King Tuff

I'm in East L.A., like Mount Washington, Highland Park. There's a little strip that they're gentrifying, trying to make a hip spot, but you go there, and it's just kind of barren. Nobody hangs out anywhere in L.A. There's no loitering in L.A., so I don't know what to do with myself.

American Musician

Anthony Doerr

Fiction writers have long turned to winter to advance bluer palettes, slicker surfaces, and sharper contrasts. The sky darkens, the wind picks up, and flakes start to fall. Horizons shrink. Couples bicker. Cars slide off roads. Obliteration tends to loiter between the sentences.

American Writer

Ronnie Corbett

I suppose to the outside world I do seem slightly obsessed. But I once had a balance problem with my inner ear, and the fear loitered. Yet I have found that golf is like a yoga procedure for me: it's had wonderful, sedative, remedial qualities for my day-to-day life.

Scottish Comedian

Michelle Alexander

After the end of slavery, African-American men were arrested in mass, and they were arrested for extremely minor crimes like loitering, standing around, vagrancy, or the equivalent of jaywalking - arrested and then sent to prison and then leased to plantations.

Cynthia Ozick

Sometimes writing has to be forced. In starting out, the shape and timbre and texture of what is to come is an uncertain chimera shimmering from behind a veil. You must not wait, loiter, dilly-dally. You must force your way painfully through.

American Novelist

Martha Beck

Expectation loiters in the DNA of every sentient being; when you tell yourself or a loved one, 'Don't get your hopes up,' you're fighting ancient genetic programming.

American Author

John Goodman

Pardon me for loitering in front of an orchestra.

American Actor

Often implies unwanted presence or potential trouble.

Negative Connotation

Can suggest laziness or suspicious behavior in social contexts.

Societal Judgment

Often used for casual, unintended meetings in public places.

Informal Gatherings

Suggests a leisurely pace or deliberate delay in movement.

Lack of Urgency

Can imply taking time to observe or enjoy surroundings.

Observational Strolling

Highlights hesitation or a slow approach to activities or decisions.

Delay in Action

Often associated with not having a clear goal or intention.

Purposelessness

Implies possibility of unlawful intentions in a legal context.

Potential Suspicion

May be subject to laws and regulations in certain areas.

Legal Restrictions

 river now typically the loiter herd does its own migration back towards the loiter hills unfortunately one of the realities of life is such that that migrational pattern has been changed and has been changed by the presence of fences

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 of being everywhere at once adapting to the mood swings of the weather if clouds drift off trying to hold themselves together make deals with gravity to loiter a little longer

Loiter