Word: plodding
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...Clearly, the four Kucha members who came after Jerri didn't need much debate to settle on her, and as the show threatens to plod on for two more weeks of party-line votes it'll be the aspiring actress and her aspiring assassins that bear watching...
...defense was at its worst immediately following the first pair of Harvard scores, surrendering quick touchdowns and keeping the deficit at 10. No single play was uglier than the Malan touchdown run, when the Crimson defense allowed him to plod untouched down the sideline...
...work of government but not the work of getting elected," says a former adviser. "The guy's an introvert. Putting himself out there is an act of enormous will. He tries and tries and tries, and then you see him withdraw into himself, switch on the autopilot and plod along. And when that happens, his capacity for work is never diminished, but his capacity for joy--the light touch a politician needs--gets lost...
Eliza Naumann knows that her fifth-grade class is made up of "students from whom great things should not be expected." Somehow she missed the cut back in the second grade that exalted the TAG (talented and gifted) children and left Eliza and her fellow mediocrities to plod along as best they could. So when her teacher asks Eliza's group to stand up and take part in their first spelling bee, the little girl fully expects to sit down again very quickly. Instead, she wins the competition in her class and then her school. Next come triumphs...
...taken to dissolve the existing Cabinet so that a new prime minister could be chosen. On the short list of possible candidates, Mori was the consensus candidate. He can be trusted not to rock the boat and to carry out few visionary reforms. Instead, he is predicted to plod along, maintaining the status quo as determined by a small group of LDP insiders...