Sentences with phrase «plodder like»

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While others rush around in the frenzy and busyness which very bright people so often confuse with «creativity,» the plodder puts one foot in front of the other and gets there first, like the tortoise in the old fable.»

For all their talk of commitment to the boss and continuity, will they really keep letting van Gaal and his team play like a bunch of over the hill plodders?

Joe Pickett, game warden of Twelve Sleep County in Wyoming, is just the kind of everyman hero we can't help but identify with: something of a plodder, even a bit of a bungler (he loses his gun to a poacher in the novel's opening scene), he is nevertheless the kind of man who responds to a crisis with courage and the ability to act decisively (just the way we like to think we would respond).