Clinton's apology echoed a reflection – racist and arrogant as it was – in my grandfather's letters: "The natives work with delightful laziness under their enormous hats and sparse beards.
And she and the people with her spotted the laziness and the flaws – the worm in the apple – and ruthlessly exposed it in a highly effective manner.
A laziness grew up that meant that if the artistic directorship didn't really like a play they could always shove it on Upstairs, as a way of hedging their bets.
There may have been a tug from the Welshman but Di María's insistence on throwing himself to the floor, rather than staying upright, summarised the sense of laziness from him in recent weeks.
The problem is that it's easy for laziness to look like activism.
Again, for reasons of local pride (stotties), laziness (toast) or misplaced creative zeal (bagels, corn bread, crumpets etc)., many chefs cannot resist tinkering here.
Marco Rubio's book is a work of surpassing laziness, possessed of the aimless, discursive prose of someone remembering what his original point was after concluding a digression he suddenly remembered he wanted to make.
Its success is due to excellent marketing and our laziness in not buying reusable bottles and filling them with tap water.
The residents there have found themselves deep in a perfect storm of political uncertainty and geographic laziness.
Gluttony and laziness aren't brilliant traits to be born with, but they are the crosses I must bear.
With a central character raging against a terminal diagnosis, surrounded by old friends who've either sold out or drifted into life's doldrums, it's a spiky finale to an extraordinary publishing career, and features Banks's trademark rants against political laziness and greed along with his easy humour.
