The rest of my days were filled with an idleness that befitted the island's unplugged atmosphere.
However prison reformers criticised the plans as "punishing people for an idleness that prisons encourage" and said it was "bizarre" to be introducing new layers of red tape which would add to the cost of prison and demands on staff time.
Many of those sidling up to Cameron and co in supporting the austerity cuts display a shocking ignorance of the conditions of such "idleness" (I can't use that word without feeling like a dusty old schoolmistress), as well as the societal limitations that stand in the way of overcoming what is less an idleness and more a deeply entrenched apathy.
But it's his very sense of beauty, his taste for the elegant moves on the board of complex social games, that crosses the lines; he makes frivolity itself seem essential, leisure a necessity, idleness an essential mode of creation — and money all the more important, yet still insufficient.
But it's his very sense of beauty, his taste for the elegant moves on the board of complex social games, that crosses the lines; he makes frivolity itself seem essential, leisure a necessity, idleness an essential mode of creation and money all the more important, yet still insufficient.
The partners behind Napa's Far Niente established Dolce ("dolce far niente" being an Italian idiom for a sweet idleness) as a separate operation to pursue the nearly Sisyphean task of making this Sauternes-style late harvest Semillion/Sauvignon Blanc.
A playful idleness suits a Mötley Crüe fan, and it can even serve a memoirist, but it works less well for a polemicist.
Her salt-and-pepper hair, arranged in a high chignon, lengthened her still beautiful face; and her slender groomed body suggested lotions and expensive soaps, a hairdresser and a masseuse, idleness and ease.
"Their anger is an outgrowth of idleness, a lack of feeling accomplished as human beings," Mr. Green said.
In his preface to the novel, Congreve describes it as a "laborious idleness", no more than an "essay begun and finished in the idler hours of a fortnight's time".
But such a deal, if ratified, would mean the plants could be shut from 13 weeks to 32 weeks, an enforced idleness which could doom the already stressed financial position of Indian Point, which is having difficulty securing steady customers for its electricity due to increased competition, particularly from lower cost wind and natural gas.
