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

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

The first person that addressed them was Captain Aresby, who, with his usual delicate languishment, smiled upon Cecilia, and softly whispering, "How divinely you look to-night!" proceeded to pay his compliments to some other ladies.

From Cecilia; Or, Memoirs of an Heiress — Volume 1 by Burney, Fanny

And into sudden languishment Both Gwendolyn and Gladys went.

From Grimm Tales Made Gay by Levering, Albert

Notice his embroidered silken coat, his splendid lace cravat, the languishment of his large foolish eyes, the indubitable touch of Spanish red on those smooth cheeks.

From Gossip in a Library by Gosse, Edmund