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Перевод: leaden

[прилагательное]
свинцовый; серый; тяжелый; тяжкий; медлительный; инертный; неповоротливый

Тезаурус:

1. Carefully he raises the cover of fern and moss from the hole, and takes out what they hide: books, candy, and smoking tobacco, protected against moisture in leaden boxes.
2. He completely avoids the leaden prose which so many academics affect as a misguided means of demonstrating their high-minded seriousness.
3. Bernard Partridge, Punch's heavyweight cartoonist of those years, devoted a full page to a leaden joke about the arrival of Lady Astor in the Commons.
4. At a time when Martins were judged by musicians to be rather leaden and toneless, their takeover of Levin would appear to be a feature of commercial paranoia, since the Goliath series were made from beautifully matched woods, had enviable straight spruce tops, bound necks and a high standard of finish.
5. Upon regaining consciousness, he'd panicked when his limbs, leaden and numb, had refused to obey him.
6. Funnily enough, I understand what Mick Silva means when he says Martins were "leaden and toneless".
7. They abandoned the ride and walked instead in the shade of the trees beside the track, but although this protected them from the sun's rays the leaden heat was everywhere and there was no escaping it.
8. Some thought the scandal might have done better, in terms of audience ratings, if the name had not been the leaden "Iran-contra affair" but something with panache, cloak-and-dagger stuff.
9. By now the light was fading and as the leaden clouds massed heavily on the horizon, the first flurries blew in the wind; heralds of another blizzard to come.
10. Its grey buildings, mainly guest houses displaying "Vacancies" at netted windows, looked bad enough but with a leaden sky and a seafront virtually devoid of life, apart from one or two hopefuls trying to find shelter from driving rain, it was almost guaranteed to sink one's spirits.
11. On leaden feet he moved back to the staircase and made his way to the half-landing at its top.
12. Then there was the grim, rather more real world of Hardcore Punk, where Black Flag and The Minutemen ruled in tandem, told everyone how crap and bleak everything was and pumped ear-damaging noise pollution into the leaden skies.
13. In the early morning, waking up to a fierce easterly wind and a leaden sea, the children gathered in the dining room to find snow fluttering through the rafters and piling up over the breakfast plates.