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Nor have Mr. Wildhorn and his feckless collaborators managed to beat these long odds: "Bonnie & Clyde" is so enervatingly bland and insipid that you'll leave the theater asking yourself why you ever liked musicals in the first place.

Wheel This Barrow Out of Town Terry Teachout 2011

Those cuts had the effect of improving a powerful but enervatingly garrulous play.

Rewriting 'Porgy and Bess'—Is the Text of a Classic Ever Sacred? Terry Teachout 2011

"Collected Stories," which is so tidy as to be enervatingly devoid of surprise.

Try, Try Again 2010

And, certainly, few films are more enervatingly mediocre than PLANES, TRAINS, AND AUTOMOBILES.

John Hughes; Letters Ed Gorman 2008

The battalion marched down to Aveluy, near Albert, on an enervatingly hot day and remained one night in huts there.

The Seventh Manchesters July 1916 to March 1919 S. J. Wilson

The weather, which was enervatingly warm, affected both elevens and the playing was sluggish and far from brilliant.

Left Guard Gilbert Ralph Henry Barbour 1907

His eye at once perceived the orifice on a line enervatingly little above the top of his head; and, although he had not supposed himself so well known in this neighbourhood, he was aware that he did, here and there, possess acquaintances of whom some such uncomplimentary action might be expected as natural and characteristic.

Penrod and Sam Booth Tarkington 1907

He was vexed to think his face so clear an index of his feelings, but, truly, his spirits were none of the best and the weather was enervatingly warm.

Pearl of Pearl Island John Oxenham 1896

THE risk, director Kevin Macdonald admitted, was that the project might end up like an old Coke ad, enervatingly bland in its we-are-the-worldiness and smotherly brotherly love.

The Economist: Correspondent's diary 2011

Then the piece switches into a stretch of what sounds like enervatingly slow composition.

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