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Johnson's opposite number in North America, Noah Webster, was hardly a wit of the same order, but he too seems to have occasionally injected a (somewhat plodding) cynical humor into the definitions in his dictionary of 1828:
(There's a Ted Kaczynski quality to his writing--earnest, structurally obsessive and plodding.)
There are stellar turns by Davies, Ribisi, Tom Sizemore as a plodding but good-hearted sergeant, and Edward Burns, whose acting is less mannered when removed from his own movies.
The other, Ronald Radosh, had described it as "heavy and plodding, without any real juice to it."
It is hard to counter a proverb: they have all the plodding force of a mule-driving peasant, earthy and inevitable.