doldrums

Let’s remember that in the ’80s, baseball was in the doldrums.

After years in the doldrums, are Everton now on course to fly high again and be propelled to new horizons?

But for the Liberal Democrats this is a nice problem to have, after years in the doldrums.

People are not exactly queuing to join an industry and devote their lives to it, when it has been in the doldrums for so long.

Shari Redstone has long preferred Ellison’s bid over other those of potential suitors, believing the 41-year-old entrepreneur possesses the ambition, experience and financial heft to lift Paramount from its doldrums.