lead-footed

That means a fervent “Rite of Spring” falls short of being properly barbaric, and the same issue weighs down the entirely different repertoire of his 2017 New Year’s Concert with the Vienna Philharmonic, whose waltzes and polkas are often charming, but equally often lead-footed.

Regarding the March 15 front-page article “Fears of a lead-footed Fed follow bank panic”:

So you can’t entirely blame movies for lead-footed Angelenos and the notoriety they came to acquire when the glare of publicity and later of the roving aerial spotlight fell upon them.

Having been wrongfooted by that, Leeds were then lead-footed when Field powered through a gap for his second - but his hat-trick try was a stunner as he went from close to his own line in the manner of any of the Wigan long-range try-scoring greats of the past - Billy Boston, Joe Lydon, Martin Offiah, Jason Robinson - take your pick.

It leaves us lead-footed, making it impossible for us to sprint toward the future.