Word: listlessly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they watch more than ten hours a week? Is their concentration span divided into seven-minute segments, the usual time between commercials? Do they require instant gratification? Do they feel a closer kinship to Oscar the Grouch than to their own cantankerous Uncle Oscar? Are they video zombies, listless and lethargic while viewing, revved up like the roadsters on The Dukes of Hazzard when they are not? As for parents, many of the same symptoms apply. Adults, however, are far more apt than children to deceive themselves about their own TV compulsion. Like alcoholics, says Wilkins, adults hooked...
...BATTLE WILL RAGE in the Quincy House JCR this weekend. The warriors will only brandish a toy pistol and a letter opener, but the combat will be fierce enough to keep the most listless audience enthralled. On this unlikely battlefield, a small, talented cast is presenting Strindberg's The Creditors. Not one blow is struck in this fine production, but it leaves the impression of a great carnage...
...Soviet Screwtape writes about listless and corrupt clergy in minute details that could only have been gleaned from a broad network of informants. The aging Archbishop of Stavropol (who died shortly after the report was written) receives special mention because his sermons are "quite brief and not very impressive." In prose more typical of anticlerical Russian folk tales, there are accounts of priests "possessed by profane passions," or who use foul language and drink excessively...
Also, the crowds just don't rate anymore. Last night's attendance was a listless 2059, a far cry from the Standing-Room-Only gang of shriekers and groaners two years ago, including a fair number of Harvard followers. The Crimson cheering section last night consisted of seats four through seven in Row E, Section 4, plus a few scattered singles. How quickly people forget. After all, Walter Brown was Harvard's home-for-a-year in 1978, while Watson rink was transformed into Bright Center...
...after playing a listless first half, the Springfield offense came out smoking in the second half. With less than 30 seconds gone on the clock. Springfield forward Sue Monahan put the ball in the net as a mob of players surrounded the Crimson goal...