The architecture, however, failed to impress Charles Dickens who, after a visit in 1842, wrote in his "American Notes" of the "lounging, listless, madhouse air".
The last time I had seen him, a year before, his face was gray and puffy; he had not played a note for two years, and he was very fat and had a listless, buried air.
The architecture, however, failed to impress Charles Dickens who, after a visit in 1842, wrote in his "American Notes" of the "lounging, listless, madhouse air". Even more repulsed was the journalist Nellie Bly, who feigned insanity to get into the asylum and gained national recognition with a series of articles detailing her harrowing experience.
During an 1842 visit to the drastically understaffed and overcrowded institution, a horrified Charles Dickens wrote, "Everything had a lounging, listless, madhouse air that was very painful... the vacant eye, the fierce wild face, the gloomy picking of the hands and lips and munching of the nails; there they were all, without disguise, in naked ugliness and horror".
He reached up and touched the white hand of his father, which had fallen listless into the air between them.
His Richard, with his brocade gown and Christ-like hair, initially affects an air of listless boredom as his burly barons hurl accusations of treason at each other.
The British book trade sometimes can seem strangely reminiscent of an elderly alcoholic: sagging features, grey skin, listless eyes, and a general air of defeat.
The desiccated earth scattered down the hillside easily beneath my steps, and the air felt torrid and listless.
Ivan Rodriguez, the free-agent catcher whose signing heralded a new direction for the listless Marlins, flung his mask into the air, and Beckett exulted in foul territory.
Millions of people viewed the footage of the moment when Steve's leg was flying in the air like a rag doll's, listless and unrecognizable.
