Pleasure boats, their surfaces and passengers charred black, drifted listlessly with the current, the longboat funeral pyres of a modern age.

"Let's get out of here," yet he hung about, hoping to hear from the anarchists drifting listlessly in and out of Pater's suite that Himation the conjurer had made it back.

After drifting listlessly through most of yesterday's session, blue-chip stocks rallied and posted moderate gains in what analysts described as a quick burst of futures-related buying.

Someone off there in the distance was playing an acoustic guitar; tattered snatches of an unintelligible tune drifted listlessly on the humid air.

In Godard's film, the Concordia plays the role of a decadent limbo where the tourists drift listlessly amid the ritzy interiors.

President Reagan rescued our country from a long period of malaise, lack of spirit and collective depression, a period in which America drifted listlessly and without an anchor.

From that point on, the market drifted listlessly.

She would drift listlessly about the rooms, her dreams extinguished.

The prevailing sentiment here seems to be that good intentions or clever appropriation, framed with social awareness or documentary understatement, will suffice, but as you drift listlessly through the galleries, you may think otherwise.

He drifted listlessly down the street and found Jim Hollis acting as judge in a juvenile court that was trying a cat for murder, in the presence of her victim, a bird.