Lose this day loitering, 'twill be the same story Tomorrow, and the rest more dilatory; Thus, indecision brings its own delays And days are lost lamenting over days, Are you in earnest? Seize this very moment; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it. From LearnThat.org. [Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832).]
Adjective : a dilatory strategy. From Dictionary.com.
The Senate, by precedent, has ruled such quorum calls dilatory, after cloture. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy] Reference
Democrats accused them of using "dilatory" tactics, but the Bushmen plodded on. From Wordnik.com. [Al At The Brink] Reference
Gingrich branded the amendment strategy "dilatory" about the nicest thing he said about Democrats. From Wordnik.com. [Gingrich Goes Ballistic] Reference
Lashed out at the team prosecuting him for drunk driving, calling them "unco-operative" and their trial "dilatory". From Wordnik.com. [IOL: News] Reference
Smashing through the young Scotsman's media trained response, Snow went through the timetable the PSNI's "dilatory" response remorselessly. From Wordnik.com. [Slugger O'Toole] Reference
By precedent, the Senate could make such quorum calls dilatory at any time, if no substantive business had intervened since a quorum had been previously established. www). From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy] Reference
Not that we counsel dilatory and piecemeal composition. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 1, August 1850 of Literature, Science and Art.] Reference
This symbol proclaims dilatory habits and feeble wit. From Wordnik.com. [Telling Fortunes By Tea Leaves] Reference
According to the dilatory methods of the Farnshaw household. From Wordnik.com. [The Wind Before the Dawn] Reference
GROTE, declare that he was remiss and dilatory, and therefore. From Wordnik.com. [Mosaics of Grecian History] Reference
General Sheridan's method of operation could hardly be held as dilatory. From Wordnik.com. [The County Regiment A Sketch of the Second Regiment of Connecticut Volunteer Heavy Artillery, Originally the Nineteenth Volunteer Infantry, in the Civil War] Reference
They afford another illustration of the dilatory motions of vegetation here. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science] Reference
Yesterday, Pakistan's pre-match catching practice was brief and rather dilatory. From Wordnik.com. [Why Pakistan's poor slip catching is itself catching] Reference
What she herself did, a gentle, dilatory playing at work, hardly merited the name. From Wordnik.com. [Miss Theodosia's Heartstrings] Reference
Straits of Gibraltar as soon as possible, and could not wait for his dilatory allies. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima] Reference
The Southern darky is usually willing enough, but painfully dilatory in accomplishment. From Wordnik.com. [Jokes For All Occasions Selected and Edited by One of America's Foremost Public Speakers] Reference
He had never been quite satisfied with Lincoln, whose policy seemed to him too dilatory. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908] Reference
One of the proposed changes provided that the chair should entertain no dilatory motions. From Wordnik.com. [The United States Since the Civil War] Reference
But to return to my first remark: I never saw anything more shameless, artful, and dilatory. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order] Reference
If verification is dilatory, it will be next March, during the Democratic presidential primary. From Wordnik.com. [Dawnism In California] Reference
As might be expected I was one of Sister Andre's "black sheep" or dilatory pupils that morning. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctor's Daughter] Reference
Morocco, substituting over the face of the land a dilatory calm in the place of speed and bustle. From Wordnik.com. [In the Tail of the Peacock] Reference
It requires scoring above and below the line, which is a most cumbersome and dilatory proposition. From Wordnik.com. [Auction of To-day] Reference
If some commander -- perhaps of a regiment only -- has been dilatory, the whole movement is delayed. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
The dilatory movements of the silver caused anxiety to Mr. Isaac Hale, with whom the diggers had been. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science] Reference
It was the single biggest coup ever brought off in the FBI's sometimes dilatory war against organized crime. From Wordnik.com. [Blindsiding The Godfather] Reference
These two interruptions provided admirable opportunities for delay and confusion, which the dilatory Turk embraced. From Wordnik.com. [With the British Army in The Holy Land] Reference
Irving, Washington: influence on short story, 11; used narration within narration, 131; used dilatory beginning, 138. From Wordnik.com. [Short Story Writing A Practical Treatise on the Art of The Short Story] Reference
Her action in educational matters is often provokingly dilatory, but she holds what she gains and thus continues to progress. From Wordnik.com. [On the Firing Line in Education] Reference
European governments were growing impatient at the dilatory policy of our nation; and every day we were losing sympathy and friends. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens] Reference
General Halleck proved uncertain and dilatory; the Army of the Potomac was generally dissatisfied and clamoring for the restoration of. From Wordnik.com. [Expansion and Conflict] Reference
The handsomest, youngest, and most robust magnetizers held also an iron rod with which they touched the dilatory or stubborn patients. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Hypnotism, Mesmerism, Mind-Reading and Spiritualism How to Hypnotize: Being an Exhaustive and Practical System of Method, Application, and Use] Reference
France, like Germany, was somewhat dilatory, but this was attributable rather to the time occupied in the mobilisation of the Fourth Arm than to lack of energy. From Wordnik.com. [Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War] Reference
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