(1) Beach imagery, backyard barbecues, and sport also became symbolic of a leisured lifestyle, and were reinforced with the rise of international tourism.(2) He had some medical training, then spent the rest of his life as a leisured gentleman in Dublin and London.(3) In addition to providing Tarbell with subjects for portraiture, Emeline and her siblings served as models for figures in genre paintings of leisured genteel life.(4) What writers have to remember is that their precious novels are not read by leisured gentlemen, for two or three hours at a time, in the peace and quiet of a country-house library.(5) Here is a a more leisured pace of life and courteousness that are only a memory in the frantic bustle of Kuala Lumpur.(6) Shonibare later addressed another well-known if bizarre pursuit of the leisured elite: the use of dogs in chasing and killing wild animals.(7) Most fiction is about the leisure occupations of leisured people.(8) But with trade and with the first rumblings of the Industrial Revolution emerged a leisured , town-based middle class.(9) When the leisured classes took to skis, though, they did so first for amusement, then for sport.(10) Unlike her friends, other leisured wives of wealthy men, she loves her life as wife and mother and wishes for nothing more.(11) Afternoon tea, eaten after a light lunch and before a larger mid-evening dinner, is considered an indicator of a leisured , comfortable existence.(12) Is this a Utopian vision of the leisured society of the future, as liberated by technology?(13) Even with my leisured lifestyle, I don't think I can spare the extra time to scan, argue, and answer.(14) He could talk about the problems of the poor one moment, and the next contend that ‘it is most important that we should keep in this country a certain leisured class.’(15) To forgo the leisured lifestyle, to abstain from epicurean pleasures of over-indulgence, is no mean task.(16) Enriched and enormously expanded by three generations of widening prosperity, the leisured classes of France had invested their gains in culture - which meant above all education.
