Sentence examples for a slackness of from inspiring English sources

But whatever their problems, a slackness of spirit is rarely at the root.

At the same time I sensed a slackness, the disorganization of very intelligent people with their share of the narcissism of the times.

(Perhaps the ultimate evidence can be found in the films of Howard Hawks, whose apparent clarity of manner, which mimes transparency, is as severely artificial as the prose of Ernest Hemingway, and as heatedly forged by an ethic of beauty that views slovenly superfluity, in behavior or in camerawork, as a self-indulgent slackness of character).

Its use of a structuring absence sometimes just comes across as a slackness in the film's treatment.

The music is heavy-handed, and there's a slackness in the editorial.

Cities could suffer for years from a slackness in office markets.

Throughout there was a slackness in performance, not a laziness but maybe a Southern indulgence.

That is, an internationally robust haven for artists where the slackness of markets is not an impeding factor but one that shelters creative enterprise.

A computational methodology is developed with a line-element structural model that incorporates initial slackness of the flexible roof material.

The slackness of the crowd scenes is reflected in a production which was first performed in 2007 – and which often looks in need of a jolly good dust-down.

The animating spirit of her working life was no longer the dignity of labor, the drama of factory strife, or the slackness of union bureaucracy — it was required cheerfulness barely concealing an unhappiness that she was too afraid to show.