Sentence examples for wholly idle from inspiring English sources

Lower down the scale, things were much the same, although few middle-class households could afford a wholly idle wife.

It is, in short, a prize worth striving for.Mr Chirac's government has not sat wholly idle in the face of these challenges.

Instead, Congress has left it largely to the courts to check the executive; they can do so piecemeal, but it is plainly beyond their competence to devise a whole new set of rules.Congress has not been wholly idle.

God has attached feelings of pleasure and pain to our ideas, so the natural faculties with which humans are endowed "might not remain wholly idle, and unemploy'd by us" (Essay, 2.7.3). Pleasure and pain form the basis of Locke's general theory of motivation, but they are also the bedrock upon which our moral ideas, and the motivation to moral goodness arise.

Those contracts have now been cancelled and India cannot afford imported coal -- so many plants sit partly or wholly idle, or have been suspended or cancelled.

Not lost in idle dreams, but wholly invested in making them come true.

Colonial perceptions of land tenure were wholly embraced by post-independence governments; this included perceiving rangelands as idle and unproductive under the communal land tenure system, just like their predecessors had assumed.

Not wholly.

Idle hands".

Idle chatter?

Some idle.