languor
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For the first time, I could picture the legendary tropical city of Malayan sampans, Chinese street hawkers and British colonial languor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2025
The new wave languor of “Two Lovers” was concocted in tandem with synth-pop wizard Vince Clarke.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 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
And this is what Satpathy embodied — now caressing the floor in languor, now twisting herself into knots.
From New York Times ● May 16, 2022
The bailiff unlocked Richard’s shackles and he stood, moving with a defeated, dreamlike languor.
From "The 57 Bus" by Dashka Slater
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
Alas, Stern makes a better case for the middle-aged languors of Cambridge than for the pleasures of Cynthia.
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
He would turn down unfrequented corners and sail by unfamiliar terraces, aware of nothing but the languors of effortless motion.
From Sinister Street, vol. 1 by Compton MacKenzie
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