leisured

joutilas Having leisure, having time that need not be dedicated to work.
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The iron and coal valleys of the Vermissa district were no resorts for the leisured or the cultured. Everywhere there were stern signs of the crudest battle of life, the rude work to be done, and the rude, strong workers who did it.

They had become a superior, leisured caste.

It is a frightful myth that the love of beauty is only to be found in leisured, educated people.

The leisured class may produce great advances in the arts, or it may fritter away its time.

And brooding thus on my ephemeral flowers

That smoulder in the wilderness, I thought,

By envy sore distraught,

Of amaranths that burn in lordly bowers,

Of men divinely blessed with leisured hours,

“All right,” said Basil, rising also and seating himself in a leisured way in an armchair.

Everything that w:John Malcolm Brinnin|Brinnin writes about is defunct. The big liners were killed, of course, by the jet plane, a device that condensed the leisured misery of a five-day crossing into seven hours of concentrated nullity or wretchedness.

While his career spanned a time when quintessential New York street photography was defined as swift, sharp and precise, w:Saul Leiter|Leiter’s leisured, impressionist style went against the grain.