortal. In the opera last week it was the tortured Hanan who bewitched Leah. To exorcise his spell she was led before an ancient rabbi to whom Sender admitted his treachery, gladly consented to renounce half his riches. Persistent prayers were said over Leah, who dropped lifeless when Hanan's spirit left her. Finale came with their love duet, frankly lyrical, typically Italian, which brought Detroiters cheering to their feet...