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.
This laneway was clearly not, as the slummer genre would have it, an unstable mishmash of listless and directionless deviants.
He regrets that meanwhile he himself languishes unprofitably and in listless ease.
After a listless and 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.
There was more or less sickness and vomiting, while the dog was dull and listless, refusing all food and drink.
They were listless, ill-attentive and yawning their way through the morning's work.
Taken as a group the children are undersized, pale, listless, flabby and mentally dull.
Others will become listless and apathetic, while others will hang around street corners, turn to vandalism and perhaps to petty crime.
