Sentences with phrase «of listless»

There's a general atmosphere of listless indifference, of time passing by to no end, the prerush lull of late afternoons.

That Clam Dandy doesn't rock too terribly hard is a major stumbling block only exacerbated by director Steyermark's decision to feature a few of their listless, pop - inspired heavy metal tunes in their allegedly poignant entirety.

I adored the first third of Lean on Pete so much that I was never as invested in the rest, particularly the taxing midsection that sees Charley running into various pockets of American culture (a group of listless veterans, a transient homeless community).

The sequel has — somewhat alarmingly — parted ways with Deadpool director Tim Miller (subbing in Tim Leitch, of the listless Atomic Blonde), but Reynolds appears to be in charge.

Gervais and Eric Bana gad about as phony war reporters, but most of this listless Netflix comedy's laughs come from a scene - stealing Vera Farmiga

The results are mixed — a handful of moments of genuine, undeniable power, interspersed with a fair number of listless scenes.

Nothing's worse than a bunch of listless stiffs sitting on their hands being fed pap from the podium.

Too much by supporters anguished at the financial plight of a great institution and the grim reality of listless defeat at Goodison Park; more by millionaires who gained control of this institution than by the millionaires responsible for this loss.

You put in a string of listless performances and the fans curse your name and kick your car.

Didn't really get it right with a bit of a listless first half performance, I felt he could have encouraged Bolton to be more attacking against a Barnsley team that was always liable to concede goals.

The Ravens may decide to wipe the slate clean with their passing game between now and late April, and their jump into the top half of the league's rushing rankings last fall came after multiple years of listless production on the ground.

At the end of another listless season, they kept the Tampa Bay Lightning from partying there.

Moderation is to be imposed on the impetuous without producing a sense of listless security in the idle.

I expect a sort of listless market,» said Mark Luschini, chief investment strategist at Janney Montgomery Scott.

Not exact matches

He'd been listless, and was spending a lot of time on Reddit, and upon encountering broken image after broken image, he decided to unleash to the masses a little side project he'd hacked together.

Tocqueville on acid, Hobbes on crack: what could possibly unite the average libertarian, the conservative of any stripe, me, and a tea partier selected at random, if not Friedman's belief that the self - realized innovators of tomorrow are the listless, powerless lumpenbourgeois of today?

On a sleepy Sunday morning, with a listless service and an apathetic sermon, one too easily may forget that the driving power of Christianity has lain in the courageous and combative Personality who founded it, the adventurous faith which has sustained it, and the brave people who have been its glory.

Far from being lifeless, listless, existing in some pristine void of pure thought, propositions are primordially affective.

It's probably the prairie kid thing, combined with the evangelical - mutt thing, but when acedia slinks into my soul, spreading into every corner of my life with an ooze, when my mind is fuzzy and apathetic, when I'm listless and worn out, burned out, on religion and parenting and marriage and family and everything about my life, I get to the daily, methodical, healing goodness of real work.

In that respect, we might view the listless despondency of declining nations as the opposite side of the millenarian coin.

Unfortunately, most Bible reading is listless and lifeless because the readers are too relaxed to think sharply, too pious to argue cogently, too concerned merely to be inspired for the Word of God to accost them.

Picture that ethic legislated: we would have a nation of 200 million - plus amputees, right eyes and right hands being removed from all but the listless or lustless.

Upon completion of the test, the Christian was found to be listless, with decreased heart rate, body temperature, and brain function.

I alone seem listless and still, my desires having as yet given no indication of their presence.

The Huskies, who returned five of the six leading scorers from a national championship team and added a likely lottery pick in freshman center Andre Drummond, looked listless once again and never really threatened to knock off Iowa State.

At 6 - 1 and 3 - 0 in conference play, Duke was in control of its ACC destiny when a listless Miami came to town.

I actually didn't plan to watch the game, and of course I didn't after getting disillusioned at the listless and lack of direction in the way the team had been playing recently.

However, six out of ten spread bets are going with St. Louis to either win straight up or lose by less than two, especially after the listless Browns have failed to score more than 12 points in each of their last three games.

But from the listless movement in attack, through the muddled passing in the middle and back into that demoralised mess of a defence, it certainly looks that way.

I certainly hope that Wenger doesn't send out a complete second team, as our Europa Cup side has looked decidedly listless in the their last two fixtures, drawing 0 - 0 at home to Red Star Belgrade and then our dismal 1 - 0 defeat to bottom - of - the - Bundesliga side Cologne, but he will have to rest at least half our First XI to prepare for the crucial visit of Jose Mourinho's United.

Yes we wouldn't have won at all, let's not forget that for the first half we had our full quota of 11 players but the performance was listless we had no shots on goal this was happening when Gabriel and Cazorla were still on

The Arsenal midfielder Alex Oxlade - Chamberlain looked very listless towards the end of last year but Arsene Wenger kept giving him more opportunities to get himself out of it.

Roma was listless and punchless for much of this match.

Following Arsenal's lackluster, listless performance in Sunday's 3 - 0 defeat to Manchester City in the Carabao Cup final, John Cross of the Daily Mirror is reporting that manager Arsene Wenger's position will be reviewed within the club at the end of this season.

Since Southgate's appointment the armband has been rotated with the former Middlesbrough boss reluctant to make any one player bigger than the rest of the squad — a sensible policy given Wayne Rooney «s listless performances in the final years of his England career.

It took the half - time introduction of Sakho to inject some life into the listless visitors who were so poor at retaining the ball.

The performances were listless, and there was no evidence of the Pochettino philosophy in action.

Two little words that conjure images of grey, listless tower blocks.

In the interview, Astorino did criticize Gov. Andrew Cuomo for what he said was a listless end of session.

A fevered and listless child with ear pain, a bad cough or snot running out of their nose is a well - known phenomenon in most families with children.

I've suffered from borderline anemia most of my life, and, after suffering through two listless pregnancies, I'm ready to take my my pregnancy - related anemia seriously.

Antoine VerglasFrom Health magazineIt's a gray, listless day on the New Jersey set of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, but Mariska Hargitay blazes into her dressing room with so much energy she nearly leaves a comet trail.

We literally witnessed my oldest daughter go from listless to lively after consuming Elise's samples of whole, real foods!

Fertility rates are plummeting, a lot of men are listless and can't focus; you don't want to join those guys.

He did a run of films in which he was more and more subdued or withdrawn: Onegin, directed by his sister; the lover in a listless version of Graham Greene's The End of the Affair; implausible with Jennifer Lopez in Maid in Manhattan (why be on screen with J. Lo if you're not very pleased to see her?)

But Mr. Berg's listless direction brings the film so little point of view that it doesn't much matter who lives or dies.

Winner of the Audience Award at the New York Asian Film Festival, Fine, Totally Fine is a dramedy about two listless friends - Teruo, a perpetual dreamer and haunted house enthusiast, and his friend Hisanobu, a uber - sensitive salaryman.

The entire production is just so wrong - headed and listless; I can't even work up a good dose of bile to proclaim its utter inanities.

Mr. Corbijn picturesquely frames the back story to the shoot, but his muffled retelling drifts with Dane DeHaan's murmurous impersonation of Dean and Robert Pattinson's almost perversely listless turn as Stock.

They might be skeletal and drained of colour, but their tracks have an unpredictable, wandering spirit that makes them far more than listless jamming.