Most entries, though, make a tepid impression: high-skill performances unenlivened by imagination.

During the rest of the year, it might seem to an ordinary traveler that Xochiquetzal has abandoned the desert to unenlivened ugliness.

The color schemegray, maroon, royal bluewas unenlivened by a few touches of faded yellow.

Yet a certain Scottish poet was not far wrong when he described finishing one of that author's novels as being like emerging from a thin shower of dandruff, unenlivened by even the slightest flash of mediocrity.

At this wretched spot the Nile is dreary beyond description, as a vast desert, unenlivened by cultivation, forms its borders, through which the melancholy river rolls towards Lower Egypt in the cloudless glare of a tropical sun.

But what they have come up with is a slapstick farce reliant on routine stumblebum business with rare forays into original jokery (and only one episode of inspired lunacy), unenlivened by a score of 13 formula songs.

Arguing cases in a Parliamentary setting, however, offers less immediate stimulation; in later years, Hazlitt claims, he has grown tired of all that weight of learning, unenlivened by anything new he might have used it for in his imagination.