languishment

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Based on Stewart’s recent cookbook of the same title, the show represents a fresh attempt at the genre after the languishment of a baking program in the kitschy backwoods of the Hallmark Channel.

From Slate • Oct. 17, 2012

In this piece, as in its two predecessors, Shakespeare received, both as a playwright and a poet, high commendation, although his poems were judged to reflect somewhat too largely ‘love’s lazy foolish languishment.’

From A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles by Lee, Sidney, Sir

Forget not to set down, how passionate, How heart-sick, and how full of languishment, Her beauty makes me.

From A Study of Shakespeare by Gosse, Edmund

Sophia's beauty, which derived piquancy from a certain Oriental languishment of manner, was every where the theme of admiration.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 379, July 4, 1829 by Various

Who is more happy, when, with hearts content,   Fatigued he sinks into some pleasant lair   Of wavy grass, and reads a debonair And gentle tale of love and languishment?

From Poems 1817 by Keats, John