Cassie despised men like Charles Woodruff, wasting their lives in idle pursuits.

"Why not spend your days at idle pursuits like other noblemen?"

They think we wallow in luxury here, that we spend all our time in idle pursuits and speculations that have no bearing on work or reality.

One was not to simply spend one's time in idle pursuits.

As powerfully as anything he ever said, Wittgenstein's life shows that philosophy is not an idle or foreign pursuit.

Not for me the idle pursuits of youth.

He paused in his idle pursuit to exchange looks with Calhoun.

Indeed, it is nothing to me if you choose to while away your time in idle pursuits.

But there is one difference: the Chantilly monkeys are meant to be mocking the idle pursuits of the aristocracy.

Still, calculating the zeros of zeta is not an idle pursuit.