Plodding

And once you have those items, deriving the required engineering data to build a useful bomb is an exercise in plodding along (or, with more money, certain parties just might be willing to sell you that supposedly ultra-secret data). ❋ Unknown (2006)

Kerry's lightness of touch, compared with Bush's relentless plodding, is a surprise considering what we all know about their backgrounds: Bush never thought of becoming President until a few years before he did; Kerry thought of it in prep school. ❋ Unknown (2004)

These 'Coffee-mules' are wonderfully careful and sure-footed, spending their whole lives in plodding up and down the narrow hill-tracks with a great bag of coffee packed on each side. ❋ Mary Anne (1871)

Ms. Abbott also denies herself one of the great stodgy pleasures of biography: laying out the chronology of a subject's life in what impatient reviewers might call the plodding approach. ❋ CARL ROLLYSON (2011)

The world No1 is currently embarked on yet another swing change, while the other two are back doing what they did before winning their solitary major championship, which is to say plodding along and making a very good living on the PGA Tour. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The bell on the little old church by the hillside, at Nyack, was calling the plodding Dutch settlers to morning service. ❋ A. R. [Illustrator] Waud (N/A)

But the series has a solid fanbase – and beyond that are no doubt many gamers who like the idea of plodding across America in a massive steel beast, with temperamental cohorts at your side, with enemies to turn to cannon fodder mush, with Kinect controls that let you ram down a periscope or jam a pair of metallic legs into gear.10-15 years ago, this kind of esoteric Japapanese treat was much more common on Western release schedules. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Stack said he set aside cash to survive a downturn, a strategy he said many of his rivals considered "plodding" in the debt-is-good ethos of the 1990s and earlier this decade. ❋ Unknown (2009)

For a book that intends to be unbeautiful, "plodding", sometimes it makes all the difference to expect that as you enter the narrative. ❋ Unknown (2009)

According to a report in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, the agencies moved up their announcement after being criticized for "plodding" scientific investigations. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Hoekstra and his conservative cohorts obviously believe, and want all of America to agree, that what police departments do is some kind of plodding, second-rate system of protecting the public. ❋ Unknown (2010)

If you could get to the top through time alone, with no skill, we called it "plodding", and it was regarded as A Bad Thing. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The article focused on the poor, "plodding" Germans who have not been "liberated" from the laws of the government and allowed to shop on Sundays. ❋ Unknown (2008)

For me, watching people of all ages stroll through a peaceful city center on Sundays is proof that these "plodding" Germans are not controlled by insatiable shopping needs, but rather are set on enjoying a day of rest -- something money can't buy. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I thought the original was OK but kind of plodding, and I can't see the mere addition of footage really clearing up some of its more fundamental problems. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Diplomacy, Gearan informs us, should be put down as "plodding," and as having not borne fruit. ❋ Unknown (2006)

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