Word: passionlessness
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When I read that Ruggero Raimondi's Don Giovanni was passionless, I, as one of many whose bones turned to water watching his performance, knew the reviewer...
...melodramatic trappings of his play stem from his desire to force members of what he saw as a stuffy and hypocritical society to recognize the sex, passion and greed that lay at the foundation of their relationships. In Lulu, Wedekind describes the rise and fall of a peculiarly passionless beauty who works herself into society (and out) with the help of a perverse benefactor. Along the way, all the men she takes as lovers meet tragic and bloody ends...
...White House staff, says former Speechwriter James Fallows, 29, in the concluding installment of his reflections on "The Passionless Presidency," functions like a "feudal system." He adds: "By choosing stability, harmony and order as his internal goals, by offering few rewards for ingenuity and few penalties for dullness or failure, Jimmy Carter created an Administration in which people were more concerned with holding their jobs than with using them...
...Atlantic article entitled "The Passionless Presidency," the 29-year-old Fallows relates how he joined the Carter campaign with high hopes in the summer of 1976. Recalls Fallows: "I felt that he, alone among the candidates, might look past the tired formulas of left and right and offer something new." Almost as soon as Carter entered the White House, however, Fallows began growing disenchanted. As a speechwriter, he had enjoyed access to Carter when the new President was working out his own thoughts, and Fallows came to regard Carter as lacking in "sophistication," even "ignorant" of how power could...
...Jaws 2 as scary as the original Jaws? No. Is it as much fun? No. Will it make as much money? No. Is it a total catastrophe? Not quite. What, then, is Jaws 2? Quite simply, it is an almost scientific exercise in showbiz mediocrity. This smooth and passionless spectacle is too impersonal to win anyone's affection and too inoffensive to inspire hatred. It's so bland that it evaporates from memory as soon as the final credits appear onscreen. Were Jaws 2 not a sequel to one of the most popular movies of all time...