All that remained was to choose a target from a wall full of posters behind the counter: concentric circles, waist-up man shapes, photographs of sluggish-looking characters with thick mustaches and beer guts.
Moreover, de Kretser seems stubbornly committed to representing her main characters as sluggish when it comes to directing their own lives, people for whom every hopeful turn and promising situation turns pointless and dismal.
The plot twists are completely improbable (and yet predictable), one plot line is dropped completely, there were a lot of sluggish paragraphs, and the characters -- without exception -- were completely annoying.
The pacing is a little sluggish at first and the characters feel underdeveloped but it's rendered watchable by turns from Imogen Poots, Rafe Spall and Luke Wilson.
This tale of coming of age in Flatbush on the eve of the 1929 stock market crash is burdened with a sluggish book by Julius J. Epstein and characters who suggest a middle-class answer to the Bowery Boys.
IGN noted "blurry textures, uninspired stadium designs, and almost incomprehensibly a sometimes sluggish framerate", despite enjoying the characters art style.
Unfortunately, this character is spun through the sluggish changes of a plodding, obvious, and oblivious story for more than two hours.
In the 95-minute "Mummenschanz," playing at the Skirball Center, Slinky-like tubes, sluggish blobs and lots of other peculiar characters populate dozens of unconnected skits.
The playing of the orchestra was imprecise and sluggish at times, but the overall shape and character of the music came through under Ms. Queler, who gets the big things right.
Though Macfadyen enjoyed working in the series, he began to feel "very sluggish and fed up" with playing the same character for two years.
With its sometime sluggish, often incomprehensible storytelling and its borderline-annoying central character, squeaking and scratching away as he plied his impish pranks, it also grated on the nerves.
