Accustomed to hours of enforced inactivity punctuated by bursts of intense effort: check.
In rare moments of enforced inactivity, she would sit on my desk and answer the phone.
Despite a sympathetic gay theme, one critic noted that it confirmed the slump in Schlesinger's career and indicated a willingness to accept inferior material, rather than face - at 75 - inactivity.
I love the picture of the younger Jane elbowing her way to the front of a crowd of "snappers" to get the best picture of Bette Davis, but in her last years she seemed equally determined not to put up with all this illness-enforced inactivity.
New surveillance officers can look forward to "sitting for substantial periods of time" and "long spells of inactivity", to say nothing of the "limited promotion opportunities".
Even the politicians have been stunned into inactivity.
He dismissed the notion that the federal government could prohibit citizen "inactivity"—such as not buying insurance.
The only foolproof hedge against regulatory risk, sadly, is inactivity.
But sometimes, as John Calhoun, a member of America's Capitol Hill club long before our own club was even dreamt of, once said, "the highest wisdom...is, a wise and masterly inactivity".
The programme provides plenty of chat about cricket between the moments of action (and those periods of inactivity make up the bulk of any cricket match).
Trading volumes seem to have slumped over the summer as investors contemplated the potential "tapering" of bond purchases by the Federal Reserve (such inactivity may well continue now that the Fed has delayed its taper).But trading is only part of the banking business, and banks are only one part of the finance industry.
