Word: slothful
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...greatness? are there to be no images of human possibility commonly available to men beyond the mediocre range afforded by popular literature and the mass media? If the light of the Godhead has gone out, what is to save us from an everlasting night of spiritual squalor, timidity, and sloth? What remains to command human loyalty and aspiration beyond the interests of one's particular generation and narrow milieu...
...fresh team of Americans in the Laotian capital of Vientiane complains that "red tape strung about to prevent repetition, of the old mistakes has got the place tied up." Premier Phoui Sananikone, who, since coming to power in August has swept away much of Laos' old corruption and sloth, is happy over U.S. help but objects: "We are pressed for time here in Laos. We find ourselves going into interminable discussions here. Then the decision goes to Washington, where there is more exhaustive discussion, and an enormous amount of time is lost before...
...inhuman qualities of the human condition. This novel, his fifth, has both wit and wisdom, but his major characters are fated to sound like literary echoes: charming as Christiane is, she has been met before more charmingly in the pages of Colette; Anthony, in his bedridden sloth, his antisocial despairs, his wounded intellectual cries, has slouched through a long line of novels ranging from Ivan Goncharov's Oblomov to Louis-Ferdinand Celine's Journey to the End of the Night...
...change the past by what one thinks about it. On civvy street Martin had been an actor (professionally) and a bad actor (morally). Now, as the whole past life of the undrowned man passes before his eyes, he re-enacts the parts he played, identifies his favorite sins-pride, sloth and greed-and recalls the judgment of a friend whose wife he had seduced: "This painted bastard here takes anything he can lay his hands on . . . the best part, the best seat, the best notice, the most money, the best woman . . . He's a cosmic case of the bugger...
...fact-memory exam has one justification--that grades are intended only to show how much has been learned, and that consequently the examination itself need not be a learning experience. This argument rationalizes sloth in writing an exam, but even at its best it has gross defects. The most serious is that it presupposes accuracy of grading. Examinations with meaningless grades still have a point if the test itself teaches; if the exam is only a measuring rod, then it stands or falls with its accuracy...