Sentence examples for idle days from inspiring English sources

"Idle Days on the Yann" often anticipates the imaginary travelogues of Italo Calvino.

Right now, their lives are a meaningless string of sunny, idle days, dedicated only to comfort.

Like many of Dunsany's stories, "Idle Days on the Yann" largely neglects character and plot in favor of mood and what Dunsany would call "wonder".

The book grew from his New Yorker article two years ago about rubber rooms, where the city's most dysfunctional teachers spent idle days, collecting salaries while waiting months or years for their cases to be resolved.

They spend a lot of time wandering the fields and pathways of a drab and marshy northern French countryside, their mostly silent, idle days punctuated by spasms of violence and eruptions of metaphysical strangeness.

Jorge Luis Borges, compiling a list of thirty-three "prologues" to his seminal story "The Library of Babel," included Dunsany's story "Idle Days on the Yann" alongside works by Kafka, Henry James, and Voltaire.

Readjusting my inner clock to the slowness of an idle day unpunctuated by meals, a newspaper, shopping, coffee breaks, or a glass of wine was, for me, one of the fast's greatest hurdles.

Each time some food scold castigates lazy parents who feed their children manufactured meals, I reflexively take the parents' side, partly in defense of my mother, who has never spent an idle day.

Film trucks idle day and night in the street; there's no parking; klieg lights illuminate the bedroom windows; and, as one resident put it the other day, "arrogant guys with a thug attitude tell you to stay off your own sidewalk".

After another wearying and athletically idle day, following nine days aboard the Manhattan, the American expedition, mightiest of Olympic armies, passed through the gates of Olympic Village into its haven of order and quiet in time for jogging exercise, its first meal there and a night of rest.

Wall Street Spends Last Likely Idle Day In Remembrance 09.14.01.