Sentence examples for sluggish imagination from inspiring English sources

Looking retrospectively at Sterner's effect on the New York streetscape, Shorey said, "It is a sluggish imagination that cannot be captivated by pink and scarlet geraniums against gray stucco, or solid green shutters against a background of red, with well-watered window boxes ambuscading small-paned windows".

As the 76-year-old Anthony Powell embarked on his 19th novel, "The Fisher King," he ruminated in his journal on the special problems facing the older novelist: "The sluggish imagination of old age makes giving of reality to characters difficult.

In the collective imagination, there are two Europes: the industrious north, with relatively low unemployment and dynamic economies, and the sluggish south, where people would just as soon kick back, sip an espresso and watch the world go by.

How sluggish?

Sluggish, clipped.

Wage growth is sluggish.

The economy is sluggish.

America the sluggish.

Amid a sluggish I.P.O.

But business was sluggish.

"We were sluggish.