Word: listlessly
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...friendly nod to Hecht's ghost by having Hildy speak of the time "Ben Hecht was leaving for Hollywood." But neither Hecht nor MacArthur could be expected to countenance what has been done to their original. Dialogue that should crackle like a telegraph has been slowed to the listless deliberation of a traffic cop writing out a ticket. Jack Lemmon makes a curiously enervated Hildy, and Walter Matthau's Burns is a shambling cynic too similar to his Odd Couple characterization for comfort...
Harvard was rescued from veritable humiliation by the hot shooting of senior forward Arnie Needleman, who pumped in three clutch baskets down the stretch to rally the listless Crimson hoopers from a 9-point deficit...
...Listless and looking aggrieved, Mitchell repeatedly proclaimed his inability to recall events or clung to improbable semantic distinctions...
Rita, naturally, falls in love with one of them. He is, naturally, a lout. But bad as he is, he makes Rita seem less listless and mousy. Margo vacillates between jealousy and the urge to tell Rita what favors she must grant lest she drive him off. Nellie seethes and tries not to notice. Nothing good can come of this, and nothing does...
While Swenson and Griggs were tearing holes in the Lion defense, the Columbia offense was listless for the second week in a row. The Lions could accumulate just 112 total offensive yards, fumbled the ball five times, and had three passes intercepted by an alert Green secondary...