This leisurely rural existence is restful in only the most superficial ways: two members of the family suffer from radiation sickness and have been ordered not to work hard.

NEWYORKER: Black Rain

Winter days in Solcavsko were made for meals such as this - leisurely, delicious, eaten around the large ceramic stove that is the focal point of every house.

BBC: Snowbound Slovenia

When I was a child, two piles of magazines, pillars of this misplaced faith in a leisurely reading future, rose in adjacent basements.

NEWYORKER: Yellow Fever

This book is like a long leisurely talk with a cherished grandmother.

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