Mrs Bowater surveyed the group with a lackadaisical detachment.
Who stuffed that lackadaisical idiot of a Sukie Monnerie with all those old horrors?
What Julia felt, it is difficult to say, and one cannot but wonder that, after the first three days, she did not find the whole business a lackadaisical bore.
It is simply pitiful to see a big, stalwart, soldierly fellow like Forrest led around by the nose like a ringed bull by that ridiculous and lackadaisical creature.
George saw, in a far corner, Jules Defourcambault talking very quietly to Irene Wheeler, whose lackadaisicalface had become ingenuous and ardent as she listened to him under the shelter of the dazzling music.
Self-sufficient in their beauty, deeply aware of the power of their beauty, they deigned to move a lackadaisicalarm or leg at intervals in accordance with the respectful suggestions of the conductor.
In this world of lackadaisical automatons who never appreciated the here and now, the beauty of the human frame was there to be shown by discerning artists.
Madame Gaubertin played the role of elegance with great effect; she assumed little airs and was lackadaisical at forty-five years of age, as though certain of the homage of her court.
The lackadaisical young man consulted the register with a disparaging eye.
The trouble is we are too lackadaisical in religion, indifferent and dead and lifeless.
If we cared for our physical life in the same lackadaisical way that we care for our spiritual, we would be as weak physically as we are spiritually.
Mrs. Cowperwood could never understand how a girl could carry her head so high and "put on such airs," and Aileen could not understand how any one could be so lymphatic and lackadaisical as Lillian Cowperwood.
The group of officers stirred themselves and stood up wearily--a tired, lackadaisical voice kept repeating "Sergeant-Major!
The Captain with the lackadaisical voice was getting impatient.
In the meantime Alaric sat lackadaisical on his bedside, all undressed, leaning his head upon his hand, and feeling that his struggle to dress himself was all but useless.
He was lackadaisical and piteous, and Alaric, though he had endeavoured to be friendly, soon found that he had no power of imparting any comfort.
Miss Molasses, forsooth, with her lackadaisical ways and her sentimental nonsense; and that goose John taking it all in open-mouthed, as if she was an angel upon earth.
He had sold himself to that lackadaisical young lady, and had been making a fool of me, Kate Coventry, the whole time.
Harriet hurried away to dress for her expedition; she came down in a flutter of high spirits, a very different being from the despondent, lackadaisical girl of a few weeks since.
He had seen Eugene around town, knew no harm of him except that he was lackadaisical and rather moody.
With the diversity of his interests, particularly the interest he held in the Sea Island Realty and Construction Company, he was growing rather lackadaisical in his attitude toward all magazine interests with which he was connected.
He was getting wearied of hearing Galli and Riccardo always put the Gadfly forward as a model to copy, and inclined to think that the world had gone well enough before this "lackadaisical buccaneer" turned up to set everyone to rights.
A sort of professional dealer in sharp speeches, that goes about the world with a lackadaisical manner and a handsome ballet-girl dangling on to his coat-tails.
Sir Walter was staring, for he had never seen his rather lackadaisical young friend look like that before.
Then the long, rather lackadaisical hand he had laid on a window sill gripped it tighter, as if to master a tremor, and his peering blue eyes grew bleak with fear.
He had for a moment been very angry when his friend had told him that he could not sympathise with a lackadaisical lover.
We have been over fifteen miles of ground, and--" "I never knew anything so lackadaisical as you gentlemen from London.
I tell you fairly that I cannot sympathise with a lackadaisical lover.
