Sentence examples for long dilatory from inspiring English sources

It's a time for reading books cover to cover, listening to song cycles, reacquainting yourself with the Tarkovsky back catalogue, walking long, dilatory walks.

Being only human, poor Mandelstam tried ways of ingratiating himself with the authorities, and he even worked on a long ode to Stalin — long, complex, dilatory, but unable to cross the crooked chasm into adulation.

Far from being precipitous, the attorney general had been extraordinarily patient, if not dilatory, in a situation increasingly dangerous to Elian's long-term well-being.

The dilatory pace of fiscal consolidation is unlikely to assuage investors for long.

Long before the latest obstacle, Mayor James had lost patience with what he saw as the Port Authority's dilatory tactics.

Here's the problem: As long as the company associates hardware with cloud computing then its troubles will continue to magnify and have a dilatory effect on the company's ability to offer on-demand and self-service offerings.

They are being dilatory, too.

God bless diazepam, its dilatory grace.

There is minimal accountability for dilatory performance.

Consob's dilatory pace is one.

But the comfort is false and dilatory.