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There is a pleasant idleness, a sense of “dolce far niente,” or sweetness of doing nothing, that is raised to a public art form.

The movie is often characterised as a study in ennui and curdled dolce far niente, a sunbaked torpor and languor that incubates marital despair.

Even, then, says Emmerson it was regarded by northern Europeans as a backward, ragamuffin city, whose dolce far niente – sweet languor – belied an obscure exuberance of life and Tangier-like decadence.

Nowhere in the world can one obtain more of the dolce far niente, than thus floating slowly and dreamily on the Nile.

“This is dolce far niente for fair,” murmured Jack lazily.