James McTeigue, who made the ambitious but messy V for Vendetta, directs this handsome but dramatically lifeless number in which gushes of scarlet occasionally liven up the oppressively sombre visuals: the costume ball is more like a Masque of the Tastefully Dark Blue Death With a Discreet Gold Trim.
They should imagine how much more powerful those words are than some lifeless number, no matter how high it is.
The tick-tock continues: the epic program length; the canned, lifeless production numbers; and the speeches from people who do better giving voice to the words of others.
So you and I relate more powerfully to the reality of a single person than to the numbing, faceless, nameless, lifeless, abstraction of numbers.
This lifeless, by-the-numbers production is an excruciating exercise in cliche and tedium.
Instead, the singer delivered a lifeless, by-the-numbers performance that largely eschewed his new album in favor of his widely beloved back catalog.
But in the weeks since it opened its virtual doors, Lively has remained surprisingly lifeless, hosting a dwindling number of users and prompting a string of negative reviews.Lively is a simple environment, amounting to little more than a series of 3-D chat rooms.
Before arriving, I had envisioned the foreclosure crisis as a somewhat localized event with the majority of such homes in a limited number of lifeless neighborhoods.
The project is the latest themed enclave by business park developer Tecom, a branch of the royal investment vehicle, Dubai Holding, responsible for a number of rather lifeless "sector-focused communities" across the city.
A paramilitary police officer carries the lifeless body of Alan Kurdi, 3, after a number of migrants died and a smaller number were reported missing after boats carrying them to the Greek island of Kos capsized.
