As a result, the Isabelle sections are more gripping than those involving her enervated husband.

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The president's rule has become ever more autocratic, the government ever more corrupt and the economy ever more enervated.

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Although Obama was lambasted for his enervated performance in the first debate, it was more disciplined than the behavior of the gaff-tastic Joe Biden.

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Sophisticated but oddball, "Button" will be a challenge for the marketing men, but audiences who take the plunge will likely find themselves entranced -- if occasionally enervated.

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The rat in this analogy is the enervated American worker.

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Unfortunately, almost everything in the movie feels flat and enervated.

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The director, Tom Kalin, has an elegant eye for perfect beauty in apartments, hotel suites, and Spanish vacation houses, and Moore has a few scenes of vibrant neurotic rage, but the movie feels enervated and pointless.

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