Leisures

Salman Taseer, one of the few politicians openly challenging the onslaught of religious extremism, Pakistani moderates are facing a new and troubling reality: Pakistan is a country where fundamentalism is becoming mainstream, leaving even less room for dissent, difference and many once-prevalent leisures such as public music, dance parties or other social contact between the sexes. ❋ AP (2011)

Completely such were beautiful days for us, and poorest of us had the money to spend and lend, and of the leisures to make beautiful things right for the recreation of him, without speaking of the most marvellous toys and most magic, similar of which is not to be found in the world nowadays. ❋ Unknown (2009)

As long as until now , no lawyer is able to tell me how legal such terms are , and actually not even what EULA/ToS are contracts ? leisures ? ❋ Unknown (2006)

But the Feast of Christmas was now neere at hand, which afforded leisures much more hopefull, then any other formerly passed. ❋ Unknown (2004)

And then he kissed her, and did to her pleasaunce as it pleased them both at times and leisures. ❋ Unknown (2003)

When we have done away with the priestess, you will have plenty of time to pursue your depraved leisures. ❋ Moore, Sean A. (1994)

Some of his lighter subjects, "his leisures" he called them, are well known, e.g. the "Dancing Girls". ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

A soldier at fifteen, he spent his leisures in camp reading ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

It is because he had imagination, the leisures of the spirit, and basked in an element of contemplation out of all modern English atmospheric gauges, that he is impressive to the imaginations of men, and has become a potentate not to be ignored. ❋ Unknown (1909)

All along King Street the massive houses stand close together, each with its arcade and its curious outside staircase of stone which leads to an upper balcony where one may catch the breeze and watch the leisures of tropic life. ❋ Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton (1902)

Washington had his slaves, his coat of arms, and the occupations and leisures and pleasures, so far as the frontier would permit, of an English gentleman. ❋ John Finley (1901)

The management of the narrative is singularly clumsy, introduced by a Mr. Lockwood -- a stranger to the North, an imaginary misanthropist, who has taken a grange on the moor to be out of the way of the world -- and afterwards continued to him by his housekeeper to amuse the long leisures of a winter illness. ❋ Unknown (1900)

He read and rehearsed his reading in memory, but he did not give himself to "deep, abstract meditation" and did not surrender himself to "the fruitful leisures of the spirit." ❋ James Ford Rhodes (1887)

Good birth, as a general thing, argues good breeding, refinement, education, fixed social position, and a wide margin of generous leisures; all of which have much to do with the outcome of a poet's life. ❋ Unknown (1882)

Even had the genius all been there, the wide leisures would have been wanting, and he would have produced his poems, not as Goethe, at his "unhasting ease," -- absolutely free from all exigence -- but under the pressure of ❋ Unknown (1882)

One secret is that they, and all such men as they were, had that of which Macaulay can hardly have had the rudimentary germ, the faculty of deep abstract meditation and surrender to the fruitful 'leisures of the spirit.' ❋ John Morley (1880)

They took us promptly in hand -- they were only walking over to San Marco to match some coloured wool for the manufacture of such belated cushions as still bloom with purple and green in the long leisures of old palaces; and that mild errand could easily open a parenthesis. ❋ Henry James (1879)

But, very fortunately, he has not confined his observation to the leisures and pleasures of Simla; he has looked out also on war and on sport, on the life of all native tribes and castes; and has even glanced across the borders of "The Undiscovered Country." ❋ Andrew Lang (1878)

Nevertheless, the desire of the scientific mind even in the novel is for all reasonable accuracy, and to attain it I used for six years such winter leisures as the exacting duties of a busy professional life permitted, to collect notes of the dress, hours, sports, habits and talk of the various types of men and women I meant to delineate. ❋ Unknown (1871)

Luke: *lying on couch* [Calum]: Oh looks like we've caught Luke in his Leisure time. Luke: I'm just [Leisuring] out. [5sos] fan: *lies on couch with feet in air* Person: What are you doing? 5sos fan: oh, you know, just [leisuring] ❋ Can't Think Of A Name (2013)

"If everyone would put [leisurism] into their life, the world would be [in a better place] and people would be less angry and upset and more happy and relaxed. see [Leisurist] ❋ ChristheProfessor (2012)

[I like] taking leisurely [walks] in [the park]. ❋ Gamer911 (2019)

I saw Leisure open for [cKy] in [Dallas] Texas, they [rocked the house]. ❋ Jeffgw0 (2003)

Guy 1: "[Did that] guy just say 'You're probably [my new best friend]?'" Guy 2: "Yes he did." Guy 1: "That's a [leisure sentence]." ❋ Jamal Rakens (2010)

[Can I] [leisure centre] you? Yes [pls]! ❋ CubicAtom (2023)

Example: [CONSUMER] ALERT: Are our [Christmas Time] Suicide [Balloons] safe? ❋ JerGoertz (2004)

[I'm a lady] of [leisure] this week; [I don't need to] be back at work until Monday. ❋ Time4tea (2017)

"Should I pick up a [six pack] of [Natty] on the way over?" "Nah bro, plenty of leisure beer [in the fridge]" ❋ Wordzmithz (2016)

After making rediculous amounts of money by selling his design to a large company, Tom now [fancies] himself a [gentleman of leisure]. He spends most days hanging around the pool reading The Wall Street Journal, and spends his nights at the club either drinking with ladies or playing high [stakes] poker in the back room. ❋ ALWXXX (2011)