"His poetry always reminds me of a chilly sculpture, it is so lifeless," she wrote.
The surprising thing about "Smash" was that a show meant to capture the magic of live theater could be so lifeless: flatly written, with a creeping sanctimoniousness and a middlebrow sensibility that seemed to reflect Hollywood's idea of what would please a Wednesday matinee audience.
With Elly always in the water, Fred becomes hostage to a lifeless pub, ostensibly writing his novel but in reality scribbling bits of unconnected musings, a kind of madman's commonplace book.
He wrote "Lifeless" in memory of a close family friend, Sgt. Tom Birnie, who was killed in Vietnam.
Witherspoon's performance was also criticized: "Reese Witherspoon is surprisingly lifeless", USA Today wrote, "She customarily injects energy and spirit into her parts, but here, her performance feels tamped down".
His poetry, when he's even writing it, is lifeless.
This is the version that Vincent Canby, writing in The New York Times, famously called "lifeless as a body that's been too long at the bottom of a swimming pool".
When they finally get to the North Pole and find it polluted and lifeless, Stewie compares it to Bridgeport, Connecticut; this takes us to a Bridgeport resident writing a letter to the Family Guy writer staff about Stewie's comment.
Writing in dissent, Judge Arthur Alarcon said that the Samsung ad showed a "lifeless robot," not a direct likeness of White.
In writing the lyrics, I pictured the voice rising from the bloody and lifeless body of Dzhokhar Dudayev, the first president of Chechnya, who was assassinated by the Russian government.
Perhaps it's a chance to finish writing a chapter, to do the executive summary for a report, or to read the text that seemed so lifeless at home?
