Sentence examples for into indolence from inspiring English sources

The daughter's version squares with the Giuliani administration's rigid assumption that anyone shackled to the dole for more than a few months would inevitably sink into indolence.

a sovereign by divine right, to whom opposition was as annoying as sacrilege…nervous in temperament, fallen from youthful fire into indolence, incited to make a war he didn't like.

Sophie used to do literary translations from the French, but lately she has drifted into indolence, sleeping in and scheduling lunch dates to give some shape to her days.

But what the show does have – especially after the first few weeks, when the housemates have settled into indolence or depression (or love and friendship, fear and loathing – proof of Jean-Paul Sartre's dictum in Huis Clos that hell is other people) are long periods when not very much happens.

At times, this lures them into basic indolence, as when Jack Black — the least well served of the leads in "Tropic Thunder" — vents his exasperation by declaiming the word "shit," plus some of its variants, over and over.

Here and there, their ancient burial mounds could still be seen, containing skeletons with bows and arrows, spears and shamanistic drums, but the descendants of these mighty warriors had fallen into such indolence and addiction that their chief delight was a coarse Ukrainian tobacco stretched with dung.

It lies, lolls in itself, it has sinkings and swellings, it rolls in indolence, melding into a single flow.

Welfare states must balance the desire to keep people out of penury with the equally humanitarian desire to not let them drift into lives of indolence and despair.America's last big welfare reform was in 1996, when Bill Clinton and a Republican-led Congress put time limits on cash benefits and tightened the requirement that able-bodied claimants must seek work.

His father played for a time with a band, then retired from all remunerative activity & sank into a life of indolence & alcohol.

"Visitation Street" starts on a summer evening, "a hot night in a calendar of hot weeks," the sort of evening whose indolence easily tumbles into trouble.

To run Gazprom or UES is to have powers of patronage approaching those of a small sovereign state.Some surviving old-guard managers at UES, keen to slip back into the pre-Brevnov era of indolence and self-enrichment, are also against Mr Chubais: they would prefer a less taxing boss.