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a general feeling of indolence usually overtakes them during summer vacation
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To tunnel inside a Chekhov story is to feel a narrowing that confounds and vexes us—whether through poverty, despair, indolence, or self-delusion—and, simultaneously, to taste the boundlessness of human longing.
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Philip Metres
july 30, Literary Hub, 30 July 2025
The world does seem full of unhappiness and tragedy, much of it human-caused, either through outright cruelty or through the indolence of our illusions.
—Philip Metres
july 30, Literary Hub, 30 July 2025
Their waiter’s indolence meant a long wait even for menus, yet neither of them let drop a word of complaint.
—Jim Shepard, New Yorker, 8 June 2025
The idea of Irish indolence fused with a quasi-religious faith in the laws of the market to shape the British response to the famine.
—Fintan O'Toole, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025
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Philip Metres
july 30, Literary Hub, 30 July 2025
The world does seem full of unhappiness and tragedy, much of it human-caused, either through outright cruelty or through the indolence of our illusions.
—Philip Metres
july 30, Literary Hub, 30 July 2025
Their waiter’s indolence meant a long wait even for menus, yet neither of them let drop a word of complaint.
—Jim Shepard, New Yorker, 8 June 2025
The idea of Irish indolence fused with a quasi-religious faith in the laws of the market to shape the British response to the famine.
—Fintan O'Toole, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for indolence
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“Indolence.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/indolence. Accessed 21 Aug. 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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