Kayla and Aleisha are so different from listless, passive Moses that it’s astonishing they share some of the same genetic soil.

It didn't help matters that he had become a dull and listless speaker, in sharp contrast to both his early homespun style and the sparkling rhetoric and optimism the former actor Reagan regularly supplied.

The Democratic Party lacks the energy of a determined opposition — it is adrift, listless in the wake of defeat.

But one of them has run a ragged, undisciplined and often listless campaign, increasingly focused on blatantly false claims and hateful invective, and without the slightest pretense of “moderation” or unifying rhetoric.

She took a few more listless steps, the video shows.