Sentence examples for idle ways from inspiring English sources

Bic may have reason to feel gloomy about pen sales but this isn't about teenagers and their idle ways, and to focus this survey exclusively on them seems unfair.

When legislators return from vacation full of Christmas ham and nursing healthy New Year's hangovers, citizens can expect a return to Congress's usual, idle ways.

"Jobs are not easy to find, and it is tempting for them to fall into idle ways because there is no clear guidance for them.

The readymade was a new concept of art, rather than just an ingenious and idle way of making it.

And which are absolutely distinct from "vain desires" — aka passing fancies or things we wish for "in an idle way".

It seems like an ideal fit for the Switch, too, as an idle way to spend time on your commute and on airplanes, for instance.

So needs are the things you really need, and desires are the things you think you need but in fact you don't really, you only wish for them in an idle way," said de Botton.

Or is he returning to his idle old ways?Given the relative paucity of information or action coming from the administration, nobody can answer this question definitely.

Repelled by the competitive pressures there, he elected to idle his way through the university, persuaded that he "was not for that hour, nor for that place".

At these moments he feels himself recalling her words in the idle persistent way that one jingles loose change in one's pocket: Ma numesc Caterina.

We had, until very recently, been cycling – in an idle, enjoyable way, south from Brockenhurst towards a long-anticipated stop in a local pub.