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a general feeling of indolence usually overtakes them during summer vacation
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After indulging Sofia’s indolence for the better part of its running time, the movie suddenly supports her newfound sense of independence.
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Peter Debruge, Variety, 14 Feb. 2025
This is our deliverance from mediocrity and indolence — our greatest national security threat.
—Bruce Fein, Baltimore Sun, 30 Jan. 2025
The United States, however, has lost its capacity for self-government through stupendous intellectual indolence and the exaltation of puerilities, like Tayor Swift or Tom Brady, over thinkers like Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Marcus Aurelius, and Montaigne.
—Armstrong Williams, Baltimore Sun, 23 June 2024
If slouching among privileged white Americans could indicate an enviable carelessness, it was seen as proof of indolence when adopted by the disadvantaged.
—Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2024
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Peter Debruge, Variety, 14 Feb. 2025
This is our deliverance from mediocrity and indolence — our greatest national security threat.
—Bruce Fein, Baltimore Sun, 30 Jan. 2025
The United States, however, has lost its capacity for self-government through stupendous intellectual indolence and the exaltation of puerilities, like Tayor Swift or Tom Brady, over thinkers like Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Marcus Aurelius, and Montaigne.
—Armstrong Williams, Baltimore Sun, 23 June 2024
If slouching among privileged white Americans could indicate an enviable carelessness, it was seen as proof of indolence when adopted by the disadvantaged.
—Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2024
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“Indolence.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/indolence. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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indolence
noun
in·do·lence
ˈin-də-lən(t)s 
: the quality or state of being indolent : laziness
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