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189 examples of Slack in a sentence

Slack time for innovation and unexpected work.
For teams that are expected to innovate, how do you create slack time to make this happen?
Twenty-one years later, he was now thinner than his wife, his skin slack on his face, and looking at Abed looking at his young self, I remembered looking at that photograph of my young self after the crash, and recognized his longing.
There's a huge slack in that system; with the right pricing we can undo that.
That is to say, they slack on spell-checking and prioritize speed and efficacy in communication.
And what's been taking up the slack in the last few decades?
For that reason I should probably cut it some slack but that still doesn't stop it, or excuse it from being a throughly awful film in every department.
There are scenes in this movie where the actors are looking at something, their expressions are of amazement and there wide eyes and slack jaws tell the audience that what they are looking at is going to be profoundly amazing, this simply isn't it's just a cupboard or even more desert.
As such I give these efforts a lot of slack.
Also, I'm Canadian and this is a mostly-Canadian movie so I was prepared to cut it some serious slack.
Some slack might be cut this movie due to the fact that it was made in 1979.
Direction is slack, plainly far from fulfilling basic needs of the players, although an erratically composed script provides scant material with which actors may work, and ad libbing falls embarrassingly flat.
Cut them some slack!
TCM should take up the slack and play it at Easter or on Christmas Eve.
In short, Barney may be annoying to some people and I completely understand why, but cut him some slack.
This delectable fusion of New Age babble and luridly bad film-making may not "open" you up, to borrow one of the film's favorite verbs, but it might leave your jaw slack and your belly sore from laughter or retching.
Brad normally manages to throw something interesting into the mix, a neat idea, a kooky character, whatever, but without the funds to take it further than base level, he relies on the audience to cut him some slack and appreciate it for what it is and what it could be.
Gray has his actors linger over every tired line and John Carter's lazy editing refuses to pick up the slack, choosing instead to keep his camera trained on the performers' bemused faces.
I can guarantee if you do dare to watch it you will sit there slack jawed as I did wondering why anyone waste money, time, energy and effort to make this insulting outrage to American cinema.
It was boring, over-dramatic, and the funny parts were too far in between to make up the slack.
When she is booted from the group for her unprofessionalism and bad attitude, the charges are more than well-founded, but the stage show/film seem to think Effie should be cut unlimited slack simply because she has a great voice.
To be certain the pacing is a bit slack, more akin to one of Principals (the producing studios) features then a rip roaring adventure, but it's still enjoyable.
The whole affair side of the story is utterly implausible knocking it down a bit, but it deserves slack.
I am a sucker for post-apocalyptic event films, and will cut them a lot more slack than other Hollywood fare.
OK, this was Oliver Stone's first movie, so I'll cut him some slack (although Satyajit Ray and George Lucas didn't need any pity points for their stellar debuts, "Pather Panchali" and "THX 1138", respectively).
And I can usually cut writers of parodies a lot of slack when something isn't outrageously funny.
i gave him some slack because i enjoyed "punch-drunk love", a movie where he actually seemed to stretch a bit as an actor and try to make you forget for a few moments that it's him on screen.
things are worse because this movie has no scary sequences,so it would be nice if the actors could pick up some of the slack.the characters are like robots in their reactions,so it's really hard to like any of them.there
When I review these very early films, I cut some of them a lot of slack because of when they were made.
if it had not been for the big screen i might have been able to cut it some slack but alas they even chose the format of release wrong.
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