busyness

"There was a busyness before. It is only hitting people now."

When he gets runs, he is praised for being busy, but that busyness can become frenetic, especially at the start of his innings.

Babies do not arrive on anyone’s schedule, and the busyness of labor and delivery units can wax and wane accordingly.

I think of an anecdote in sociologist Liah Greenfeld’s prescient 2005 paper, “When the Sky Is the Limit: Busyness in Contemporary American Society.”

Bethany: This entirely marvelous saloon is on the National Register of Historic Places, and the Tiffany-style lampshades are bedecked with red tulips, and not one but two antique cash registers watch over the proceedings, and the rich woodwork is mahogany, and the bartender’s level of busyness directly on the heels of the film kept making me think stunts were about to break out.