The purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place to spend one's leisure. From LearnThat.org.
He lacked the leisure for golf. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
His job left him little leisure. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Bejing - BAY-jing (there is no sounds such as found in 'leisure' in Chinese). From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-11-18] Reference
I am hardly spending my days in leisure whilst my husband toils. From Wordnik.com. [» My Fabulous Husband Strocel.com] Reference
The meaning of Non vacat is, Non placet -- The want of leisure is the want of inclination. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)] Reference
Was it disloyal to science if I dedicated to poesy the hours which others called leisure time?. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference
It does not mean they need to work all the time, but that even in leisure, there has to be a value to it. From Wordnik.com. [Thoughts of Home] Reference
We've converged upon log-utility and rational choice as the explanation for the observed variations in leisure. From Wordnik.com. [European Productivity, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
We cannot give them leisure, yet leisure is the balance-weight they would need, for the sort of instruction we afford them. From Wordnik.com. [Stuart of Dunleath: A Story of Modern Times] Reference
Again I repeat that properly used leisure is as essential to success as a proper spying out of the ground, before we begin a stalk. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Living] Reference
ST helped T organize his office upstairs while I browsed through bracelet after bracelet in leisure, liking one more than the next. From Wordnik.com. [Weekend Ends, Week Begins] Reference
Coping with too much wealth and leisure is a problem too, no doubt, but a different and lesser one that only troubles very fortunate people. From Wordnik.com. [Orwell was wrong, but on the right track] Reference
The decision in favour of what we primarily called occupation, above what we called leisure, may in a mitigated sense be entertained as true. From Wordnik.com. [Thoughts on Man: His Nature, Productions, and Discoveries] Reference
It's a wider societal issue, where leisure is very much valued and work habits are not necessarily reinforced in the way that they were in the past. From Wordnik.com. [April 2009] Reference
For many years afterward, in leisure moments, these knights would "call up" this parent and say, over the wire, "Give the baby water six times a day.". From Wordnik.com. [Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences 1815-1897] Reference
To me, they are fun to play with in leisure time, but as a communication tool, "on the ground", so to speak, they are an obstacle and a crutch to learning. From Wordnik.com. [any opinions on the quality of electronic translators?] Reference
There are a number of kinds of benign growth, even beneficial growth: growth in leisure and recreation, growth in humaneness and tolerance, spiritual growth. From Wordnik.com. [UniversitiesSome Crises of Misunderstanding] Reference
The word leisure is quite appropriate as we are currently staying in what can only be described as a honeymoon couple's dream ... as bizarre and frightening as that sounds. From Wordnik.com. [TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com] Reference
Be speedy, and say thy request -- my leisure is short. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Betrothed] Reference
He called leisure time a “malformation in modern man.”. From Wordnik.com. [Rich commune exists in shadow of dark roots] Reference
The science behind something called leisure sickness, coming up. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 25, 2007] Reference
I've also joined a very swanky gym, so swanky that it's called a leisure club. From Wordnik.com. [WalesOnline - Home] Reference
The story says, he's 24 years old and can't fathom the rest of his life spent in leisure. From Wordnik.com. [Disabled vets face multiple challenges of employability and unseen disabilities] Reference
Conversely, the first syllable of leisure rhymes with lee in AmE, but has the vowel of let in BrE. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIV No 4] Reference
In reality, Brown noted Marriott derives only 20% of its business from so-called leisure travelers. From Wordnik.com. [Marriott Seen With Earnings Upside Potential] Reference
Anyone who uses the so-called leisure services in the Borough will know how horrendously dilapidated they've become. From Wordnik.com. [Leisure facilties facing quality assurance cuts] Reference
To fill the gap this year, the and hotels themselves have promoted a range of specials aimed at so-called leisure travelers. From Wordnik.com. [Philadelphia Business News - Local Philadelphia News | The Philadelphia Business Journal] Reference
For all the active use he can make of them those spare hours of his do not deserve to be called leisure; they are the fagged end of the day. From Wordnik.com. [Change in the Village] Reference
In a time before nylon and spandex, before even the idea of leisure, postwar Brits leave the air-raid shelters and learn to enjoy the daylight once more. From Wordnik.com. [The big picture: Blackpool beach, 1948] Reference
They should have leisure, which is the original meaning of school and scholar; for the mind, like the soul, is refreshed and strengthened by quiet meditation. From Wordnik.com. [Education and the Higher Life] Reference
I say this is as it should be; it is just and fair as far as it goes; and moreover the rich with their leisure are the more like to move if they feel the pinch themselves. From Wordnik.com. [Hopes and Fears for Art] Reference
Trained in economics and engineering, Mr. Price was a founder and very likely the best-known practitioner of the enterprise sometimes called leisure-time economic analysis. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
In the meantime, there is always a pile of books waiting in his chambers to be reviewed at "a guinea a page," when he has leisure, which is apparently only once or twice a week. From Wordnik.com. [Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism] Reference
Fond of a little love (which I call leisure). From Wordnik.com. [Don Juan] Reference
Dr. Covey, my first question is, please define "leisure" for us?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Special Event: Millennium 2000: Leisure - January 2, 2000] Reference
Also "being restless" seems (wrongly) to give the reason why "leisure" could not be employed. From Wordnik.com. [How to Write Clearly Rules and Exercises on English Composition] Reference
When Folk said that he had no kind of leisure to take food, he begged him to take a draught to quench his thirst. From Wordnik.com. [The Danish History, Books I-IX] Reference
The economic factor has been an important one in offering the leisure which is necessary for the development of talent. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86] Reference
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