| What is the origin of this nefarious Nebuchadnezzar, who would take away speech for chat, thought for instinct, righteousness for accidie? |
| Such was the deadly sin of accidie, the name of which is forgotten today, though the thing itself is with us still. |
| Anomie and accidie which were also mentioned are, I fear, surely doomed to extinction. |
| So when you think of these three men, it cannot be middle age or old age that really produce this accidie. |
| During the great war the disease of accidie was prevalent in prison camps, as any account of Ruhleben shows very clearly. |
| Every Friday night, car stereo blaring, he and Dan would screech to a halt on the gravel, Dan sweet but quiet, Tim snarling with urban accidie. |
