idler

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“You don’t want to live through this, per se,” she suggests about Fiona Apple’s anxieties, which the singer bares in “The Idler Wheel . . . ,” her self-lacerating 2012 album.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026

Eight years before this one, in 2012, there was “The Idler Wheel…”; seven years before that one, in 2005, there was “Extraordinary Machine.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2020

The Idler Wheel is almost a folk-country record, and finds the 34-year-old older, wiser and more ready to take responsibility for turbulence in her relationships than she had been in the past.

From The Guardian • Mar. 27, 2020

The Idler was devoted to the “literature for loafers.”

From New York Times • May 4, 2016

Idler or bungler, or both, he is willing To fork out his penny and pocket your shilling.”

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 7 "Columbus" to "Condottiere" by Various