Sentences with phrase «as idleness»

A sixth and final qualification of the «leisure revolution» is this: what time Americans do spend away from their jobs is often best described as idleness.

Acedia is most often translated as sloth, and understood imprecisely as idleness or laziness.

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While a link between idleness and poor heart health has been established for nearly six decades, the paradigm that emerged said long periods of sedentary behaviour ought to be all right as long as it was offset by enough physical activity.

Christ denounced idleness and receipt of confiscated monies is as reprehensible as the theft.

We might as well expect public schools for the indigent to weaken the standard of private education among the wealthy; or asylums for the deaf and blind, to make Possessors of perfect eyes and ears careless of their safety and indifferent to their preservation; or humanity towards the aged and the suffering to promote idleness and improvidence among the young and healthy... as to imagine that asylums for inebriates will promote and increase drunkenness.

As to the children, the author advises the parents to be very strict with them, they should be taught a craft to keep them from idleness and debauchery and they should be married early to save them from «the temptations and fierce heats of youth.»

By the time of the Maccabees, for example, the practice of keeping the Sabbath was so central to Judaism that, according to Josephus, the Romans had to exempt the Jews from military service because they were useless as soldiers on the Sabbath.12 Seneca could not understand the Sabbath exercise and chided the Jews for spending every seventh day of their lives in idleness.13

«Like him who perverts the revenues of some pious foundation to profane purposes, he pays the wages of idleness with those funds which the frugality of his forefathers had, as it were, consecrated to the maintenance of industry.»

Julius Israel also remembers his father as a stern patriarch unfavorably disposed toward boyhood idleness and particularly inimical to baseball, since it interfered with Julius» chores.

Theo is NOT a bad person, far from it and is polite and well mannered but in an Arsenal shirt, judged over his twelve year stay, racked by idleness and injuries, he was about as much use as a chocolate teapot.

These range from killing the sense of idleness through intense sport, to sharing a talent with the local community - such as teaching neighbours how to cultivate the land in an ecologically sound way.

As Bertrand Russell pointed out in his In Praise of Idleness:

«We urge the Chairman of the Amnesty Office to see his elevation as a step to ameliorate the plight of the Niger Delta youths by turning them from idleness to be entrepreneurs and employers of labour.

There's no need to worry as VertuoPlus can automatically shut down after 9 minutes of idleness.

Leigh Alexander has written about the «quiet revolution» of 90s youth, whose mode of resistance was idleness — doing nothing, as opposition to climbing the corporate ladder, and prioritizing reflection and the existential self over the aggressive pursuit of individualist success and capital gain.

The works were selected in response to both the site - specific context they are shown in — the Contemporary Art Society exhibition space as an office environment or workplace — and to the themes explored in one of the key print suites in The Whitworth's historic collection, William Hogarth's Industry & Idleness, created in 1747.

Formal goodbyes are the subject of his framed video works such as Adieu a K. (2004) and Talking Trees - Window (2004) and with his Conclusion series (2007 - 2012) Van Elk says his goodbyes to the idleness of digital photography.

By the 1940s, however, Pollock turned his attention towards painting again, largely to address what he saw as «the problems of modern painting»: too much reliance on the easel, on idleness, on tradition.