Sentence examples for state of idleness from inspiring English sources

During his long wait to see what the Texas prosecutors would come up with, Mr. Palmer, who lives near Montgomery, has wrestled with depression and has found himself in an unwelcome state of idleness and isolation.

The other characters live in a state of anxious idleness, vacillating between depression and seething, impotent anger.

And yet among all this financial misery and economic turmoil is a country in which people have rapidly descended into a state of supreme bone idleness but who equally demand second-to-none social welfare, lower taxes, benefits and a high standard of living.

Modern economists have raised similar concerns about today's redistributive welfare states: by subtracting from the rewards of work and adding to the consolations of idleness, social transfers sap economies of their vigour.

Semi-retired was how he liked to think of his situation, but within days he had realized that what he had made in the States at the tail end of the dot-com bubble would not be sufficient to support a life of idleness, as he had hoped.

He found Germany to be a heartening counter-example to Roosevelt's New Deal: "When you contrast the state of mind of Germany today [1938] with what it was in 1925, you begin to think that perhaps this course of idleness, feeding at the public trough, dependence on government, etc, with which we are afflicted is not permanent and can be overcome".

Now, after six months of idleness, some are losing patience.

Tells how the ship is guarded against ravaes of idleness.

I think it was an act of idleness, really.

Is refusing such jobs a sign of idleness?

Risky investing automatically provides an even higher payout relative to the cost of idleness.