How To Use indolence In A Sentence
- There's an enormous tension between indolence and languor.
- 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.
- Tiberius distinguished his reign by great indolence, excessive cruelty, unprincipled avarice, and abandoned licentiousness.
- Nourished by my indolence, it grew into a mammoth, impregnable oak of jealousy, bearing the most poisonous fruit. LOVE YOU MADLY
- I firmly believe that sloth and indolence are much kinder to the environment than greed and ambition.
- 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
- 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. The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
- 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
- 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
- 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
