leisured
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Instead Jaeger lays bear the spiritual ennui of a leisured civilization without real purpose.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 24, 2021
For their part, the leisured gents asserted their superiority by making a public show of their leisure or, as Veblen put it, their “conspicuous abstention from labour.”
From Salon ● Apr. 19, 2019
Machiavelli wanted ruthlessness to be used for political ends - achieving a self-governing republic - whereas Ripley is ruthless in order to achieve purely personal ends - an affluent, leisured life in beautiful surroundings.
From BBC ● May 23, 2013
And the centerpiece, “A Month in the Country,” is a suspenseful tragicomic story about love and jealousy among vividly characterized individuals of the 19th-century leisured middle class.
From New York Times ● Jul. 8, 2012
Many were students both ambitious for academic success and accustomed to leisured life in the sun.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
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