Word: passionlessness
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...this is exactly the problem. A writer who can make Bernstein's sex life boring is capable of any enormity. Respectful to a fault, but devoid of any spice or sauce, Leonard Bernstein is the kind of passionless hagiography that Leonard Bernstein would have hated...
Breyer's critics consider him brilliant but passionless, given to formulas and fine distinctions but lacking an overall vision of the Constitution. "It was no coincidence," says a colleague on the Harvard Law faculty, "that he only taught antitrust and administrative law." (Breyer also carved out a course area for himself in economic regulation.) As a judge he has shown little interest in such issues as civil rights, privacy or the First Amendment, which have provided most of the fireworks on the high court for the past four decades. The First Circuit of Appeals in Boston, where he sits...
...previous President when dubious behavior surfaces. But Clinton can take some comfort that he is not alone in suddenly realizing he is high and visible, and his flaws are every night's soap. Remember Jerry Ford the Klutz? And Jimmy Carter's harsh season of invective as the passionless, peanut President...
...churning out generic pop songs? Her self-titled debut displayed great promise, showcasing her gospel energy and vocal range on such hit songs as Vision of Love and Vanishing. songs as Vision of Love and Vanishing. But Carey's third full album, Music Box, seems perfunctory and almost passionless . . . and that raises a lot of other questions...
...adds, with the grace that saves him, that he wouldn't mind making "a tiny fraction of the world a better place." His lover, Arthur, wants them to buy a house together and settle down for good. But Patrick already knows that he would be "stuck in a passionless domestic relationship...