Sentence examples for Idle amusement from inspiring English sources
At the J Bar L, taking on the cowboy lifestyle isn't an idle amusement.
THE game of chess is not merely an idle amusement, wrote Benjamin Franklin in 1779.
By "idle amusement" Forkel had in mind the prattling of Italian opera; his biography is addressed to "patriotic admirers of true musical art," namely the German.
"If the art is to remain an art and not to be degraded into a mere idle amusement, more use must be made of classical works than has been done for some time".
For none that was familiarly conversant with Dionysius but scorned him for his life of idle amusement with wine, women, and dice; whereas it required an heroic soul and a truly intrepid and unquailing spirit so much as to entertain the thought of crushing Caesar, so formidable for his ability, his power, and his fortune, whose very name disturbed the slumbers of the Parthian and Indian kings.
For some people, Ronson's suggestion that we simply enjoy piling on hapless tweeters rings true, but for others these platforms aren't idle amusement.
Your new single is called "East Harlem," and in your e-mail you said you like Bolaño because he has "the same idle and poetic amusement with city and street names" as you do.
All that zoos actually offer the public in return for the taxes spent upon them, he said, "is a form of idle and witless amusement, compared to which a visit to a penitentiary, or even to a state legislature in session, is informing, stimulating and ennobling".
Of all other books he was most devoted to the commentaries of Evangelus on military tactics, and took delight, at leisure hours, in the histories of Alexander; thinking that such reading, unless undertaken for mere amusement and idle conversation, was to the purpose for action.
And admittedly there is amusement in idle chatter and gossiping.
If the lands in Europe which are now dedicated to the amusement of the idle rich, were parcelled out among the idle poor, I readily conceive the happy revolution which would be experienced by a certain proportion of the latter.
