Word: sluggish
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...didn't feel that good during the race--I felt really sluggish," Wiley said afterwards. "I liked the course a lot, though. All of those hills were like the ones I run at home--I'm also a little bit tired of running at Franklin Park all the time...
...B.S.O. is weaker in earlier music, tending to be sluggish and bottom heavy when it should be more refined and elegant. In recent weeks, performances of Schubert's "Unfinished" Symphony, Beethoven's Symphony No. 8 and Mozart's Symphony No. 28 have all been marred by Ozawa's ponderous interpretations. Ozawa's depth has long been questioned, and he is generally much more successful with the romantic warhorses or even modern pieces-as he was with the world premiere of Robert Starer's lean but melodic Violin Concerto and Tchaikovsky's noisy Francesca...
Very little, in fact, was well. As her government reaches the midterm mark, Maggie Thatcher is under fire from virtually every direction. Her bold experiment to turn Britain's sluggish economy around by applying relentlessly monetarist policies has produced staggering 12% unemployment and a host of other alarming statistics. Her approval rating has dropped to 28%, a near-record low for any British Prime Minister. Worried over the prospect of running for re-election on the government's dismal record, a number of Tory backbenchers and some senior party members are openly revolting against her policies and questioning...
Playing before its largest crowd in two years, the Crimson looked sluggish in the first half. The number-one ranked team in the East had trouble getting the ball out of its half of the field, while the referees struggled to keep the rowdy crowd off the field...
...Reagan's economic advisers. From the beginning, critics of the Administration have complained that Reaganomics is riddled with contradictions. They predicted that the President's twin offensives, stimulating the economy by slashing taxes and braking inflation through tight money, would result in continued high interest rates and sluggish growth. The supply-siders and monetarists in the Administration kept an uneasy peace as the White House marshaled its forces to push Reagan's economic program through Congress last summer...