While on the surface procrastination often looks like laziness, at the heart of it lies fear.
The food and the service, whether out of laziness or bad luck, can seem uneven.
Yet executives whose ineptitude or laziness makes their companies ripe for takeover also get rewarded sometimes.
Officials take a dim view of European-style welfare systems, which are said to beget laziness.
The answer, it would seem, is a combination of professional laziness and cultural weakness.
Redistributions of wealth reward those susceptible to laziness and sloth, but consumption without production shrinks the pie.
My laziness, my avoidance of cleaning up after myself in real time, has caught up with me.
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Thanks to my rusty Italian and general laziness, I had ignored the sign marking the box as an emergency alarm.
High-performing team members then see their peers getting away with laziness and reduce their own input accordingly.
"There is occasional laziness in American orchestral playing, because people are just waiting for the downbeat, " he says.
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For some this smacks of laziness but there may also be "quasi-rational" processes at work, Prof Devlin says.
Still, my sister tried out Ann for a little while, until laziness prevailed and she went back to Anh.
More surprising than the falsehood, though, is the sheer laziness of the charge.
He reckons that their brand loyalty or laziness is something drug marketers can tap to keep a premium in their prices.
Usually in this segment, I try to call out horrible metaphors, lampoon bizarre choices and decry laziness.
The growing menace that is Islamist Turkey teaches us that professional laziness and cultural squeamishness are recipes for strategic disasters.
Some media critics attribute their behavior to journalistic laziness and a desire to create sensational stories that will sell newspapers.
Voting for our government to use guns to give money to help poor and suffering people is immoral self-righteous bullying laziness.
In thinking about Millennials before reading FAST FUTURE, the themes of entitlement, laziness, and inflated self esteems raced through my mind.
Other days it was clear upon reviewing sleep data that the accelerometer inside just can't differentiate between laziness and actual sleep.
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And politicians believe that every problem in society, from religious and racial segregation to obesity and laziness, has a solution involving schools.
To keep matters brief: it was more about laziness than a desire to use the trope to pander to a male audience.
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And I suffer from that special kind of laziness that comes from letting a problem fester until dealing with it becomes unthinkable.
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When things get staid and lose their volatility, the bad sides of human character get the upper hand: Greed and laziness.
Jim hates pack journalism, because it encourages laziness and dulls critical faculties.
The stereotype is that they are, you know, they're somehow well, I'll use the word - laziness is involved, that they're just receiving.
Candidates may have gone to the best schools or may come across as charming and brilliant in interviews thus disguising their laziness, incompetence or nastiness.
There is often a prevailing opinion among political leaders that failure to enter the middle class is a result of laziness or poor choices.
Kolbert is convinced our slacker parenting skills are a reflection of a chronic laziness in our society, a sort of generalized sense of no-can-do.
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