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  • s  free from duties or responsibilities
    even the artist and the sculptor were not regarded...as leisured men"- Ida Craven

  • Shanghai's suburbs expanded into the countryside, with pink-tiled apartment blocks promising a leisured lifestyle to the city's middle class.
  • But leisured, secure aristocracies that have no need to exert themselves usually become bored, hedonistic and demoralized, even though they have power.
  • This face is all the more impressive, when compared with leisured, restive, shy shots made in Toscanini's home, in which he is obviously as human as he is superhuman, and about .
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  • George Bernard Shaw in iBerkshires.com
    Metaphorically, it is England and Europe before World War I. As Shaw wrote in his extensive preface, "Heartbreak House" "is cultured, leisured Europe before the war" - and blissfully, blithely ignorant of its coming or its consequences, the...
  • Peter Kormos in CTV.ca
    The McGuinty government has focused on pot and pitbulls with a leisured demeanour that would make a stage magician jealous,Kormos said, referring to recent legislation banning pit bulls and cracking down on grow-ops. "It has failed to...

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