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That's just bone idleness on his part.

This label, so often and gleefully applied, implies a certain idleness on their part.

They ransack wardrobes and chests of drawers and put on special items to celebrate the day of idleness on which their souls dangle.

Though his shelves are full of clocks and radios made in China, he blames his enforced idleness on the competition brought by Chinese traders.Zambian and other African consumers do not share his despondency.

But it worked out that way for Stan Schofield, a filmmaker who divides his time between Hampton Bays and Manhattan and used his enforced idleness on the L.I.E. to come up with the idea for a movie.

His self-confessed "vice" was a sort of scholarly idleness: On two occasions recounted in his books, The Workers, an Experiment in Reality: The East (1897) and The Workers, an Experiment in Reality: The West (1898), Wyckoff wandered into a public library and got lost in his reading, wasting hours that he could have used to search for work.

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We also allow for threshold constraints on both the beneficiary and donor sides, whereby the decision to help is based not only on idleness but also on satisfying threshold criteria in the number of jobs.

Public ignorance of what is really going on resides in two complementary facts: the idleness of reporters and the arrogance of scientists.

Moments before embarking on her first affair, Ferrante's narrator, Elena Greco, contemplates the sensual idleness of the island.

That bastion of useful productivity, Jeremy Kyle, has declared war on idleness.

Archives|BROUN SEES HOOVER BIASED ON IDLENESS; Says the President Thinks of 'Tragic National Crisis' in Partisan Political Terms.

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