Sentence examples for lackadaisical pace from inspiring English sources

Sanchez watched everything with analytical curiosity: the intensity of the competitors, the bleakness of the arena, the often lackadaisical pace of the proceedings and the way Lambke won over the spectators with his hammy Black Knight persona.

That's not because giving birth late in life is protective, Perls says; it's merely an indication that these women's reproductive systems are aging at a lackadaisical pace, as is the rest of their bodies).

"People expect plain talk," Mr. Lazio told reporters in Buffalo before beginning his bus trip, one of several planned in the coming weeks as he steps up his campaign schedule amid talk from some party leaders that he has had a lackadaisical pace lately.

The lackadaisical pace following Trump's Feb. 15 declaration is proof that this is not an actual emergency, never mind the number of years it will take to build a wall once the funding source is identified, said Elizabeth Goitein, an expert on national emergency declarations at the Brennen Center for Justice.

Not long ago it would have been possible to convey the bland, lazy, pedestrian qualities of this picture — its lackadaisical pacing, by-the-numbers performances, irritating music and drab visual texture — by likening it to a made-for-TV movie or an episode of a series on basic cable.

Directed by Vadim Jean, who adapted the books with help from Mr. Pratchett, it is by and large a droll, ingratiating affair, albeit one whose rickety effects and lackadaisical pacing are decidedly more suited to the small screen than to the large.

Frustrated with the Coast Guard's allocation of resources, and convinced that the pace at Houma was "lackadaisical," he teamed up with the parishes and created his own booming plan.

"But we got a little lackadaisical in the final three". Burbank's Danielle Reed paced the team with 10 kills and 22 digs.

It's one note – until the end, when the pace picks up and a saxophonist squalls into the grungy, lackadaisical mix.

Though she paced the qualifying by more than four seconds, a "lackadaisical" — her word — final stroke may have cost her the record.

After hitting the second fence in what his Irish rider, Cyril Murphy, later described as a lackadaisical mistake that kind of knocked him back on his hocks, Quel Senor laid up close to the pace-setting It's a Giggle.