Word: listlessly
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...Longchamp track, the horses run clockwise, the clotheshorses from the maisons de haute couture run the gauntlet of admiring eyes, and bettors can be heard exchanging tips on both in Urdu, Sudanese, Hindustani or Cambodian. But from under the toppers and turbans in the grandstand comes only an occasional listless Allez! or Vite!; it is across the turf on the grassy reaches of Longchamp's infield that the passion of Parisian racing is concentrated...
When the news of Big Steel's surrender reached the United Auto Workers convention in Milwaukee, a listless show stirred to life. Walter Reuther perked up perceptibly. The U.A.W.'s scrappy president is not a man who likes to let George do it-or even Philip Murray. A steel strike sooner or later might have shut down the auto industry; now the auto workers were just where they wanted to be, carrying the C.I.O. ball for a fourth-round increase in U.S. industry. It was a nice forward pass (completed): Murray to Truman to Reuther...
...times he seemed listless and tired...
...villagers of Minsk in Czarist Russia, little Morris Raphael Cohen seemed definitely feebleminded. He was painfully shy, so listless, awkward, and clumsy that neighbors called him Kalyé-keh (a colloquialism for half-wit). Only his mother really knew him. "Never mind," she would say when people taunted him. "Some day they will all be proud to have talked to my Meisheleh...
Averaging 6 ft. 4 in. to Harvard's 5 ft. 10 in., Holy Cross outplayed the Crimson throughout the game by its ability to control both boards. With some of their top men on the injured list, the Yardlings played a listless game, and it showed in their defensive work...