Indolence in example sentence

All I shall do is to pray to heaven to deliver you from it, and show you how beneficial and necessary knights-errant were in days of yore, and how useful they would be in these days were they but in vogue; but now, for the sins of the people, sloth and indolence, gluttony and luxury are triumphant."

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"Praise" is a slice-of-misery Aussie flick which looks into the waxing and waning of a relationship between a sexually obsessed woman and her taciturn and less experienced boyfriend while both languish in a life of self indulgence, sex, indolence, sex, drugs, sex and more sex.

Her sense of security (and hence her indolence) is also increased because her political opponents are in complete disarray.

I repeat: if a nation's identity is jeopardized, it is placed in that position primarily from within; it is placed in jeopardy by choice – often the choices expressed at the ballot box – and out of negligence or indolence.

Indeed, over time, questions have been replaced by German frustration at Greeks’ alleged indolence, corruption, and incorrigibility.

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