Sentence examples for usual pastime from inspiring English sources

And, quite frankly, I'd rather we were united in attacking the BBC than consumed with the usual pastime of hunting one another.

Philadelphians welcome the chance to hate New York teams because it provides a change of pace from their usual pastime: hating Philadelphia teams.

Jane is modest, too, and reserved at first -- I was the first journalist to visit the farm, and it was clear that hosting strangers in this private space was not a usual pastime for the couple.

Chess is a common pastime.

Instead of pottering around their weekend dachas and bathing in muddy pools (their usual summer pastimes), intelligent Muscovites are talking seriously for the first time in five years about a financial and political crisis that may be settled only by force of arms.Foreign investors are close to panic.

It beats our usual dinner-table pastime of coaxing them to finish their broccoli.

As for any plans to travel around in the Yukon burning down houses on a hit list, Ross's friends testified that they had gathered at his house that night for their usual Friday-night pastime of getting drunk or getting high.

Symptoms of major depressive disorder include a sad or hopeless mood, pessimistic thinking, a loss of enjoyment and interest in one's usual activities and pastimes, reduced energy and vitality, increased fatigue, slowness of thought and action, change of appetite, and disturbed sleep.

Nor is there any public record of him living it up on luxury yachts in the south of France, or indulging in the usual self-absorbed pastimes of the offspring of the super-rich.

The Address in question is the one Abraham Lincoln gave at Gettysburg, but this is not the director's usual languorous evocation/examination of an America past or an American pastime -- indeed, there is hardly any history in it at all.

That American pastime of chopping cars is just one of the many true details that distinguish the seductive, grubby-beautiful, low-budget movie "Bellflower" from the usual indie chaff.