Word: slothly
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...until now, faithfully preserved by two Austrian republics. A mere 108 titles will remain in official use. Many of these will be simplified in an attempt to humanize and democratize relations between Austria's 7.5 million citizens and its 345,000 federal bureaucrats, who are notorious for their sloth and discourtesy...
...work didn't take me away for such extended periods," he says. "This place is my fixed foot." A staff writer at The New Yorker ("The job translates as 'unsalaried freelance'") since 1965, McPhee enjoys a freedom from deadlines that would tempt most journalists into sloth and several other deadly sins. Not McPhee. Reporting completed and notes arranged, he marches into a routine now familiar to members of his extended family (four daughters from his first marriage live near by; his second wife Yolanda also has four children). He goes to his office each morning...
...interloper, before they learned to fear him. He arrived in Paris to study law in 1890, coming from the insignificant French colony of Reunion Island. He had black blood in his veins. A vast, slow-moving creature like a sloth-though one of his artists, Dunoyer de Segonzac, nastily compared him to a giant ape hanging in the shop entrance-Vollard cultivated a strategy of immobility. He stroked his cat, pretended to doze, listened and said little. "You sleep a lot," was his advice to a fledgling dealer who asked the secret of success...
...dividends accrue to the public. Yet at another point Galbraith changes horses and suggests that "land is tilled well only by men and women who are encouraged by high prices and dissuaded by low prices, who reap the rewards of their toil, suffer the penalties of their own sloth...
...German Critic Werner Kummel's listing in 1963 (see chart). But, as "little more than a theological joke," he decided to investigate the arguments on the dating of all the books, a field largely dormant since the turn of the century. The results stunned him. Owing to scholarly "sloth," the "tyranny of unexamined assumptions" and "almost willful blindness" by previous authors, he decided, much of the past reasoning was untenable...