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“That’s Jazz Baby!” from Spies Among Us, the team behind a long-running Little Tokyo tale of espionage, found similar lifelessness in corporate drudgery, this time in a jazz nightclub.

From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2025

Then his eyes found it: a seedling, brittle and brown, overlooked because of its lifelessness.

From Science Daily • Nov. 3, 2023

Less intriguingly convoluted than concussed into lifelessness, “Marlowe” is the cinematic equivalent of a word salad: It parrots all the right lines while striking all the right poses, without saying much of anything at all.

From Washington Post • Feb. 15, 2023

Randle went 5 for 7 from 3-point range in the first quarter, camping out on the wing and making the Timberwolves pay for their lifelessness on defense.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 7, 2022

The way to achieve the ultimate liberation through lifelessness is to cease paying heed to the illusion of reality.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife