indolence

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• Before you invoke images of a nation enjoying more indolence than industry, there is an uncomfortable statistic to digest.

• Our political indolence and preference for yelling across the room rather than engaging hurts us every day.

• And if you are confronted with overwhelming indolence in a book you have been assigned to review?

• So why do we hear so many professors describe their pupils as hostile to learning, with a leavening of indolence?

• Oppressive laws compel me to pay a portion of my hard earnings to support them in their pride and indolence.

• Deeply touched, Peter Ilich resolved to conquer his indolence, and from that moment worked with untiring zeal and energy.

• Neither misanthropy, indolence, nor weariness were his permanent moods.

• The hours which he did not waste in listless indolence were divided between childish sports and childish devotions.

• Iftikhar was in that mood of sleepy indolence to which men wonted to a life of restless action are often prone.