Word: listlessly
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...Second, listless campaigning habits, and a failure to generate confidence and energy in his followers. According to Shaddeg's report, after one speech Goldwater "left the rossrum, paused only briefly to speak to one person at the edge of the crowd, then entered the elevator and went up to his suite on the fiftenth floor. His sudden departure had not been prearranged. In his 1958 campaign...Goldwater had always stayed around and visited with the audience afterwards." The candidate's coldness naturally left the "disappointed Goldwater supporters...angry and bewildered...
...vegetation and is expensive to apply. The manatee, a clumsy, seal-like sea cow with a voracious appetite for hyacinths, has proved a devastating enemy to the plant. Manatees have been placed in bodies of water as a kind of marine lawnmower. They, too, have a drawback: they are listless lovers and slow to reproduce. Two of the sea cows were kept in the same tank for two years. They have no progeny to show for their long affair...
...than ever-20 million in all, or three times as many as 13 years ago-now own stock. The fact was impressive, but few cheers were heard on Wall Street. Reason: not many of the 20 million seemed to be doing any buying. Confused, uncertain and frequently just plain listless, the stock market drifted down for the sixth straight week, sold off heavily on one day and closed the week with a loss of 24.75 points on the Dow-Jones industrial average. At 854.42, the market had reached its lowest point in ten months, was no longer within hailing distance...
...lineal descendents of umpteen previous Yearbooks retained in 329. Specifically, the House "vignettes" struggle to sustain the customary level of mediocrity (although Richard Kimmel's drawings of the Masters are superb). The catalogue of house activities, the pats on and knives in the backs of the Masters, the listless recapitulation of the style peculiar to a particular House ("An eighteenth-century atmosphere has always clung about Adams House like a pervasive, occasionally smothering mist"), should be abandoned. Why not a unified essay on the House system, the Masters, House sports, or resident tutors...
Most of the selections by poets Richard Eberhart and Stephen Sandy are disappointingly shallow and listless, with the exception of Sandy's comic verses entitled "The Sultan Wears a Crimson Turban." John Allman's poem, full of mellow nostalgia for "childhood and the family," get ponderously explicit in spots...