Sentences with phrase «lackadaisical approach»

The administration has also taken a very lackadaisical approach to publicly promoting the open enrollment period, even slashing outreach funding by 90 %.

After placing near the bottom in the congressional contest, the veteran lawmaker took an oddly lackadaisical approach to getting re-elected to his state seat, raising little money and making few appearances in his district.

«The city's late and lackadaisical approach hardly inspires confidence about the future of Health + Hospitals,» Torres said.

When British forces withdrew from Iraq, a similarly lackadaisical approach was taken - until public and political outcry forced the Labour Government to let them in.

It's clear, however (and unfortunately), that the promising opening stretch slowly - but - surely gives way to a comparatively underwhelming midsection, as Niccol's decidedly lackadaisical approach is compounded by an increased emphasis on less - than - innovative plot twists (eg the picture's final third goes in a few fairly tedious and overly familiar directions).

Alcott idealized and sanitized her own family to create the Marches, and Thomas connects with the real Alcott history when she suggests that Beth's shyness is actually profound anxiety, and that Mr. March is a dreamer whose lackadaisical approach to earning a living has cost the family dearly.

My test car also had a lane departure warning and lane keeping assist system, and it had adopted a clearly lackadaisical approach to identifying lane markings, issuing departure warnings and supplying corrective assist.

Not a long film by any means, clocking in at a standard 95 minutes, but too long given the material, first - time director Noam Murro applies a very lackadaisical approach to this serio - comedy, padding scenes out with excess.

The previous government was indifferent to the future of costs of a lackadaisical approach to constraining carbon.

It is sad to see this happen, but the best rationale I can come up with to explain his lackadaisical approach is that he is satisfied with the money.

While babies are tested for jaundice in the hospital a number of times, you should not keep a lackadaisical approach towards jaundice.

The news conference brought together chiefs, Regents and Abudus from all walks of life who chided the committee for its lackadaisical approach towards implementation of the Asantehene led mediation committee's recommendations.

What seems unclear is what triggered this oversight — did young people stop voting because they felt politicians did not represent them, or did low turnout trigger the lackadaisical approach politicians took to targeting the youth vote?

The prime minister, who has often been criticised for a lackadaisical approach to government, showed that he had learnt from his political hero Harold Macmillan when he wielded the No 10 carving knife in a manner rarely seen in recent years.

The cumulative result of this lackadaisical approach can be quite shocking.

However, when all else is equal I find upper body movements lend themselves to a little more of a lackadaisical approach compared to lower body movements.

Adamson claims that this was a labor of love, but it leaves you with the feeling that it was made for those who've read the book, and in such a lackadaisical approach to storytelling that it's unlikely to attract new fans.

And this lackadaisical approach winds up undermining the movie as a whole.

Not quite in the sense of Dark Souls» brutal repercussions, you don't lose anything for dying, but it will punish you for taking a lackadaisical approach and constantly remind you who's boss.

Major League: Back to the Minors isn't flashy or even particularly hilarious, but it does generate a certain likeability through its lackadaisical approach and easygoing attitude.

Not that it's bad, as we can take in some very punchy music mixed with some nice European vistas to admire, but in a heist film, the lackadaisical approach is not the best way to go.

I do not accuse teachers of a lackadaisical approach or make assumptions that not enough is being done in the particular field of «gag and banter» as is to be expected of a teacher.

Outside of the bland single player affair, multiplayer modes offering both singles and double matches help make things a bit more interesting, though given the game's lackadaisical approach to everything else it's hardly a surprise that anything approaching online has been quietly ignored.

«The conclusive findings of this new study demand a rethink of Canada's lackadaisical approach to neonics.