Sentences with phrase «much idleness»

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.

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While some men may be tempted to do too much productive work at the expense of cultivation of their will and intellect, the larger temptation for most men is to idleness and vice at the expense of providing enough for themselves, let alone for «all the population.»
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.
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.
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