loafing

Walt Whitman inspired a former teacher’s fascination with loafing.

Oldman: Despite his appearance, and that we think he’s loafing off, sitting there with his feet on the desk, he was incredibly good at his job at one time.

When completed later this year, the project will consist of a network of ponds with nesting and “loafing” islands for birds, fed by pumps and a diversion dam.

Nighy came to appreciate this stretch of relaxation — “I’m good at loafing,” he boasts — and began to look at it as an experiment in retirement.

Themselves, they had covered twelve hundred miles with two days’ rest, and in the nature of reason and common justice they deserved an interval of loafing.