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lotus-eating - definition and meaning
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Look again at the wallowing happy people, lotus-eating in squalor.
Woodstock Nation 2009
I met the likes of Stephen Spender, Bruce Chatwin, the publisher John Murray and the historian Steven Runciman passing by my hut, where I lived a lotus-eating life by the sea without electricity or running water.
So No More He'll Go A-Roving David Mason 2011
Look again at the wallowing happy people, lotus-eating in squalor.
Woodstock Nation 2009
But the complete lack of forward planning also allowed Sergeant Lewis and his section to spend much of these early weeks on Italian soil "lotus-eating " at Paestum.
Rereading: Naples '44 by Norman Lewis 2011
I met the likes of Stephen Spender, Bruce Chatwin, the publisher John Murray and the historian Steven Runciman passing by my hut, where I lived a lotus-eating life by the sea without electricity or running water.
So No More He'll Go A-Roving David Mason 2011
I had some good lotus-eating role models in my brothers.
Amy Hertz: On Sloth and Other Virtues 2010
It may only be the advent of videogames that in turn produces such a large population of Cheeto and lotus-eating teletubbies that is keeping us as safe as we are.
Dallas Blog, Daily News, Dallas Politics, Opinion, and Commentary FrontBurner Blog D Magazine » Blog Archive » Leading Off (09/25/09) 2009
Our days took on a lotus-eating aspect: rise late, pop a beer, float like manatees in a pool, more beer, more floating, eat a taco and find a strip joint.
Ted Goeglein: I Wanted My Money Back 2008
However lotus-eating that may sound, today's Buddhist travelers are hardly the hippie backpackers they once were; they come from all age groups and backgrounds.
In The Buddha's Shadow 2007
It was the same lotus-eating advice that the Brit had offered.
Deeper Jeff Long 2007
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