Sentences with phrase «with idleness»

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 power - hungry mayor of the town hasn't settled with idleness though.

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As to the children, the author advises the parents to be very strict with them, they should be taught a craft to keep them from idleness and debauchery and they should be married early to save them from «the temptations and fierce heats of youth.»

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.

«Like him who perverts the revenues of some pious foundation to profane purposes, he pays the wages of idleness with those funds which the frugality of his forefathers had, as it were, consecrated to the maintenance of industry.»

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.

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.»

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.

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.

Formal goodbyes are the subject of his framed video works such as Adieu a K. (2004) and Talking Trees - Window (2004) and with his Conclusion series (2007 - 2012) Van Elk says his goodbyes to the idleness of digital photography.

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.

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