Search Details

Word: listlessly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Bitter Moon. The only thing that was bitter about this Roman Polanski turkey was me, that I had paid the exorbitant amount of money to see it. Hugh Grant gives an absolutely listless performance. I saw Four Weddings and a Funeral again, and I felt better...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer Resurrected | 9/14/1994 | See Source »

Madness spreads like an eager germ through the camps that have doubled, then doubled again in size. Between the town of Goma and the airport, a woman dances naked down the highway, cursing at the listless crowds and at the corpses lying on mats by the roadside. A man at the edge of a mass grave laughs in delight when he manages to toss the lifeless body of a child squarely into the middle of the burial pit. A team of laborers is moving bodies from a field to the trucks nearby, when a young man lying among the corpses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cry the Forsaken Country | 8/1/1994 | See Source »

Zeckhauser, who oversaw the hiring of Corvey as Patrick's replacement, lamented the loss of a talented leader who had helped to bring direction to an office which had been traditionally listless...

Author: By Sarah E. Scrogin, | Title: Human Resources Shaken by Change | 6/9/1994 | See Source »

...been almost a decade since Murphy appeared in a movie that correctly balanced cheekiness and car chases. As it happened, that was Beverly Hills Cop. Ever since, the comedian has been a loose cannon, rolling aimlessly around on ships variously listing and listless. Beverly Hills Cop II, Murphy's first reprise of Axel Foley, the street-smart Detroit plainclothesman set down in Rodeo Drive and environs, was frantic and noisy. Beverly Hills Cop III is possibly a little less frazzling, but it's also a movie that's just going through the motions, without comic conviction, surprises or suspense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Eddie Who? | 6/6/1994 | See Source »

Since her appointment to the Office of HumanResources in June 1992. Patrick has gained therespect of Harvard administrators and some workersas a competent manager who brought direction to ahistorically listless office...

Author: By Elizabeth T. Bangs, | Title: Human Resources Director Chosen | 4/19/1994 | See Source »

Previous | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | Next