Word: passionless
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...desperately unhappy spouses find each other and enter into an affair which changes their once passionless existences into lives of all-consuming passion. The fervor of the love-making during their secret trysts is adolescent, almost humorous, in quality. Their desire for each other and the escape which their romance represents become uncontrollable. Like most people in their position they complain about having to sneak around, and console each other in their matrimonial misery. Unlike most people, though, they decide to release themselves from their bondage. Their means are incredibly simple: Piccoli poisons his infirmed wife and conspires with...
...world of Eddie Coyle and "friends" is a passionless and dead-end one, as stony faced as the sentencing they suffer. The stolen goods they traffic and the robberies they commit, help support their families, with perhaps even enough leftover for that "trip to Florida." But they never make enough to quit the game. Jail, finally, is the only real stake. The game breeds a grim desperation. "Life's hard, but it's harder when you're stupid," says gunseller Jackie Brown. Not being stupid means making the best deal...
...transforms a rebellious, well-bred lady who doesn't know how to make a cup of coffee into a worshipful companion who scrubs his table and cooks his food. In Cat Dancing's frontier-era West, where women were more scarce than Radcliffe women in Mather House, Reynolds' passionless sexism passes for real humanity...
Birnbaum and Rubins conceived the play around the dramatic intensity of the women's rights movement, and this intensity is the core of Suffragette--its story, its music, and its overall tone. "Intensity! Intensity! I'd rather see intense mistakes than passionless perfection!" director Rubins was once heard to yell at practice...
...mess could fairly be blamed on Trudeau, who had somehow managed to turn voters off in the course of an eight-week campaign of seemingly calculated indifference. He picked as his theme "the integrity of Canada," a precise but passionless way of declaring his opposition to Quebec separatism, and as his slogan "the land is strong," which is practically meaningless. He could not, it seemed, communicate any sense of concern over Canada's appallingly high unemployment rate of 7.1 %. As a Cabinet colleague cynically put it, Trudeau was simply unable to "bleed a little" for the electorate...