Sentence examples for flat and listless from inspiring English sources

Everything I listened to was flat and listless.

For their part, it was a flat and listless performance for the Goats, who gave far too much respect to the Galaxy on the field and it showed.

The Cypriot won only one of the first eight points, appearing flat and listless - never good things to be against the Spaniard who could probably run a couple of marathons and cycle up L'Alpe D'Huez before a match without being physically inconvenienced.

High def's windowlike clarity can mesmerize you even when the storyline and acting are lame; suddenly regular TV, including that tape of your kid's birthday party, seems flat and listless.

But he was flat and listless, in contrast to the fire he showed so often on the campaign trail.

Then, in his last volume, Day by Day, published in 1977, the year he died, Lowell is trying to go back to the style he created in the late Fifties, but it is a flat volume, tired and listless: Caged in fiction's iron bars, I give this voice to you With tragic diction to rebuke the stars - It isn't you, and yet it's you.

It is all the more surprising, then, to discover that for long stretches "Rachel Corrie" feels dramatically flat, even listless.

Others were dull and listless.

Being lonesome and listless is often both the topic and the feeling, but the songs also carry a pleasure in the achievements of their flat, sometimes bleak exactitude.

"Kismet" is "heavy-handed, grim and listless".

The filthy river that delivered prosperity is clean and listless.