How To Use Sloth In A Sentence
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Lee's debut on the Xbox does not resemble a dragon, but prefers to plod along like a sloth, short on all the crucial fronts, lazily bumbling along everywhere else.
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Late in the day, just after we had feasted on the fruits of a wild cacao, we came upon a three-toed sloth climbing slowly through the upper branches of a cecropia tree.
One River
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Two toed sloths are perhaps more heterothermic than any other mammal.
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Slothrop kicks aside loose earth and finds a brick cairn, stuffed with potatoes ensiled last year.
Gravity's Rainbow
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Saber-toothed cats, mastodons, giant sloths, woolly rhinos, and many other big, shaggy mammals are widely thought to have died out around the end of the last ice age, some 10,500 years ago.
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Sloth turns the edge of wit.
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Sloth is the key of [to] poverty.
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Dogs, rhinoceroses, tree sloths, horses, and whales are placentals.
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Except that he was not slothful: he had been busy all night.
MURDER SONG
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Most placental mammals have teeth that are capped with enamel, but there are also lineages without teeth, such as anteaters, pangolins and baleen whales, or with enamelless teeth, such as armadillos, sloths, aardvarks and pygmy and sperm whales.
ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
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This was an ai or three-toed sloth. It was in the possession of a gentleman, who was collecting curiosities.
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That sounds like condonation of sloth, indiscipline, unethical behaviour, and disregard of responsibility.
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This night, the turtle was laying her eggs on a low shelf of sand near a line of dune scrub and low palms, not far from dense jungle that is home to the deadly fer-de-lance snake, caimans, howler monkeys and sloths.
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All crimes great and small could be traced to postcapitalist avarice, egoism, sloth, parasitism, drunkenness, religious prejudices or inherited depravity.
Gorky Park
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Leopards, hyenas, jackals, sloth bears, cobras, pythons, mongooses and monitor lizards move silently through its forests.
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The long, hot dusty afternoons, where time hangs still, and dry leaves fly in sad whirls before collapsing to the ground, the inertia and sloth that drives even the most energetic into a huddle, the sense of despair.
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The desert-dwelling Shasta ground sloth would have eaten the ripe gourds in autumn.
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Sloth is the key of [to] poverty.
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Now, at 8: 00 a.m., the calliope hauled out of the local museum each year awakens the open-windowed slothful for blocks around.
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Nearby in the Graham Amazon gallery visitors can gaze at 7 foot arapaimas, catfish the size of bulldogs, beautiful tiger stingrays, giant anacondas, electric eels, two toed sloths and creepy piranhas.
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To intense, hardworking young Taylor, the practice could scarcely have seemed like anything but the most shameless sloth.
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In Heuvelmans’ book there is also a chapter propounding the existence of megatheriums, or giant ground sloths, in South America.
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Submissions - poetic, pathetic and just plain bizarre - fall into categories like Pride, Envy, Sloth and Gluttony.
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I firmly believe that sloth and indolence are much kinder to the environment than greed and ambition.
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People don’t tend to use the word sloth anymore, yet the Bible speaks in very strong terms about the issue of slothfulness or laziness.
Living on the Edge
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Although none of them are endemic, there are several threatened species, including the tiger, gaur, wild dog, sloth bear, chousingha, and blackbuck.
Narmada Valley dry deciduous forests
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The slow-moving two-toed sloths, tiny dwarf mongoose, South American acouchi and African rock hyrax are other unique features of the daytime exhibits.
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_Agility_ and _Nimbleness_; this renders the Limbs flexible and mettlesom, and adapts them for the most Vigorous Enterprize: It makes the languid and slothful, _brisk_ and _sprightful_; and rejects
The School of Recreation (1684 edition) Or, The Gentlemans Tutor, to those Most Ingenious Exercises of Hunting, Racing, Hawking, Riding, Cock-fighting, Fowling, Fishing
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Where is the justice of sloth or greed?
The Sun
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Natural amiableness is too often seen in company with sloth, with uselessness, with the vanity of fashionable life.
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I love the days I can sloth about in pyjamas and not leave the house, and being sick is a brilliant excuse.
Snot « oh frabjous day!
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I'm feeling pretty slothful and despondent today, so I've took the lazy option of filling a bit of blogspace by copying down one of those questionnaires that I so detest.
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Now with the increased propensity of sloth in my lifestyle, I am getting out of shape.
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The woolly rhinos and cave bears of Europe and Asia, the saber-toothed cats, the mastodons and giant sloths of North and South America - could some of these have made it through too?
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Sloth is the key of poverty.
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That often happens when it's been a slow news day, a sluggish news week or sometimes even a slothful news month.
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Strive not to run, like Hercules, a furlong in a breath: festination may prove precipitation; deliberating delay may be wise cunctation, and slowness no slothfulness.
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6
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Panama is angling to be the next Costa Rica, with nearly 6,000 square miles of public lands and a wildlife population (jaguars, tapirs, giant sea turtles, sloths) that'll make any tropical nation green with envy.
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Big Bone Cave was certainly mined for fertilizer in 1884, when excavation by a local farmer unearthed bones of an extinct giant sloth.
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This sedentary behaviour is apparently turning our kids into a race of slothful fatties who risk a reduced lifespan and other problems.
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Apparently, contrary to initial rumor and obvious impression, Bush's problem in the first debate was not sloth, but overpreparation.
Archive 2005-06-05
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Sloth ( like rust ) consumes faster than labour wears: the used key is always bright.
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Among the finds is a near-intact mammoth skeleton, a skull of an American lion and bones of saber-toothed cats, dire wolves, bison, horses, ground sloths and other mammals.
Ice age fossils include almost intact mammoth | clusterflock
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It may be mentioned that they are subdivided into a number of genera, as the sloths, etcetera; and here, again, without any very sufficient reason, since they all possess the scaly armour -- from which the name armadillo is derived -- and their habits are nearly identical.
Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found A Book of Zoology for Boys
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American sloth W 1883 OW mephitine skunk W soricine shrew 1781 - moschine musk deer c1878 OW OW talpine mole 1860 OW musteline weasel, mink tapirine tapir
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IV No 1
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And the logical remedy for competitive sloth is stiffened antitrust enforcement.
Ian Fletcher: Is a Flat Tariff the Answer to America's Trade Mess?
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Though the gross there will be the shortage, is own sloth.
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These are the defilements of sensuous desire, ill-will or anger, sloth and torpor, agitation and worry, and doubt.
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The food that bears eat is not often found in large quantities and would not be enough to feed a group, or sloth, of bears.
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In the triumph of Royalist counter-revolution Milton saw the dangers of political passivity, of ideological sloth.
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There are also sights that feel entirely new: a sloth swimming lazily in a tropical blue sea, or young marine iguanas pursued by fearsome racer snakes.
Times, Sunday Times
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Investigation into UG lecturer 'slothful' - UG student - 0 Comments
Stabroek News
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The second figure was walking towards the survivors with the same slow, slothful intent as the first had just minutes earlier.
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His notion that the Chinese loaded up a few mylodons (giant ground sloths) in Patagonia, only to let one escape in Australia, would not have withstood a couple of minutes on the internet.
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The reader will not fail to note that the terrace of the slothful is the only circle of Purgatory where there is no request for intercessory prayer and that Dante here never speaks to any of those souls.
Dante: "The Central Man of All the World" A Course of Lectures Delivered Before the Student Body of the New York State College for Teachers, Albany, 1919, 1920
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The people of these areas call the 3-toed sloth "ai" after its shrill cry("ai-ai!").
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I've now had notes from Josie's teacher requesting a sloth costume AND from Ollie's teacher asking for a piglet costume.
AND GOD CREATED THE AU PAIR
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We learned the difference between mastodons and mammoths and admired their sturdy columnar legs, but given our languor, we resembled nothing so much as the giant sloth.
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The puerility and sloth of the students, the pure nothingness of the curriculum: it's all sham and mummery, gutless as a haiku poem.
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The bad news is I skipped the cool down and the imps of sloth have decided to punish my errant behaviour with a pinched nerve, that restricts the movement of my head.
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Results The infected mice began to fall ill at 6 d post-infection, symptoms including decreased appetite, pilomotor fur, sloth, shakes and diarrhea, with a mortality rate of 20%.
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The small island was alive with wildlife: sloths, tapirs, peccaries, howler monkeys, tamarins, ocelots, blue-headed parrots, trogons and oropendolas, birds that make noises like water dropping on water.
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Your teen needs some house rules, else he becomes a sloth and his room begins to seriously resemble a gerbil cage.
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But the journey, which leads to the discovery of shards of ancient pottery and the bones of extinct sloths, makes for a story of great suspense.
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As the wife of Raymond, she would probably have lapsed by now into pinguitude and sloth -- unless discontent and exasperation had prevented.
On the Stairs
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As happens to most men of such quality who attack the accepted smugness and intellectual sloth of their times, he was stamped as a perverse pugnacious fellow who delighted in being against the wisdom of the age.
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Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears.
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How much sloth and negligence, heat and passion, the prevalency of fashion or acquired indispositions do severally contribute, on occasion, to these wrong judgments, I shall not here further inquire.
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
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Some species present, which are endemic to the Atlantic forest include maned sloth Bradypus torquatus (EN), thin-spined porcupine Chaeotemys subspinosus (EN), jaguar Panthera onca (VU) and Geoffroy's tufted-ear marmoset Callithrix geoffroyi (VU).
Discovery Coast Atlantic Forest Reserves, Brazil
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The mammalian fauna in the lowlands is typically Indo-Malayan, consisting of langurs (Semnopithecus spp.), Asiatic wild dogs (Cuon alpinus, VU), sloth bears (Melursus ursinus, VU), gaurs (Bos gaurus, VU), and several species of deer, such as muntjac (Muntiacus muntjak) and sambar (Cervus unicolor).
Biological diversity in the Himalayas
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The armadillo, ground sloth, opposums, and phorusrhacid birds were among the animals that migrated North from South America.
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Once again the drawbacks to living a life of laziness and sloth became apparent.
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And the said witch was clad full fair, and had laid by her sloth and stupid pride, as meseemed; and her limbs were grown rounder and sleeker, and her skin fairer, so that to them that knew her not she might well seem to be a goodly woman.
The Water of the Wondrous Isles
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The wandering soul has countless names, many of them suggestive of sloth and indolence.
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"Isn't thirteen a large number for a sloth of bears?" "It certainly is," the hunter answered, "six is as many as I ever saw together."
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The London zoo has/had hanuman langurs, living in an outdoor exhibit with the sloth bears, and previously muntjac and gibbons too.
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There's a big floppy rabbit, slumped with the word "sloth" written across his giant paws.
This week's new exhibitions
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Their body temperatures fluctuate from as low as 24 degrees C to as high as 33 degrees C. Unlike three-toed sloths, however, they do not thermoregulate by basking.
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All the members called him Sloth, which perfectly reflected his sluggish and torpid personality.
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It seems to be intrinsic to domestic politics of every variety that a certain dismal downward trend emerges, characterized by sloth, despondency and complacency.
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There are three-toed sloths, among which is the ai, and the two-toed sloths, among which is the unau.
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In South America, he discovered the bony plates of glyptodonts - creatures reminiscent of armadillos, but much larger - and (at a separate site) the fossil bones of giant ground sloths.
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We are more surprised by finding such gigantic proportions in an animal called the megatherium, which ranks in an order now assuming much humbler forms -- the edentata -- to which the sloth, ant-eater, and armadillo belong.
Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation
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I have found it strange and yet logical that one of the first symptoms of unemployment is serious and serial sloth.
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The athletic spring that had once been in my step had slid disgracefully into a slothful waddle and I was metamorphosing into a thirty-something marshmallow instead.
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Still Slothrop keeps his map up daily, boobishly conscientious.
Gravity's Rainbow
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Call those of us who rampage through a plate of food like bindweed through a suburban garden greedy if you wish, but if fast eating leads to lust and then sloth, well, that sounds like a bloody good night out to me.
Slow eaters have lost their appetite for life
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The report criticizes the government's sloth in tackling environmental problems.
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They frowned on His Devilishness because he was easy-going, slothful, frequently blitzed out of his head, and interested only in pleasure.
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‘It's about idleness and sloth, and not getting out there and bringing in fresh, exciting stories,’ he says.
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I ran up the steps of the house, stripping off the flamenco shirt which hung on me like a three-toed sloth.
INSTRUMENTS OF DARKNESS
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Where food is plentiful, like at a salmon stream, you will often see a sloth of bears.
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Until lately, you led a life of innocent sloth.
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He told me how he'd met a sloth bear on this track.
Indian Balm - Travels in the Southern Subcontinent
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Over the centuries, the church refined his list to the current seven: anger, gluttony, sloth, envy, pride, lust and greed.
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You can walk through a tropical jungle and admire parrots, poison tree frogs and sloths in the trees and piranhas in the water beneath, or watch beluga whales and sea otters through the windows of large tanks in the Canadian Arctic display.
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This is pretty good progress for you George, even accounting for your usual slothful approach to work.
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I love the game and played club cricket poorly until age and sloth took over.
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But can't we have a little listlessness in our lives, some sloth, a dollop or two of drowsiness?
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At the nearby site of La Conchita were found skeletal remains of the extinct mastadon, the glyptodont, a giant sloth, and the horse, dating back some 12,000-14,000 years.
Veracruz: traveling the Central High Plains of Mexico
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I would very much like to feel better now so I can get back to regular vigourous exercise, which makes me feel all shiny and renewed as opposed to sluggish yet slothful, which is how I've been feeling since Hurricane Datlow returned to base.
Seen On A Passing Bus In London This Morning:
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But now that the holy ritual brought also the command of the Latin tongue, men were as slothful now as they were unskilled before, and their sluggishness proved as faultful as that former neediness.
The Danish History, Books I-IX
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Sloth is the key of poverty.
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Some parties see him as a munificent benefactor, while others regard him as an agent of sloth.
THE SCHEME FOR FULL EMPLOYMENT
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But in an era of supersize burgers and fries that we can purchase without leaving our cars, our innate ‘thriftiness’ can give rise to gluttony and sloth.
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Absence of competition makes for sloth.
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Now, I'm not here to say the folks who defend the right and conservative views in Alberta's media are a bunch of mental sloths who have grown fat and weak in the unchallenging environment of provincial politics.
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To spend too much time in studies is sloth, to use them too much for ornament is affectation, to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humour of a scholar, nor natural abilities are like natural plants that need pruning by study and studies themselves give forth directions much at large except to be found in by experience.
Education: A Canadian Priority and A Provincial Responsibility
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The skin looked so fresh the animal was thought to have recently died, but it turned out to be the 10,000-year-old remnants of a mylodon, an extinct 10-foot-tall sloth.
So Far, So Good
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I do not mean the nimble, fleet-footed ones like the allosaurus; I mean the slow sloth-type ones that we are encountering at the moment.
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It's was a very interesting discussion of acedia †" a state of being described by 4th century monks as a slothful, meaningless state of being where one is transformed into someone who simply doesn't care ... about anything.
Visual Voice
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It will appear to be just another tramp freighter, but is actually the disguised personal vessel of Lord Isloth.
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South America was also home to living species of armadillos and sloths.
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Fatigue had made him slothful, and now he'd let his enemies get dangerously close.
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That sounds like condonation of sloth, indiscipline, unethical behaviour, and disregard of responsibility.
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It came as a great surprise to me that Toronto - who still gives off a bit of puritan vibe until you get to know her - is as slothful in the mornings as a couple newly in love.
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This crazy vertebrae inconsistency is because the Two - and Three-toed sloths do not have a shared ancestor until you go back 40 MILLION YEARS.
Three things you might not have known about SLOTHS
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I'm convinced that half of being successful when you're naturally slothful is learning your own tricks well enough to outsmart yourself.
Random Thought For The Day: Childhood
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He doesn't like to hang on trees with the other sloths.
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And while you could make the case that Hamlet was a misanthrope, you commit the slothful sin of identifying the author with his creation if you say the same of Shakespeare.
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On the one side we have baboons, lions, elephants, buffaloes, and giraffes; on the other spider-monkeys, pumas, tapirs, anteaters, and sloths; while among birds, the hornbills, turacos, orioles, and honeysuckers of Africa contrast strongly with the toucans, macaws, chatterers, and hummingbirds of America.
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Slothrop approaches gold-snooded M.M. a little deferent, "uh, do you think you could ...
Gravity's Rainbow
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Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep an idle soul shall suffer hunger.
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They come down trees head-first like squirrels; stand on their hind legs balancing on their tails like kangaroos; and crawl and hang upside-down in the canopy like sloths.
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He was incorruptible, and had an intolerance to sloth and greed.
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However, I was by now committed to a day of gluttony and sloth, and so spent the afternoon eating chocolate and watching ‘reality’ tv.
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Their suspicions focussed particularly on what Cornwallis and his kind characterized as sloth and desertion.
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The other is a deep, nearly subaudible drone with an occasional beat like the pulse of a sloth deep in hibernation.
Disquiet » Field Music MP3
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The seven deadly sins are covetousness, envy, gluttony, lust, pride, anger and sloth.
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But the stereotype of today's footballer is the opposite of slothful.
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Diligence (Latin, Industria) (ethics, brought the term exceedingly in vogue, opposes Sloth, Latin Acedia): A zealous thinking hereby to draw the philosophers to and careful nature in one's actions and Christianity, who aspired after such a work.
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Strive not to run like Hercules, a furlong in a breath: festination may prove precipitation; deliberating delay may be wise cunctation, and slowness no slothfulness.
Christian Morals
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In all placental mammals the lower canine bites ‘ahead’ of the upper canine (look at sloths and you’ll see that they differ – almost certainly because one of their canines isn’t actually a true canine), and in peccaries the almost total lack of enamel on the posterior surface of the lower canine means that it is constantly sharpened as it moves against the enamelled anterior face of the upper canine.
Why putting your hand in a peccary’s mouth is a really bad idea
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Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears.
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Until the oversized beasts known as megafauna went extinct, our ancestors had to learn to survive on a landscape populated with creatures like sabre-toothed tigers, oversized eagles, and plodding giant sloths.
Monster Movie
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The most plentiful of these California ground-sloths, the mylodon, was about the size of a rhinoceros; an unwieldy, slow-moving creature, feeding on plants, and in appearance utterly unlike anything now living.
VIII. Primeval Man; and the Horse, the Lion, and the Elephant
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He teaches with a barely suppressed aggression, refusing to tolerate teenage slothfulness.
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I wouldn't like to use the term gradual laziness to describe the deterioration my work ethic - not when words like indolence, sloth and bone-idleness will do so much better.
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English girls don't know about fireflies, which is about all Slothrop knows for sure about English girls.
Gravity's Rainbow
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Thus exercise, a new skill and a decent night's sleep and productive Thursday can replace overindulgence and a somewhat seedy and slothful Thursday.
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The teeth become less like those of ground sloths, adapted for browsing on leaves and assorted vegetation.
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And hey, you can finally tell yourself that being a slothful, gluttonous thief isn't such a self-serving activity, after all.
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The cerebellum is nearly the same fraction of the brain in sloths and cats, sheep, manatees and antelopes but many fold bigger in some elasmobranch species than in others.
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This fact is inescapable, especially if you move like a stuffed sloth on a marble plinth.
Times, Sunday Times
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Certainly sloths in South America and koalas in Austrailia wouldn't have survived the trip?
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Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears.
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The King, who (till then) had beene very bad, dull, and slothfull, even as sleeping out his time of governement; beganne to revenge the wrongs done to this Gentlewoman very severely, and
The Decameron
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Ophim strives to uphold the Indian tradition that guests are gods; this will greatly appeal to the slothful.
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These extinctions included animals such as mammoths and mastodons, the saber-toothed cat, ground sloths and native American horses and camels.
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So long that we had thirty at a time sick of this _calenture_, which attacked our men, either by reason of the sudden change from cold to heat, or by reason of brackish water which had been taken in by our pinnace, through the sloth of their men in the mouth of the river, not rowing further in where the water was good.
Sir Francis Drake Revived
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He teaches with a barely suppressed aggression, refusing to tolerate teenage slothfulness.
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He calls him "wicked servant," because he cavilled against his Lord; and "slothful," because he would not double his talent; condemning his pride in the one, and his idleness in the other.
Catena Aurea - Gospel of Matthew
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Just like the ancient seven deadly sins - pride, anger, envy, greed, gluttony, lust and sloth - the memory sins occur frequently in everyday life and can have serious consequences for all of us.
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The sloths and armadillos are rather odd mammals characteristic of South America.
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Is my slothful old age doomed to gloomy obscurity?
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In a world where an internet search for the word "sloth" delivers 8 million results in 0.06 of a second, the taskforce of old suddenly has a whiff of second-class post about it.
Letters: Tornado whips up defence rethink
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You transmute your shadow into wisdom by waking up and letting go of doubt, sloth, and stupor.
C. Clinton Sidle: The Five Wisdoms Of The Mandala
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In Heb 5: 11, he said, "Ye have become dull (Greek, 'slothful') of hearing"; here he warns them not to become
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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I read, first "The aquatic sloth Thalassocnus (Mammalia, Xenarthra) from the Late Miocene of North-Central Chile: biogeographic and ecological implications," and then went back to the long-neglected Victorians and the Prehistoric: Tracks to a Lost World.
Pictures That Move, and Pictures That Have Ceased Moving
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Within days of my arrival, unshakeable slothfulness had settled comfortably upon me like a high tog duvet.
LOVE YOU MADLY
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The use of the English word "sloth" gets the focus away from sadness.
Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz
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Sloths and barnacles are derived from mobile ancestors, implying that selection sometimes favors reduced mobility of animals.
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The law was against loitering, though it may as well have been against idleness and sloth.
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Monkeys, tapirs, sloths, anteaters, and bats abound, all in an area the size of West Virginia.
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South America is the home of a peculiar order of mammalia -- of the edentata, to which belong the sloth, the armadillo, and the like.
The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality
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He admitted a lack of motivation and a feeling of sloth.
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I sometimes think she is a sort of living phenomenon intended to represent all the passions -- a genuine Pandora's box -- a piece of patchwork made up of the odds and ends of all animals in creation -- a sort of menagerie in herself, where the dove and the kite, the serpent and the sparrow, the gilded butterfly and the unsightly bat, the gluttonous sloth and the air-feeding chamelion, are all exhibited.
Alamance; Or, the Great and Final Experiment viii, 9-151, [1] p.
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In South America, a group known as the Xenarthrans developed, today represented by the anteaters, sloths and armadillos.
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Elshtain considers two generic sins that result from our fallen state: pride and sloth.
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He painted government as the slothful bloated protector of welfare cheats, overpaid bureaucrats and useless politicians.
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The sloth bear's long muzzle has protrusible lips and nostrils which it can close - these two features allow it to create a vacuum tube to suck up the termites.
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He had fallen at the hands of sloth and torpor; of avarice and complacency.
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The sloths inherit the ability to detoxify and digest leaves of specific trees.
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Martin, in quoting this, notes that the last “entire earth” of the sort Thoreau had in mind had disappeared from the North American continent some 13,000 years earlier, with the disappearance of native species such as mastodons and giant sloths.
The Making of a New Biophilia: Evolutionary Governance and the Modern Creation Myth By Walter Truett Anderson
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The original ‘Seven Deadly Sins’ are commonly regarded as greed, gluttony, envy, sloth, pride, lust and wrath. search news
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And from the Po itself, and its tributary the Mincio, which broadens into the three lakes that wrap themselves slothfully around the old town, comes fog - huge banks of it that make life cold and unfocussed between autumn and spring.
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Peccaries, tapirs, anteaters, armadillos, sloths, coatis, and others are around but hard to see.
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To these succeed transported soils (_alluvium_), containing the gigantic bones of ancient mammalia, such as the mastodons, the dinotherium, and the megatheroid animals, among which is the mylodon of Owen, an animal upwards of eleven feet in length, allied to the sloth.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science
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The book has a number of factual errors, which even I can identify, such as claiming that the Chinese picked up some mylodons (extinct giant sloths) when they stopped by Patagonia.
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He was, as appears to be the too-obvious definition that seems to cow reviewers by its obviousness, the true crafter of a postmodern 'sincerity' -- a seemingly impossible task in the wake of Pynchon and the psychosexual slapstick of characters like "Oedipa Maas" and "Tyrone Slothrop.
Omer Rosen: Footnoting David Foster Wallace: Part 1
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Angels skipper Mike Scioscia put on a squeeze play, with the slothlike Molina advancing down the third base line like a wandering buffalo.
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They are dull, slow, sober and fearful characters with a weak pulse and a cowardly, slothful disposition.
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This all-round food availability also means that sloth bears have no need to hibernate through the winter months.
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But on the islands of Cuba and Hispaniola - shared today by modern-day Haiti and the Dominican Republic - sloths survived until about 4,400 years ago.
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The group currently includes armadillos, 2-toed sloths, 3-toed sloths, and anteaters, placed in four families containing 29 species.
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Living xenarthrans are represented by three morphologically distinct lineages: armored armadillos, toothless anteaters, and phyllophagous tree-sloths.
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Giant ground sloths, or megatheria, stood up to six meters (three stories) tall and walked North and South America 2,000,000 to 11,000 years ago.
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If McKibben highlights pride and avarice, R. R. Reno contends that the most corrosive vice of our age is sloth, spiritual apathy, what the monks called ‘the noonday devil’ of acedia.
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By day four, I had melted into a slothful recluse: soul and body atrophying, hair matted, bed unmade, depressed and petulant - a real joy.
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The edentates not only included various ground-sloths, among them the megatherium, which was the size of an elephant, and the somewhat smaller mylodon, but also creatures as fantastic as those of a nightmare.
VIII. Primeval Man; and the Horse, the Lion, and the Elephant
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Up in his pants pocket Slothrop is still packing around that chesspiece old S-ure Bummer gave him.
Gravity's Rainbow
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I saw tree-nesting sloth, four types of monkeys, parrots, macaws, toucan birds, coatis, agoutis and anteaters within the first day of my visit.
Devin Galaudet: Waiting to Dance in Costa Rica
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The small island was alive with wildlife: sloths, tapirs, peccaries, howler monkeys, tamarins, ocelots, blue - headed parrots, trogons and oropendolas, birds that make noises like water dropping on water.
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I wanted to squeal - a sloth bear and her cubs were scurrying towards a tree.
The Sun
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South America was also home to living species of armadillos and sloths.
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It had lakes and lush vegetation that was home to a menagerie of strange beasts including the Columbian mammoth and other huge herbivores such as ground sloths, bison and camels.
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The report criticizes the government's sloth in tackling environmental problems.
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The seven deadly sins are covetousness, envy, gluttony, lust, pride, anger and sloth.
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If they are dull, dead, and slothful in them, if under the power of customariness and formality, what issue can they expect?
Pneumatologia
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People do feel helpless, but I believe that sense is itself a sign of something spiritually deadly: what the Fathers and Doctors of the Church called acedia or the deadly sin of "sloth.
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