Sentences with word «slothful»

The company's contentment with its PC position and its over 40 percent smartphone market share at its peak caused the company to become slothful in its mobile strategy.

I'm as much a fan of lazing by the pool as the next woman, but according to legendary psychologist and Flow author Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, this sort of slothful «relaxation» actually doesn't do much to reset and refresh your brain.

From slothful to reactive, lobbying reform rocketed from bottom of the Government's pile.

The poor are not slothful; the rich may be worse.

Answering every mystery with «god did it» is an intellectually slothful cop out.

Research by the Nuffield Trust has revealed the truth extent to which Britain has become slothful.

Relationship complacency is a breeding ground for slothful behavior — when you assume that your relationship will take care of itself, when you hope that your spouse's / partner's complaints will magically resolve themselves without you, when the belief that love will conquer the mundane troubles that all couples face, then the vice of slothfulness has taken over.

This is an intellectually slothful cop out.

If you're more of a DIY kind of person and not as slothful as we are at Vegan Food Hacks, you're welcome to follow the steps in How to Make Cauliflower Rice at OhMyVeggies.

He found that workers that make the most foraging trips die earlier than their more slothful peers.

Sure, missing a day or two of movement can trigger slothful feelings and thoughts.

What does help us power through our most slothful tendencies?

«Our young men have grown slothful.

We are so slothful and perverse that even an honest recognition of our sin can be the occasion of our gravest sin of all: trying to make a fool out of God.

With a cup of tea and a slice of this bread by my side, I am in slothful heaven.

Since Haughton's breakneck pace would make a battalion of beavers seem slothful, this should be taken no more seriously than a lot of things people whisper to you at racetracks.

One of the reasons for the legislators» tough stance is the onslaught of negative news about the district - deadbeat teachers, school violence, slothful students and crooked bureaucrats.

It's been said that they move by dragging themselves around, but in reality that's too slothful even for a sloth.

Now retired from the criminal life and living an easy if slothful existence in coastal Spain, he's the one that got away — the crook who didn't wind up dead or in prison.

Whether it's slothful sales or boring compliance training, you should be able to identify areas in which your organization needs to improve its L&D approach.

Whereas the previous car's 0 - to - 60 times were a torpid 8.4 seconds for the manual and a positively slothful 9.6 seconds for the automatic, the new Cooper zips to 60 mph in a much more energetic 7.4 seconds, with the automatic a tick faster at 7.3 seconds.

The 2015 Chrysler 300 is a full - size sedan that is anything but slothful in the performance department.

Whether you fancy slothful days on the beach or island adventures, with this handy guide of best Cambodia beaches, you should have no problem planning your trip to the islands.

«Guston may have been the first painter to paint that frame of mind so well known to artists and writers: slothful regression.

Not slothful and spending money.

It was scarcely possible to become more slothful.

However, sometimes lazy, going - on slothful, is the way to go in investing.

Kennedys is a hamfisted mess, both slothful in its pacing and leaden in whatever underlying message was meant to be given.

Here's one more tip from King Solomon: «The way of the slothful man is as a hedge of thorns.»

Paradoxically, the slothful are often busy, very busy.

'» In acedia, all being is treated «as something to possess and discard,» and the slothful «violate the integrity of any and every thing.»

If, as a natiion and people, we took this slothful opinion writer's advice to «turn the other cheek» to ruthless terrorism, who do you think would have to answer for all the innocent (and preventable) loss of life?

I'm lazy or as the Bible says, «slothful» at times.

We are indeed prideful, selfish, lustful, slothful, cold of heart, deceitful both to ourselves and others — the melancholy list goes on.

All across the New World, the people grew ever more fat and slothful and knowing this in themselves, saught an easy answer.

«The darkness out of which he was hewn needed to be taken from nowhere else than from our slothful and malicious hearts.

He writes: «As in politics, so in religion: the Catholic new conservatives, no less than radical evangelical Protestants of the left and the right, thought of themselves as a morally exalted outsider group, standing in judgment over a sinful nation and a slothful church, holding out the promise of salvation for the nation and its people and calling on them for repentance and transformation.

At this point another warning is important: Niebuhr's category of sensuality — a slothful retreat into unconscious organicism — should not be overlooked.

But we are led to believe that in this as in other responsibilities the Lord's judgment of «Well done» or «You slothful servant» depends not upon the magnitude of the servant's gifts but upon the fidelity of his stewardship of them.

Even Plato derided trapping as «slothful.»

Just look at how far the Pope and those other priests in dresses and even Jimmy Swaggart got with their flocks and their crazy stories, even telling people not to be slothful, and those guys are all pretty seriously obese.

They were cruel, selfish, treacherous, slothful, false, shameless and incestuous, and included fornicators, degenerates, and paedophiles.

The pilfered offspring return with the raiders to their nests, then hatch and grow up to become live - in slaves, tasked with the feeding and care of their slothful masters and their masters» brood.

Just as you can breed dogs to be slothful or sheep - crazed, you can create mentally ill rat strains by breeding for exaggerated personality traits — and you can do it fairly quickly, on pace with their reproduction.