slothfulness

And others are there who call virtue the slothfulness of their vices; and when once their hatred and jealousy relax the limbs, their "justice" becometh lively and rubbeth its sleepy eyes.

I am too classical, not enough up-to-date in the interpretative branches of science, and I can only plead the disadvantages of my education and a temperamental slothfulness that prevents me from doing the work.

Slothfulness, complacency and mediocrity are the hallmarks of a life that has signed on for the parasitic existence.

focus on the concept of sloth or slothfulness, a modern malady in the

The wisdom literature has also mentioned many things about laziness and slothfulness as causes of personal poverty (Prov.

In 1582, George Buchanan commented on Macbeth's "Disgust at the un-active Slothfulness of his Cousin" and expatiated on his merit in the first ten years of his reign, adding that, "if he had not obtained it by Violence, he might have been accounted inferior to none of the former Kings." (37) In his turn, Holinshed remarked that Duncan was "negligent...

"My government will have no tolerance for bureaucratic slothfulness, which is quick to brandish procedures as an excuse for stalling service delivery to citizens, investors and other stakeholders," Mnangagwa said.

But one problem is file fragmentation is to be solved, on condition that that a machine has periods of slothfulness in which defragmentation can be run.

Forrester, (63) was demonstrating all-too-usual slothfulness in laying a pole across the road during the course of making repairs to his house, or whether he was generally a meticulously careful craftsman whose oversight concerning the placement of the pole was entirely inconsistent with his habits of care and concern for others.

OUR Antecessours of whom we should oft read, And hold in mind their fame and worthy deed; We let over slide through very slothfulness, And cast us ever to other Business.

leadership role and allowed their slothfulness to infect your entire group.

For example, Wall-E highlights the slothfulness of consumerism run amuck because robots perform all labor.