Word: sluggish
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...could be as rough on lawyers as on defendants, often barked his caustic impatience when counsel seemed to him to be sluggish or ill-prepared. "His facial expressions and gestures," said one critic, "his intonations, his pauses at the proper moment, all clearly indicate his belief or disbelief in a witness' testimony." He got into rows with his colleagues too, once said in open court that he hoped another judge would "keep his filthy mouth shut." The remark brought official rebuke for "using a courtroom as a forum for vilification of a fellow jurist...
...Gilbert and Gott, appeasement was the "sympathy of men in a slow, sluggish society for the dynamism of autocracy." The appeasers had one goal in mind--friendship with Germany--and they relentlessly pursued that goal despite all of Hitler's aggression. When Chamberlain became Prime Minister in 1937, he ignored the opponents of appeasement and sought the advice of its supporters. He surrounded himself with men like Sir Horace Wilson, "whose temporising, formula-evolving mind reinforced and emphasized the weakness of the Prime Minister...
Play looked sluggish, and although the team learned from its defeat at the hands of New York last Saturday, it did not develop needed coordination and, most important, scoring potential...
...sluggish snail has turned out to be far more deadly than the anonymous poet knew. For years, scientists have been busier than the old song's tailors, trying to kill certain species that carry human and animal diseases, notably the microscopic parasite that causes schistosomiasis, an ancient and virtually incurable ailment common in many warm countries. Though a selective chemical capable of destroying the guilty snails is under development and shows high promise (TIME, July 5), Cornell Entomologist Clifford O. Berg thinks that a more practical approach would be to encourage the snail's natural enemies...
...faith gone limp and slack with too much success. In New Zealand it is by far the nation's largest church, and in Australia it can claim a healthy 33% of a growing population. Yet Australia still looks back to England for its archbishops, and has been sluggish in ministering to postwar waves of non-British immigrants. Now Anglican hegemony is threatened by immigration-fed Roman Catholicism. Admits one Aussie priest: "We've been lazy, resting on our oars. But the nasty things that will be said about us at Toronto will undoubtedly give us impetus...