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leisureliness

NOUN
  1. slowness by virtue of being leisurely

How To Use leisureliness In A Sentence

  • Yet the island's origins and evolution belie the tranquility and leisureliness it has come to embody.
  • There will be a mighty University here, with thousands of professors and tens of thousands of advanced students, and here great journals of thought and speculation, mature and splendid books of philosophy and science, and a glorious fabric of literature will be woven and shaped, and with a teeming leisureliness, put forth. A Modern Utopia
  • For all the differences between golf and most other spectator sports its sheer spaciousness and the special beauty of its artificial landscape, the extreme leisureliness of its rhythms, the demands on concentration, the brevity of its key actions, let alone their fierce intensities of gracefulness, accuracy, timing, trigonometry all those differences shrink beside the indices of money and fame, the two poles of success. 'A Short History of Celebrity'
  • We were moving tranquilly, with a curious suggestion of homing leisureliness, through a soft, blue shimmering darkness. The Metal Monster
  • Its thinking is leisurely, because today revolt requires leisureliness and not speed.
  • So he waited, chafing, while Mervo examined the situation, turned it over in its mind, discussed it, slept upon it, discussed it again, and displayed generally that ponderous leisureliness which is the Mervian's birthright. The Prince and Betty
  • It doesn't so much develop as slowly (the pace is of an almost forgotten leisureliness) darken. After the Dance; Love Story; Joe Turner's Come and Gone
  • The other thing about Dumas that throws off readers accustomed to Bruckheimer-esque narratives is his sheer leisureliness. One for all
  • Watching a videotape of Touching the Void at home, a fortnight after seeing it at the cinema, I noticed the music more, and the leisureliness, and the mythical subtext beneath the facts, with Joe Simpson as the archetypal wounded hero.
  • So if among virtuous actions political and military actions are distinguished by nobility and greatness, and these are unleisurely and aim at an end and are not desirable for their own sake, but the activity of reason, which is contemplative, seems both to be superior in serious worth and to aim at no end beyond itself, and to have its pleasure proper to itself (and this augments the activity), and the self-sufficiency, leisureliness, unweariedness The Nicomachean Ethics
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