Sentence examples for a sluggard from inspiring English sources

Listen to this: the sloth is "not a sluggard because it's lazy.

Pausing only to make the acquaintance of Alfred Stieglitz — his mentor, fellow-genius, friend, and sometime opponent, and the only person in this book who makes our hero look like a sluggard — Steichen in 1900 sails to Europe, where he finds his true path as an artist, and where Penelope Niven, by no coincidence, loses her way as a writer.

What separates a growth REIT from a sluggard?

This is "a good deal deranged," indeed, and destined to grow madder with the arrival of Arthur, who turns out to be not the wavering reed that we expect but a doughy sluggard with "a sodden complexion".

Even a supposed sluggard such as Macedonia is growing at 4%, much faster than "old Europe".

I passed a few sluggards who were under the impression it was the Empire State Walk-Up.

Our opener is a replica of bronze statue The Sluggard (1885) by Frederic Leighton, a male nude study of an athlete.

With television's new proximity to the more puritanical uses of our devices, the archetype of the beached sluggard on the couch has been smuggled into a portrait of diligence.

Lord Beaverbrook, tycoon (1879 1964)"Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?" Edgar Bergen, ventriloquist (1903 78)"Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest".

There is only delight and amazement, and of course a tiny bit of entirely self-induced guilt at my own sluggard response to mathematical challenge.

"Love not sleep, lest you come to poverty"; "Like vinegar to the teeth and smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to those who send him"; "Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep and an idle person will suffer hunger".