What is "busyness"

Usage examples of "busyness".

That their separate busyness was the only kind of peace they could have.

The busyness of our lives, our relentless interests, concerns, hopes, frustrations, and fears take precedence, and on a day-to-day basis we are unaware of being linked to everything else.

The Astronomer Royal had chosen his offices here, rather than in his college, out of a desire to escape the busyness of the central town.

It was quiet there and after the busyness of the main streets it was like passing into another world and age.

He did not like leaving her on the street corner with the crowds of shoppers with their busyness and smiles to hammer home her shock.

He was the extreme opposite of the man whose nerves demand a constant busyness because, like a bicyclist, he will fall down if he stays still.

Those first weeks of basic training quickly took on the quality of a challengea challenge to our sharp-edged smart-ass individuality which we were supposed to submerge in humility, prayer, the tedium of routine, the constant busyness, the sounds and smells of a religious dorm.

Yet somehow, despite their busyness, Claudia was filled with a sense of alienation and deep foreboding.

Papa was very busy at this time with Mr Escreet on some mysterious Busyness that I guessed was connected with the letter he had recieved with the Mompesson crest.

He had given her money to buy the supertunic, but she had some of her own with her for other purchases, and went to and fro amid the stalls, looking for more steel needles, which she had found to be well worth their high price, and sewing thread, some fine linen for shifts for herself and shirts and drawers for Aylwin, enjoying the busyness of the fair even more than she had the last one, for this time she had a husband for whom to buy things, and that gave her seeking for bargains more purpose.

Sunday the busyness was all inside the house, and particularly so in the dining-room, for the whole family had gathered to join in a special supper, special because it was the last the eldest daughter Kate would partake of as a single woman, for on the morrow she was to be married.

Built in a jaunty domestic style, like cottages blown up to the scale of hospitals or sanitoria, these were exceedingly ornate and elaborate structures, among the largest and most complicated ever built of wood, with wandering rooflines robustly punctuated with towers and turrets and every other mark of architectural busyness the Victorian mind could devise.

In another hour, the quiet night routine of the hospital would begin to give way to the business and busyness of the day.