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The last time we see Emmanuelle Riva in Amour, she's lying pale and lifeless on a double bed, petals strewn about her head, the lights turned down low and the shutters closed.
But there's none of that with Two and a Half Men – just the same four storylines on rotation and Sheen giving the same monotonous, lifeless , straining-to-read-a-cue-card delivery to each line until all the episodes blend into a great, big, disorientating Kafkaesque nightmare.
In one image five lifeless youths lie beside farm machinery.
The narrow but hugely extended gulch that snakes down from the lifeless upper reaches of Lascar and finishes in the Atacama desert is a thin vein of life where many creatures find sanctuary.
Poor Maggie does look rather lifeless in one picture, but Thatcher got away with it: apparently the calf passed away not long after the photocall.
The richly evocative scenes painted by the Assassin's Creed artists, begin to seem pale and lifeless when you realise you're just hunting for objects amid crowds of people you can never interact with.
"A soap opera placed in the setting of a glamorous office where stylish fools hump their appreciative, coiffured secretaries, suck up martinis and smoke themselves to death as they produce dumb lifeless advertising …" He's right – and wrong to be angry.
Soon, the infrastructure of the towns and cities began to fail: power cuts were widespread; thousands of trains were cancelled due to buckled rails; hundreds of fruit bats fell lifeless from the trees; koalas began behaving bizarrely, wandering into gardens to drink from swimming pools; the heat began to make people fatally sick.
Mr Clegg and Mr Miliband may have been preaching to the converted the crowd cheered both, especially the Labour leader, to the rafters but Mr Cameron missed an opportunity to inject some vim into a Conservative campaign that has, with some exceptions, been flat and lifeless.
But as The Economist went to press in the early hours of May 8th, it seemed that David Cameron's party had won an extraordinary vindication for a rather lifeless campaign and the stolid economic record it was based upon.
If that were true, though, the universe would be a sad and empty place as almost all the primordial particles and antiparticles would have cancelled each other out leaving behind nothing but a puff of lifeless , post-annihilation photons.
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The adjective "lifeless" primarily functions to describe something lacking life, vitality, or animation . As seen in Ludwig's examples, it's often used to depict inanimate objects, emotions, or performances that are devoid of energy.
Expression frequency: Very common
