Sentence examples for sluggish beginning from inspiring English sources

As the sixties began, if I was sluggish beginning my lecture — maybe I had stayed up all night with a visiting poet — I paused by the front row and asked if anyone had some of those diet things.

Java's War had the same sluggish beginning in his only other start this year.

But they more than made amends for that sluggish beginning and eventually set the visitors a challenging target.

Many audience members and critics, myself included, agreed that while the opera, which has its American premiere at the Met on Monday, contained much that was beautiful, intelligent and intriguing, it also had problems that ranged from a sluggish beginning to an unfocused central character.

A draw will be a huge disappointment for Liverpool, who had come into the game desperate to kick-start their season after a sluggish beginning following their summer spending spree.

Yankees fans seemed unsure how to react when Tim Tebow, the Jets' backup quarterback, was shown in the stands, but they knew just how to respond when the Yankees' sluggish lineup began to awaken on a warm Sunday night at Yankee Stadium.

"We were a bit sluggish to begin with and that was disappointing, but the players responded in a positive manner and that's always very pleasing".

We have had enough wake-up calls, and our sluggish response is beginning to look like ambivalence.

The International Monetary Fund has said the global economy is beginning a sluggish recovery from its worst recession since the war, raising its estimate for global economic growth in 2010 to 2.5 per cent, from an April projection of 1.9 per cent.

Antarctic notothenioids are endemic to the Southern Ocean and probably evolved in situ from a sluggish, benthic perciform species beginning 40-60 Mya in the then temperate waters of the Antarctic continental shelf [ 1].

Anatoly Smulevich, author of the monographs Problema Paranoyi (The Problem of Paranoia) (1972) and Maloprogredientnaya Shizofreniya (Continuous Sluggish Schizophrenia) (1987), which had contributed to the hyperdiagnosis of "sluggish schizophrenia", again began to play the same role he played before.