Idleness used in a sentence

Idleness in a sentence as a noun

Since then, it's been office jobs that were more like 6 hours of work, 4 hours of idleness/thinking time.

I adopt an idleness and unwillingness to do anything off the computer. Worse, just having access to a computer makes me less likely to do other things.

I mark my status as "available" when I'm actually able to chat, any automatic detection based on idleness would be wrong. It's similar with my laptop at home.

> Oh, and one really mean observation that I'm afraid is too true to be omitted: idleness is the source of much trouble. A scientist has his science to worry about so he doesn't have time to complexify the code needlessly.

I agree with you on not incentivizing idleness. That's why basic income is superior to minimum income.

It's also why many aren't easily bothered by supposed excesses of idleness of the rich, as long as the wealth was acquired legitimately. This isn't to endorse these views, but to acknowledge that these positions are sincerely held by individuals of all races, genders, and incomes.

At best we have won the war on idleness, which is only a lite version of it. If anything, these ****-time gadgets exacerbate the deep boredom problem, what Pessoa calls tedium: Tedium is not the disease of being bored because theres nothing to do, but the more serious disease of feeling that theres nothing worth doing.

Lingering in public space seems out of place and such "idleness" is generally associated with unemployment and other undesirable qualities.

The rampant idleness is one of the visible signs that actually makes me feel really upset. Driving to meetings and seeing a couple dozen very healthy guys in the middle of any given workday hanging around and harassing people because they're bored or, drinking themselves into a stupor just to **** another day where they do nothing and nothing happens, is a very serious problem.

Based on communities with multi-generational welfarism, I'd suggest that idleness comes with pretty serious social problems. Employment imposes minimum pro-social requirements on the employee.

Should let their talents rest and resolve to devote their lives merely to idleness, amusement, and propagation of their species- in a word, to enjoyment; but he cannot possibly will that this should be a universal law of nature, or be implanted in us as such by a natural instinct. For, as a rational being, he necessarily wills that his faculties be developed, since they serve him and have been given him, for all sorts of possible purposes.

To a busy person taking 30minutes to sit in the kitchen, read the paper, and sip some coffee would appear as sloth and idleness but doing the same in a train car is nearly as pleasant and gives no opportunity for the evil optimizer in our heads to give us grief about it.

Here's what Etymonline has for it [1]: "place of instruction," Old English scol, from Latin schola "intermission of work, leisure for learning; learned conversation, debate; lecture; meeting place for teachers and students, place of instruction; disciples of a teacher, body of followers, sect," from Greek skhole "spare time, leisure, rest ease; idleness; that in which leisure is employed; learned discussion;" That seems pretty close to what you're doing. Historical meanings often have resonance and sometimes make comebacks.