niente

Seeing the whole and its parts gives me more than mere pleasure in its aesthetic surface and its narrative detail: the whole painting expresses to me a feeling of a joy of life and dolci far niente, which is just as worthy an emotion for art, I'm sure you'll grant, as the darker emotions.

Boulter’s Lock James Gurney 2008

There was small danger of meeting any one, -- it was not the time for loads of hay and grain, and little else passed that way: the labourers in the fields were seen and heard only at a distance Mr. Linden himself was in as gay and gladsome a mood as the day, -- more lively indeed, and active -- taking the "dolce far" without the "niente;" witnessing what "the year of exile" had been, by his joy in being at home, with June and Mignonette.

Say and Seal, Volume II Susan Warner 1852

The opportunity cost for "dolce far niente" or "the joy of doing nothing," runs high.

Tijana Milosevic: A European Take On The Anomaly Of American Workaholism Tijana Milosevic 2011

This has nothing, NOTHING, nil, rien, nada, gar nicht, niente, to do with claiming the government ought to be running businesses.

The Internet and Productivity, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

The opportunity cost for "dolce far niente" or "the joy of doing nothing," runs high.

Workaholism in America: A European's Perspective Tijana Milosevic 2011

The opportunity cost for "dolce far niente" or "the joy of doing nothing," runs high.

Tijana Milosevic: A European Take On The Anomaly Of American Workaholism Tijana Milosevic 2011

(Non mi aspettavo per niente tanto grigio, marrone ...)

...in which she fails (but also succeeds) 2009

This has nothing, NOTHING, nil, rien, nada, gar nicht, niente, to do with claiming the government ought to be running businesses.

The Internet and Productivity, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Carissima, purtroppo, a me non piacciono per niente i colori.

...in which she fails (but also succeeds) 2009

Yet when summer beckons, it is not to the rocky coves of the Amalfi coast or to the endless sandy shores of the Adriatic that they retreat to far niente .

In Search of a Billionaire's Paradise Aude Lagorce 2011