Further, insofar as praise elevates the objects of praise above the masses, there is at least (what might be thought of as) a relative element of condemnation--the lazy slugabed may not be positively bad, but they could do better.
His exasperated wife finally hit upon the ideal solution of playing unresolved chords on the piano, which invariably brought him awake--the fastidious musician in him triumphing over the slugabed.
While, by his own admission, Marti was something of a "studio slugabed" towards the end of Wet Wet Wet, he was always the group's public face and voice.
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