Idleness

I imagine many readers — who, like me, are non-skiers — spent the snowy weekend in a state of relative idleness, wondering what the world is coming to, and – like me — ran across the January 17 op-ed article in the discussing the FAFO Effect.

They shared grievances and fears about homeless people, judgments about substance use and idleness.

Crocheting once served as a pleasant enough pastime — a tactile and visually satisfying escape from idleness.

He earned against the bags of fertilizers being sold or diverted, saying the fertilizers will encourage agriculture and food security, apart from curbing idleness.

Keywords reflect themes ranging from metacognitive perceptions shaped by traditional myths or beliefs (like those surrounding “faeries” symbolizing idleness) to considerations of advanced scientific proofs and methodologies.

One may start out wanting a sexual partner, but there is never a guarantee; thus it becomes a mixture of anticipation, delight, and idleness.

Aside from the possible negative social impact, children’s behaviour has been affected, as they grapple with shifting their attention from progressive academic work to idleness in their communities.

Cash cost per ton sold does not include the impact of the cost of idleness in the Peruvian mines.

I suspect your work is central to your wellbeing in much this way, and hope you aren’t suffering such periods of enforced idleness.

Tobacco, usually a profiteer of idleness, boredom and depression, is strangely losing out as traditional distribution channels are blocked.

Youth restiveness from COVID-19, unemployment, a year of idleness made an army available for physical exertion,” Adebowale said.

And take advantage of convenient opportunities to practice idleness, like when you’re standing in line or waiting for the children to come home from school.

He added that the development was also aimed at curbing youth restiveness and idleness in the community and making them useful to themselves and the society.

Participants at the last public meeting, on Oct. 28, focused on quality of life issues such as drug-related crime, gang activity, vagrancy, idleness and loose cigarette sales as well as more officer engagement at community events.

The official line was that they disturbed the peace and promoted idleness, but the King was no doubt fearful that they provided the ideal environment for rebellious meetings and the plotting of treason.

A nation where the giant evils of squalor, ignorance, want, idleness and disease should be tackled by collective effort.

Leonard highlighted the need for better leisure spaces for young people to steer them away from idleness.

Such moments of forced idleness can be just as painful as stress from overwork, Brodsky says.

The discipline of self-care is softened by Julia’s call for leisure, which she distinguishes from idleness as a “much richer concept” – not an aimless passing of time, but a happy pursuit intentionally engaged in to restore your sense of balance.

We must instill the requisite values into young the generation so as to build a strong and virile nation which values selflessness over gluttony and greed, discipline and hard work over idleness and sloth”.