Nor did it rummage through an employee's personal files out
of idle curiosity.
As 2016 draws to a close, I thought I would perform an exercise
of idle curiosity and look back at which of my posts were most popular during the year.
China's power struggles are no longer the subject
of idle curiosity, but a potential threat to our well being.
Not exact matches
Somehow,
idle curiosity turned into deciding that instead
of doing the 1,500 pushups I needed to do... my goal should be 5,000.
Still, we do keep a set
of econometric models just to satisfy our pure
idle curiosity about what the statistical forecasts suggest about the future.
«@ myweightinwords: I consider it
idle curiosity because I believe that when we die we get to open that door and have all the answers to the universal questions
of creation, existence, and the afterlife.
Augustine also thinks that pursuing some scientific questions can be mere
idle curiosity and a distraction from the more serious moral and religious purpose
of human life.
Palmer ignores it because he believes that in order to account for the violent trajectory
of objectivism, he must find exclusively egoistic motivation —
idle curiosity and the desire for control — as the basic impetus behind it.
Apocalyptic withdrawal was corrected by rejecting immediate expectation
of the end (21:8 b; Acts 1:6 - 7) and by substituting mission in the power
of the Spirit for
idle curiosity as to the time
of the end (Acts 1:7 - 8).
The consumer pressure for the production
of studies about the faiths
of others is no longer only academic interest or
idle curiosity, but is a demand for an interpretation
of people with whom one has to deal.
This may be the result
of more or less
idle curiosity on the part
of the theologian,
of the conviction that his authorities are also normative with regard to such matters, or
of the belief that all truth is so interconnected that he must concern himself with everything.
BE: I actually had a question
of curiosity about your work on «Suddenly Susan,» but it's about the fact that you survived the retooling
of the show, when Judd Nelson left and Eric
Idle came aboard and things got changed around considerably.
Driven by their own desires, or just
idle curiosity, 22 playable buxom beauties
of Japan's secret ninja schools have signed up for the tournament, ready to put their reflexes, memory and speed to the test in a cooking competition unlike any other.
This is just
idle curiosity on my part (so not asking for further response), yet I'd like one chance to rephrase my question in the form
of an assertion.
There are no trees, but the lack
of trees is a
curiosity, a matter for the
idle dreams
of suburban girls and their googly - eyed suitors.