The effect is distant,listless, empty, hollow, and the overall character of this opening section as a whole is of a run-down, worn-out glamour.
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This laneway was clearly not, as the slummer genre would have it, an unstable mishmash oflistlessand directionless deviants.
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He regrets that meanwhile he himself languishes unprofitably and inlistlessease.
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After alistlessand rather weary start, there is a continuous heightening of energy and drive through an increasing textural density, harmonic rhythm and movement of the bass line.
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There was more or less sickness and vomiting, while the dog was dull andlistless, refusing all food and drink.
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They werelistless, ill-attentive and yawning their way through the morning's work.
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Taken as a group the children are undersized, pale,listless, flabby and mentally dull.
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Others will becomelistlessand apathetic, while others will hang around street corners, turn to vandalism and perhaps to petty crime.
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There are no consumer goods, the people arelistless, and there seems to be no industry to help them to tide over their difficulties.
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He is alistlessand unlettered man without any initiative.
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In such circumstances it is easy to become restless orlistless, depressed or aggressive and unmotivated for constructive activities.
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He is a common sight—dull andlistlessat his lessons and slow at his play.
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One comes in appearinglistless, pale, vague and unable to pick up the point of the question.
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If one is a medic, one knows, because the victims are extremely ill, have sunken faces, and are thin,listlessand weak.
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One can contrast that against thelistless, lethargic, futile atmosphere one sees in prisons generally, where people are doing dull, senseless and mostly destructive work.
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