Word: listless
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...patented fastball. Bench persisted, and Maloney finally came in with a roundhouse curve that left the astonished batter gaping at a called third strike. Another time, when Bench felt a pitcher was not putting enough steam on the ball, he shocked everyone in the park by arrogantly catching a listless pitch with his bare hand. Thus chastened, the pitcher bore down hard...
Kerry's address was the highlight of an otherwise listless rally which attracted fewer than 500 people to Boston Common on a warm, sunny afternoon...
That was all the Celts and their previously listless fans needed. They started their patented fast break offense scoring 35 last period and never let up, capacity crowd of over 15,000 in Boston's steaming "Ghastly Garden" went wild, jumping to its feet to cheer every Celtics basket...
Although they are without homes, migrant children in their earliest years are "quick, animated?tenacious of life." This does not last long, for hunger, disease and despair soon take their toll. "Migrant parents and even migrant children do indeed become what some of their harshest critics call them: listless, apathetic, hard to understand, disorderly, subject to outbursts of self-injury and destructive violence toward others...
...author's theme is suitably antique: Will she or won't she? Marian is a spoiled, listless rich girl who has wandered home to Wales after a brief try at art school in London. Chandler, the man-about-London, is half-besotted with her. and Nichol, a student, is wholly so. Marian is indifferent and unassailable, the princess in the tower. Her petulance is enough to move the story forward, thereby allowing Jones to work at his real craft, which is observing people...