| 单词 | heavy-footed |
| 例句 | The heavy-footed ones looked them over and returned them to the boss who put them in an envelope and put the envelope in his desk. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z His faith cracked, and for a few days he lacked his bounce, coming back from his morning run without his usual sweaty high, walking around heavy-footed. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Then his slow, heavy-footed movement across the room. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z The third movement, Mahler’s reworking of his song about St. Anthony’s sermon to the fishes, had such strong musical character, with its heavy-footed swing, that technical lapses did not matter. Music Review: Finding the Right Pace (and Support Crew) for a Marathon 2010-10-22T22:44:00Z The first movement, a relentless and ominous march, was hard-driving and heavy-footed, fortified by a pulse in the low strings that was more a rumble than an articulation. Mariinsky Orchestra Makes Mahler Russian 2010-10-18T16:07:00Z In the second movement, a sort of hardy scherzo, Mr. van Zweden captured the heavy-footed, folk-dance spirit, though the playing was almost rigidly emphatic. Music Review: Philharmonic, With Jaap van Zweden Conducting Yuja Wang 2012-04-13T20:58:17Z The hiking boots offer some of the heavy-footed machismo of those longtime favorites, logging or construction boots, while channeling a more romantic past. Trading Up: For Rappelling Those Mean Manhattan Canyons - Trading Up 2011-11-28T22:45:36Z One long episode was like a Germanic, heavy-footed evocation of Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring.” Music Review: Salzburg Festival Features Wolfgang Rihm 2010-07-30T22:59:00Z There's an especially heavy-footed reference to the id, ego and super ego in the three separate parts into which Asimov divides his "soft ones". Back to the Hugos: The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov 2011-01-06T15:34:14Z A heavy-footed account of Khachaturian’s seldom-heard Waltz from the incidental music for “Masquerade” opened the concert, and a spirited performance of Borodin’s popular Polovtsian Dances from the opera “Prince Igor” ended it. Music Review: A Fresh Take Adds a Jolt to a Standard 2011-06-29T19:08:58Z This is pretty much what would expect: reliable, heavy-footed rhythm; stirring, old-fashioned sentiments. Winston Churchill manuscript reveals his poetic side 2013-02-06T20:30:03Z He plays hard, and the set’s loud, heavy-footed feeling built upward from him. Critic?s Notebook: New Jazz That Keeps an Ear Trained on the Past 2011-05-06T23:26:31Z The scherzo was distinctly rustic in flavor but not too heavy-footed, with raspy woodwinds and a rudely swaggering waltz. Haitink's Mahler 9th makes superb season finale for CSO 2011-06-03T17:59:36Z Andrew Motion, the former Poet Laureate, goes further, calling it "heavy-footed". Winston Churchill manuscript reveals his poetic side 2013-02-06T20:30:03Z Instead, Mr. Nunn strode back and forth, gesturing expansively, circling his actors in a heavy-footed dance. Trevor Nunn, British Shakespeare Master, Tries Something New: Directing Americans 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z The waltzes were heavy-footed, the party music overwhelmingly intense and the “Dance of the Reed Pipes” and other numbers a little clumsy and cluttered by inner voices. Canadian pianist continues daring performances 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z On Friday that motif turned heavy-footed when it was given over to trombones. Music Review: Wayne Shorter and Orpheus Chamber Orchestra at Carnegie Hall 2013-02-04T23:17:19Z Unfortunately, it looked like Jack was in his 70s with his slow-paced, heavy-footed moves that the judges nicely deemed “a lack of hip action.” Dancing with the Stars Watch: All Hail, Hollywood Night 2013-10-01T03:17:33Z Equally fine were the Scherzo, with its gossamer textures and impish spirits, and the episodic finale, which culminates in a heavy-footed dancing frenzy. Music Review: Mariinsky Orchestra at Carnegie Hall - Review 2011-10-07T21:24:21Z But based on their frozen grins, they apparently enjoyed jogging from room to room with the heavy-footed gait of a football nose tackle to do nothing in particular. An 8-Year-Old Explains the Metaverse 2021-11-06T04:00:00Z There is simply and once again Reeves, the axis who centers this franchise with his grave sincerity, beatific glow and mesmerizing, rooted fighting style, with its heavy-footed solidity and surprising suppleness. ‘John Wick: Chapter 4’ Review: There Will Be Blood, Yeah 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z An episode of dense, heavy-footed orchestral chords would alternate with spectral high solo-violin flights. Review: The New York Philharmonic Plays a Piece Inspired by Night 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z But the side-facing eyes of buffalos, zebras, and other heavy-footed mammals would be hard to hit with a single jet of venom, Casewell notes. Spitting cobras’ venom evolved to inflict pain 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z Posting batches of tickets or three-digit radar-gun readings on social media has become a popular pastime for police precincts, if not a deterrent for heavy-footed scofflaws. Whoosh! That Car That Just Soared by Might Be Heading for the Coast 2020-04-11T04:00:00Z I patted my bedside table for my tortoise-shell glasses, then rose heavy-footed to pull on a sweatshirt and lace up my sneakers. My fundamentalist childhood: less like a temple, more like a cage 2018-11-10T05:00:00Z It's the one that's a heavy-footed party in the fast lane, and a ballet dancer at the pumps… It's a car which, in less poetic terms, we call a Golf. Volkswagen Golf: car review 2013-03-17T10:30:01Z Ambulances carry mangled, bloodied bodies from accidents on roads packed with trucks and heavy-footed drivers. Boom in North Dakota Weighs Heavily on Health Care 2013-01-28T01:25:42Z To this Mr. Norcross made no reply whatever, and the heavy-footed gentleman stumped out, saying things to himself that wouldn't look very well in print. The Wreckers 2012-02-14T03:00:26.817Z The men tumbled on to the road, and hurried, heavy-footed, in the direction of the station. In Mr. Knox's Country 2011-11-21T03:00:16.010Z They came last out of the city, clad in garments of mourning and moving in heavy-footed procession. The Golden Hope A Story of the Time of King Alexander the Great 2011-10-02T02:00:13.920Z Four days later I arrived by train at Rugby Station with five heavy-footed countrymen. Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 1 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:20.507Z His straining ears caught the faint sound of footsteps approaching, and he checked his companion only just in the nick of time to let two heavy-footed lumber-jacks cross their course directly in front of them. The Trail of the Axe A Story of Red Sand Valley 2011-06-27T02:00:56.823Z Why is fancy winged, I should like to know, if it is never to disport itself in fields out of which the clumsy, heavy-footed understanding is debarred? A Rambler's lease 2011-05-22T02:00:11.507Z There will be those tendencies which kept us heavy-footed like the fat woman, and others that made us blind, although the world was full of light. Rosemary and Rue 2011-05-21T02:00:11.483Z They had no more than time to exchange a word when the negro went on and the street was bare, except that a square away a heavy-footed policeman was approaching. Sons and Fathers 2011-05-16T02:00:19.893Z He discusses Zola and his no less heavy-footed disciples, who stand for the failure of imitation and are the best proofs that the mirror cracks when the artist holds it up to anything except himself. Oscar Wilde A Critical Study 2011-05-04T02:00:14.580Z Dalglish sought to rectify Liverpool's carelessness in midfield and ineffective attack at a stroke early in the second half when he introduced Carroll for the heavy-footed Poulsen. Sporting Braga 1-0 Liverpool 2011-03-10T20:32:00Z Certainly it could not be Mrs. Cupp, for she was heavy-footed. Nan Sherwood at Lakeview Hall Or the Mystery of the Haunted Boathouse 2011-02-14T03:00:33.337Z The landlady was a heavy-footed, heavy-faced woman, with two great hulking sons, and occupied the back part of the premises. The Solitary Farm 2011-02-04T03:00:21.943Z That spars struck me, and ballast rolled over me; that heavy-footed sailors trampled me, and seemed to dance on me,—were things I minded not. Paul Gosslett's Confessions in Love, Law, and The Civil Service 2011-02-04T03:00:18.850Z The throng of awkward, crawling, heavy-footed humans sprawled in all directions; he was one of them, one of the least steady too. The Promise of Air 2011-02-02T03:00:23.997Z And then she was gone, the guard striding heavy-footed after her. The Land of Frozen Suns 2011-01-23T03:00:15.307Z Nani's 76th-minute goal summed up Birmingham's state of mind as he skipped across the screen of their heavy-footed defence to slam a powerful goal past Foster from 15 yards into the corner of the net. Man Utd 5-0 Birmingham 2011-01-22T16:57:06Z But she uttered shriek upon piercing shriek that brought old Nurse, heavy-footed but astonishingly swift, upon the scene, and reduced Alex to dire disgrace for the rest of the day. Consequences 2011-01-14T03:00:53.047Z Alec, who had never wanted to be anything except a farmer, liked the heavy-footed draft horses best. We Were There at the Oklahoma Land Run 2010-12-24T03:00:29.847Z He's a little heavy-footed, but he works hard. Gone, but not forgotten: UCLA fetes John Wooden 2010-10-14T21:42:00Z There is their potential to reduce fuel consumption by eliminating heavy-footed stop-and-go drivers and, given the drastically reduced possibility of accidents, to ultimately build more lightweight vehicles. Smarter Than You Think: Google Cars Drive Themselves, in Traffic 2010-10-09T18:43:00Z The uneasy mood, at any rate, had vanished with the darkness, for nothing sad or heavy-footed could endure amid this dancing exhilaration of the morning. The Wave An Egyptian Aftermath After Desire departed for Reno, the winter dragged along, heavy-footed. The Preliminaries And Other Stories And I would have to drag about, heavy-footed, in a skimpy muslin! Life on the Stage Although written in his heavy-footed, stilted style, that broke forth now and again into comic pomposity, of the two his is the more entertaining, for he tells many stories that do not concern himself alone. Maria Edgeworth He is as complete a heavy-footed, uncomprehending, bungle-fisted fool as any memsahib in the East ever took into her establishment. From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel He shook Holliday by the arm with impatient anger, as the heavy-footed soldier jarred the silence by the crackling of fallen leaves and branches. Hansford: A Tale of Bacon's Rebellion She was heavy-footed, but entirely light-hearted when she came safely in at the gate of the Bassett place. Strangers and Wayfarers Ever may thy noble apes Haughtily strut in negligent attire, And esteem themselves better than all other Priggish heavy-footed, horned cattle. Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine She got up, found herself stiff and heavy-footed, lifted the child from his cradle and went into the bedroom with him. Old Crow Meanwhile, Henrietta had again lapsed into a silent, sullen mood, as she pitched along in the nervous, jerky, heavy-footed gait which she had urged me to emulate, and which I thought so hideous. The Long Day The Story of a New York Working Girl As Told by Herself “Here, let’s sample the hold,” said the captain, mopping his brow with a back-handed sweep; and the three stalked out of the house, grim and heavy-footed. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XIX (of 25) The Ebb-Tide; Weir of Hermiston Grief is buried in the grave, Nature covers it with a mantle of grass and flowers, and the feet of joy trip merrily over the paths once trodden by heavy-footed care. Flowers of Freethought (First Series) Hannah, on the contrary, was the reverse of graceful; stumpy and heavy-footed, she gave an impression of abrupt terminations. Jan and Her Job It reached from the man’s shoulder, where her head was pillowed, and the heavy-footed men were trampling the ends of it into the mud. The Golden Woman A Story of the Montana Hills Bob Martin headed the procession, Ruth at his side, and the stout widower concluded it, squiring a rather heavy-footed Mrs. Martin. The Innocent Adventuress Pan danced with the girl, and despite the jostling of the heavy-footed miners acquitted himself in a manner he thought was creditable for him. Valley of Wild Horses There were grunting cries, also; and Grôm understood at once that a herd of pig-tapirs––heavy-footed, timorous beasts, as tall as heifers––were sweeping down upon them in mad flight before some unknown pursuer. In the Morning of Time The mirage of fancy which painted itself so alluringly before him faded on his advance and left him planted heavy-footed in the desert sands. Imaginary Interviews Lacking strategic railroads, lacking the motor-lorry system of England, the heavy-footed but untiring Russian infantry marched the scores and hundreds of miles from their homes to the front. The Story of the Great War, Volume I (of 8) Introductions; Special Articles; Causes of War; Diplomatic and State Papers The step on the floor above was not that of the heavy-footed Sarah, nor yet that of the shuffling Jeremiah. Otherwise Phyllis The dance was on with a few heavy-footed miners and their gaudy partners, and several of the gambling tables were surrounded. Valley of Wild Horses "The Wyandots are fine trailers, but they are no better than he, maybe not as good, and no detachment of heavy-footed soldiers can surprise him in the woods." The Border Watch A Story of the Great Chief's Last Stand The street, deserted by its daylight toilers, grew quiet except for the tramping of an occasional heavy-footed watchman or policeman. The House of Toys Bruce had known fatigue, the weakness of hunger, but never anything like the leaden, heavy-footed depression which comes from intense despondency and hopelessness. The Man from the Bitter Roots Their walk was heavy-footed and slurring, their bearing stiff and grotesque. The Lost Girl And meanwhile, for none save a paltry soul could Time have halted, heavy-footed, as a companion in that realm of shadowed splendour. The Car of Destiny His moccasined feet noiselessly felt their way after the heavy-footed shuffler. Bloom of Cactus He had a weakness for pretty women; and, after the long succession of lumpy and heavy-footed ballerinas occupying the Warsaw stage, this new arrival sounded promising. The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert Fear would make him heavy-footed if nothing else. The Man from the Bitter Roots As it always comes to its children, the nostalgia of the repulsive, heavy-footed Midlands came over her again, even whilst she was there in the midst. The Lost Girl One may say of him what Taine said of Balzac: 'A sort of literary elephant, capable of bearing prodigious burdens, but heavy-footed.' Brazilian Tales He broke into a run again, heavy-footed and tired out though he was. The Eagle of the Empire A Story of Waterloo She felt sure that he had seen through her last lie, and that he was secretly resenting it as a heavy-footed approach to sacred ground. The Way of Ambition A'tim knew of many muskegs where a stupid, heavy-footed Bull might be mired; also, there was the poison plant, the Death Flower of the Monkshood. The Outcasts He was as deeply religious as Havelock or one of Cromwell's major-generals; he had the frugality of a Scotchman, and the heavy-footed common-sense of a Hollander. Deeds that Won the Empire Historic Battle Scenes But the heavy-footed creature still stalked them ponderously. The Revolt on Venus Wickersham's appearance on horseback, at the head of the valley, picking his way around the flooded meadow, halted him in his heavy-footed climb. Then I'll Come Back to You Laboriously he hoisted himself out of his chair, regretfully he knocked the glowing tobacco out of his pipe, heavy-footed he betook him to the telephone. The Swindler and Other Stories When it came back some time later to these familiar dwellings, heavy-eyed and heavy-footed, there was no insincerity in the relief with which it regarded them. Letters from France The large man, a rather heavy-footed fellow, with scraggly grey moustache, turned to his companion. The Strange Case of Cavendish Oh, yes, I got off a few stale jokes and some heavy-footed persiflage. The Jester of St. Timothy's They trooped aft, heavy-footed, murmuring, but docile, and joined the stiffs at the lee braces. The Blood Ship He sees the fish carted, and then goes home with the stolid heavy-footed men. The Romance of the Coast Treitschke is a heavy-footed historian who raised the axiom of self-preservation into a philosophy of force. The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol. 1, January 9, 1915 What Americans Say to Europe Almost angrily the colonel flung the question as his second-in-command came back heavy-footed through the rain. The Safety Curtain, and Other Stories The smile of Ellen had made a faery ring where heavy-footed dancers could not enter; her gravity had made a sanctuary as safe as any church crowned with a belfry and casketing the Host. The Judge "Hurry up, you heavy-footed beggars," he yelled to the men. The Amateur Army And being a beast of some intelligence, for all his heavy-footed failings, he reasoned that food and rest would soon be his portion. Judith of the Plains Eagerly he listened to the clock as it ticked on the shelf across the room, and struck out the heavy-footed hours. Jess of the Rebel Trail Through it, heavy-footed and ruthless, Marise felt something advancing on her, something which she dreaded and would not look at. The Brimming Cup He pushed it with his foot to the side of the road and was down into the cutting before the heavy-footed neighbours came up. A Maid of the Silver Sea Of vivacity there is not a spark in her nature; a heavy-footed impassiveness weighs upon all her efforts to be sprightly. Mary Anderson He pictured him under-sized and heavy-footed, trudging home from golf through the soppy green fields of England to his trembling household. Christopher and Columbus When the landlady's shadow came heavy-footed up the stairs, he hid himself and stuffed his fingers in his ears lest he should hear her threaten them with instant expulsion. The Dark House Scattergood walked deliberately, with heavy-footed stride, to the telegraph operator, and wrote a brief but eminently characteristic message. Scattergood Baines They emerged from the water, dripping and heavy-footed. Every Soul Hath Its Song On the morrow I got another horse, but the brute, heavy-footed from the plough, was so slow that, save for the look of the thing, I might just as well have been afoot. Red Axe The heavy-footed Gregg would be a poor helpmate on such an errand of stealth. Ronicky Doone We want no longer any heavy-footed, melancholy service from the negro. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue She walked on and on, growing more heavy-footed as the day advanced. Summer Then he turned and went upon his way, heavy-footed and chin on breast. The Amateur Gentleman The sun was high-risen when I came again, slow and heavy-footed, to behold what the fire had left of my boat; a heap of ashes, a few fragments of charred timber. Martin Conisby's Vengeance They passed heavy-footed, as time goes for one condemned to die. Harrigan The old ladies were tired, yawning as they exchanged good-nights and moved, heavy-footed, for the stairs. Treasure and Trouble Therewith A Tale of California All day it was splashing and swashing through mud and mire, the rain-drops shining on the gun-barrels and dripping from the heavy-footed horses. Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 Saying this, the general turned and made his way, heavy-footed, through the hall and down the stairway. The Strong Arm And he went, furtively, heavy-footed, perplexed, inwardly cursing his blunder in stirring up a sleeping lioness whom he had so long mistaken for a dozing cat. The Fighting Chance He began to dance a heavy-footed jig on a little open place by the kitchen door and the guests stopped talking to watch. Poor White Approaching nearer, it was evident that her gaze was fixed upon a fishing boat which had been drawn high upon the shingle; and from which a party of heavy-footed fishermen were slowly retreating. A Daughter of Fife It is in these times that most of the airy flying things of this beautiful world come home to us—things that heavy-footed reason never quite overtakes, nor stodgy knowledge ever knows. Great Possessions Sounds of scuffling followed, as if Liane were dancing to no music with a heavy-footed partner. Alias the Lone Wolf George Meredith has likened the functionings of Germanic humour to the heavy-footed antics of a dancing bear. Mark Twain The wheelwright and his wife, and the six labourers with their wives, listened as oxen might listen, wandered home along the lanes heavy-footed like oxen, with heads towards the ground, and went heavily to bed. The Revolution in Tanner's Lane Here and there little flocks of ravenous birds were sailing and screaming above those spots where some heavy-footed Teton had met his death, but every other sign of the recent combat had passed away. The Prairie "Was I so heavy-footed as to disturb you?" Nature's Serial Story Graham had become a decided favorite with the old gentleman, for he had proved the most efficient ally that Grace had ever gained in quickening the pace of heavy-footed Time. His Sombre Rivals Though Mr. Walton and Miss Eulie accompanied her, their absence was rather welcome, but he felt sure that Annie could have beguiled the heavy-footed hours. Opening a Chestnut Burr Were they descending from their pedestals and cases and marching upon her, a heavy-footed company of corpses? The Witch of Prague One was Jasmine, the other was a heavy-footed miner. The Judgment House And at that very moment mother came without being called, running, red of face, heavy-footed, and panting, with her cap all on one side. T. Tembarom Phil heard a rustling over behind the straw stack, and then out trotted a big, black draft horse, a heavy-footed, broad-backed Percheron, to his astonishment. The Circus Boys Across the Continent : or, Winning New Laurels on the Tanbark It represented a heavy-footed person, incapable of further agility. The Marriages That is a heavy-footed certainty, audibly tramping forward on us, amid these fond visions of the air! History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 20 Austrian Officiality, wilfully unjust, or not wilfully so, is admitted to be in a most heavy-footed condition; can administer nothing well. History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 12 A young sprightly, capricions and vivacious Boy, inclined to self-will, had it been permitted; developing himself into foreign tastes, into French airs and ways; very ill seen by the heavy-footed practical Germanic Majesty. History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 04 It is true they are a heavy-footed, noisy, and foolish people, and the sport would be small, but I remember the old days above Benares, and, if the child lives, he will remember still. The Second Jungle Book IV The hours went by, heavy-footed like mourners. The ninth vibration and other stories But his dance with some faded, heavy-footed woman was not to be. Cow-Country And Scholzke, Ploschke others call him,—heavy-footed rational biped knowing the ground there practically, every yard of it,—did, as appears, attend the King all morning; and do service, that was recognizable long years afterwards. History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 12 He trailed back heavy-footed again to the park and sat down. The Crock of Gold They lagged often into a heavy-footed walk and their ears drooped dispiritedly. The Heritage of the Sioux But the bouncing girls and the heavy-footed guides and lumbermen who filled the ball-room did not appear to mind the heat or the cold. The Ruling Passion; tales of nature and human nature |
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