Sentence examples for sluggish writing from inspiring English sources

New York Times critic Frank Rich praised Brynner but was ambivalent about the production, which he called "sluggish", writing that Brynner's "high points included his fond, paternalistic joshing with his brood in 'The March of the Siamese Children,' his dumb-show antics while attempting to force the English schoolteacher Anna to bow, and, of course, the death scene..

The direction gave the play a proper unhurried pace ("sluggish," wrote one restless newspaper critic), and there were moving offstage effects the sound of distant bells in one scene, the haunting cry of gondoliers in another.

►In Horizon 2020 news, the European Commission plans to put €2.2 billion of the research program's €74 billion budget into the European Fund for Strategic Investment, "a new, controversial investment fund aimed at boosting Europe's sluggish economy," Tania Rabesandratana wrote this afternoon.

TODAY's recommended economics writing:Another day, another gloomy comparison to a sluggish period in economic history.

But in risking a sluggish pace, Mr Wilson has written what is sure to become the official biography of young Sylvia.Carl Rollyson, an American biographer, takes a different tack.

"The housing market, traditionally a harbinger of economy recovery, continues to falter and the reality of college grads boomeranging back to the nest is, in large part, to blame for the sluggish numbers," Ms. Henderson writes.

Directed by the first-timer Marcel Langenegger, whose background in advertising is belied by this movie's sluggish pace, "Deception" was written by Mark Bomback, who did far better coming up with polysyllabic grunts and groans for Bruce Willis in "Live Free or Die Hard".

Author Phill Hall, writing for Film Threat in 2002, described the film as exceptionally sluggish and one-dimensional, and lampooned it saying "it takes the strongest of constitutions to endure this film without entertaining notions of matricide".

Writing in the Belfast Telegraph on Tuesday, the DUP leader said the 2006 St Andrews Agreement had led to a system that was "time-consuming and sluggish".

Thing Four: Foxconn Plants No Longer Quite As Full Of Joy And Life: Chinese electronics manufacturer Foxconn, which assembles iPhones for Apple and became infamous for installing suicide nets to catch despairing workers, has frozen hiring in response to sluggish iPhone demand, the FT writes.

France cannot be written off after a sluggish start.