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And wouldn't it be nice to have fewer retirees blocking the fairways at the local club with their tortoise-like play?

The Agenda of the 'Stop Doing That' Fund Joe Queenan 2011

Alan Strachan's production doesn't jazz up the prospect of an all-male, white, brollied and suited cast, two of them with that period look of tortoise-like necklessness: he simply allows an interesting speculation to unwind and breathe.

Collaborators; Three Days in May; His Teeth – review 2011

With this tortoise-like lassitude, who can blame a fan, a player or a TV commentator from catching some midgame shuteye?

Wake Me Up for the Ninth Inning 2010

Meanwhile EPA's tortoise-like regulatory process has been making slow and steady progress to set a regulatory cap on greenhouse gas emissions.

Climate and Energy Politics and the Mid-Term Elections 2010

The neck, elongated and sinewy, rose tortoise-like from the folds of the hood.

She Closed Her Eyes 2010

Meanwhile EPA's tortoise-like regulatory process has been making slow and steady progress to set a regulatory cap on greenhouse gas emissions.

Steven Cohen: Climate and Energy Politics and the Mid-Term Elections 2010

The tortoise-like Maugham was mostly chained to his writing desk, away from which he had few interests other than playing bridge and hiring male prostitutes.

Book Review Roundup 2010

The tortoise-like Maugham was mostly chained to his writing desk, away from which he had few interests other than playing bridge and hiring male prostitutes.

Book Review Roundup 2010

And given the tortoise-like acceleration of the early generations of the Stirling engine, it wouldn't have been a suitable choice to power cars.

Joel Brokaw: A Global Warming Solution Rises from the Junk Heap? 2009

Mine is: mornings, tortoise-like, working from a scenario of sorts but with lots of room for surprises, aiming for a minimum of 1,000 words a day, allowing them to be really rotten words throughout the first draft.

Map Quest 2007