Word: limpness
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...curiously bland Dysart who lacks the high-pitched emotional constipation that both Anthony Hopkins and Alec McCowen brought to stage productions. Lumet tries to save the day by flooding Burton's speeches with melodramatic lighting and music, but no such makeshift remedy can cure Equus of its congenital limp. - Frank Rich
...comic songs are all accompanied by well-conceived staging, while the more serious numbers seem visually limp and clumsy. Perhaps this is just another holdover from the original exercises, in which Swados presumably sought to work exclusively through music and words. Whatever the reason, the non-verbal expression, both facial and anatomical, is far too limited...
...into the gay sub-culture, taking an unblinking gaze at the foibles and hangups of its members. But this is no Boys in the Band apologia for homosexuals. The film does not fish for either compliments or pity from its viewers; Turner and his fellow female impersonators may all limp their wrists and lisp their words, but they are all endearing people struggling to make it in a very trying business long on frustration and short on bucks...
...sense of fervor, an anticipation of adventure, as the balloonists spread their deflated vehicles on the dewy ground. My hosts are Douglas Economy, 16, one of the youngest pilots licensed by the FAA, his father, and their instructor, Bill Lewis. They aim a battery-powered fan into the limp mouth of their balloon, Fat Albert, breathing life into the sagging nylon skin. Then Lewis ignites the propane burner. With a roar, hot air fills the billowing mushroom, which swells with dignity to its magnificent seven-story height...
...thought homosexuals were supposed to be limp-wristed effeminates. Now I read that we're aggressive, murder-inclined males subject to a "blend of sex and male-to-male rivalry" that can prove "explosive...