Word: lifelessly
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...moments the children emerged from the woodshed into the yard, bearing between them what was to all appearances the lifeless remains of small Nathan Ellison. They deposited their burden on the kitchen floor and adorned its limpness with two sunflowers...
...cheers are not the basic thing. And unless he finds in his sacrifice a genuine glimpse of the true value of his loyalty, an idea of the work that is being done, of the changing standards, of the growing spirit, his totem becomes but a dry and lifeless symbol, the very negation of that driving force which makes totems the foundations of the social world...
...damning the play," the growing attitude of the T. B. M. coincident with the rise of industrialism, the conservatism of the pit, the popularity of triple bills, the indulgence of the audiences in Old Price riots--such a picture might easily have become a confusing mass of detail and lifeless documentation, but from them all Prof. Watson, as the result of much reflection upon an astonishing amount of materials and an exhaustive research among theatrical relics, constructs a beautifully organized exposition, with convenient summaries for those who grow tired of the pageant and frequent reiteration of his thesis that...
...side, were dragged into the main street. A A rope was put around the neck of each and the free end was thrown over the cross bar of a lamp post. Strong arms pulled, the ropes slid over the bar, and the two figures hung inert and lifeless in midair. The crowd cheered...
Great men die and are laid to rest with all the pomp and ceremony due them. Monuments are erected, grim, ugly things, with great names carved in cold, lifeless stone, incompatible above all things with the vitality, the enterprise that made their owners mighty. In August, 1919, a great man died in Manhattan, was given pompous Jewish burial from the Temple Emanuel. He had his monument of stone. Last week his son announced that he would build another memorial, one more worthy of his father. The son is Arthur Hammerstein, famed Manhattan theatrical producer, son of Oscar, famed impresario...