Word: listlessly
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...decision was his own. It was the result of several listless weeks in Washington, weeks which Stevenson spent preparing memoranda and submitting them to departments actually uninterested in what he had to say. Official Washington's tone was set by Sherman Adams's incredible remark that Adlai Stevenson was brought to the capital not because of his intelligence, but because the people seemed to want it. He was window-dressing...
...like the sixth or seventh round in a long championship fight between two well-matched heavyweights, when after a long spell of listless mauling there is a flurry of punching that stirs the audience. Most of the punches last week were thrown by Soviet Russia; most of the counterpunching was done by the U.S. - sometimes with effective blows, but counterpunches nevertheless...
...reserves of wealth are something of an embarrassment externally, the domestic fact of German prosperity is one reason why Germany's election campaign is so listless just a month before the balloting. Socialist Erich Ollenhauer is having a hard time working up indignation against the economic well-being achieved under Chancellor Konrad Adenauer...
...mere money, prestige and social standing. Instead, he clings nobly to his massive martini shaker and the vague notion that he would rather be "some place down the ladder where he can use his energies naturally-not be afraid all the time-be himself." Despite an occasionally listless script ("Oh dear, I can't stand the sight of blood"). Success got its savor from fine performances by Dependable Actress Eileen Heckart and TV's perennial Big-Business Boss Everett Sloane, stood in a class apart from the summer insipidity by managing to meet some...
With nuns all the rage this season, Playhouse 90's Four Women in Black put Helen Hayes through some listless paces as a saintly pioneer in Arizona, but she was largely overborne by Apaches, mesas of filmed cacti and a soporific script. On G.E. Theater's The Bitter Choice, Anne Baxter was hopelessly involved-and tearily terrible-as an Army nurse whose deliberate anger was supposed to scalpel through a G.I.'s shell of apathy. As Social Lioness Dolly Madison trying to make a Washington comeback, a bespectacled and bewigged Bette Davis had her moments on Ford...