Other words suggest themselves, like indolence, laziness and the relentless pursuit of inactivity. |
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Traditionally, the reasons for places like Ireland were backward economically were put down to indolence, laziness and a fondness for the gargle. |
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Frustratingly unproductive weekend, caused partly by the momentary glimmerings of a social life and partly by my own hopelessness and indolence. |
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I quickly succumb to the languor and indolence that harks back to a more leisurely era. |
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For many years he endured galling poverty, which could not be charged to indolence or thriftlessness. |
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And at this point, I'll jovially join in and roll my eyes at my own sloth and indolence. |
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The greater part have spent their time in the most listless and insipid indolence, chagrined at the thoughts of their own insignificancy. |
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No, this is indolence that is beyond even the animal kingdom in its insistence. |
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Tiberius distinguished his reign by great indolence, excessive cruelty, unprincipled avarice, and abandoned licentiousness. |
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He was by nature insecure and self-doubting, the victim of depressive moods and bouts of indolence. |
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The Young Patriot Essay Contest will be discontinued due to the indolence and torpor of the modern youth. |
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I firmly believe that sloth and indolence are much kinder to the environment than greed and ambition. |
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The wandering soul has countless names, many of them suggestive of sloth and indolence. |
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There have been accusations of nepotism and favouritism, philistinism and indolence, each clandestinely leaked to the papers. |
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But, although indolence is bliss on St Lucia, there are compelling reasons to stir from your compound. |
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He challenges us and he opposes our indolence, but precisely in this way he opens the path towards true joy. |
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It helps relieve tension and creates a kind of carelessness and indolence very favourable to the exchange of hugs and pleasure of the senses. |
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Experts single out causes, the first of which is the lack of supervision and the second is indolence. |
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The film illustrates how incompetence and indolence among senior ranks can fuel indiscipline, larceny and even murder hardly a tonic for the troops. |
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At any other time, it was a cold, meat-locker-lit, inconsiderately furnished wretch of a room, with service that defined insolence and cooking steeped in indolence. |
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He was at first gently reprimanded for his indolence, but the truth at last came out, and a most uncourtly altercation ensued between him and the king. |
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They do, but people everywhere else are far more tolerant of indolence. |
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Rabelais continually returns to the indolence and gulosity of the friars. |
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Before you invoke images of a nation enjoying more indolence than industry, there is an uncomfortable statistic to digest. |
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Our political indolence and preference for yelling across the room rather than engaging hurts us every day. |
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I think it rather the result of a profound indolence and of our incapacity to put to work certain forces in ourselves. |
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Always prone to indolence, Mr Kibaki seems periodically befuddled because of his recent strokes. |
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So why do we hear so many professors describe their pupils as hostile to learning, with a leavening of indolence? |
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And charges of indolence can be overdone: his opposition to the Iraq war in the Commons took real personal courage. |
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Among African medics a stigma attaches to morphine, which is considered addictive and likely to lead to indolence. |
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This is sometimes attributable to indolence, but often to real problems, such as the lack of potential markets. |
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We lose so much, both in private and public life, by receding from the ground we have won, either from indolence or some other cause. |
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Ladies and gentlemen, if we attempt to suppress this trend, it will lead to indolence and waste in the EU economy. |
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It masquerades in many guises, among them shyness, anxiety, caution, conformity, false cynicism, and indolence. |
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The yogi contemplating his navel often figures for Westerners as an object of amusement, being taken as a symptom of indolence or narcissistic self-absorption. |
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Those were the good old days, the glory days of butchery and brutality, before those millions of sesterces from the east flooded Rome with luxury and indolence. |
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Because of the Depression, many people came to associate bare feet with poverty, indolence, or general white-trashery. |
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This legislative indolence is a shocking case study of what complacent ignorance can do to a democracy, and we are now living with the consequences of it. |
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The central idea disseminated by this ethnographic literature can be summed up by the argument that Arab indolence is not compatible with modernity, which presupposes a culture of effort and discipline. |
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Full of faith and courage, nothing could stop them from their mission of teaching my Law to the people and separating them from religious fanaticism, making them understand the indolence and errors of the priests. |
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His energy supports and enlarges his ambition: indeed, ambition deprived of drive is an idle dream. Excellence in business or a profession or in any other walk of life is beyond the reach of indolence. |
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Nothing, therefore, can be more contrary than such a philosophy to the supine indolence of the mind. |
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Hitherto I have lived a great deal too much apart from my sisters, partly from indolence, and partly from my unfrank disposition. |
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He had previously done little against the rebels and was subsequently vilified for his indolence. |
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The racing journalists of that era were notorious for insobriety, indolence and a general lack of civilised priorities. |
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I find that with white females are far more diligent as regards their toilet than the males, who seem always to have more of the Eastern languor and indolence in their nature. |
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Gibbon's indolence in that position, perhaps fully intentional, subtracted little from the progress of his writing. |
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It keeps wages low and institutionalizes indolence. |
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What I did through indolence and in some degree, I confess, through pusillanimity, I had a fancy to make it appear that I did through a sort of generous condescension. |
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