Idleness means not doing anything or being inactive. It refers to a state of not being productive or engaged in any task or occupation.
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Use its power - saving technology that activates automatically after 10 minutes
of idleness of keyboard.
For we hear that some of you are living
in idleness, mere busybodies.
Instead of spending all your time focused intently on your work, make time
for idleness, fun, and irrelevant interests.
«Rest is indeed
not idleness, nor is it a wasted opportunity for productivity,» Immordino - Yang and her colleagues write.
Stemming from early modern philosophy Plessas finds inspiration
from idleness from his unconscious utopia to everyday reality, reading, browsing, escaping, dreaming, and psychoanalysing he brings together poetic themes, and combines them with an anthropomorphic fusion of computer animation and self - made percussive sound effects.
It is a waiting characterized not
by idleness or even contented peace, but by prophetic yieldedness and active hope.
We've all observed — I'm sure - how someone loses interest in life, becomes irritable with friends and family and is in danger of sinking
into idleness as a result of weeks of worklessness.
«Satan has work for idle hands to do» and the particular demons we are now discussing thrive
on idleness.
The power - hungry mayor of the town hasn't settled
with idleness though.
Acedia is most often translated as sloth, and understood imprecisely
as idleness or laziness.
The glorification of work as a calling of God, the belief that success can be equated with meaningfulness in life, the universal prohibition
against idleness, the drive toward activity, industry, frugality, and efficiency as religious ideals, the belief that poverty is a sign of sin, and the emphasis on self - discipline and individualism — a11 became part of the American ethos.
▪ The Freedom Manifesto by Tom Hodgkinson, which Santos describes as a «wonderfully British, philosophical attempt at
promoting 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
Only did they know that
when idleness comes, the monster will fight it master.
An inmate tied with a U.S. Chess Federation grandmaster at the first official tournament at New York City's Rikers Island Jail Complex, where the game is part of programming designed to educate and
reduce idleness.
After a year of forced
idleness Driver Richard Petty came rolling back in a blue brute of a Plymouth to win Daytona's stock car 500, delighting his racing father — but not Dearborn
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.
The researchers actually invented the term «
idleness aversion» to describe how people are drawn to being busy regardless of how this busyness can impact their productivity.
Raddon's 52 - page Baseline Loans Study highlights the emerging loan opportunities — and the persisting challenges — for financial institutions as the populace senses improved conditions, demonstrates greater optimism and displays a hopeful desire to finally emerge from its protracted stage of personal and
financial idleness.
Christ
denounced idleness and receipt of confiscated monies is as reprehensible as the theft.
But that which should be an extension of personal freedom becomes for most a mechanized response, one that
escapes idleness but that has been so routinized by mass conformity to current moods and fads that its personal expressiveness has been lost.
Now no longer a child, I know that clouds are of various types — cirrus, cumulus, cirrocumulus, cirrocumulus castellanus — and that they portend rain or merely reflect the summer -
day idleness that I have no time for.
There were still many more stories to tell within the world's third - largest refugee camp, however, a place where sports have greater meaning as a way to
combat idleness within an oft - forgotten population.
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.
Of
idleness added up, of failed relocations and deferred repatriations?
Firstly, we should promote social investments that largely pay for themselves: maintenance payments for over 16s to stay in education rather than drop out into
costly idleness; incentives for employers to take on apprentices and create new jobs; an effective community work programme for unemployed people that would be the foundation of a «something for something» welfare state.
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.
Drivers can only tolerate so
much idleness because they are paid per ride, so in many cases taxis opt for the former inefficiency over the latter.
«In this case, surge pricing allows service to expand during peak demand without
creating idleness for drivers during normal demand.
Evidently, Jeremy Kemp expends all his energy on his acting: when asked in 1981 to list his favorite off - stage hobbies, he wrote «Bad sports and
pure idleness.»
«Landru» was a commercial and critical success, but «Ophelia» the same year was a failure, beginning a period of
involuntary idleness for Chabrol.
Idleness never always means not doing anything at all, for everybody does something each moment of time!
But by spending a day in a round of
strenuous idleness without your mobile phone and Blackberry, you may see the future more clearly.
After more than ten years of
creative idleness on the franchise, Tecmo finally announced to revive Ninja Gaiden at E3 2002.
This has been a week of
such idleness, full of wistful looks at graph - papered boxes.
In the
licensed idleness and primeval solitude, he said, «you start to feel part of the huge movement of our planet, start to feel like we are nature.»