Word: yawningly
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Madeira. When revolution seemed to threaten the little Portuguese isle, the "Lion of Poland" showed a tendency to yawn, to sprawl his bulk with even more abandon upon small wicker chairs...
...tricks of shooting people through telephone receivers, kniving them by lynx-eyed orientals, or burning them with vats of green acid no longer provide their old thrill. Audiences yawn. The old stunt of indicating the degree of hauntedness of house by having a darky groan "Oh Lawdy, Lawdy" simply wore itself...
...Yawn...
...used to be the custom for the CRIMSON to print one or two editorials a year suggesting that the time be changed. Gradually a defeatist attitude crept in; crusading ardor lessened; masterly logic was presented with a yawn. No authorities seemed to be worried because it was absurd to waken the whole Yard so that thirty men could attend chapel one hour and three-quarters later. Even the individual Seniors each year passed from active objection to torpid acceptance, and so each new class has had the bell wished upon it. This protest, too, offered more in sorrow than...
...policy, for after five minutes refrigeration near the windows, he unfortunate ones whose fate it is to be so located are prone to close them. In effect although the stifling conditions and foul air may be a means of promoting one's indifference, even the most unconventional hesitate to yawn in Professor Kittredge's face...