Sentence examples for most idle from inspiring English sources

The universities, too, lacked intellectual vitality; Gibbon called the 14 months he spent at Oxford the most idle and unprofitable of his life.

In areas where most idle grassland habitat present on the landscape is tallgrass, harvest of switchgrass for biofuel has the potential to increase the local diversity of grassland birds.

That is nose-tweaking with a vengeance – and as Professor Evans points out, it was also a dig at Oxford, where Gibbon had spent "what he called the most idle, and the most unprofitable years of his life".

She then sorts the other components by how busy they are, parking the most idle of the Seesmic Desktop's windows on the right, where she can ignore them most of the time.

Last year a handful of new Conservative MPs published a short book titled Britannia Unchained, which set out a future of 60-hour working weeks and thoroughly deregulated labour markets, as well as claiming that British workers were "among the most idle in the world".

Thus, most idle slots and collision slots in AQS are avoided in SBA+ with P1 = 1.

EECS doctoral student Carrie Cai has devised a Google Chat extension to help users make the most of idle wait time between texts and instant-message replies.

Rudyard Kipling's camel, remember, got its hump for being "most 'scrutiatingly idle".* "Understanding the Evolving Inflation Process" by Stephen Cecchetti, Peter Hooper, Bruce Kasman, Kermit Schoenholtz and Mark Watson.

Unlike most of Idle's post-Python work, this is up to the standard of the team, riffing off the fab four much as the Piranha Brothers took off from the Krays.

Most are idle, locked up and empty, simply rusting under a baking summer sun.

With most cars, idling at the arrival curb of a major metropolitan airport results in an instantaneous visit from the parking police: Whistles blown, arms akimbo, ticket pads drawn.