| In the early scenes, the camera loves the family's sun-baked Sicilian estate and Visconti can't help but celebrate the elegance and idleness. |
| It seems to be tied up with a rather Victorian work ethic where poor people are demonised for idleness and deserve their fate. |
| The Lord will give us his peace most plenteously, but not in a way of idleness. |
| It's been a day for idleness, for loafing about, for lounging, dozing, snacking and dozing some more. |
| The law was against loitering, though it may as well have been against idleness and sloth. |
| The folk memory of the 1930s depression was still vivid and idleness on this scale was considered an outrage. |
