Sentence examples for rather slack from inspiring English sources

His father had had a rather slack mouth, poor teeth, but he was always clean-shaven.

But I have been rather slack about watching movies this winter with the official first day of spring only eight days away, I have no intellectual conversation to make.

But in France, the elite system of the Ecole Nationale d'Administration, known as ENA, has given the word egalité within higher education a hollow sound, making Oxbridge look like a rather slack polytechnic in comparison.

They and the intervening Daniels have become, thanks to the ingenious founders of Elohimism, what the novel calls neohumans, who reside in electrically fenced isolation, keeping in rather slack electronic touch with one another and waiting, with an indifference compounded of Buddhist detachment and genetic modification, to die and be replaced by eighteen-year-old clones.

Mr van Mierlo, I wish you courage and inspiration on the rather slack rope in front of you, and I hope to be able to bring you the hearty congratulations of the Socialist Group when I meet you at the other end in June.

It now seems that America may have rather less slack than had been thought.

Its skin should be taut rather than slack, and the tomato should feel as if its juices are about to burst out of the tight skin, like a water balloon just before it makes contact with your head.

She was an East Coast aristocrat, the Mayflower in heels — or, rather, in slacks, since the Mayflower didn't need to dress, which made the biggest impression of all on the folks from steerage who ran the studios.

He did this despite the fact that the school ban on same-sex dance dates and requirement that girls wear dresses rather than slacks or tuxedos to dances clearly violates the first amendment.

If orders are slack, rather than tell workers not to come in tomorrow the factory boss schedules some of them to go to dealerships to do repair work.

McAlpin says a big difference between his company's solutions and those of competing products like PagerDuty and Everbridge, is that they move the discussion to the tools that operations teams are using like Jira and Slack, rather than moving them into their tool to resolve the issues.