languor
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First published in Korea in 2015 and recently translated into English by Frances Cha, “Watermelon Pool” unfolds with all the languor of a long summer day.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
The book’s languor can be ponderous and vintage, more 20th century than 21st.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2025
But despite reminding those who mention the Jedi and its protocols that the Order no longer exists, this Ahsoka certainly behaves like one to the point of almost verging into languor.
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2023
Gone are the formal banquets of saffron-stained, rose-scented languor — and the protein-bar and light-beer cravings of the American contractors who roamed the secure confines of Kabul’s Green Zone diplomatic enclave.
From New York Times ● Mar. 30, 2023
Not for me the languor and the subtlety I had read about in books.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
And with this final season coming in two eight-episode tranches, I’m hopeful that we won’t have to worry about the show getting lost in its own languors this time around.
From Slate ● Jul. 13, 2012
It was no picayune thing of languors, but a grande passion, a robust, full-stomached affair.
From Time Magazine Archive
Disregarding the roses and raptures of vice, she paints, with a small brush dipt in gilt, the lilies and languors of virtue.
From Time Magazine Archive
Alas, Stern makes a better case for the middle-aged languors of Cambridge than for the pleasures of Cynthia.
From Time Magazine Archive
Now, Laura will make an extremely stylish woman of fashion, and tall, fair Gertrude, with her languors and invalidisms, will be picturesque, but an old maid like Marcia Grandon would be simply intolerable!
From Floyd Grandon's Honor by Amanda Minnie Douglas
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