- Purgatorio, the
second canticle of the
Divine Comedy.
Dante encounters the
slothful on the
fourth terrace of
Mount Purgatory,
where his guide, the
Roman poet...
-
Slothful induction, also
called appeal to coincidence, is a
fallacy in
which an
inductive argument is
denied its
proper conclusion,
despite strong evidence...
- he
enumerates as pride, anger, envy, impurity, gluttony,
avarice and
slothfulness. Manning,
Henry Edward. Sin and Its consequences.
Martin Chemnitz (2007)...
- to
invalidate transfers under the rule
against perpetuities include the
slothful executor (a
situation where the
executor of the
estate does not probate...
- Pramāda – heedlessness, carelessness,
unconcern Kauśīdya – laziness,
slothfulness Āśraddhya – lack of faith, lack of
trust Styāna – lethargy, gloominess...
- IV. 9. 16;
Murcus in Livy, Ab Urbe Condita, 1, 33, 5 – cf
murcidus = "
slothful". "The
Oxford Encyclopedia of
Ancient Greece and Rome", v. 1, p. 167 Elisabeth...
-
incompetent King
Duncan (who is
credited in the
narrative with a "feeble and
slothful administration"), Shakespeare's King
Duncan is
crafted as a sensitive,...
- self-styled
scholar who
lives at home with his mother. He is an
educated but
slothful 30-year-old man
living in the
Uptown neighborhood of early-1960s New Orleans...
- from his place, even in the
ravening of hunger, but will wait in
divine slothfulness for the sacrifice.
Robert M.
Price notes that "Lovecraft's Tsathoggua...
- restraints, or
bodily exercises and
labors that
neither satiety nor
slothfulness tempt him to sin, but not that we may
merit grace or make satisfaction...
