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. ❋ Unknown (1928)
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. ❋ Unknown (2010)
It doesn't so much develop as slowly (the pace is of an almost forgotten leisureliness) darken. ❋ Unknown (2010)
But once all these types of stories cease to be published -- and features by their nature rely on the leisureliness of print reading and generous photographic layouts that lure in the semi-curious reader -- I worry we'll have lost the shared understanding and celebration of Chicago as an infinitely unpredictable, loving, misguided, charming, ugly, pretty and charismatic city. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The other thing about Dumas that throws off readers accustomed to Bruckheimer-esque narratives is his sheer leisureliness. ❋ Matthew Guerrieri (2006)
"Last Rituals" captures both the city's freneticism (everybody seems to be working at least two jobs) and its leisureliness (parties, once begun, never seem to end). ❋ Unknown (2007)
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. ❋ Herbert George (2006)
We were moving tranquilly, with a curious suggestion of homing leisureliness, through a soft, blue shimmering darkness. ❋ Unknown (2004)
The leisureliness of the Times's coverage is especially apparent when compared to that of its top competitor. ❋ Massing, Michael (2004)
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 ❋ Aristotle (2002)
He felt that it retained a Southern charm and leisureliness of life, along with something of the vigor and activity of the North. ❋ Unknown (1990)
In deep space they moved and thought with a leisureliness that would vanish quickly enough when a voyage was nearing its end and the time for braking maneuvers had arrived. ❋ Clarke, Arthur C. (1990)
As he turned to face her with that assured leisureliness, she saw he was smiling a little. ❋ Norton, Andre (1964)
With the same leisureliness, he removed his light top-coat and his hat and hung them in the closet. ❋ John Reed Scott (N/A)
His very bulkiness and leisureliness are charming; he writes like a man who had eternity to write in, and who knew enough to fill it, and who expected readers of an equal leisure. ❋ Grammaticus Saxo (N/A)
Its composition out of an indefinite number of partial systems is more than probable; but the inconceivable leisureliness with which their mutual relations develop renders the harmony of those relations inappreciable by short-lived terrestrial denizens. ❋ Various (N/A)
So men who have been accustomed to think of revelation in static terms, now that the long leisureliness of man's developing spiritual insight is apparent, fear that this does away with revelation. ❋ Harry Emerson Fosdick (N/A)
You say that science has disclosed to us the leisureliness of the evolving universe. ❋ Harry Emerson Fosdick (N/A)
