Sentence examples for less pastime from inspiring English sources

Because, for Simm, music is less pastime than passion.

That an upstart soccer team are attracting upwards of 50,000 fans to games in a city notorious for professional sports apathy – and in a corner of the country where the other football is less pastime than cultural vanguard – is without precedent.

I am thinking of a rather less exalted pastime: the room-escape game.

In Renaissance Italy the rough-and-tumble sport of folk football became calcio, a game popular among fashionable young aristocrats, who transformed it into a highly formalized and considerably less violent pastime played on bounded rectangular spaces laid out in urban squares such as Florence's Piazza di Santa Croce.

And if our book consumption remains as low as it has been, at least let us admit that it is because reading is a less exciting pastime than going to the dogs, the pictures or the pub, and not because books, whether bought or borrowed, are too expensive.

Children's own stated activity preferences were assessed using a series of discrete choices from 48 pairs of more vs less active pastimes, with higher scores representing preferences for more active pastimes.

Some top players, though, retire from bridge, preferring less stressful pastimes.

And parents value them because they teach virtues like teamwork and persistence, and keep children out of trouble and away from less enriching pastimes.

Then Liston hurt one of his knees while swinging a golf club — a confirmation of my theory that boxing is among the less dangerous pastimes — and the fight was postponed.

Below is a video from when the project started explaining its concept: Besides the many relaxing parks built for the project, some of the spaces are used for less tranquil pastimes, as my colleague Andrew C. Revkin documented some years ago: What do you think?

Others were flummoxed by the assertion that a magic potion might be of assistance in the hitting of a curveball, a naïveté born of insulation and the belief that baseball, being true Americana, was on a higher moral plane than less refined pastimes.