Word: slothful
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...lower levels"-and this is precisely what Khanh lacks. In a land where colonial France deliberately restricted the Vietnamese participation in government (the French even posted their own traffic cops in Saigon), Viet Nam's civil service is shot through with inefficiency, not to mention graft, favoritism, inexperience, sloth; many ranking military leaders act more like petty politicians than professional soldiers...
...lived and practiced law for more than six years in a $24.30-a-month flat in Spanish Harlem. In My People, he writes with vivid feeling and detail about what it means to exist in Manhattan's Puerto Rican ghetto, and how the slums are preserved by sloth, corruption and civic indifference-Mayor Robert Wagner, he notes, is a man of "extravagant apathy...
...anybody. She traces the roots of their wretchedness to a neighborhood of Quebec that could have been invented only by a writer eager to fix Canada's wagon for banning Peyton Place. Her point seems to be that frigidity leads to murder and murder leads to sloth, drunkenness and terrible profanity. In three generations of women, only one survives to appreciate the wonders of conjugal love. Looking back on the murderous folly of her mother and granny, the heroine exclaims with the joy of enlightenment: "You know what's the matter with them? They can't love...
...introduced to Sicilian society. As the Prince waltzes with her, he smiles wistfully. He has done his duty, he has built a bridge to the future. His children will cross it, he will not. He will stay in the past, bound there by affection, by habit, by sloth, by congenital dislike of tomorrow, by the siren lure of a torrid, torpid land that makes its children long "voluptuously for death." As the film ends he kneels and, yearning upward to the morning star, prays passionately for death: "O faithful star! When will you give me an appointment less ephemeral than...
...seems hardly to have changed in centuries. The work of Athos is prayer, and work it can be: in more than one monastery, the common recitation of the Divine Office takes between eight and ten hours daily. Some of the monks are regarded as living saints; yet among others sloth is not unknown, and the monastic love of God is often overshadowed by devotion to such pious relics-cherished by the monasteries as much as their beautifully illuminated manuscripts and rare icons-as the finger of John the Baptist and the girdle of the Virgin Mary. Many of the monasteries...