Word: slothful
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...miles of airways; its vast, nationalized (but hardly modernized) railroad system, fourth largest in the world; the radio station at New Delhi, looking like a maharaja's palace; and its huge cotton mills. The film is cut and paced to make forcefully clear the disorder and vitality, the sloth and aspiration of an ancient country in the process of becoming a modern nation...
Still lazier anglers can find an outlet for their sloth in "tip-up" or "tilt" fishing. The fisherman merely sets his rig over an ice-hole and retires to the security of a bazing fire on the shore...
...living in wild extravagance with a "saucer-eyed" mulatto prostitute and seeking in absinthe and opium an antidote to what he considered the horrors of the Steam Age. He was, he wrote, a victim of "Acedia, the malady of monks," the deadly weakness of the will which leads to sloth and idleness. He fought against it with terror, filled his Journals with resolves to "work like a madman...
...materializing into anything more than hot air. While Congressmen investigate and Speaker Martin announces that there is no danger of starvation, U.S. business counts its dollars, the termites of Fascism and Communism eat into the crumbling remains of European freedom. The price we may have to pay for our sloth and half-hearted ness will make the billions spent in the last war look like the proceeds of a piggy-bank raid...
...Americans will find no responsibility in Greece. They must take what there is with them. They will find no policy in Greece save a mixture of sloth and violence. They must create the policy. They will get little support from either side, for both are extremists. They must create their own moderates. They must expect dislike, ingratitude, and double-dealing...