Word: spiritless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from watching a sunrise to having sex. Blocking all these pleasure centers -- as methadone blocks the heroin high -- would literally take the joy out of life, says Yale's Kosten. "We'd turn out automatons." Addicts trying to quit cocaine go through a stage called anhedonia, a sort of spiritless limbo that typically drives the user to take the drug again. At best, researchers can hope for a patchwork of drugs to block discrete stages of cocaine withdrawal, such as craving and depression...
Ozick, who begins her article by mentioning last year's "mostly spiritless" centennial celebration of Eliot's birth, says that the poet's reputation has sagged so much that high school and college students "barely" read his work, and cites "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" as the only Eliot poem that is studied today...
Every few months these professors published articles in obscure academic journals laden with phrases such as "totalitarian," "spiritless" and "crushing burden of communism." When news was especially slow, they published their articles again in a different font...
...Kafka. And for a while, pretty good Kafka. As he showed in Withnail and I, director Bruce Robinson has a truly weird sensibility, and Grant is his kind of guy, an actor morosely and ferociously resistant to normalcy and good cheer. In a story in which his wife (a spiritless Rachel Ward), his boss and medical science tell him all he needs to be cured is rest and a more optimistic outlook, Grant's is a presence to be treasured...
...circa-1977 England that instigated the punk movement, started out producing harsh, angry music that was novel, political, and interesting in its time. Of late, however, they have shied away from their origins, using instruments that were once beyond their financial grasp, and possibly profiteering from singing spiritless satire. The gospel according to Strummer is printed on the record sleeve...