How To Use Indolence In A Sentence
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The culprit is not, on the whole, inefficiency, indolence or excessive private work by hospital consultants.
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It would be so easy to drift into the indolence that surrounded Turtle Ridge.
ROSES ARE FOR THE RICH
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Observe the greater breadth of the brain of the Indian, which according to cerebral physiology indicates great alimentiveness, indolence, morbid sensibility, irritability, profligacy, but also note that it _differs materially in the proportion of all its parts_, from the European brain.
The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand
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After a sudden burst of activity, the team lapsed back into indolence.
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Seated, without doing anything, the greater part of the day, in an armchair of red wood, he bitterly complained of what he called the indolence and ignorance of his countrymen.
Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
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Those were the good old days, the glory days of butchery and brutality, before those millions of sesterces from the east flooded Rome with luxury and indolence.
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To an active mind, indolence is more painful than labor. Edward Gibbon
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Of all the cankers of human happiness, none corrodes it with so silent, yet so baneful a tooth, as indolence.
A Renegade History of the United States
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The sensuality so prevalent appears to me to arise rather from indolence of mind and dull senses, than from an exuberance of life, which often fructifies the whole character when the vivacity of youthful spirits begins to subside into strength of mind.
Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark
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I would like to say a word on behalf of Idleness - pure, unadulterated indolence, unalloyed by even the slightest tinge of Purpose or Usefulness.
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He indulged himself in indolence and social pleasure, but was at the same time much devoted to reading; and enjoyed a tolerable good state of health, although often incommoded with a fluxion of rheum upon the eyes.
The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 02: Augustus
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There are sometimes moments as the Professor lounges at ease by the billabong, the perfect picture of recumbent indolence, when his sylvan reveries are crushed by a sense of sudden and prophetic dread.
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But it must be said that all this came better and more happily in a fruitful and lonely island, where nothing presented itself to me save smiling pictures, where nothing recalled saddening memories, where the fellowship of the few dwellers there was gentle and obliging, without being exciting enough to busy me incessantly, where, in short, I was free to surrender myself all day long to the promptings of my taste or to the most luxurious indolence ....
Rousseau (Volume 1 and 2)
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I am contextless, unhappily spinning in the vacuum of my own indolence.
LOVE YOU MADLY
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To this the indolence of the inhabitants is a greater obstacle than the rapidity with which the oil becomes rancid in the amygdaliform seeds.
Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
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American soldiers; indolence, in America, being totally discouraged; and I likewise worked some for General Putnam, who, though not an accomplished _muscadin_, like our dilletantis of St. James's-street, was certainly one of the best characters in the world; His heart being composed of those noble materials which equally command respect and admiration.
Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Complete
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And it is desirable to prove by definitions that this conduct of his ought not to be called imprudence, or accident, or necessity, but indolence, indifference, or fatuity.
The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4
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There are sometimes moments as the Professor lounges at ease by the billabong, the perfect picture of recumbent indolence, when his sylvan reveries are crushed by a sense of sudden and prophetic dread.
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Probably Dee, through indolence or inadvertence, or, more likely, simple indisposition, hadn't made contact with her.
CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
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First of all, fatness equals nonactivity in many people's eyes… not simply laziness, but mental inactivity, indolence, apathy.
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That indolence, wich is the natural effect of the easy 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 consequences of any public regulation.
A Bland and Deadly Courtesy
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Their indolence abandoned the coast of Anatolia to the calamities of a piratical war, which, after an interval of six hundred years, again infested the Euxine; but as long as the capital was respected, the sufferings of a distant province escaped the notice both of the prince and the historian.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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And at this point, I'll jovially join in and roll my eyes at my own sloth and indolence.
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We must not glorify a mild spectatorial pleasure by the name of philosophy, or excuse our indolence under the name of contemplation.
At Large
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There were tones in it which bred the immediate conviction that indolence and averseness to systematic application were all that lay between ‘Mop’ and the career of a second
The Fiddler of the Reels
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And he arraigns his indolence and constantly asserts that delicate repasts and strong drink have helped uncage the wild animal in him.
Là-bas
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Traditionally, the reasons for places like Ireland were backward economically were put down to indolence, laziness and a fondness for the gargle.
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To an active mind, indolence is more painful than labor. Edward Gibbon
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Appalled by his indolence, gaming, and iconoclastic opinions, his psychology professor tried to catechize him: ‘Tut, tut, what does Saint Paul say, Mr. Crane?’
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It also brought to her recollection, that indolence and pride so often manifested in their hiring a market woman to follow them with the morsel they disdained to carry; while the haughty fool strutted on before, his ragged capota thrown over his arm to expose an old and rusty spado, as it dangled in useless state from a leathern belt.
The Irish Guardian, or, Errors of Eccentricity
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I wouldn't like to use the term gradual laziness to describe the deterioration my work ethic - not when words like indolence, sloth and bone-idleness will do so much better.
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Rabelais continually returns to the indolence and gulosity of the friars.
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And Beatrice and Virgil deserves to be severely reviled because this book, which should not have even been permitted even the fourth-class method of self-publication, earned its bumpkin author a six figure sum through indolence and incompetence.
Why Yann Martel’s Beatrice and Virgil is the Worst Book of the Decade : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits
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For the word indolence, it merely says, "the quality or state of being indolent.
Things found on the way to other things.
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There have been accusations of nepotism and favouritism, philistinism and indolence, each clandestinely leaked to the papers.
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Rosalind is only a few years older than Aliette, but looks as hearty and innocent as Little Bo Peep, corn-fed, pink with indolence.
L. Debard and Aliette
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But, although indolence is bliss on St Lucia, there are compelling reasons to stir from your compound.
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in the Odyssey Homer tells of lotus-eaters who live in dreamy indolence
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After a sudden burst of activity, the team lapsed back into indolence.
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To an active mind, indolence is more painful than labor. Edward Gibbon
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After a precious piece of work, she fixed herself in my house, really and truly without my consent; but, owing to my indolence, and not being able to keep my countenance, for if I began in a rage, she always finished by making me laugh with some Venetian pantaloonery or another; and the gipsy knew this well enough, as well as her other powers of persuasion, and exerted them with the usual tact and success of all she-things; high and low, they are all alike for that.
Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 4 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals
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Probably Dee, through indolence or inadvertence, or, more likely, simple indisposition, hadn't made contact with her.
CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
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His stolid instinctive conservatism grovels before the tyrant rule of routine, despite that turbulent and licentious independence which ever suggests revolt against the ruler: his mental torpidity, founded upon physical indolence, renders immediate action and all manner of exertion distasteful: his conscious weakness shows itself in overweening arrogance and intolerance.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Frustratingly unproductive weekend, caused partly by the momentary glimmerings of a social life and partly by my own hopelessness and indolence.
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The wandering soul has countless names, many of them suggestive of sloth and indolence.
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I quickly succumb to the languor and indolence that harks back to a more leisurely era.
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Other words suggest themselves, like indolence, laziness and the relentless pursuit of inactivity.
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Which is redolent with the central tenets of surrealism that made Lamarkin swoon (“beauty will be convulsive or not at all.”), when it involved a deep awareness of the unconscious, before it became a synonym for indolence and an excuse for the dirty word of indifference.
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No, this is indolence that is beyond even the animal kingdom in its insistence.
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Strength lurked somewhere but indolence was pleasant, and he preferred to let time do its work.
THE OPEN DOOR
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He was at first gently reprimanded for his indolence, but the truth at last came out, and a most uncourtly altercation ensued between him and the king.
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For many years he endured galling poverty, which could not be charged to indolence or thriftlessness.
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One morning after breakfast, when the sun shone bright, we walked out together, and 'pored' for some time with placid indolence upon an artificial water-fall, which Dr. Taylor had made by building a strong dyke of stone across the river behind the garden.
Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood
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A leader who engages in indolence “ought to blush with shame to claim a part in them [victories] for his own renown when he had contributed nothing to the task but his voice and his thinking – not even that, seeing that in tasks such as these the counsel and commands which bring men their glory are exclusively those which are given on the spot in the midst of the action.”
An Emperor Should Die On His Feet « So Many Books
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My amusements were few; the good Mrs. Putnam employed me and her daughters constantly to spin flax for shirts for the American soldiers; indolence, in America, being totally discouraged; and I likewise worked some for General Putnam, who, though not an accomplished muscadin, like our dilletantis of St. James's-street, was certainly one of the best characters in the world; His heart being composed of those noble materials which equally command respect and admiration.
Memoirs of Aaron Burr
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For instance, even the most scrupulous "handicapping" system can make little allowance for the indolence of a horse like Sea The Stars, whose superiority always seemed masked by an inclination to take it easy once he had hit the front.
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Of all the cankers of human happiness, none corrodes it with so silent, yet so baneful a tooth, as indolence.
A Renegade History of the United States
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I firmly believe that sloth and indolence are much kinder to the environment than greed and ambition.
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Nourished by my indolence, it grew into a mammoth, impregnable oak of jealousy, bearing the most poisonous fruit.
LOVE YOU MADLY
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Tiberius distinguished his reign by great indolence, excessive cruelty, unprincipled avarice, and abandoned licentiousness.
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The yogi contemplating his navel often figures for Westerners as an object of amusement, being taken as a symptom of indolence or narcissistic self-absorption.
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In countries where the nobility are destitute of public employment, they naturally degenerate -- become the victims of the diseases of indolence and profligacy, transmit their decrepitude to their descendants, and bequeath dwarfishness and deformity to their name.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844
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Perhaps had willingly ignored it, as introducing a complication oppressive to his indolence, to his hodiernal philosophy.
In the Year of Jubilee
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After some days spent in listless indolence, during which I traversed many leagues,
Chapter 18
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The Young Patriot Essay Contest will be discontinued due to the indolence and torpor of the modern youth.
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To an active mind, indolence is more painful than labor. Edward Gibbon
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He was by nature insecure and self-doubting, the victim of depressive moods and bouts of indolence.
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I wouldn't like to use the term gradual laziness to describe the deterioration my work ethic - not when words like indolence, sloth and bone-idleness will do so much better.
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So many princes fail to enjoy true happiness only, because their feeble, narrow souls, are obliged to act in a sphere too extensive for their energies: it is thus that by the supineness, the indolence, the incapacity of their chiefs, nations frequently pine in misery; are often submitted to masters, whose exility of mind is as little calculated to promote their own immediate happiness, as it is to further that of their miserable subjects.
The System of Nature, Volume 1
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I replied, "Such disclosures and revelation are not granted from heaven; since in proportion as a man knows things to come, in the same proportion his reason and understanding, together with his wisdom and prudence, fall into an indolence of inexertion, grow torpid, and decay.
The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love
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I quickly succumb to the languor and indolence that harks back to a more leisurely era.
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There's an enormous tension between indolence and languor.
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Probably Dee, through indolence or inadvertence, or, more likely, simple indisposition, hadn't made contact with her.
CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
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In general, this book successfully refines several prevalent interpretative paradigms, most notably the purported decline of propertied women into indolence and luxury and the rise of separate spheres.
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Not that they were a hard-worked or hard-working population: they took life very easy, seeing that by no possible exertion could they materially better themselves; and even when they hunted a neighbour's cow out of their wheat, they would execute the eviction with a lazy indolence and sluggishness that took away from the act all semblance of ungenerousness.
Lord Kilgobbin
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In his early life as well as later, spasmodic fits of abnormal mental activity when he 'gorged' books, especially the classics, as he did food, alternated with other fits of indolence.
A History of English Literature
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The natural day is very calm, and will hardly reprove his indolence.
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But obviously, if any were wise or depraved enough to say that they preferred indolence to a ribbon (and there would be many such) they would have to be allowed to continue to lead idle lives, sponging on their neighbours; perhaps some who had at last attained the ribbon might burst into a blaze of faineantise (laziness) in order that they might without distraction savour the pleasure which accompanies consideration.
LewRockwell.com
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The film illustrates how incompetence and indolence among senior ranks can fuel indiscipline, larceny and even murder hardly a tonic for the troops.
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We ought to be resigned and cheerful in a dependent situation, when we cannot possibly provide for ourselves; but a willingness to burthen others, when we can help it by a little exertion, is not resignation – it is mere pride and indolence.
The Mother's Book
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I viewed with regret the many hours I have spent in indolence, and now soarly [sic] feel the want of that information which those hours would have given me had they been judiciously expended. '
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