There was a bawdy romantic comedy, "The Performers" (which was lackluster, but harmless); two very funny star turns in rickety vehicles, Nathan Lane in "The Nance" and Bette Midler in "I'll Eat you Last: A Chat With Sue Mengers"; and the return of Christopher Durang, who, despite never winning a Tony, has the most impressive comic career in the theater of any writer alive except for Mr. Simon.
The Lions wanted to focus on improving their running game, which was lackluster against Syracuse; Eastern Michigan allowed 202 rushing yards on 5.8 yards per carry in week one.
During last week's presidential debate, which was lackluster to say the least, Mitt Romney finally unveiled some specifics as it relates to his economic plan to slash the deficit, taxes, and spending -- the "no reason to hope, the future will be grim" plan.
That's typical of Wii games, which are lackluster even when compared with older consoles like the PlayStation 2 and Xbox.
(Paglia, it emerges, originally worshiped Sontag, only to turn against her when Sontag rebuffed her stalkerlike tactics, demanding to know: "What is it you want from me?") And too often their writing, which is lackluster, is marred by simple sloppiness, as when they refer to themselves in the third person as "Sontag's biographers" or carelessly repeat information.
There's a school of New Criticism, devoted to formalist analysis of texts, er, lyrics; its bible is either the much-ballyhooed "Anthology of Rap," which codifies hundreds of songs, or Jay-Z's best-selling "Decoded," which is lackluster as an autobiography — that feted lyricist proves about as introspective as Tony Montana — but stellar as a work of critical rap reading.
The musical, which was overhauled after a lackluster tryout in Chicago, has built up the movie's moral message and slimmed down its smart-mouthed wit.
For the Obama campaign, it is almost impossible to overstate the importance of winning over people like Mr. Hady again in North Carolina, which has the largest percentage of black voters of any of the swing states — especially after President Obama's performance in the first debate, which was widely seen as lackluster.
And what certainly isn't needed is lackluster dancing, too much of which was in evidence on Tuesday.
Before the first election returns had even reached the McCall election night party at the Manhattan headquarters of Local 32BJ, the building services union, pundits, politicians and even Mr. McCall's campaign manager, Allen Cappelli, were performing a verbal autopsy of the campaign, which was widely criticized as unfocused and lackluster.
News of this newfangled signage comes shortly after The Met revealed its new, rebranded logo, which was met with a less-than-lackluster public reaction.
