The night plods along, heavy, murderous.
The script plods along like a dutiful but hobbled reindeer.
"He plods along, he knows his strengths and weaknesses.
But that seems unlikely, as long as the recovery plods along slowly.
Social progress plods along like a tortoise, and protest is the jet pack you attach to its back.
The narrative sometimes plods along, as the author follows nearly every twist and turn in Plath's young love life (she had her pick of "literally hundreds of men").
They open with a limp version of Vertigo, which plods along like a Monday morning rehearsal rather than Friday-night Glastonbury showdown.
The thirteen-minute tone poem "Eagles" unleashes a welter of sound, but the clean, treble-heavy orchestration never thumps in place or plods along; it simply lifts off, like the birds of the title.
With its World Series audiences disappearing, with corporate big hitters treating Barry Bonds's journey as radioactive, with its doping policy privately mocked by its own players, baseball plods along, blind to its predicament.
As the book should be reaching its climax, however, his narrative plods along, as if he had grown weary of tracking all the interoffice memos flying back and forth between his subjects (who cooperated with him and to whom the book is dedicated) and the CBS bosses who fired them when they were still bringing in good numbers.
But it plods along, with honking dialogue, one-note characterisation and clunking exposition that's shamefully pat about the ethics of filming the whole shebang (including a suggestion that the producer, divorced himself, forced the issue by revealing Bill's indiscretions to Patty).
