leisureliness

The events would take place with such geologic leisureliness.

As he turned to face her with that assured leisureliness, she saw he was smiling a little.

What makes the ballet peculiar is its leisureliness.

Her leisureliness in developing her characters suggests that readers have all eternity before them.

It floated with a vast leisureliness in what would be a parabolic semi-orbit.

Then, very sedately and with a certain enormous leisureliness, the hull of this spaceship leaned.

Theirs was a leisureliness never attained before.

Bud Gregory turned on a switch and leaned against the mud-guard, waiting with infinite leisureliness.

They worked with a cheerful leisureliness, jesting amongst themselves, and showing their white teeth as they laughed.

His clipboard went flying and down he went, falling with the curiously graceful leisureliness of low gravity.

We were moving tranquilly, with a curious suggestion of homing leisureliness, through a soft, blue shimmering darkness.

The artists put in multiple appearances and are represented by one or two works to which the film returns with all the leisureliness of a museum visit.

Later, in the years before the war, the sedate pace of academic research, the leisureliness of the eighteenth century, which was his period, had spoiled him.

His hands went towards his waist, and with a sort of introspective leisureliness he began to separate the fastening of his belt.

The English dialogue often sounds as if it had been translated from something else, but there is an engaging leisureliness, almost a lassitude, about the pace that invites contemplation.

Ms. Kramer's workaday manner, by contrast, is almost self-conscious in its meandering leisureliness, like someone savoring a walk around a beautiful city or a conversation with an old friend.

Asked about the perception of leisureliness in governance, the near-palindromic aide offered a fresh metaphor to explain the failure to understand the Bush approach: "Ours is a different template."

It is the comparative leisureliness of a walk that leaves the mind and imagination free to absorb the stunning contrasts that are the hallmark of New York living.

Frequent mention is made of the Niger, and "100 Percent Cotton Natural Fiber" unfolds with the fabled leisureliness of that mighty, winding river.

In deep space they moved and thought with a leisureliness that would vanish quickly enough when a voyage was nearing its end and the time for braking maneuvers had arrived.

It's as affectionate, big-hearted and creaky as any film that ever graced Radio City Music Hall, with leisureliness and dime-store philosophizing to match.

With infuriating leisureliness, after consulting a time-pulser hung beside the telescope, Ugant finally invited her to take her place at its ocular and stare at Swiftyouth.

Picture captures the crisp style used by Luke Short in writing his western novels...Picture's pace has a false sense of leisureliness that points up several tough moments of action.

There was a damnable deliberation, a dreadful leisureliness in its motion, as if it knew that there was no way in which its victims could evade the elastic yawning of those five abominable mouths.

Its portrait of Alice, a widow forced to turn her house and beloved garden over to her son and disliked daughter-in-law, has both the epigrammatic intensity of a tightly written short story and the satisfying feeling of leisureliness found in many novels.