Word: listless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After spending several minutes fixing the net, the spikers looked listless in the opener, as Northeastern hustled to a 15-2 victory. The spikers suffered from lack of communication and team work...
...readers assumed a drawing room tone, which might have sufficed in a library but which could not keep the attention of listeners under a glaring mid-afternoon sun. The few instances of enthusiasm and creative eccentricity on the part of the reader elicited warm response from an otherwise listless audience...
After that the Crimson seemed to fall back into the same bad habits that plagued them in the first 35 minutes. Listless defense and uninspired offense worked against it as the Huntington Avenue Hounds continued to plug away...
...played by John Lynch) is an unemployed, listless adolescent who lives with his father--the only Catholics remaining on an all, Protestant housing estate. Pro-British regalia clutter the place in a display of fierce loyalty. Threats on their lives, their house, their dignity, abound. Father (played by Donal McCann) and son are movingly bound by fear, whispering in their own house. They live on the edge, vulnerable yet resilient, caught up inextricably in Ulster's tangled animosities. "No Protestant git's going to drive me out; y'have to kill me first." The father's defiance is juxtaposed against...
...Lance contretemps, however, was upstaged by Ferraro's first march through the South, where ten states out of eleven went for Reagan in 1980. It was in Mississippi and Texas that she seemed to shine the brightest. In Queens, a crowd of 3,000 proved listless despite the pantheon of New York Democrats on hand. In Cleveland, where the candidates addressed the National Urban League conference, the mostly black audience offered attentive applause. But in Jackson, a throng of 4,000 waited in a drizzly rain for the pair and, when Mondale and Ferraro appeared on the steps...