To a man, they stated that work, no matter how menial, kept their mind off their present situation.
Despite these philosophical objections, the majority of citizens and many influential persons did not distinguish between noble and menial income earning activities.
Becoming a skilled laborer was often seen as an alternative to unprofitable and socially disagreeable agricultural work or menial labor.
This would allow a viewer to insert himself in the buildings, rather than as a porter, servant or working class menial.
An employee who performs menial tasks such as running errands and answering phones; an assistant.
Although he worked first as a menial labourer, he was soon selling fruit.
Identification with the most menial members of society brought the individual closest to the highest sphere of art and its powers of subjective transformation.
The life of a soldier was strictly organized around daily routines filled with training and menial labour.
