The potted histories of communism he provides as context are leaden and sometimes sloppy.
But although there were more leaden-footed swishes outside off-stump and a miscued heave to long-off, the game was drifting away.
The commonest form is advertising: statistics-laden special supplements, where leaden prose is coupled with cheesy new logos and lame slogans.
The leaden movement of ancient glaciers has shaped the Rockies' jagged landscape.
' although can be terribly leaden in films like 'Hook' and 'Amistad.
At Oxford, she impressed her father also an alumnus by becoming president of the Union, a debating society with a line in leaden sophomoric wit.
The movie is a peculiarly irritating failure a leaden piece of uplift.
The leaden and menacing stares of our Al Qaeda captors eloquently made a mockery of our aggressive Western claims to harbour higher or superior values.
Demand for the iPhone has since exploded, leaving Samsung and its domestic rival LG (which together have sold seven out of ten phones in South Korea), looking uncharacteristically leaden.
Absorbing Genentech into Roche would have foisted upon the former the leaden culture that turned the latter into one of the least innovative pharma companies of the last 13 years.
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Which brings us, unavoidably, to "Leatherheads, " the disappointingly leaden, if eager-to-please attempt by George Clooney, the movie's star and director, to evoke the screwball comedies of Hawks, Cukor and Sturges.
Since both the PD leader, Pier Luigi Bersani, and Monti are dull, leaden communicators who failed to offer any positive, hopeful message for their voters, the way was opened for Berlusconi.
Leaden skies and warm temperatures were perfect for James Anderson and he made the most of them, aided by some accurate bowling from the impressive Finn, in only his fourth Test.
Annetta Cheek, chairwoman of the Center for Plain Language, says the Plain Writing Act of 2010, which requires public agencies to lighten their leaden language, has given strong support to the antijargon movement.
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Mulgrew was sleeping as Alan broke away to drill a cross that Zaluska turned round for a corner and Echiejile was quickest to meet a flick on from the resulting delivery, with Glenn Loovens leaden-footed.
Stephen Malley, the professor played by Mr. Redford -- who also directed, with a leaden touch -- peddles only banalities in urging a bright, disaffected student to step up to the task of changing the system.
And Henrik Lundqvist, having been on the bench for an extra attacker when Campbell scored with 50.4 seconds left in regulation, trudged back toward the net, swinging his legs slowly as if they were leaden, only to return to the bench seconds later to bury his head in his bulky goaltending gloves.
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