And which are absolutely distinct from "vain desires" — aka passing fancies or things we wish for "in an idle way".
He also struck a deal to manufacture Renaults in an idle factory near Moscow.
In an idle moment, he came up with a piece of kinetic art that involved spinning wheels of monkey fur.
Unlucky Trenton-bound passengers had to spend about six hours in an idle train west of Rahway, N.J., during a power loss on the Northeast Corridor line.
I like anyone who is serious at this level about the act of sitting around in an idle manner watching television.
Picking up a copy of something on a whim to fill in an idle hour or three doesn't work so well in a tablet world.
Grossmith seems to have regarded "The Diary of a Nobody" as something tossed off in an idle moment, never giving it publicly so much as a mention.
Our grizzled and leonine anti-hero has some amusing traits, such as fixing himself a dry Martini in an idle moment, using his special luxury in-car fridge.
Leafing through the magazine in an idle moment that week, I called Eldridge and found him in his office at the University of California, Davis.
After the Texan got to Sweden, he at one point engaged in an idle conversation, captured by a local television crew, with the prime minister, Goran Persson.
