Sentence examples for sluggish affair from inspiring English sources

But educational change is a sluggish affair.

Driving home on muddy roads in April was a sluggish affair.

Few expected it to be such a sluggish affair, especially as both sides usually play enterprising, attacking football.

The crowd was finally roused by the contest on a sultry afternoon, but Gulbis appeared to be having his own difficulties with a back issue, and the fourth set was a fractured, sluggish affair.

The first half rather petered out from that point, becoming a sluggish affair in which neither team was able to hold on to possession for any meaningful length of time.

Snapping photos and sharing them seems to work just fine (though the Z10's camera doesn't always grab the best shots), but scrolling through the photo feed is an awfully sluggish affair and new users won't be able to create an account from within the app.

The agency's board meetings had long been sluggish affairs, but Mr. Rhea was not going to tolerate the old ways, it seemed, even if that meant bruised feelings.

Cale (Lewis Brogan, a pseudonym for the director, Chris Fuller), a jaded auto mechanic, encounters Nicole when her car breaks down, and he goes to work on it and her, initiating a sluggish, disaffected affair.

"A lot of folks say that when they eat gluten-rich foods, they feel a little sluggish," adds Daniel Fabricant, vice president of scientific and regulatory affairs for the Natural Products Assn., a Washington, D.C.-based trade association.

The apparently sluggish response to the disease by the government is another stick with which to beat the hapless Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affair (Defra) after the furore over the forests sell-off and badger cull.

The so-called Ghosn Affair comes at a fraught time for Nissan, which, together with its rivals, such as Toyota Motor, are struggling with sluggish sales and weaker profits in some important regions, including North America.