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"Sloppiness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... day. The weather had decided to change again, and gusts of sleet were being driven about, which added cold to sloppiness. He had found it difficult to get hold of some details he specially wanted. Two important and extremely good-looking brides had refused to see him because Biker had enraged them in his day. He had slighted the description ...
— T. Tembarom • Frances Hodgson Burnett
... as a substitute for genuine warmth and it is used as a camouflage to 'put over' some very bad art in the shape of poor tone-quality, intonation and general sloppiness of technic. Why, then, has it come into general use during the last twenty-five years? Simply because it is based on the correctly produced human voice. The old players, especially those of the German school, said, and some still say, ...
— Violin Mastery - Talks with Master Violinists and Teachers • Frederick H. Martens
... in her room in a deep leather easy chair, when Atherton took us up at last. She did not rise to greet us, but I noted that she was attired in what Kennedy once called, as we strolled up the Avenue, "the expensive sloppiness of the present styles." In her case the looseness with which her clothes hung was exaggerated by the lack of energy with which she ...
— The War Terror • Arthur B. Reeve |
Words linked to "Sloppiness" : incaution, wetness, schmaltz, corn, inattentiveness, carefulness, emotionalism, shagginess, neglect, untidiness, shmaltz, emotionality, mawkishness, sloppy, schmalz, negligence, sentimentalism, neglectfulness, incautiousness, unconscientiousness |
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