Sentences with phrase «in idleness»

one who lives in idleness; a lout.»

Terence Rattigan's Love in Idleness is a reworking of his 1944 play Less Than Kind (never staged at the time, it was first produced just six years ago).

He said that theologians were still trying to thrash out the true meaning of the Mass, but meanwhile these Masses should be curtailed because they kept men in idleness.

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

Only a society that has reached a certain level of production and consumption can support a few of its members in idleness.

«For we hear that some of you are living in idleness, mere busybodies, not doing any work.

For we hear that some of you are living in idleness, mere busybodies.

Not exact matches

And beginning this year, well - funded, large - scale, long - term experiments in Finland and Kenya will examine whether providing a guaranteed income is an effective way to relieve poverty and cushion the effects of economic dislocation without encouraging idleness and sloth.

Idleness and inefficiency in exploiting the resources of the natural world were not only sinful, they were also foolish.

A little leisure time is quite acceptable, and the vice of idleness is not really even a «major sin» 4 kept in manageable (dare I say workable?)

a) Sleeping in the morning (from Fajr to sunrise) b) Not Performing Namaz or Ir - regular in Prayers c) Laziness / Idleness d) Treachery / Dishonesty

Hence in social terms the disorderly turmoil of individuals pursuing conflicting and egotistical aims; and, on the national scale, the chaos of armed conflict in which, for want of a better object, the excess of accumulated energy is destructively released... «Idleness, mother of all vices.»

Michael Welzer, in Spheres of Justice, writes: «for most people, leisure is simply the opposite of work; idleness its essence.

Work is any activity entered into for the sake of an end, and it is normal for the, human spirit, in contrast with animal experience, to have ends in view for which the immediate pleasures of idleness will voluntarily be surrendered.

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

«Behold, this was the iniquity (sin) of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread (wealth), and abundance of idleness (apathy) was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy (an abesence of charity).»

Ezekiel 16:49 Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.

Thus you will eschew and avoid many vices, especially idleness, well known to be the principal inducement in man of other vices.

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

Shuffleboard was one of the first games played in the American colonies; but, along with dice, cards, bowls, quoits and ninepins, it was banned on account of the early Puritan «detestation of 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.

He was a firm believer in the overriding value and virtue of hard work, and in the inherent evil of 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

In the Victorian era, when idleness was considered the worst of all vices, the most popular comic figure was the wonderfully named Ally Sloper.

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 Idlenesin his In Praise of IdlenesIn Praise of Idleness:

Thanks to Tracy Connell who recorded Nick Clegg's William Beveridge Memorial Lecture on «How Liberal Democrats in Government are addressing Beveridge's «five giant evils» (Want, Disease, Ignorance, Squalor and Idleness)»

He said the intervention had made unprecedented success since its inauguration in eliminating poverty, unemployment and idleness most especially among the unemployed youths.

In 1942 William Beveridge published his report into how the government should find ways of fighting the five «Giant Evils» of «want, disease, ignorance, squalor and idleness».

In addition, the DOC is looking to create new young adult housing for 18 - to 21 - year - olds to «reduce idleness, minimize incidents, and generate better long - term inmate outcomes.»

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.

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.»

For instance, in her most recent research paper, Rest Is Not Idleness, Immordino - Yang and her team of researchers observe the cognitive benefits of letting minds wander, and they advocate for a classroom that balances «external attention and internal reflection.»

There is real value in being connected to the current problems of the day, rather than the idleness of «retirement.»

(a) Each teacher shall endeavor to impress upon the minds of the pupils the principles of morality, truth, justice, patriotism, and a true comprehension of the rights, duties, and dignity of American citizenship, and the meaning of equality and human dignity, including the promotion of harmonious relations, kindness toward domestic pets and the humane treatment of living creatures, to teach them to avoid idleness, profanity, and falsehood, and to instruct them in manners and morals and the principles of a free government.

When a day of adventure (or idleness) comes to a close and travelers» thoughts turn to food, Playa del Carmen offers a wide range of culinary delights steeped in the tradition of world - renowned Mexican cuisine, from fine dining to simpler fare for the more budget conscious traveler.

Recent selected exhibitions include: In Conversation, Touchstones Rochdale, 2014; Without an Edge There is No Middle, Pluspace, Coventry, 2013; Summer Show, Malgras Naudet, Manchester, 2013; Treatment, PS Mirabel, Manchester, 2013; 60 Drawings, Bankley Gallery, Manchester; International Drawing Project, PR1 Gallery, UCLAN, Preston; Salon Neu, Embassy, Edinburgh, 2012; The Manchester Contemporary, Spinningfields, Manchester 2012; We Are All In This Together, Bureau, Manchester; Unrealised Potential, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art (NGCA), Sunderland, 2011; Industry & Idleness, Contemporary Art Society, London, 2010 - 11; Unrealised Potential, Cornerhouse, Manchester, 2010.

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.»

With irony and provocation, Cosima von Bonin thus makes laziness — simultaneously a vice and a dream in today's times in which every minute counts — the leitmotif of an exhibition cycle that has more to do with manic production and hyperactivity than with idleness and indolence.

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.

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.

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.

Laziness, idleness or giving up would hardly be qualities to adopt in an effort to be more professional.

This was Shakespeare's «little western flower, / Before milk - white, now purple with love's wound, / And maidens call it love - in - idleness.»