Word: limpness
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...play is unfettered by plot, unburdened by morals, unsourced by satire. Like the Glass Flowers, it is all for appearance, a collection of delicately made specimens of a certain type of life. The Man of Mode is very much of its age, not for all time. In this limp-wrist world, the winners win by virtue of their wit, and the losers lose for having the bad taste to display jealously -- a situation which confuses our twentieth-century sympathies. Furthermore, Etherege wrote the play to please an ingrown audience -- it would recognize friends and celebrities among the characters...
...been a tough year for Captain Baker. In the beginning he would limp home in the middle of the pack, but his performance improved along with the team's enthusiasm near the end of the season...
Defensive end Vic Petzy, slowed to a limp with a severely strained ligament, has been a doubtful starter all year. Although he did not even suit up for the Dartmouth game, Petzy will probably see action against Penn...
...station wagon, she was clubbed on the head so hard that her dental plate popped out in the driveway. She was dragged by the heels into the garage. She was strangled with the cord of the red bathrobe she wore. She was raped, and her limp body was carefully arranged in a position of obscene exhibitionism...
...that she can speak clearly and unhaltingly again and walk almost without a limp, Actress Patricia Neal, 40, suggested in London that she may soon go back to work, in a British television play, for the first time since she suffered the three massive strokes that nearly killed her 21 months...