Word: spiritless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sufficiently far away from us so it has lost the connotation of old-fashioned." But others think the revival of interest in craftsmanship, the elegant and refined, is no Proustian search to relive things past. Rather, it constitutes a revolt against the grim, stark, formless, spiritless expression of much abstract art and modern architecture...
...Mexico City, where the press of tourism and business requires the U.S. to maintain its second biggest embassy (after London), the new building is a functional, if spiritless, product of Texas Architects R. Max Brooks and Llewellyn Pitts. Basically it is a chunky, $5,000,000 rectangular marble box rising six stories above some elegant but unrelated granite vaultwork. Since much of Mexico City sits on what was a lake, the building must be broad-footed to avoid sinking into muddy subsoil. A Mexican engineer, Leonardo Zeevaert, designed a displacement foundation that is in effect a watertight ship...
Gaulle was dramatically evident at some of the agricultural centers on his tour. At Orange, the crowd in the Place Georges Clemenceau was as thin and spiritless as the local vin ordinaire. At Les Beaumettes, another scheduled stopover, the general was greeted by empty streets and shuttered windows, and sternly decided to drive...
...count after approximately two minutes and 35 seconds of the first act. As the curtain goes up on Sean Kenny's somber hewn-wood set, a dozen or so boys are released from their kennel-like pen. They slink up to their empty gruel bowls like wan, spiritless animals. For a long instant, a pang of pathos hangs upon the air. Then the game little troupers raise their obviously steak-fed voices and wham a sappy-happy song, Food, Glorious Food, right up into the dingy rafters...
...behalf of the bourbon drinkers of America I protest. Is this spiritless, chalky liquid more worthy of the presidential accolade than my beloved bourbon-or wine, or beer, or even sake...