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Example sentences for: listless
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The film, about a gay antique dealer's murder trial, is called "listless, disjointed and disconnected" (Kenneth Turan, the Los Angeles Times ). Problems: endless digressions and a "simply unfilmable" book (Mike Clark, USA Today ). Praise goes to actors John Cusack, Kevin Spacey, and Alison Eastwood--Clint's daughter, for whom critics predict stardom.
Whereas Republicans would have to play hardball to beat Al Gore, Bradley is a "listless and uninspiring" candidate who could be vanquished quietly and nobly.
Professional wishy-washiness has had unhappy consequences for Beatty himself, most recently in Love Affair (1994), the best-forgotten remake of An Affair to Remember --a listless vanity production with the impact of something viewed through the wrong end of a telescope.
At least, that was the guess of researchers working on the natural history and nutrition of the deer, which became listless and showed signs of depressed mood, hanging their heads and lowering their ears.
Rather, the process is like a giant heavenly gum-ball machine, where the bored and listless unborn souls wait to be selected.