Sentences with phrase «plodders who»

Others are determined plodders who won't take no for an answer.

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Fulham were a strange team last year, a rag - tag assortment of plodders, cloggers, carthorses, journeymen, water - carriers terrible footballers, past - it players who used to be good, past - it players who used to be alright, and square pegs in round holes.

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).

RD: But usually it was the plodders and the docile ones, perhaps pretty good ones, who stayed with painting.

And contingency work can create resentment or at least some distrust between the «hourly plodders» and the «riverboat gamblers» who take the risk on contingency matters.