Sentence examples for utterly idle from inspiring English sources
Would anyone know how to respond on finding himself or herself nestled, as it were, between Henry James and Edith Wharton? (Not an utterly idle speculation. James, we learn, tended to fix Wharton up with men he was attracted to).
I won't rehash David's description of the film, except to say that it's the story of a fifteen-year-old girl, Mia, who lives in a housing project in Essex, near London, with her little sister and surprisingly young-looking, yet utterly idle mother.
"Felix is a 'downright civilian', dressed all in brown, walked to and fro about the room, searching in some bookcases with magazines and virtually doing nothing; an utterly unpleasant impression he makes — a man idling in such times", Olga wrote to her father, Tsar Nicholas, on March 5, 1915 after paying a visit to the Yussupovs.
"He was American!" As we turned back, the idling van drove away — "probably having utterly photographed us," Egan said.
But it is utterly asinine to presume Paul thinks the poor were idle.
She starts idling at the lighted window displays on Princes Street, utterly bewitched by the trinkets on offer.
