She resisted the impulse to be a lotus-eater.

"He has the look of a lotus-eater.

They were dreamy as a lotus-eater's.

Frayn, though, is no neo-Hegelian lotus-eater.

The creature was harmless, Guilford knew - placid, literally a lotus-eater - but it was frighteningly large.

And now she understood the danger the Sylph represented, the danger of the Lotus-eater, the opium-smoker, the one who dreams without direction and purpose.

Laziness, without the overlay of stinginess, appeared in such words as dillydallier, lotus-eater, goldbrick and, one of my favorite Americanisms, lollygagger.

Lotus Eater - Lotophagus Veneris ("Lotus-eater of Venus").

Wealthy retiree was much more likely to be his cover: just another British lotus-eater lured to Kyrenia by its exquisite tranquillity, the cooling breezes and zero taxes.

"The minute I spotted you here I said to myself, 'Now there's a man with sensitive feelings, that ain't a lotus-eater like the rest of us gilded snobs, and that would be real nice to sit and visit with!'