The center of the new play is an amiably shiftless young man on the night watch as security guard at a generic high-rise. |
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Each day, shiftless young men gather on the outskirts of Riyadh, smoking water pipes and drinking coffee. |
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If you knew how to take care of people, you could transform 10,000 lazy, shiftless souls into 10,000 eager-to-work-for-you people. |
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The welfare mother is considered to be lazy and shiftless, shunning work while collecting welfare and passing on bad values to her children. |
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Anyone who believes that unions serve a function in this day and age is a lazy, good-for-nothing, shiftless shirker. |
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They hid in saloons, spun lies, spied on people, made less than the corner grocer, and were generally shiftless, lazy bums. |
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I could have said her son the no good, lazy, shiftless shyster but I'm in a mood to be nice today. |
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Those moving away were sometimes dismissed as a shiftless lot who could not live up to the small-town virtues of constancy and forbearance. |
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Nor are poor whites stereotyped as lazy, shiftless, dangerous, the way poor Blacks are. |
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The status of the disabled, in his view, is either ambiguous or closer to that of the shiftless and incompetent than to that of the ambitious. |
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Just as before, the would-be dominators try to convince us that it is necessary to apply a firm hand to the benefit of a shiftless character. |
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These are greedy, shiftless and lazy people who only use and abuse the soil. |
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We believe that if we work less and play more, we'll appear shiftless and lazy. |
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This data exposes as a fallacy the belief that most teens are somehow lazy, shiftless or just uninterested in work. |
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She tells him about where she was born and how her parents are shiftless and lazy. |
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Both share Lord Black's opinion that hacks are a shiftless lot of ignorant and opinionated deadbeats and the fewer the better. |
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Which is ironic when a lot of the problem for government in getting shiftless bastards to vote right now is getting them to go down to polling stations in, er, libraries. |
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Third, he wants to turn America into a Euro-paradise for the shiftless and unmotivated. |
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Their mother, a shiftless pleasure-seeker, abandons them to different grandmothers without batting an eyelid. |
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For the four-cylinder owners who wish to be shiftless, the optional automatic is a five-speed. |
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Work the standard 5-speed manual or go shiftless with an optional automatic. |
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You can't be a shiftless immigrant for the rest of your days, chico. |
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The other side can't stand the idea of taking wealth from hard-working Us to shiftless and lazy Them. |
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Then there's the shiftless, elusive Cap, whose aversion to working is matched only by his strange attractiveness to women. |
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In particular, there are underlying hints of a Victorian-era ethos of promoting thrift among the shiftless poor. |
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Stabilised on methadone, I became nearly unemployable by polite society: a shiftless, untrustworthy coke-sniffer, sneak thief and corner-cutting hack, toiling in the culinary backwaters. |
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A shiftless drifter fascinated with bullfighting is implicated in the accidental goring death of a crime boss' daughter and finds himself the unwitting target of a vicious manhunt. |
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Scared me shiftless. I never would have thought there was a hidden passage here. |
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The Sharp Corner was a second-class groggery and boarding house, patronized almost entirely by the poorest and most shiftless class of trackmen. |
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