The massive audiences were listless, bored, angry.
The month's mix of short working hours, hot, hungry afternoons and long post-breakfast evenings creates a captive audience of millions, too listless to do much but flip channels.Every year, the ever-growing number of Arabic-language satellite channels (now more than 500) rolls out a cornucopia of big-budget Ramadan specials.
The audience members responded with scant, listless applause.
"Roar," went the audience, like a herd of starved, listless lions, roused into animation by the arrival of feeding time.
The audience, which had heard him with listless courtesy, managed to combine standing with the more urgent process of heading for lunch.
The play feels much too long, drawing out dialogues as if the audience had as much time to kill as the listless manor residents.
As with other plays from this period, though, "Autumn" feels too long, drawing out dialogues and points as if the audience had as much time to kill as the listless manor residents.
Kate Ashfield and Aidan Gillen play mumbling lovebirds Ruby and Frank, who navigate love in the time of Loaded and affordable lager with a listless self-assurance that betrays The Low Down's central assumption: that its audience want nothing more than to jump through the screen and join the ranks of its boho protagonists.
More important, will anyone in the audience think that, five years down the road, Emma will be satisfied with listless Adam?
She pronounced herself satisfied with her long program, but in truth she had been failed by her jumping, by her listless enthusiasm and by music and choreography so bleak and dull that it pushed the audience away instead of drawing it in.
