The Guardian We are in a rush. We are making haste. A compression of time characterises life today. There are other intensifiers - places and objects that signify impatience. Certain notorious intersections and tollbooths.
Leisure is time off the books, off the job, off the clock.
If we save time, we commonly believe we are saving it for our leisure. We know that leisure is really a state of mind, but no dictionary can define it without reference to passing time. It is unrestricted time, unemployed time, unoccupied time. Unoccupied time is vanishing. The very variety of experience attacks our leisure as it attempts to satiate us.