Sentence examples for no idleness from inspiring English sources

Caute's Michael Parsons, a home secretary in waiting, has no qualms at being ripped from his expensive boarding school and sent to a more plebeian establishment in the London suburbs, for here "there was no idleness, no affectation … and no pretence that anything counted more in life than doing better than the next boy".

We will herein consider the dynamic product form described above and its static version with no idleness term.

This is usually applied to reasoning about the poor: for example, if generous social security means no penalty for idleness, and no reward for hard work, then we can expect more idleness and unemployment than otherwise.

And young nationals more than half the population is under 15 face the prospect of enforced, and no longer so contented, idleness.

Failing to seize the potential of partnerships serves no one's best interest, and there is, frankly, no excuse for idleness.

But she said they had no tolerance for idleness or drugs.

In his preface to the novel, Congreve describes it as a "laborious idleness", no more than an "essay begun and finished in the idler hours of a fortnight's time".

Many of these prisoners have been sent to virtually total isolation and enforced idleness for no crime, not even for alleged infractions of prison regulations.

"In my family we were never idle, partly because idleness was a sin, partly because there was so much work to be done, and partly no doubt we were just that sort of people".

By custom, we disparage the idleness of the idle rich.

His crimes on the earlier page include being a "nuisance" (May 19), "chewing in class" and "making noise" (separate entries for May 23), "repeated misconduct" (June 13), "silly noises in an examination" (June 15), "sabotage" (June 16), "just no interest whatsoever" (June 20) and "idleness" (June 22).