But Miss Georgie Howard met his look with a smile that was nothing more than idle amusement.

It isn't some idle amusement.

It had to, Mr. Margolies says, for "idle amusement has never been overtly promoted by our culture."

Then, with idle amusement, he tried to peer into the future.

Perhaps there would be more than idle amusement in this Corrino Prince.

Agonies of hope and despair, boredom, idle amusement, life and death.

- some idle amusement?

We do not live for idle amusement.

THE game of chess is not merely an idle amusement, wrote Benjamin Franklin in 1779.

After all, the majestic New England peaks were set in place by a stern providence that frowned upon idle amusement and encouraged humans to resist temptation.