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indolence
1. For all his laid-back indolence, there is a tautness about him which is obvious once you look for it
2. That indolence which is the natural effect of the ease and security of their situation, renders them too often, not only ignorant, but incapable of that application of mind, which is necessary in order to foresee and understand the consequence of any public regulation
3. the indolence and vanity of the rich is made to contribute, in a very easy manner, to the relief of the poor, by rendering cheaper the transportation of heavy goods to all the different parts of the country
4. In this respect, the teachers of a new religion have always had a considerable advantage in attacking those ancient and established systems, of which the clergy, reposing themselves upon their benefices, had neglected to keep up the fervour of faith and devotion in the great body of the people; and having given themselves up to indolence, were become altogether incapable of making any vigorous exertion in defence even of their own establishment
5. And, in the end, the civil magistrate will find that he has dearly paid for his intended frugality, in saving a fixed establishment for the priests ; and that, in reality, the most decent and advantageous composition, which he can make with the spiritual guides, is to bribe their indolence, by assigning stated salaries to their profession, and rendering it superfluous for them to be farther active, than merely to prevent their flock from straying in quest of new pastors
6. Kicking Sand in the Face of Indolence
7. and the indolence of contemporary men, their ignorance and hurry, leads them, unfortunately, to the
8. Discouragement, worry, and indolence are positive evidence of moral immaturity
9. " But such a plea concerning spiritual indolence will not justify the barren steward of truth in the presence of the Master
10. His indolence was so serious that when they announced the arrival of a commission from his party that was authorized to discuss the stalemate of the war, he rolled over in his hammock without completely waking up
11. ascends; by the aid of animality, indolence, impurity,
12. The indolence of the people was in contrast to the voracity of oblivion, which little by little was undermining memories in a pitiless way, to such an extreme that at that time, on another anniversary of the Treaty of Neerlan-dia, some emissaries from the president of the republic arrived in Macondo to award at last the decoration rejected several times by Colonel Aureliano Buendía, and they spent a whole afternoon looking for someone who could tell them where they could find one of his descendants
13. What has been its fruits? More or less, in all places, pride and indolence in the clergy; ignorance and servility in the laity; in both, superstition, bigotry, and persecution
14. You then have the recipe for a disaster fuelled by ignorance, indolence and corruption
15. study, the pulpit or the meeting! Indolence,
16. Wherever there is islam, there is evil, indolence islamists act as rabid dogs
17. were not random, but corresponded to his own excesses, for instance in indolence or greed
18. It is, of course, a lack of discipline and indolence of mind to substitute a word in French or Arabic when you are talking in English
19. As the population of the masses grew and grew; as plagues could not keep their growing numbers in check, as warring and rapine and murder could not keep their numbers in check, as the aristocrats withered into indolence with no enemies to fight, no religious power to press against and oppose; as colonies were established where the most ambitious and the outcasts of society could escape to, as maritime trade exploded and the lure of becoming a sailor on a ship promised adventure and riches and freedom
20. Once in power, Hitler becomes a recluse: he lives exactly as the old imperial royal families once lived: a life of pure self-indulgent indolence: watching movies late into the night, sleeping late, taking walks, never working; leaving all minor policy decisions in the hands of his underlings
21. “Their bohemian indolence is a myth they’ve perpetuated themselves,” Yaf explained
22. It was only his indolence that kept me in the job, or better, his refusal, to do his father’s bidding
23. We have to slay pride in giants, envy by generosity and nobleness of heart, anger by calmness of demeanour and equanimity, gluttony and sloth by the spareness of our diet and the length of our vigils, lust and lewdness by the loyalty we preserve to those whom we have made the mistresses of our thoughts, indolence by traversing the world in all directions seeking opportunities of making ourselves, besides Christians, famous knights
24. All I shall do is to pray to heaven to deliver you from it, and show you how beneficial and necessary knights-errant were in days of yore, and how useful they would be in these days were they but in vogue; but now, for the sins of the people, sloth and indolence, gluttony and luxury are triumphant
25. The chase is the emblem of war; it has stratagems, wiles, and crafty devices for overcoming the enemy in safety; in it extreme cold and intolerable heat have to be borne, indolence and sleep are despised, the bodily powers are invigorated, the limbs of him who engages in it are made supple, and, in a word, it is a pursuit which may be followed without injury to anyone and with enjoyment to many; and the best of it is, it is not for everybody, as field-sports of other sorts are, except hawking, which also is only for kings and great lords
26. Don Quixote now felt it right to quit a life of such idleness as he was leading in the castle; for he fancied that he was making himself sorely missed by suffering himself to remain shut up and inactive amid the countless luxuries and enjoyments his hosts lavished upon him as a knight, and he felt too that he would have to render a strict account to heaven of that indolence and seclusion; and so one day he asked the duke and duchess to grant him permission to take his departure
27. of indolence, and, as to my being shut out from society, it was the lot of man to submit to certain privations
28. "My mother had an indolence of character, which prevented her from paying
29. Elinor honoured her for a plan which originated so nobly as this; though smiling to see the same eager fancy which had been leading her to the extreme of languid indolence and selfish repining, now at work in introducing excess into a scheme of such rational employment and virtuous self-control
30. Wealth, I said, and poverty; the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent
31. I saw she was sorry for his persevering sulkiness and indolence: her conscience reproved her for frightening him off improving himself
32. to indolence, languor, and the pleasures of love
33. "'Are you mad, uncle?' (he called me by this name when he was in good humor); 'do you think I am going to change the life I lead for your mode of existence—my agreeable indolence for the hard and precarious toil you impose on yourself, exposed to the bitter frost at night, and the scorching heat by day, compelled to conceal yourself, and when you are perceived, receive a volley of bullets, all to earn a paltry sum? Why, I have as much money as I want; mother Assunta always furnishes me when I ask for it! You see that I should be a fool to accept your offer
34. Certainly, after witnessing the culpable indolence manifested by M
35. A red-cheeked prostitute called Joy looked up hopefully at the newcomers, then saw who they were and relapsed into bored indolence
36. It gave Hazel an impression of good feeding, of health and of a certain indolence, as though the other came from some rich, prosperous he turned to gaze at Blackberry from his great brown eyes, Hazel began to see country where he himself had never been
37. His misery made him slow-witted and careless more used than he dared admit to indolence and good food
38. Then her miniature features joined to finish the extreme sweetness of it, which was not belied by that of a temper turned to indolence, languor, and the pleasures of love
39. the indolence of the upper classes and the mental darkness of the lower
40. He was attracted by Giselle, with her candid gaze and white throat, pliable, silent, fond of excitement under her quiet indolence; whereas Linda, with her intense,
41. Imperturbable in the indolence of her pose, she blushed deeply all over to the roots of her hair
42. The charm of her body, the promising mysteriousness of her indolence, went out into the night of the Placid Gulf like a fresh and intoxicating fragrance spreading out in the shadows, impregnating the air
43. indolence, careless days when the desires of youth were warm in his body
44. Even for the improbable crime of indolence, which has been a lifelong offense
45. Brooke's definition of the place he might have held but for the impediment of indolence
46. In the expression of his face, in his movements, in his walk, scarcely a trace was left of his former affected languor and indolence
47. He was one of those, who, liking work, knew how to do it, and despite his indolence would sometimes spend a whole night at his work
48. ‘I know your outlook,’ said the Mason, ‘and the view of life you mention, and which you think is the result of your own mental efforts, is the one held by the majority of people, and is the invariable fruit of pride, indolence, and ignorance
49. I saw she was sorry for his persevering sulkiness and indolence: her conscience reproved her for frightening him off improving himself: she had done it effectually
50. There were summer night silences, which weren't silences at all, but layer on layer of insect chorals and the sound of electric lamps swaying in lonely small orbits on lonely country roads, casting out feeble rings of illumination upon which the night fed — summer night silence which, to be a silence, demanded an indolence and a neglect and an indifference upon the part of the listener