Although her face can slacken into what looks like sullenness — an expression seized upon by news photographers, who like to capture her hovering behind the Mayor, as if she were his cheerless errand girl — she is an effective public speaker, with a biography that ties her persuasively to the city's master narrative of immigrant striving, of survival and success.
Without that framework, the japes can slacken and tire, and even the best running gags eventually lose their legs; the hair gel that is required by the preening Clooney, for example, may be funny at the beginning, but by the end it's just grease.
Although her face can slacken into what looks like sullenness an expression seized upon by news photographers, who like to capture her hovering behind the Mayor, as if she were his cheerless errand girl she is an effective public speaker, with a biography that ties her persuasively to the city's master narrative of immigrant striving, of survival and success.
Findings revealed most students felt internal is better; with distance, you are not pushed to your ability so can slacken off (ID131), suggesting poor self-motivation may continue underscoring the high online study attrition rates experienced by early online courses (Muilenburg & Berge, 2005).
If our two loves be one, or thou and I Love so alike that none can slacken, none can die.
"I always worry when we score so early as we tend to slacken off but this time we really did turn the screw and we had five tries by half-time," he added.
When I saw how stuck in the past they were, I was more confident that we would win; but we did not slacken our efforts.
We can see how careful Evelyn Waugh is to avoid such a slackening in this deft paragraph from his 1934 novel, A Handful of Dust.
"It is only if a country has people who seek truth, who are capable of independent thinking, who can record the truth, who build but do not take advantage of the land, who protect their constitutional rights, who know the world is imperfect but who do not slacken or give up - it is only if a country has this kind of mind and spirit that we can say we are proud of our country.
