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«Baseball is a slow, sluggish game, with frequent and trivial interruptions, offering the spectator many opportunities to reflect at leisure upon the situation on the field: This is what a fan loves most about the game»
Author: Edward Abbey
(Writer)
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Baseball
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at leisure, fan, field game, frequent, interruptions, leisure, offering, reflect, sluggish, spectator, The Field, The Spectator, trivial
«We are enjoying sluggish times and not enjoying them very much.»
«The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions.»
Author: John W. Gardner
(Secretary, Writer)
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Age
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aspirations, hallmark, sluggish
«Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves.»
«And nothing hinders their spendings being accepted from them, except that they disbelieve in Allah and in His Apostle and they do not come to prayer but while they are sluggish, and they do not spend but while they are unwilling. (The Immunity 9.54)»
«One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.»
Author: Sir Walter Scott
(Biographer, Historian, Novelist, Poet)
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crowded, decorum, marsh, marshes, observances, one hour, paltry, sluggish, to the full, waters
«In doing good, we are generally cold, and languid, and sluggish; and of all things afraid of being too much in the right. But the works of malice and injustice are quite in another style. They are finished with a bold, masterly hand; touched as they are with the spirit of those vehement passions that call forth all our energies, whenever we oppress and persecute.»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
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languid, masterly, persecute, sluggish, vehement
«Stability itself is nothing else than a more sluggish motion»
«He that travels in theory has no inconveniences; he has shade and sunshine at his disposal, and wherever he alights finds tables of plenty and looks of gaiety. These ideas are indulged till the day of departure arrives, the chaise is called, and the progress of happiness begins. A few miles teach him the fallacies of imagination. The road is dusty, the air is sultry, the horses are sluggish. He longs for the time of dinner that he may eat and rest. The inn is crowded, his orders are neglected, and nothing remains but that he devour in haste what the cook has spoiled, and drive on in quest of better entertainment. He finds at night a more commodious house, but the best is always worse than he expected.»
«There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten.»
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