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phlegmatic

adjective aloof, apathetic, bloodless, bovine, callous, calm, cold, comatose, cool, detached, disinterested, dispassionate, distant, dull, frigid, halfhearted, hebetudinous, impassive, imperturbable, indifferent, inert, insensible, lackadaisical, languid, languorous, lazy, lentus, lethargic, lethargical, lifeless, listless, oscitant, passionless, passive, phlegmatical, pluckless, sedate, serene, slow, sluggish, sober, spiritless, staid, stoical, stolid, stony, stupefied, supine, tame, tardus, torpid, unagitated, unanxious, uncaring, uncommunicative, unconcerned, undisturbed, unemotional, unexcitable, unexcited, unfeeling, unflustered, unimpassioned, unperturbed, unruffled, unsusceptible, untroubled, unworried

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The beacon on the jetty has blown out, so the two phlegmatically intrepid coastguards are figured only against the white lash of the surf.

Tiepolo and Ruisdael at London galleries

The coach did so phlegmatically, noting: "Somewhere along the line you are going to drop one.

Cricket: England left with crumbs of comfort; Few positives as Afridi launches his late onslaught for Pakistan

I'm leading a happy life so I think I have time and energy to help others,' he comments phlegmatically.

Beijing's student volunteers

The story gives only the scantest attention to the "turnaround firm" proposal (53 words out of 440 written), while the headline, too, plays down the development, phlegmatically informing us: "New School Board Acts Promptly.

Now they tell us! Post-Dispatch failed to uncover the plans of the mayor's slate to privatize St. Louis public schools

Stuart responds phlegmatically that the Confederates are simply "` [s]howing them that we can, Captain Howard

"All the confederate dead.... all of Faulkner the great": Faulkner, Hannah, neo-confederate narrative and postsouthern parody

He once said, phlegmatically or truculently, "I don't write love poems.

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Having won three times under Patrick Sogorb, owner Simon Springer has called on Frankie Dettori for the big day, a development which Sogorb described phlegmatically this week as "no big drama".

Family One 'in very good form' to repel raiders

I train everyday and play two or three league games a week," she continued phlegmatically.