Sentences with phrase «by idleness»

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.

We have found that volunteers tend to lose their interest in the program more quickly by idleness than by being overly busy answering calls.

It is a waiting characterized not by idleness or even contented peace, but by prophetic yieldedness and active hope.

Not exact matches

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.

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

Just like the corperate America loved and protected by the Republican ideology; they are wealthy, full of apathy and idleness, and fail to do al they can for those less fortunate.

On the one hand, how would want, ignorance, idleness, squalor, ill health and war be combated by this change?

We began modest, having been imagined into existence by young journalist Helena Horton, who decided that sitting on our hands was not an option and the sense of powerlessness ought not seduce us into idleness.

Social mobility is actually a left - safe way of talking about opportunity whereas in its heart the left wants equality of outcome If there is opportunity the argument for state control becomes weaker and the role of the left disappears and that is why it is commuited to maintaining poverty by rewarding idleness and creating an underclass

The something for nothing culture encouraged by the previous Labour Government created a two - tier benefits system where the strivers and low paid workers have been penalised for the idleness of the shirkers.

«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.

«Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.»

Influenced by Taoist philosophy, Fung questions the idea of progress and the culture of overworking, and draws attention to slowness, idleness, and aimlessness by exploring what doing nothing entails.

Curated by Sophia Crilly, Industry & Idleness features work by Jacob Cartwright, Dave Griffiths, Mark Harasimowicz, Mark Kennard, Tim Machin, Paul Needham, Vinca Petersen, Mit Senoj and Evangelia Spiliopoulou.

Curated by Lu Mingjun, «Extravagant Imagination, The Wonder of Idleness» at Xu Zhen's MadeIn Gallery in Shanghai brings together seven young Chinese artists who bridge the past and present.

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.

«Fruits of Idleness,» new mixed media work by Katherine Gray.

The exhibition «Episode 6: blank page» focuses on art that arises from moments of inactivity, idleness or boredom - recurring phenomena known and experienced by all of us.

Rook & Raven is presenting a new body of work by Eileen Cooper RA, with the exhibition Love - in - Idleness, a title taken from a speech by Oberon in Shakespeare's «A Midsummer Night's Dream».

This has been a week of enforced idleness: I've been reminded, yet again, that capping off a demanding seminar tour by spending an entire day with the teeming masses in various airport terminals and airplanes is a great way to get sick.