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Перевод: procrastination

[существительное]
промедление; откладывание со дня на день

Тезаурус:

1. This has been the aim of a large part of mankind's intellectual and moral striving but it is our self-awareness and not intellectual procrastination which is the key that opens the door to the self.
2. Environmental organisations are near to despair in the face of such skilful procrastination.
3. As Noel Annan wrote in his life of Leslie Stephen: "The ingenuity in argument, the subtlety in drawing distinctions, the dexterous prevarications, the imperative reasons for procrastination, perpetually bewilder and confound the novice in university administration."
4. Another hesitation arises in the minds of some ministers who are men of action and feel that data-gathering and detailed long-term planning are simply a cover-up for procrastination.
5. Coleridge was the first to recognize that " Freshmen always begin very furiously "; but so long as Middleton was at hand to guide and encourage, he overcame the weakness of will and habit of procrastination which were always ready to disable him.
6. Whitehall procrastination may soon result in the break-up of one of Britain's outstanding stately homes.
7. As we do this we are less and less able to act positively as we resort to distractions and procrastination to prevent us dealing with what we have suppressed and keep our minds as quiet as possible.
8. Family financial problems and Whitehall procrastination jeopardised the future of one of the finest ensembles of Victorian taste.
9. However, the uncertainties concerning the extent of climate change and the implications at local level allow political procrastination.
10. Hard experience has taught me to be selective in my procrastination.
11. He does, however, condemn procrastination.
12. The Silmarillion was accordingly held up to a great extent, in Mr Carpenter's view, by procrastination and bother over inessentials, by crosswords and games of Patience, by drawing heraldic doodles and answering readers' letters - all compounded, one might add, by the failing energies of age (see Letters , p. 228).
13. "Madam, I fear you are distracted by indecision and grief," observed the cardinal, wearied by what he privately termed her procrastination.