The opposite of high intellect is dullness or slowness, but the opposite of wisdom is foolishness, which is far more dangerous. |
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There commonly exists a great want of application, a slowness of intellect similar to the slowness of volition. |
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This particular deficit involves slowness in the ability to name repeated familiar objects accurately. |
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I love the feeling of slowness and how a day can start off with a chilling coldness that melts into a strange half-warmness later on. |
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Then, with agonizing slowness, his head bent to hers and his lips met hers passionately. |
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The three main symptoms are tremors, rigidity and slowness of movement, although not everyone will experience all three. |
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The main symptoms are muscle stiffness, slowness of movement, and involuntary tremor. |
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In slam poetry, speed is valued over slowness, as humour and attack are valued over emotion and thought. |
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William's mouth met hers, so warm, so gentle, and he kissed her with a sensual slowness. |
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The actual speed produced by the motorbike is a speed of both slowness and fastness. |
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The satellite gives very nice speed to the one computer, but the other four are slow, and the ISP is telling us what causes the slowness. |
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A Man For All Seasons has a delicate slowness about it, with the talkiness inherent in an adapted stage play. |
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The anchor, which secured a ship, indicated slowness, while the dolphin expressed speed. |
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Instead of dying, he thrashes about a bit, then reaches with stilted slowness for his inner breast-pocket. |
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Initiated by the dancer in the center of the trio, the three performers reach their arms out to one another with a mechanical slowness. |
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The work evokes an antiquated industrial machine, the slowness suggesting its imminent halt. |
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In slam poetry speed is valued over slowness, as humor and attack are valued over emotion and thought. |
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We work to maintain self-respect, but instead the slowness of the government is going to force us onto the dole! |
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Symptoms range from slowness of movement, stiffness of the body and limbs, and tremors. |
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It seemed the slowness of the previous episodes might finally be rewarded with some return on my taxed patience. |
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The only reason we have had to fight to maintain these contrarian stances is the unprecedented slowness of the sea change that is developing. |
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He established a firm in London, but it went bankrupt in 1732, probably due to the excessive slowness and complication of his method. |
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He realised that the slowness of this process would have very serious immediate implications for his business. |
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Inability to execute an intended action is known as apraxia, slowness and difficulty in doing it is dyspraxia. |
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We emphasize the seeming slowness of wisdom as acquired by intellect in its finite journeying through finite existences. |
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The resulting slowness of cognition is a cardinal element of the pattern of impairment. |
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An issue to consider is whether these patients have a slowness of thinking. |
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The main symptoms are muscle stiffness, slowness of movement and involuntary tremor. |
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But, as with our slowness to believe we are sinners, so we are slow to believe sin can really be redeemed. |
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Hs fatal fascination with the Arctic stems from his desire to find an environment suited to his peculiar slowness. |
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Almost as if annoyed by my slowness, my father slid the coffee creamer over to me. |
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It has many side effects, and an overdose can cause a dangerous slowness in breathing before victims fall into a coma. |
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He looks the age and although his character still appears fit, his mannerisms have just a slight suggestion of slowness to them. |
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For example, if sheep grazing on commonage lost their markings, quick traditional methods were to hand to allocate the animals and so avoid the creaky slowness of the law. |
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Book publishing is second only to furniture delivery in slowness. |
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That apparent slowness can be explained by the youngness of the discipline. |
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I think that you do grow less tolerant of injustice as you get older and more impatient with the slowness of change. |
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Everything is done with exaggerated slowness, which seems a rather cheap way of adding profundity to some fairly simplistic ideas about war not being a very good thing. |
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Lack of energy and routine, loss and slowness to learn are no excuse for either obstinance or passivity. |
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In my opinion, it is a fallacious argument, when criticising the Senates, to use the argument of the slowness of bicameralism. |
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In her hands, celluloid comes off as a medium that allows for old-fashioned rumination, with some of the slowness of oil paint. |
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He explained the disaffection for the judiciary by the dearness and the slowness of justice. |
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What I should be doing right now is running over there to rescue my bright little girl before she gets infected with the mental slowness. |
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The slowness of institutional philanthropy in doling out its money has been part of the reason. |
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The slowness of payments is no longer tolerable in an age when we can boast of nanosecond technology. |
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Because of the slowness of growth it is long to recover from a defoliation caused by the cold first of the winter. |
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Then May's slowness let in Salako, whose shot was blocked, and amid a tumble of bodies Southgate's cool shot brought the scores level. |
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Playing his natural game kept getting him out, and yet he didn't seem to have another beyond the same glacial slowness that descended on Root. |
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The process by which the passport system was put in place reflects this slowness. |
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It is significant that administrative cooperation is hampered by extreme slowness of response to requests for information. |
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The cost of these very nice graphics is the size of program, running into megabytes and a considerable slowness in displaying the cards. |
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National authorities blamed the slowness of other countries to respond to requests for mutual assistance. |
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Given the slowness in fertilizer markets, some fertilizer plants have shut down waiting for paying customers to come through the door. |
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Brother Denis Filiatrault spoke about the slowness of the grievance process. |
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Italians, who were internationally scolded for slowness in preparing for the millennium bug, woke up sleepily on the first morning of 2000 to find life working as usual. |
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This isn't the slowness of an old man for whom everything is running down. |
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The dopamine-producing nerve cells in the basal ganglia die, causing slowness of voluntary movement as well as difficulty with balance and muscle rigidity. |
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He knew that the federal project was hindered by terminal slowness. |
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Gradually, with painful slowness, his reputation filtered out to European intellectuals on the lookout for new currents from the literary suburbs. |
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This frustration is compounded with the overall slowness of the game. |
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However, the slowness of the official channels, and Nicholas's desire to have all strings in his own hand, caused him to bypass the regular processes. |
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Her death is faked by means of a drug that slows her heart to near-death slowness. |
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The voice-over narration feels, for the most part, unnecessary and irritating, and the maddening slowness of enunciation and the monotony of intonation feel tired and false. |
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People who have done nothing being driven like animals, being punished for their slowness. |
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Flames will engulf your feet, roasting them with agonizing slowness while a grating metallic voice repeatedly says the name and slogan of a product. |
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The yardstick for gauging the inherent nobility of a character in major films these days is the slowness of the slow-motion in which their death is captured. |
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The disease brings on a marked slowness and stiltedness of movement, caused by the brain's increasing difficulty in transmitting its instructions to the body. |
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The slowness of liberal reform between 1771 and 1829 led to much bitterness in Ireland, which underpinned Irish nationalism until recent times. |
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At least we can say now as parliamentarians that, even though it is many years late in coming because of the federal government's slowness to institute changes, we are finally going to correct part of the problem. |
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Elderspeak, with its high pitch, exaggerated slowness, unnaturally short sentences, and use of endearments by relative strangers reminds us all of baby talk – another way to show disrespect. |
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It indicates in addition that experts designated by insurers are often challenged by the opposing party, causing unjustified slowness in handling compensation claims. |
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In its third report, ECRI strongly recommended that the authorities simplify the procedures for requesting work and residence permits in order to remedy their slowness. |
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In 1932, Dubbs Quarry ceased production largely due to the difficulties and slowness of transporting finished slate. |
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Beset by difficulties of co-ordination and transport, a massive relief operation to help victims of Haiti's earthquake moved with excruciating slowness. |
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Other findings suggesting psychogenicity are deliberate slowness of movement, different phenomenology and distractibility. |
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That is the advice of the slowness devotee: give time more time, allow each activity time in which to flourish, don't flit continually from one activity to another. |
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Teased for their slowness, many become depressed and angry and act out. |
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Dread of slowness, pettiness, analysis and detailed explanations. |
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Firstly, one of the causes of the backwardness in the region and the slowness of the reform process is the weakness of civil society in the Mediterranean countries. |
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Even if allowances could have been made for a certain slowness in Rangers to warm up, few, if any, in the stadium could have anticipated the comprehensiveness of Falkirk's superiority during most of the 90 minutes. |
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If we are sometimes tempted to denounce the slowness or rashness of the members of our church or those of our ecumenical dialogue partners, the invitation to be patient sounds an important and timely warning. |
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Instead, the clocklike gears of the solar system line up Earth, our planetary neighbor and the sun with all but creaking slowness. |
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The distances covered, taking into account the slowness of the animals represented several tens of kilometers, therefore of long days which began well before sun up and finished after the sun set. |
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The slowness of the nerve impulse further supported those who insisted that it must involve the rearrangement of ponderable molecules, not the mysterious passage of a vital force. |
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A philosopher like P. Sansot may sing the praises of slowness and encourage us not to let ourselves be devoured by the race against time characteristic of modern life, but his book has been only moderately successful. |
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Symptoms, which can include tremors, stiffness, slowness of movement and speech impairment, can sometimes be managed through medication and surgery. |
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There is room for oats to move into domestic milling interests or for export to the U. S. given the slowness of canola and CWB wheat shipping to the West Coast. |
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Word of mouth information about VAC from military colleagues or traditional Veterans was anecdotal and there were numerous complaints about the slowness and difficulty in obtaining a disability pension. |
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Up goes the finger and the Dodo snaps to attention, rams the bat under his arm and retreats to the pav with a slowness intended as silent comment on a poor decision. |
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Impatience with the intellectual slowness of others, narcissism and passion for one's mission in life might combine to make such individuals isolative and difficult. |
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However, in a world that is becoming more insatiably neophiliac, crunching through consumer durables with obscene rapidity, where does that leave thoughtful slowness? |
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