indolence
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Nobody would’ve called it back when frontman Billie Joe Armstrong was singing about the extremes of teenage indolence in Green Day’s first hit single, “Longview.”
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 15, 2024
As embodied by Mastroianni, the ideal 20th-century Italian man, the “sciupafemmine” had a resigned air, touched by melancholy that suggested indolence and a lifetime of romantic disaster.
From New York Times • May 26, 2022
But if days of indolence sounds dull, it’s easy to head out: Onto mountain trails.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 14, 2022
For some, the notion of an isolated, utterly private Caribbean atoll may conjure up fantasies of tropical indolence — chaise longues on a white-sand beach, umbrella drinks and perhaps a paperback.
From Washington Post • Apr. 1, 2021
"Never was there a dogma more calculated to foster indolence, and to blunt the keen edge of curiosity," sniffed Lyell.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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The Giver
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Negatives with "in"
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Life of Pi
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