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  • A leisurely breakfast - even the motel manager was moaning about the way the Italians "hogged" the muffins this morning and drank cups of milk instead of putting it on their bran flakes! TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com
  • The poor litigant will wait for the somnolescent process and leisurely pronouncement and the wealthy litigant will have his case speedily terminated. The Hindu - Front Page
  • Unlike other porpoises and dolphins, belugas are quite leisurely.
  • Old deliberate contemplations, perceptions after long regard ingathered from abundant nature, theories leisurely compacted in sunshine or storm, to stand in the fields of memory, crowned with beauty by the indulgent years. Apologia Diffidentis
  • She could not become the shrill edgy hurried harridan the war had tried to make her while his square, leisurely, beflowered, inscrutable figure passed daily up and down between those pale considerable buildings. Maid in Waiting
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  • He approaches each film in a leisurely and mechanical fashion, like a round of golf. Times, Sunday Times
  • The book is ridiculously baggy and poorly paced: my paperback is practically cuboidal but in its 700 words pages big events are often compressed whilst minor ones are leisurely pondered. Revelation, Redemption and Absolution
  • It is near the seafront and a leisurely stroll west will take you to Brighton. Times, Sunday Times
  • I don't go to bed early enough and therefore struggle to get up in time to get ready at a leisurely pace.
  • In prewar days, she had occupied her time with a little leisurely sewing or gardening and reading her library books, her gentle reveries interrupted only by afternoon tea brought to her on a tray.
  • The meal comes to a leisurely close with wedges of custard-filled torta or purchased almond biscotti served with vin santo, a sweet golden dessert wine, or espresso.
  • We also balanced out the hectic days with more leisurely moments. Times, Sunday Times
  • It is suitable for most age groups who enjoy a leisurely stroll, making a lovely afternoons walk for families.
  • We started a leisurely stroll through what really were beautiful gardens.
  • Some cognac with a nutty finish may be leisurely consumed at her Watergate apartment.
  • Here are some outstanding examples of blogging that caught my eye in a leisurely stroll around the blogroll earlier this morning.
  • Yet since its 2006 float, the share price has been on a leisurely saunter. Times, Sunday Times
  • The park has become a place where office workers brown-bag it and take leisurely strolls.
  • There's an extensive wine list for those planning a leisurely lunch. Times, Sunday Times
  • Yet, as Bolger leisurely sets the stage for the coming conflict, the story comes alive.
  • She'd been on everybody's back most of the week, getting a feel for her New York companies and finishing up with dinner with Eric last night-which, while fun, could not by any stretch of the imagination be called restful-and today Ria was looking forward to a leisurely day of shopping and sightseeing. Beyond World's End
  • Apart from these obvious attractions, I have always found it difficult to understand the appeal of this leisurely, some might say, soporific sport.
  • 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
  • I then had time to take a leisurely view of my gitana, while several worthy individuals, who were eating their ices, stared open-mouthed at beholding me in such gay company. Carmen
  • Spend the afternoon exploring the many shops and galleries, or take a leisurely boat cruise.
  • That leisurely pace is what makes a balloon ride such a satisfying experience.
  • The journey is a leisurely scenic amble along the Italian coast. Times, Sunday Times
  • To be leisurely and carefree is endemic to the place. Excerpt: Soul Mountain by Gao Xingjian
  • The comfortable spaciousness of the centre makes shoppers to browse in the most leisurely fashion away from the harsh elements outside.
  • This leisurely approach yields a beguiling panorama of Deep South society. Times, Sunday Times
  • Staff at the Carlow stations were also working away at a leisurely pace.
  • Although the film is strongly plotted, its leisurely pace and quiet tone take it more in the direction of character study than the rollicking caper promised by the packaging.
  • There is the land of course, with its leisurely rhythm and the cottages that seem to grow up out of the earth; the old alehouse, the Helyar Arms which, I discovered, and contrary to popular stories about English cooking, can give you a wonderful lunch. Roger Housden: T.S. Eliot's Village Bares Its Teeth
  • See Republican critic after Republican critic blast these money-grubbing, greedy, lazy, freeloading moneybags who are offensively overpaid, get off work at a leisurely 2:30 in the afternoon, have three months of vacation, and can live off their fat pensions in high-life luxury retirement, jetting to Paris and Biarritz and drinking champagne cocktails while sucking the life out of the Real America. Robert J. Elisberg: Revealed: Who Actually Caused America's Financial Collapse
  • There's an extensive wine list for those planning a leisurely lunch. Times, Sunday Times
  • Mr. Skillcorn walked off leisurely towards the potato ground, singing to himself in a kind of consolatory aside — Queechy, Volume II
  • Yet since its 2006 float, the share price has been on a leisurely saunter. Times, Sunday Times
  • Lunch was a leisurely affair.
  • The journey is a leisurely scenic amble along the Italian coast. Times, Sunday Times
  • In 1957, the "Little Showboat" made its debut and took passengers on a leisurely "paddle" around the lake.
  • After much leisurely rambling, we made tracks for Provincetown, a charming seaside town.
  • A reindeer sleigh ride was more leisurely but just as wonderful. The Sun
  • Some readers may be frustrated by the apparent lack of action and the leisurely pace of the plot but these devices are used intentionally by McEwan to convey his overall message.
  • She rose with an air of calm that she struggled to attain and strolled leisurely toward the back of the manor. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
  • Some of Johnny's friends saw in this promptitude a high mark of respect and affection; others felt a haste, almost undue, to turn the new erection into a bulletin of "actualities"; and a few surmised that had the work not been done with promptitude it might have come to be done in a leisurely fashion that spelled neglect: if it were to be done, 't were well it were done quickly -- a formal token of regard checked off and disposed of. On the Stairs
  • After this we drove in silence awhile; that is to say Diogenes ambled along at his own leisurely gait, as if he very well knew that 'time was made for slaves'. Peregrine's Progress
  • So from my perspective the whole of what followed seemed to pass in a rather leisurely fashion from a comfortable vantage point behind a thick wall. Times, Sunday Times
  • One day as he leisurely strolls through London, he bumps into Pamela, a beautiful woman who is collecting donations for some charity.
  • Bolton Council's rangers have a series of events taking place to suit everyone - with fun days, music and leisurely strolls.
  • We chose a fairly smart looking spot with a ten course degustation menu for €50 a head and had a very pleasant, leisurely meal which tantalised our palates.
  • A long-handled spoon helps to savour the foodstuff in small and leisurely mouthfuls, in true connoisseur's style.
  • Finally, after a leisurely drive north to Portland, we boarded the ferry for the overnight crossing back to Yarmouth.
  • The cheap solution is to take a leisurely cruise through a bookstore.
  • Rather than going at my usual leisurely pace, I practically ran up to the lunchroom, meeting Jess along the way.
  • We walked back again leisurely, though to my excited imagination the sound of the filing deadened every other sound. Three Times and Out: A Canadian Boy's Experience in Germany
  • You don't want to give it a more leisurely, unpressured look? Times, Sunday Times
  • Quite leisurely from the disaster; the plowman may 2008 December 22 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS
  • The park has become a place where office workers brown-bag it and take leisurely strolls.
  • It's not done at such a leisurely pace now that the temperatures have dropped.
  • Whilst Her Bad Mother is in the toy chest … nekkid from the pants up, after being lured from a leisurely shower and post-shower moisturization with a yelp. Now I Know My ABCs… | Her Bad Mother
  • When I gave him a prod, he moved off in a leisurely way.
  • Life on board involved early-morning swims, leisurely breakfasts and then short passages between sheltered coves where we lunched and swam for several hours.
  • So from my perspective the whole of what followed seemed to pass in a rather leisurely fashion from a comfortable vantage point behind a thick wall. Times, Sunday Times
  • Explore the many faubourgs (suburbs/neighborhoods) on foot, or take a leisurely stroll by the Mississippi.
  • And Charlotte's successful modeling agent, Oscar, deals with the requisite disloyalties of the fashion business by affecting a leisurely shorthand in which he customarily speaks of himself in the third person. Model, Teen and Terrorist Face a Culture of Appearances
  • Dr. Lawrence was strolling at a leisurely pace, leaning rather heavily on his walking stick.
  • You get twice as much done, drink much better coffee, lunch leisurely and can smoke as much as you want.
  • In the marshy districts is seen the large elater, which displays both red and green lights; the red glare, like that of a lamp, alternately flashing on the beholder, then concealed as the insect turns his body in flight, but the ruddy reflection on the grass beneath being constantly visible as it leisurely pursues its course. The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America
  • We walked in a leisurely manner, looking in all the windows.
  • Not a great bustle at this hour on a soft, moist, melancholy November day, but always some evidence of human activity, a boy jog-trotting home with a bag on his shoulder and a dog at his heels, a carter making for the town with a load of coppice-wood, an old man leaning on his staff, two sturdy housewives of the Foregate bustling back from the town with their purchases, one of Hugh's officers riding back towards the bridge at a leisurely walk. The Devil's Novice
  • She took her shower at a leisurely pace, making sure that every inch of dirt had been cleaned off of her body.
  • He poured himself a drink and leaned back in his chair leisurely and took several long draughts.
  • Warm up at a leisurely pace for a length. The Sun
  • This is ideal for anyone whizzing through in a lunch-break (although it is perfectly possible to take a leisurely stroll through all the rooms in an hour).
  • Hand in hand, they made a leisurely stroll across the garden, stopping from time to time to remark on one bravely struggling flower here or a sturdy vine there.
  • When the sun began to set, we returned to the stables, and after a leisurely and passionate farewell, we parted.
  • Police stopped traffic so the dray could make a leisurely way through to St John's Street.
  • The park has become a place where office workers brown-bag it and take leisurely strolls.
  • We enjoyed a leisurely picnic lunch on the lawn.
  • Each plyer must coordinate his or her actions with others, and they must do it not simply in a reflective, leisurely fashion, but on the fly, in an embodied and urgent manner; the goal is to be able to act and react as a group, ready to face any new contingency that presents itself. I Love the Smell of Burning Crusade in the Morning
  • This means it is one of the few places where you can take a leisurely stroll through the cobbled streets of the new town. The Sun
  • La Plante lets her mystery unfold at a leisurely but absorbing pace.
  • Such leisurely Roman ways shocked the Americans. Paul VI - The First Modern Pope
  • We found a pavement cafe and enjoyed a leisurely meal. Times, Sunday Times
  • No special point this evening, other than I'm thinking that the way to creative industriousness in my leisure hours may well be through being leisurely more generally.
  • It is near the seafront and a leisurely stroll west will take you to Brighton. Times, Sunday Times
  • Mr. Moulton took the paper, deliberately adjusted his spectacles, and, having read it very leisurely (I wondered how those fiery creatures had the forbearance to stay quiet, but they did; I think they were hypnotized by my father-in-law's coolness), he said, in his weird French, "Vous voolly nos animaux!" which sounded like _nos animose_. In the Courts of Memory, 1858 1875; from Contemporary Letters
  • The full one-way journey would take 43 hours of sailing and the best part of a leisurely fortnight.
  • Webb wove his way between the leisurely Sunday drivers, curbing his impatience. PRETTY MAIDS ALL IN A ROW
  • Discussion of a common foreign and defence policy - an even more leisurely and circular debate than that on human rights and sovereignty - can never have the same fine careless languor it had before.
  • The telephone rang as Astor was completing a leisurely breakfast at nine-thirty.
  • The sheltered outside terrace can seat 65 and is a perfect venue for a leisurely lunch. Times, Sunday Times
  • We leisurely opened presents and stockings and had brunch around 3 pm.
  • She'd no notion of leisurely love-making, either; thirty seconds of gentle dalliance and she started behaving like the Empress Theodora run amok, with poor old Flashy fighting for his life, belaboured by balloons of black jelly. THE NUMBERS
  • O how I envy those people who can get up have a leisurely breakfast of something healthy and wholesome, browse through the papers before stress free, amble through the park to work.
  • The men opened a store in a settlement called Bayou Sara, which "sat beside a leisurely stream once known as Bayou Gonorrhea, the origin of that name mercifully forgotten," Mr. Davis writes. When the Bayou Broke Away
  • I ate my lunch leisurely with my feet up on the sofa in front of the lunchtime news.
  • he traveled leisurely
  • There's an extensive wine list for those planning a leisurely lunch. Times, Sunday Times
  • I quickly succumb to the languor and indolence that harks back to a more leisurely era.
  • Now the activity of the practical virtues is exhibited in political or military affairs, but the actions concerned with these seem to be unleisurely. The Nicomachean Ethics
  • Some binges are planned, leisurely affairs, for which food may have been hoarded. Coping with Bulimia
  • We found a pavement cafe and enjoyed a leisurely meal. Times, Sunday Times
  • He moves out of the way and the car resumes its leisurely pace. Times, Sunday Times
  • The sport is used to moving at a leisurely pace, and bumbled along happily enough for 116 years before it got around to holding its first World Cup.
  • While the ragtop is a bit slower to 60 mph (4.9 seconds, compared with 4.6 for the coupe) and a half-second more leisurely through the quarter-mile (13.4 seconds), the retracted top cures the low-roof coupe's biggest functional liability: massive rear-quarter blind spots and desperately limited outward visibility. A Genuine Ragtop Road Monster, Leaks and All
  • Only an attack by a voracious swarm of midges then spoilt a leisurely paddle under a warm, summer sun on a perfect, windless day.
  • It is near the seafront and a leisurely stroll west will take you to Brighton. Times, Sunday Times
  • I'll be reading the next two volumes, but at a more leisurely pace.
  • Despite the presence of the butchers block in the middle of the kitchen and despite having a dining room with better and bigger furniture the couple preferred to have leisurely breakfasts, or brunches as in this case, in the kitchen.
  • at a leisurely (or easygoing) pace
  • In crabs, then, and in such other animals as are able to seize their food in a leisurely manner, inasmuch as their mouth is not called on to perform its office while they are still in the water, the two functions are assigned to different parts, prehension to the hands or feet, biting and comminution of food to the mouth. On the Parts of Animals
  • It can take off from a relatively small runway and cruise at the leisurely pace of a car.
  • Quite leisurely from the disaster; the plowman may 2008 December 22 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS
  • Even a leisurely game like cricket, demanding grace rather than strength, can cause much ill-will, as we saw in the controversy over body-line bowling and over the rough tactics of the Australian team that visited England in 1921. Collected Essays
  • A reindeer sleigh ride was more leisurely but just as wonderful. The Sun
  • I must wake up early every day to exercise and read the newspapers leisurely.
  • While I would have enjoyed loading up the Wagon Queen Family Truckster, hitting the New Jersey Turnpike, and straddling two lanes at a leisurely 37mph while the icy wind tousles my hair through my missing windshield and my Ironic Orange Julius Bike hangs out the tailgate, it turns out I have to be elsewhere in the country for something more important. Archive 2010-02-01
  • The local galleries, shops, and restaurants stay open late to allow potential collectors to leisurely stroll through the galleries in the comfortable coolness of the dry, desert evening.
  • Some binges are planned, leisurely affairs, for which food may have been hoarded. Coping with Bulimia
  • Put yourself in the hands of these masters and enjoy a leisurely meal featuring edamame, seaweed salad and delicate fresh soba noodles in broth while enjoying quiet conversation with your guests.
  • The sheltered outside terrace can seat 65 and is a perfect venue for a leisurely lunch. Times, Sunday Times
  • A leisurely overland trip to Pusan took three weeks, hurried trips ten days.
  • Couples strolled leisurely along the beach.
  • The park has become a place where office workers brown-bag it and take leisurely strolls.
  • A shopgirl in a slim dress with a mandarin collar stood behind the counter leisurely munching her way through a bag of pork rinds while flipping through Vogue. Slice Of Cherry
  • As Auden wrote in "Musee des Beaux Arts": "everything turns away/Quite leisurely from the disaster. Archive 2005-07-01
  • Nibbling on dish after dish of tapas, mazzas Spanish style, while sipping wine, I observed my co-diners as they conversed in a leisurely style.
  • Yet there is much of scenic and historic interest here to delight the leisurely visitor.
  • Beyond the Club House another illuminated walkway leads to the Tree House, a raised seating area built around a stout fig tree, which almost demands hours of leisurely lounging.
  • Rewa Gunga, perfectly at home, sprawled leisurely, along a cushioned couch with a grace that the West has not learned yet; but King did not make the mistake of trusting him any better for his easy manners, and his eyes sought swiftly for some unrhythmic, unplanned thing on which to rest, that he might save himself by a sort of mental leverage. In The Time Of Light
  • Repentance is called crucifying the flesh (Gal. 5: 24), which is not done on a sudden, but leisurely; it will be doing all our life. Provocations & Pantings
  • For eleven months its grubby surface was covered by a makeshift blue wall, screening the leisurely metamorphosis behind.
  • The client can decide on the length and duration of the game walk, anything from a strenuous 3- hour hike to a more leisurely 30-minute stroll.
  • The traditional meze, a leisurely eating out experience, is short for mezedhes or ‘little delicacies’, comprising between 20 and 30 dishes accompanied by bread and salad with fresh fruit to finish.
  • A leisurely lunch followed by an afternoon's skiing is an experience that is truly hard to beat.
  • Tweed walked at a leisurely pace.
  • Pinetop, who was leisurely eating his breakfast of "hardtack" and bacon, took a long draught from his tin cup, and replied, as he wiped his mouth on his shirt sleeve, that he "reckoned thar wouldn't be any trouble about finding room for them, too. The Battle Ground
  • The fleet of six human-powered passenger paddleboats in a Swan motif began to shuttle passengers around the Public Garden Lagoon on April 16 at a leisurely two miles per hour.
  • Perseverance '-- for that was her name -- was spoken somewhere in the vicinity of the ends of the earth, cruising along as leisurely as ever, her sails all bepatched and be quilted with rope-yarns, her spars fished with old pipe staves, and her rigging knotted and spliced in every possible direction. Typee
  • Greenbank is a demonstration garden where people can glean practical and creative ideas either from a leisurely amble or from the programme of courses and guided walks.
  • She rose with an air of calm that she struggled to attain and strolled leisurely toward the back of the manor. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
  • This means it is one of the few places where you can take a leisurely stroll through the cobbled streets of the new town. The Sun
  • We made a leisurely circuit of the city walls before lunch.
  • The postman leaves the place mechanically dropping the letters into the boxes, which are collected by the residents leisurely, sometimes a day or two later.
  • I on the other hand would marvel at the brisk pace they would lollop off on when we were supposed to be having a leisurely walk.... Winter blues, walking slow, walking fast, the been-to way
  • Steak and ale pie, the local bitter and a leisurely read of the latest issue of The Chap were just the thing to fortify me for a pilgrimage to the Pitt Rivers Museum.
  • The houses burned in a leisurely way, sending drifts of smoke into the centre of town. Somewhere East of Life
  • A haven for bibliophiles - mainly because you can browse leisurely without being disturbed - the place has that friendly feel which not every bookstore can boast of, and which probably only booklovers can recognise.
  • The pace of the book is leisurely, with enjoyable literary and historical asides.
  • The album differs from their earlier punchy efforts, concentrating on developing strong grooves laced in reverb and echoes at a leisurely-relaxed tempo.
  • '_The Corinthian_,' another snarling watch-dog in the courts of the temple of Fame, followed instinctively the same injurious wake: it was a leisurely sarcastic anatomization, quite enough to blight any young candidate's prospects, supposing that mankind respected such a verdict; if not to make him cut his throat, granting that the victim should be sensitive as Keats. The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper
  • This "lope" as it is called, seems to be a gait peculiarly adapted to the mustang, as they will break into, and keep it up the entire day; evincing no more distress than our ordinary horse does in trotting leisurely. Seven and Nine years Among the Camanches and Apaches An Autobiography
  • But his leisurely approach and careful balancing allow details of texture, often obscured, to stand out. Times, Sunday Times
  • After a leisurely tour of the cathedral, we repaired to one of the bistros that line the stone pavement around the church, to have a bite of lunch.
  • Basketball offered an intimacy and an aesthetic on television lacking in the brutal National Football League or the technical and leisurely baseball.
  • This means it is one of the few places where you can take a leisurely stroll through the cobbled streets of the new town. The Sun
  • When I first started this job, I did run into one person who made me feel as though I was intruding on her leisurely day of work.
  • Basketball offered an intimacy and an aesthetic on television lacking in the brutal National Football League or the technical and leisurely baseball.
  • Take a brisk walk along the waterfront to admire the modern sculptures and shoals of kayakers, and then take a more leisurely amble upwards to appreciate the grand villas and gabled weatherboard terraces of the hillside suburbs.
  • The judicial costume is appropriate in every respect; but I could not help smiling, the other morning, upon meeting my friend the judge, standing before the door of his house, in the open street -- with a hairy cap on -- leisurely smoking his pipe -- And wherein consisted the harm of such a _delassement_? A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume One
  • Graceful sampans, piled high with meticulous arrangements of fruit and vegetables, tables, urns and clay pots, float leisurely as they plied their merchandise.
  • In a quiet bystreet a German band of five players in faded uniforms and with battered brass instruments was playing to an audience of street arabs and leisurely messenger boys. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
  • A figure reclines leisurely on a bed of flowers by the seaside, leaning casually on his wrist, his head arched back and lips parted suggestively.
  • When fired at, oorial usually go leisurely away, stopping to gaze every now and then, so that several shots may often be fired at one herd. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
  • We made a leisurely circuit of the city walls before lunch.
  • Nick Brandreth for The Wall Street Journal For office-goers who can't enjoy a leisurely meal, there's the buffet or the express lunch dabba. Atypical Indian Lunch
  • Like Dr. Grant, however, the meticulous doctor found no pleasure in soiling his fancy haberdashery during a leisurely round of golf.
  • The pace is glacial, with oodles of pages and paragraphs of leisurely descriptions of various preparations for the tourist season as well asthe domestic and inner lives of the cast of characters - in many cases rather irritating types in whom it is hard to care, frankly. March 2009
  • We also balanced out the hectic days with more leisurely moments. Times, Sunday Times
  • They set off at a leisurely pace.
  • Basketball offered an intimacy and an aesthetic on television lacking in the brutal National Football League or the technical and leisurely baseball.
  • This also embraces your innate inclination towards the leisurely enjoyment of life's pleasures.
  • They walked at a leisurely pace through the rest of the battlefield and into a wild forest.
  • We walked leisurely into the hotel.
  • Take a brisk walk along the waterfront to admire the modern sculptures and shoals of kayakers, and then take a more leisurely amble upwards to appreciate the grand villas and gabled weatherboard terraces of the hillside suburbs.
  • I quickly succumb to the languor and indolence that harks back to a more leisurely era.
  • Rather unusually for me I fancied a swim instead of the gym this morning so did some leisurely lengths before eight then sat in the bubbly spa feeling springy.
  • I was walking leisurely on the sidewalk when I heard a loud crash of two vehicles just at the T-junction about 10 meters away.
  • The universe then settled into a more leisurely pace of expansion over the past 13.7 billion years or so.
  • Basketball offered an intimacy and an aesthetic on television lacking in the brutal National Football League or the technical and leisurely baseball.
  • The sun dazes me, hurts my skin, but I would like to take a more leisurely look at those people passing… The Book of Chameleons
  • We found a pavement cafe and enjoyed a leisurely meal. Times, Sunday Times
  • He's shuffling towards the dying of the light at his own leisurely pace. Times, Sunday Times
  • He stropped his razor painstakingly and shaved himself in leisurely fashion and sent an occasional glance toward his prisoner from the looking-glass, which made Buck swallow hard at his Adam's apple. The Ranch at the Wolverine
  • Whilst Her Bad Mother is in the toy chest...nekkid from the pants up, after being lured from a leisurely shower and post-shower moisturization with a yelp. Now I Know My ABCs...
  • After walking your fill, stop for a bite at Adele's, where an antique bar and overstuffed furniture invite leisurely drinking.
  • The five leisurely tracks on Sun Araw's "Off Duty/Boat Trip" (Woodsist) sink into some primordial psychedelic murk: a realm of fuzztone and stereo-panning echoes, wah-wah guitars and stray percussion, throbbing bass lines and distant, barely intelligible vocals. NYT > Home Page
  • This leisurely approach yields a beguiling panorama of Deep South society. Times, Sunday Times
  • It was early as I sat down to a leisurely breakfast on Grand Comore.
  • It's more like a nice cup of tea - to be enjoyed leisurely and with a degree of reflection.
  • This is one of those albums that yields its secrets at its own leisurely pace. Times, Sunday Times
  • Sir Francis's two surviving sons were both destined for active service rather than the leisurely life of gentry on a country estate.
  • We enjoyed a leisurely picnic lunch on the lawn.
  • Instead of celebrating my 50th wedding anniversary with my husband, leisurely enjoying the beauty of glaciers and wildlife along Alaska's scenic Inside Passage, I was anxiously peering out of a rain-drenched helicopter window, huddled under heavy, metalliclike blankets. Starbulletin Headlines
  • Lucy set off at a leisurely pace back to the hotel.
  • Ospreys are making their way south from Scotland in a leisurely way. Times, Sunday Times
  • When he finished the second one, he put the first bill to the wiper blade leisurely.
  • Delineate a person is leisurely and carefree with nature from the happy fine appearance.
  • We took the walk at a leisurely pace and spent about four and a half hours.

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