Sentence examples for In idleness from inspiring English sources

In bars like that shown in the photographs, people spend hours in idleness and idle talk, mistaking noise for communication, insults for wit and raucous laughter for fun.

Stylish sales people spend their days in idleness.

For adolescents of fourteen to eighteen to immerse themselves in idleness and pleasure instead of intensive study and spiritual growth. . . .

Or, to quote Carlyle, one of the "brainworkers" in the picture, "In Idleness alone is there perpetual despair".

Despite his undoubted successes - Enemies, the 10-year stint in the 1940s spent editing Horizon - much of his later life became bogged down in idleness and wasted time.

Once, the animals at the Bronx Zoo spent their days in idleness and boredom, pacing their small cages, eating meals handed to them on a platter.

He called it love-in-idleness, the juice that mischievous Puck applies to human eyes.

The wild pansy, also known as johnny-jump-up, heartsease, and love-in-idleness, has been widely naturalized in North America.

Mortified by her own ignorance, she has begun to learn the names of wild plants, and the closing image shows her making the acquaintance of a common species: love-in-idleness.

Likewise, there will surely be love-in-idleness, Viola tricolor, though you may have to write in that old-fashioned name: packets will probably be labeled Johnny-jump-up.

Although in folk medicine there's a history of using the flower, also called love-in-idleness, for asthma and other respiratory problems, and high levels of substances called saponins and mucilages give it diuretic properties, there's nothing to suggest it would make you fall in love.