Word: passionlessness
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What's more, for most of the movie Jonah comes across as such an even-tempered, passionless man that, as in this concert scene, we don't even know how he feels about the conflicts in his life. He seems to love his wife, but their confused separation, and his attempts to be more of a father to his son, look like Kramer vs. Kramer without the heart. The scene of father and young son shaving together is so old that it evokes more humor than emotion, yet Simon uses it, as if such banality could evoke even a sigh...
...finest. Perhaps it would be in poor taste to suggest, as one observer did, that Sinatra ought to be able to fashion a fine portrayal of a New York policeman--he's had enough altercations with the type--but Sinatra doesn't miss a trick. His deadpan expression and passionless eyes brilliantly reflect the torments of a man who must, at once, watch his once-beautiful wife slowly collapse into herself, and yet still be the consummate professional in his work...
...appearance too often is of a "passionless presidency," in the words of onetime Chief Speechwriter James Fallows. Even some of his own staff are unsure about precisely what programs Jimmy Carter believes in enough to espouse if re-elected next month. Whether, for example, he will attempt to push the SALT II treaty through Congress or instead concentrate first on defense improvements...
...Atlantic has become more aggressive, topical and visually pleasing. A former Assistant Secretary of State, TIME senior editor and Sunday editor of the old New York Herald Tribune, Manning has also broadened the magazine's coverage of political affairs. A notable example was last year's "The Passionless Presidency," a devastating two-part memoir of the Carter Administration by Washington Editor James Fallows, a former White House speechwriter...
...last night of our ordeal I was descending the north slope, numbed and passionless, drugged with fatigue, dead on my feet, when I heard someone singing! It was a rough voice, husky yet powerful. A cluster of mortar bombs came crashing down and I threw myself into the mud. When I could hear again, the first sound that came to me was the singing voice. Cautiously I raised myself just as a star shell burst overhead, and saw him coming toward me through that blasted wasteland...