Sentences with phrase «on idleness»
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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«Satan has work for idle hands to do» and the particular demons we are now discussing thrive on idleness.
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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
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.»
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.»
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.
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)»
«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.»
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.»
After more than ten years of creative idleness on the franchise, Tecmo finally announced to revive Ninja Gaiden at E3 2002.
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.
The exhibition «Episode 6: blank page» focuses on art that arises from moments of inactivity, idleness or boredom - recurring phenomena known and...