The movie dawdles and repeats itself unconscionably it lacks drive and, except for the sex scenes, a tinge of wildness.

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People may be angry with Phil about his prediction as winter's chill dawdles.

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While Washington dawdles or stalls, the American people instinctively understand the urgent necessity of having the means to defend ourselves from missiles.

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His Algren is more a collection of attitudes and behaviors than a specific, spontaneous character. (He indicates several attitudes by narrowing his eyes.) And those martial sequences give way to extended dawdles, distinguished mainly by authentic period details and period pacing.

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Pro hockey dawdles even worse.

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