| Afternoon tea, eaten after a light lunch and before a larger mid-evening dinner, is considered an indicator of a leisured, comfortable existence. |
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| The leisured progress, the sensuous attention to phrases, coupled with nuances in phrasing, created the reverberations of singing at a durbar. |
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| Heavy investment was made in the nineteenth century in rearing thousands of pheasants for leisured slaughter in the battue. |
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| To forgo the leisured lifestyle, to abstain from epicurean pleasures of over-indulgence, is no mean task. |
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| When the leisured classes took to skis, though, they did so first for amusement, then for sport. |
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| To my mind, golf can be categorized as an aristocratic game reserved exclusively for the leisured classes, big shots and whimsical big spenders. |
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| In the beginning they came from the leisured class of doctors, clergymen, and the landed gentry. |
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| But with trade and with the first rumblings of the Industrial Revolution emerged a leisured, town-based middle class. |
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| Be this as it may, the study usefully foregrounds Wollstonecraft's critique of modern commercial society as well as the leisured elite. |
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| He had some medical training, then spent the rest of his life as a leisured gentleman in Dublin and London. |
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| It should be consumed freely, and should be indemnified against the criticism of a leisured elite. |
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| Is this a Utopian vision of the leisured society of the future, as liberated by technology? |
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| But Scotland and Sunday can reveal that Pimm's, the drink most revered by England's leisured classes, is in fact made entirely in Scotland. |
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| Today, the experience of old age is moving away from that of the wealthy leisured elite of Rome to one characterised by inequality and poverty. |
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| Born in 1942 into solidly middle-class circumstances, he was brought up enjoying the pursuits of the leisured classes of the 19th century. |
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| Unlike her friends, other leisured wives of wealthy men, she loves her life as wife and mother and wishes for nothing more. |
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| Even with my leisured lifestyle, I don't think I can spare the extra time to scan, argue, and answer. |
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| Monica enjoyed a privileged and leisured lifestyle, she did not have to work and had no children. |
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| Here is a a more leisured pace of life and courteousness that are only a memory in the frantic bustle of Kuala Lumpur. |
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| Beach imagery, backyard barbecues, and sport also became symbolic of a leisured lifestyle, and were reinforced with the rise of international tourism. |
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| At the same time, as members of a leisured class, these intellectuals had no part in the labour of production, and consequently their theories were divorced from practice. |
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| Most fiction is about the leisure occupations of leisured people. |
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| By the time it took off in Asia, golf had come to represent a tradition of leisured classes and social division. |
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| This is also one of the causes of cancer which was not so prevalent in earlier and more leisured days of life. |
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| As Linder predicted, if we are dealing with a leisured class it is a harried one, flitting from one activity to the next thanks to mobility. |
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| At one level, this seems 38 to reflect the primacy given to the wants of the leisured tourists rather than the needs of the host community. |
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| In addition to providing Tarbell with subjects for portraiture, Emeline and her siblings served as models for figures in genre paintings of leisured genteel life. |
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| These young people were leisured, for the most part rich and able to allow themselves a journey on foot, at any rate for the least cost possible. |
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| People in the pictures belonged to the leisured class at that time. |
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| Labour divisions led to the rise of a leisured upper class and the development of cities, which provided the foundation for civilization. |
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| The concept of what constitutes a manly image has changed radically over the last three centuries, from the leisured aristocrat to the self-made captain of industry. |
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| If you want to feel radiantly white, male, and leisured, you can hardly do better than to trouble an ethnically diverse crowd of working people to step around your golf bags during morning rush hour. |
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| It was leisured, sexy, architecturally dramatic and attractive. |
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| The pressing exigencies of daily, cross-generation life under racialized enslavement and oppression were what compelled reflective thoughtfulness, not leisured, abstractive speculation. |
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| Unlike the US, Japan and Korea, where golf is a sport of the leisured middle class, in China high membership fees, equipment costs and associated expenditures make it very much a privilege of the rich. |
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| No, it says, there is no evidence that the leisured class have higher IQs than people who work for a living. The letter can be read easily by touching the right spot on a screen by the display case. |
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| Both modern and fossil evidence suggests that hunter-gatherers led longer, healthier and more leisured lives than did farmers until less than a century ago. |
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| The leisured class may produce great advances in the arts, or it may fritter away its time. |
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| It is a frightful myth that the love of beauty is only to be found in leisured, educated people. |
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| That leisured past... is insistently evoked in Mr. Kiely's new collection. A compendium of folk memory, it features great bursts of balladry and doggerel. |
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