Sentence examples for shiftlessness from inspiring English sources

But I see little evidence that high unemployment is due to the shiftlessness of youths and far more evidence that high youth unemployment is due to systematic weakness in labour markets associated with a shortfall in aggregate demand.

We just need to live with the marital landscape as it is, accept that fatherless households and male shiftlessness (decadence …?) will be the norm in working class America for the foreseeable future, and try to mitigate the negative consequences for the kids born into unstable homes by hoping that fewer of them are born at all.

The shiftlessness and drunkenness are authentic Gange, though: it's not easy to hump amplifiers with a can of Special Brew stuck to your lips, so Gange didn't bother.

The general sense of moral shiftlessness is echoed in the literal disorientation caused by the revolving images and our attempts to watch events unfold from four different angles.

So just promise that you will read this explosive little book cover to cover and will pass it on to all your friends and relatives, especially the ones who deplore what they call the general shiftlessness of the laboring classes, and we can forget about how to label it.

Kay, it seems, has a thing for bad boys; she was drawn to Benjamin's wayward ways, his "shiftlessness," the fact that "he wasn't a smart choice".