Sentence examples for to idleness from inspiring English sources

I prefer working to idleness.

It's being so averse to idleness that I multitask even when I'm having my head shrunk.

Human dignity and self-respect are undermined when men and women are condemned to idleness".

Opium deepened his "natural inclination for a solitary life" by giving a cosmic cast to idleness.

Or was it an encouragement to idleness, and an extravagance that the exchequer could not afford?

The locals "went tearfully away and were brought to idleness, ending their lives in extreme poverty", as Cardinal Wolsey noted.

DOC has added security cameras, reformed entrance procedures to stem the flow of contraband, increased inmate educational opportunities to reduce idleness, and is developing crisis intervention teams to respond to incidents more quickly.

In the final stanzas, the figure of Poesy is described as a daemon which Helen Vendler suggests poses a direct threat to the idleness the poet wishes to retain.

If implemented poorly, public aid "tends to encourage idleness and prodigality, and thereby to promote and increase poverty, the very evil it was intended to cure" ("On the Laboring Poor," 1768).

Often viewed as the gateway to hell, it's also the gateway to bone idleness, with everything from Christmas shopping (get your gifts here), to child abuse (repellent images just a click away).

No time to waste: teach US youth to avoid idleness; they can lead new American Industrial Revolution w/WORK & embrace "Buy American" mission 12 08 PM Jul 19th.