3D printing is in a bit of a doldrums.
Critics here have praised "Intouchables" for its spirited punch lines and Mr. Sy's remarkable, energetic performance, calling the film an antidote to the doldrums of economic recession, a feel-good movie "à la française" in a country rarely viewed — from the outside at least — as having mastered the art of comedy.
There, personified, was a cure for the doldrums of spring training, an antidote to the dull spirit of work that predominates in this string of low-stakes contests.
Flash back a quarter of a century to the doldrums of the early Eighties: flouncy-haired synthkids, fading AOR veterans, flocks of seagulls and hosts of Haircut 100s.
Of course, he was one of the pioneers of a movement that brought such cuisine out of the doldrums of a time when first-rate product was difficult for chefs to find, even in the NYC market (it remains so in most of the U.S).
The rapper Kafon takes a long drag from a joint and rocks his afroed head to a lolling reggae-inspired drumbeat amid the white and grey doldrums of a poor neighborhood in Tunisia.
I mean ear infections, howls over dropped candy, the doldrums of a long drive, and, beneath all that, a love that simply has no time to speak its name.
But halfway along, when I was really in the doldrums of a blank page syndrome, I got an email from Aaron Dessner saying, 'If you'd like to write together or if you need me to produce your record or (provide) some sort of direction, please give me a call.' So we ended up being musical pen pals from month to month".
The Patriots' defensive front seven has helped propel New England from the doldrums of an 0-4 record to a 2-4 mafterfter shocking victories over the Denver Broncos and the Indianapolis Colts.
It is a remarkable turnaround for a party that has had a long period in the doldrums of electoral irrelevance in Scotland, the butt of tedious jokes about being in a country with more pandas than Tory MPs.
