languor

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

Not coincidentally pro football only took off as a national sport during the late ’50s and ’60s when it embraced television, which marketed football’s brutality as a counterweight to baseball’s languor.

From New York Times ● Jan. 9, 2023

There was the languor I felt when I heard green leaves rustling with a rainlike sound.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright

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

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

It was no picayune thing of languors, but a grande passion, a robust, full-stomached affair.

From Time Magazine Archive

They meet again nearly two decades later amid the summer languors of the Riviera.

From Time Magazine Archive

During the languors of a damp autumn the neighbourhood had been much nourished and sustained by the privilege of observing and diagnosing the progress of Mr. Shute's flirtation with Miss Sally Knox.

From Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. by Martin Ross