| 单词 | languorous |
| 例句 | His swiftly moving figure was in strange contrast to the languorous slow motion of his hands just a few minutes before. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z She still advanced, however, and with a languorous, voluptuous grace, said:— Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z Even the days, sliding one into the other, languorous and limpid, the sun lingering until very late, seemed to be waiting. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z The other boys were all moving around the field in that deliberately languorous way they have when they’re warming up, but Tommy, in his excitement, seemed already to be going full pelt. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Nigro felt they wouldn’t tolerate Bobby’s sometimes languorous tempo, so he’d be forced to quicken his play and therefore his thinking. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Many of them were no longer sitting upright but sloped on their seats, mellowed by alcohol, languorous with ideas. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z I closed my eyes in a languorous ecstasy and waited—waited with beating heart. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z The melody was adorned in equal measure by the harshness of tone and a dismal, languorous mistuning with which I plagued all but the uneasy cadences. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z It was strange, the languorous, limp hand coming to rest at her side while her breathing was coming so quick and fast. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z The taste of it was languorous and heady on the tongue, the color a purple so dark that it looked almost black in the dim-lit cellar. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I have never felt like this—slow-witted and languorous, dreamy, absentminded, forgetful, focused only on each moment as it comes. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Catherine sees me looking and slides one knee over the other, smoothing her skirt with languorous fingers. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Somehow I should have expected that a room furnished as this was in such exquisite taste, for all the exaggeration of the flowers, would be a place of decoration only, languorous and intimate. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Now a languorous waiting settled over the hospital. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The whoops and shouts of children at play rose from the schoolyard into the humid air, mingling with the languorous scent of tobacco that drifted over from the warehouses on Pettigrew Street. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Then as the weeks passed the days grew warm and languorous. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Longer, more languorous scenes drift dreamily into each other now, as characters battle insomnia, or nightmares. 24 Hours Inside the Christian Marclay Installation ‘The Clock’ 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z Here, the outdoor terrace of L’Esplaï du Grand Bar des Goudes is perched on the rocks overlooking a tiny fishing port; it is the place where native Marseillaises come for a long, languorous Sunday lunch. In Search of the Real Bouillabaisse, Marseille’s Gift to the Fish Lover 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z Here, a woman holds on to a man, executing a smooth, flowing sequence of arcing bends and languorous stretches. Kenneth MacMillan’s School of Ballet Sex, Neurosis and Grit 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z The film is violent and fast-paced, and yet curiously spare, with stripped-down sound and languorous moments of mundanity. Five International Movies to Stream Right Now 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z Its mood is dreamy, sometimes almost languorous, at least as invested in the aesthetics of life on the run as it is in the politics of black lives. ‘Queen & Slim’ Review: Love on the Run 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z The £8.3m budget for this drama buys a strikingly authentic wardrobe and lots of languorous shots in grand locations. Dancing on the Edge: episode one 2013-02-04T22:30:01Z But it was Matisse who charmed the sisters most thoroughly, first with his tastefully adventurous Fauve still lifes and later with his languorous Moroccan odalisques. Art Review: What They Loved and What They Bought 2011-05-06T06:15:06Z They spend their final days together in a languorous haze, interrupted by recriminations. 'Goodbye First Love': Memory fuels tale of dead-end passion 2012-06-14T20:48:08Z Yet before a single word was spoken, the curve of that back, and the languorous sag of Ms. Seldes’s shoulders, thoroughly defined her character, a former B-movie actress who luxuriated in femme fatale poses. How Marian Seldes Took the Stage 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z Some seemed to be taking a languorous approach to the crisis. At the Library, Last Call for Beauty and Books 2020-03-14T04:00:00Z Her voice is languorous but punctuated by the odd harshly stressed word. Judy Davis: 'I never wanted celebrity' 2013-04-25T16:53:00Z The collection of images looks like it could have been made in the course of a single, languorous weekend getaway. A Photographer’s Intimate Chronicle of Her First Romantic Relationship With a Woman 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z The hilltop castle lording over a languorous river? | 36 Hours: 36 Hours in Krakow, Poland 2011-09-29T20:00:00Z With languorous sensuality, Long sings about how time becomes elastic when you’re enthralled. R&B That Sweats, Emotionally and Physically 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z Shot in eerily beautiful locations in the Haute-Savoie, this philosophical, supernatural mystery-melodrama portrays the sudden reappearance of a mountain town’s formerly dead residents with a languorous rhythm and atmosphere to spare. The 30 Best International TV Shows of the Decade 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z Each painting features a single frankfurter in a languorous pose — reclining, reading, daydreaming or otherwise passively disporting like a model in a fashion magazine layout. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z History is long, but it moves quickly, and “1900” is somehow both languorous and breathless, taking its time in a feverish hurry. A Five-Hour Crash Course in Italian History That’s Also Great Filmmaking 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z It's shot in languorous, long takes, allowing you to absorb the intricacies of body language at your leisure, though with more composition and focus than something shot on handheld. SXSW 2011: Andrew Haigh is an emerging talent destined to become the main event 2011-03-21T18:12:40Z His show Thursday, on the final day of the autumn 2011 New York season, was not about the fast fashion factories of today’s China, but the languorous glamour of 1920s Shanghai. Special Report: Fashion: Leaving the Big Country 2011-02-17T19:00:58Z Even though those new songs were languorous, Mr. Ross moved quickly through them: “Blk & Wht,” “War Ready,” “In Vein,” “Rich Is Gangsta.” Music Review: Rick Ross Promotes ‘Mastermind’ Album at Best Buy Theater 2014-03-04T21:54:48Z He still sounds most comfortable coasting over trap beats, those languorous, flickering rhythms that most Atlanta rappers tend to chew like Juicy Fruit. Review | Bad Bunny released the best album of 2019 before the year even started 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z Around 70 artworks from the National Gallery in the United States will appear, including still lifes by Cézanne, dancers by Degas and some of Monet’s languorous depictions of the Seine. What's On This Week Around the World 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z One woman said "fire" and Ure – with a languorous presenting style like an unhurried stream – kindly noted that at least it was an element. Radio review: The Art of Water Music 2011-08-11T19:00:01Z The languorous playground of expensive leisure is here, too, but it is nightmarish. Life in Miami on the Knife’s Edge of Climate Change 2019-08-18T04:00:00Z “Always” begins with a clever intro of minimalist girl-group shuffle, and “Blue God” is languorous and confident, like the moment after a long pain lifts. Playlist: Jessica Reedy?s Album, ?From the Heart? 2011-11-20T02:15:30Z The prose isn't, it has to be said, poetic and languorous, and one twist in particular is hopelessly obvious. The Devil and the River by RJ Ellory – review 2013-06-02T08:00:02Z James has draped his purling baritone across jazz standards, the Billie Holiday songbook, his own languorous funk tunes and now the compositions of Bill Withers. 15 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z The richly colored prints — from Japan, China and Korea — appeared not only as silk skirts, blouses and languorous dresses, but also as angular panels on jackets and coats. On the Runway Blog: Dries Van Noten Refigures an Asian Story 2012-02-29T17:27:26Z “The trees are the main thing,” Elkann says, in a languorous contralto that suggests no single native tongue. T Magazine: Portrait of a Lady 2014-02-15T00:16:46Z He shoots with exquisite, languorous care, framing his close-ups with painterly exactitude and moving his camera discreetly and rarely. | 'The Portuguese Nun': On the Streets of Lisbon, Love, Romance and Desire 2010-10-21T23:13:00Z At times the Nicky-Jess romance spins its wheels or grows a bit too languorous. Review: In ‘Focus,’ a Grifter (Will Smith) as Life Coach 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z A sweet, languorous British lass showed me to my table, hard by a wood stove and a corrugated-steel wall. Will.i.amsburg 2013-05-01T22:16:49Z The song is languorous and pulsing, nodding to mid-’90s crews like the Artifacts, another resurrection whose time has come. Playlist: Gearing Up the Time Machine to Go Back to the ’90s 2014-02-07T22:18:24Z There are plenty of breaks from the classic chug-chug structure, too, such as Pillow, with its languorous interplay of bass and guitar. Big Deal: June Gloom – review 2013-05-30T20:00:01Z Part 1 is fast-moving and suspenseful, Part 2 languorous and luxuriant. Review: Bored, Beautiful Terrorists With a Taste for Luxury Brands 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z The show, about ex-spouses who encounter each other on their respective honeymoons with new and entirely unworthy mates, was a hit, thanks to the languorous charm he and Lindsay Duncan brought to the leading roles. Alan Rickman, actor who brought dynamic menace to ‘Die Hard’ and ‘Harry Potter,’ dies at 69 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z “I’m Your Woman” unfolds these tense situations in a paradoxically languorous style. ‘I’m Your Woman’ Review: On the Run With a Baby 2020-12-03T05:00:00Z Fourteen recent paintings by Romanian artist Marius Bercea are filled with languorous beauty, negotiating a conflicted intersection between sincere, profound yearning and deep psychological distress. Review: Marius Bercea at Francois Ghebaly Gallery 2016-05-07T04:00:00Z It is competently made and nice to look at, it has a knockoff version of a languorous Southern California vibe, and Caplan and Jackson are both engaging. ‘Fatal Attraction’ Review: Here’s Why She Did It 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z Nothing in the languorous first act prepares you for the jolt of energy that begins the second. | 'Promises, Promises': Sean Hayes and Kristin Chenoweth Revisit Bacharach 2010-04-26T02:02:00Z In Red Hook on that languorous Saturday, dinnertime found the six of us in an isolated alcove of a dark restaurant called the Good Fork. Exploring Red Hook, Brooklyn, Unplugged and With Friends 2013-01-24T23:53:59Z The season is perhaps most satisfying if consumed in a binge, so that its questing convolutions feel like the motions of a languorous epic. “Disenchantment,” Reviewed: Matt Groening Makes the Most of Medieval Slapstick Pestilence 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z The walls are heavy with paintings by Mr. Conrad: a languorous one of Mary hangs in the dining room, and a stern and intimidating portrait of Lewis is in the living room. A Novelist Makes Good on His Promise to Sinclair Lewis 2011-01-26T16:25:50Z Star singers moved through it with languorous ease. Critic’s Notebook: Opera’s Sad Goodbye? How About, ‘Good Riddance’? 2013-12-30T22:21:55Z Raven Leilani’s first novel reads like summer: sentences like ice that crackle or melt into a languorous drip; plot suddenly, wildly flying forward like a bike down a hill. In ‘Luster,’ Young Black Women Feel Uneasy in a White American Home 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z On record Twin Sister songs are dreamy, spare and languorous. Music Review: Twin Sister in Wee Steamy Hours at Glasslands 2010-05-30T21:06:00Z Just as Block’s memoir ends when he discovers his true “voice,” so Dawson concludes with Wodehouse about to create his first great comic character, the languorous, dandyish and resourceful Psmith. Review | Lawrence Block and P.G. Wodehouse: How two prolific writers found their voices 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z The Montezuma Hills rolled leisurely to the west, dotted with a mass of languorous windmills while tule reeds, permanently slanting eastward, shuddered as a flight of swallows rose in unison. Setting Sail on the Winding Waterways of California’s Delta 2021-10-03T04:00:00Z Given the languorous pace of the novel, it is not surprising that Ms. Kelly’s favorite childhood book is Kenneth Grahame’s 1908 classic, “The Wind in the Willows,” with its unhurried evocations of the English countryside. Texas Monthly: Austin Writer Jacqueline Kelly Turns to ‘Willows’ Sequel 2012-10-21T02:53:58Z They're at loggerheads, or whatever a softer version of that word might be, one better suited to a sense of languorous anger and sumptuous despair. New band of the day (The Hics 1,554) 2013-07-16T14:55:34Z And a melody line almost embarrassingly languorous and lovely and filled with longing. Top 10 Tunes You Think You Know (But Really Don?t) 2011-11-16T10:00:23Z Visitors are invited to stroll its length and examine the 130 Valentino couture gowns, jackets, capes and cocktail dresses worn by white mannequins in various languorous and purpose-filled poses among the audience chairs. | 'Valentino: Master of Couture' 2012-11-28T22:03:06Z The slow, languorous interpretation sustained a mood of anxious introspection. Tierney Sutton Reimagines Joni Mitchell Songs 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z Watermelons are indicative of summertime, sunny days and the languorous attitude often associated with those halcyon months. Love watermelons? This summer, be wary of foaming or exploding melons 2023-08-14T04:00:00Z The dancing is coolly glamorous — a looping, languorous swirl of limbs that is nonetheless tightly woven into synchronized duets that keep dissolving and reforming in new pairings and alignments. Dance Review: John Jasperse Company Performs at the Joyce 2010-06-18T22:13:00Z While the film has an appealingly dreamy, summer-in-New-York look and a pleasantly languorous rhythm, it gives the actors very little to do and the audience almost nothing to care about. Movie Review: ‘Violet & Daisy,’ by Geoffrey Fletcher 2013-06-07T01:36:07Z “There was this incredible community of artists and painters and a whole very wild attitude to life,” he says in his trademark languorous drawl, located somewhere between the home counties and southern California. Leonard Cohen and Marianne Ihlen: the love affair of a lifetime 2019-06-30T04:00:00Z Even when they’re not actively participating in conversations and confrontations, the residents of the Russian country estate at which Turgenev’s anxiously languorous drama takes place are visible on the sidelines. Theater Review: ‘A Month in the Country,’ at Williamstown Theater Festival 2012-08-10T23:46:48Z And the cool is in languorous slow tempos, minor chords, ruthlessly laconic arrangements, guitar lines swathed in reverb and a voice that smolders a long time before it flares up. Review: Lera Lynn Mixes Heat and Cool at City Winery 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z A languorous orange glow colors the Old City and hills as we paddle toward them and away from the island. Kayaking through the past in Dubrovnik, Croatia 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z He also helped write “Body Party,” which is a better fit, languorous and wistful and incorporating some sweetness from “My Boo,” the 1995 bass-music love song by Ghost Town DJs, an Atlanta classic. Critic’s Notebook: Ciara, Not Quite at the Center of Her Newest Album 2013-07-10T20:25:20Z Dinner in Venice is languorous, an event to be savored course by course. Roberto CoinVoice: How To Explore Venice Like A True Venetian 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z Onstage in a liquid silver gown, Vanessa stuck to the languorous Streisand tempo. The competition for Miss America 1984 was business as usual — until everyone got a look at Vanessa Williams 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z That recitation included poses of languorous temple maidens, so that Mr. Subramaniam was subverting gender binaries, an idea with ancient Indian roots that also counts as trendy. Broad Hints of Modern Angst at a Festival of Indian Dance 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z Delivered in his languorous New York drawl, Reed continued to incorporate the song into his live performances after leaving the Velvet Underground in 1970. Lou Reed: In his own words 2013-10-28T13:32:31Z Over three weeks there, we fell into a languorous but satisfying routine. In Hawaii, a Swimmer’s Communion With the Wild Ocean 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z They received compliments with the languorous equanimity of court ladies, which for a night they were. Rihanna’s Fenty Line Debuts in Paris and Receives a Pop Star Welcome 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z With fewer distractions the work’s languorous lack of vivid characterizations — its pretty, polite refusal to get as lurid or personal as it should — becomes more noticeable. Music Review: Gotham Chamber Opera Offers ‘Hija de Rappaccini’ Outdoors 2013-06-21T19:28:50Z On “Footprints,” the second of three songs in the first set, he played at a languorous pace but with as many blues licks as he could squeeze in. Kahil El’Zabar: Jazz as spiritual experience 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z Like a great, long novel, it's both compact and languorous, and its characters become part of our lives during the hours we spend watching it. 2009-12-29T02:01:00Z Just One of Those Things was a languorous overture turning to rolling swing, driven by a catchy piano hook and trumpeter Rory Simmons's elegant variations. Jamie Cullum/Heritage Orchestra 2010-08-27T10:59:00Z They remind me of slipping away to spend long, languorous days at the beach or on the dock reading and being lulled almost to a slumber by the sound of waves coming to shore. 2 pies and a sherbet: refreshing, super-simple cold treats to enjoy as the weather heats up 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z With her lyrical, elongated lines, Ms. Kent can look picture-perfect, but so mannered and grand ballerina was her performance, so languorous the tempo of music and dancing, that you could doze off between positions. Dance Review: A Crowd Favorite Takes His Leave 2011-07-01T22:41:17Z One couple reverses the traditional gender roles — the wife being aggressive and masculine, the husband languorous and feminine. Review | ‘A Voyage to Arcturus’ may have sold 596 copies in its first printing, but it deserves a wider audience 2021-11-16T05:00:00Z I figured I was watching another languorous from some clever folk on the continent. Top of the Lake – TV review 2013-07-15T06:00:16Z Poured into a little red dress and reciting her melancholic mantras in a husky drawl, every song felt like a languorous, heart-broken exhalation. BBC Radio 1 Hackney Weekend – review 2012-06-25T10:18:00Z They had long, languorous lunches together, and Mr. Peppiatt remembered the artist spending hours at home, flitting between stacks of photographs, magazines, books, “any old stuff,” he said. Francis Bacon Read Just as He Painted: Deep, Dark and Bleak 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z Their hair is braided, their dresses are silk, and their attitudes languorous. We're all going on a ... 2011-07-30T23:04:12Z A languorous breeze stirs when the balloon goes past. Chris Burden's 'Ode to Santos Dumont' inspires wonder, delight 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z The film moves at a slow pace, but it’s not quite as languorous as other contemporary Asian pictures. Review: ‘The Island Funeral’ Goes on a Restless Road Trip 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z “It’s all smeared in a very languorous way.” Is Opera Dying? No, But This One Is Staged Among the Dead 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z The torture that Jamie suffers at the hands of Randall is unlike anything television has ever ventured into before, graphic and brutal and strangely languorous. 'Outlander' Recap: The Violence That Men Do 2015-05-16T04:00:00Z I’ve used the term “critic’s darling” not to alienate mainstream viewers but to emphasize that Weerasethakul’s languorous films demand to be absorbed without resistance. ‘Mekong Hotel’: a meditation on love, past lives | Movie review 2012-12-06T22:07:09Z It’s also incisive, languorous and deeply felt, a warm bath of studiously relaxed hip-hop and soul. Review: On ‘Malibu’ Anderson .Paak Takes In All That His Surroundings Offer 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z From the start there’s a febrile mood to this ad hoc household, languorous poolside mornings, friends coming over to drink a bit too much. Six New Thrillers for Fall 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z On the deceptively languorous opening track, she turns the phrase "I am the only one now" into a mantra, as if to steel herself to move past the wreckage of an affair. Review: Angel Olsen's new album builds on her life's dramas 2014-02-17T16:40:00Z The result was a remarkable flexibility in which even the most languorous of lines or extended arabesques were never heard to lose their lilt. Prom 71: Orchestre National de France/Gatti 2010-09-08T11:06:00Z “Tiger King” loves a languorous shot of an animal stalking its cage purposefully, muscularly. The Alternate Aesthetic Realities of ‘Tiger King’ 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z It's an attractive work, with a languorous opening movement built from the intertwining flute and harp lines, a more urgent central one and brief, elegiac finale. Panufnik: Sinfonia Rustica; Sinfonia Concertante; Polonia; etc 2010-10-21T21:31:00Z On the other hand are the languorous crackpots who wonder if codes are embedded in their Home Depot receipts, or if George Washington’s wooden leg hid an alternate Constitution. Television Review: Searching for Clues in History?s Nooks 2010-12-01T22:28:00Z The pianist Anat Fort’s compositions move with a rolling, languorous grace, allowing light to enter from different angles. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z The movie unfolds over more than two and a half hours at a languorous pace, through episodes that sometimes seem linked by the serendipitous logic of a dream. ‘Pacifiction’ Review: Trouble in Paradise 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z Nor was there the languorous pace of “City Confidential,” or anything comparable to the oozing, insinuating narration Paul Winfield supplied during most of that show’s run. ArtsBeat Blog: Channel Surfing: 'Hidden City' 2011-12-06T21:14:27Z I wasn’t entirely impervious to its nostalgic charms: I was dazzled by its sensuous, sun-kissed lyricism, as well as Brad Pitt’s languorous, deceptively shrewd portrayal of an easygoing stunt man feeling his years. Sorry, best picture front-runners: She’s just not that into you. 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z The image is languorous and impish: Ms. Lang leans her head back onto Ms. Crawford’s breasts, eyes closed, her smile beatific. K.D. Lang Doesn’t Have to Indulge Your Constant Cravings 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z The coded message is urgent but the movie’s tempo is languorous. Catching Fire: Slow Burn With a Sizzling Star 2013-11-20T19:48:16Z Of the 18 films competing for the Palme, presumed favorites include the languorous Turkish film “Winter Sleep,” the small-town Russian epic “Leviathan” and the French working-class drama “Two Days, One Night.” Predicting the Palme d’Or a guessing game 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z Or the fun of sitting, languorous and corset-less, to leaf through an early fashion magazine, with its sketches of the latest bow-trimmed bustle and lacy camisole! The Fashion Show From the Belle Époque 2012-10-08T13:33:21Z The way King orchestrates his dancers, their bodies are sometimes languorous, sometimes in violent bloom. LINES Ballet: dance, glorious dance 2011-11-18T17:20:05Z Mr. Robertson conducted a beautifully nuanced interpretation that highlighted the languorous, shimmering textures of this famous work, beginning with the evocative flute solo, gracefully rendered by Robert Langevin. Music Review | New York Philharmonic: The Toe-Tapping Starts at the Podium 2010-02-19T23:15:00Z Paul Gibson's quietly elegant "The Piano Dance" also was performed, the highlights of which were a silky solo by Rachel Foster and a languorous pas de deux by Orza and Lesley Rausch. Alexei Ratmansky's ballet 'Concerto DSCH' is a joy 2011-03-21T23:33:15Z Many Congolese like to reflect on five generations of musicians, whose languorous rumbas and faster modern beats, adored across Africa and beyond, have served them better than any government. The king of the rumba 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z “There are perhaps too many languorous walks across the meadows, and one or two ornately choreographed dances seem to go on forever.” 20 Years Ago: ‘Pride and Prejudice’ Was Reborn on TV 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z Nothing beats the joy and freedom of riding a bike during the long, languorous days of summer. The Gear You Need to Hit the Road, or Bike Trail 2022-05-23T04:00:00Z "Rare Exports" is surprisingly languorous, allowing plenty of room for moody apprehension as the camera prowls around its remote surroundings with a minimum of cheap thrills. 'Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale': Better watch out, evil Santa is coming to this town 2010-12-09T20:41:00Z It was breezier than the capital, more languorous, with almost the feel of an Italian village. On Slavery’s Doorstep in Ghana 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z By the time Fike released his début EP, in October—a collection of languorous demos called “Don’t Forget About Me”—that buzz was palpable. The Twenty-Three-Year-Old Who Embodies the Hazy Future of Pop Music 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z The Seattle Streetcar will "trigger" some of these events on a three-block stretch of Westlake, creating "a flash point of dance happenings from the languorous to the fleeting." Beyond the Threshold festival lets dance break out in South Lake Union 2010-06-03T20:53:00Z One of the great things about Queen Sugar is that the pace is as languorous as a summer’s day drinking lemonade in a rocking chair on the porch. Queen Sugar: Oprah’s latest drama is a sweet success 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z The humid air is filled with languorous music: versions of hits by Dean Martin and Nat King Cole, fragments of Bernstein. My favourite Hitchcock: Rear Window 2012-07-25T08:40:01Z It's also a great option for either a frenzied weeknight or a slow, languorous Sunday. Italian wedding soup just might be the perfect option for a rain-drenched, chilly autumn weekend 2023-09-30T04:00:00Z When galaxies merge, the newly formed galaxy ought to end up with two of these lumbering giants, circling each other warily and churning out long, languorous gravitational waves. Giant array of low-cost telescopes could speed hunt for radio bursts, massive black holes 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z Think of assorted voluptuous, sleeping Venuses by Titian or Giorgione, languorous nudes that are like some exquisite Renaissance Playboy centerfold designed for the private gratification of an inevitably male patron. Review: This sculptural trainwreck in the Coachella Valley is worth celebrating 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z Though no populist, in his speeches and public appearances, Li was practically typhonic compared to the typically languorous Xi. China Premier Li Keqiang bows out as Xi loyalists take reins 2023-03-05T05:00:00Z It sometimes plods, but it also whirls, dances and — like the Silverio whose shadow we see catapulting across the desert in the languorous opening shot — even manages to soar. A critic takes a second look at Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s ‘Bardo’ — and is thankful he did 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z It’s a Southern show, in setting and pace, languorous, lazy. How 'Atlanta's' ambition changed the face of TV forever 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z As for his playing style, Cave says: “Kid would land that slow open chord on his guitar, playing it with a particular kind of languorous sleaze that was immediately identifiable.” Kid Congo Powers looks back on his rock-and-roll journey 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z Fingers on both women’s raised hands are without skeletal structure, languorous and at ease. Review: Picasso season arrives in L.A. with two smashing museum shows 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z I miss the time in the kitchen that was languorous and purely mine, a time where I had nowhere to be. Use ramps in a simpler, made-for-spring riff on scallion pancakes 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z The early reviews of the plan seemed positive, particularly among those who have been dismayed by the state’s relatively languorous approach to both legalizing the drug and setting up a retail industry. New Yorkers With Marijuana Convictions Will Get First Retail Licenses 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z The film is never just some glassy exercise in the idly loaded’s languorous cruelty, though. Review: Desire by the poolside electrifies psychodrama of 1969's 'La Piscine' 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z Even when she is playing someone hard-edged, on edge or energetic, there is a languorous quality to Smart’s work; she leaves a viewer feeling good, even when her character might be bad. Why you should watch 'Hacks,' a show about stand-up where comedy isn't the point 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z Those boneless fingers by her face serve multiple functions, implying her erudition in the Arcadian reference and her accustomed leisure in their languorous droop. Review: Picasso season arrives in L.A. with two smashing museum shows 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z Not much happens quickly in baseball, and not just because of the languorous modern pace of play. Shohei Ohtani making history with 2-way success for Angels 2021-05-09T04:00:00Z Among the trickling, small waterfalls; languorous path; the reassuring, unostentatious rainbow, it asks you to stay awhile. A closer look at Robert Duncanson, the Black landscape artist behind the inaugural painting presented to the Bidens 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z But there’s a downside to this languorous lifestyle. Sleepy dormice are losing their cozy tree hollows 2020-12-28T05:00:00Z Imagine the hours of languorous conversation, the breaks for cookies and cocktails. Opinion | The Virus Has Stolen Your Face From Me 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z But on film it moves at a languorous pace. Review: Love, Irish famer style, in ‘Wild Mountain Thyme’ 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z "Combined with the languorous pace at which Positions proceeds, the overall effect is of individual tracks bleeding into one long slow-motion shot." Ariana Grande's Positions: Album 'solid but doesn't sparkle' say critics 2020-10-30T04:00:00Z This was how most of those weeks felt: languorous and flat. This Profile of Charlie Kaufman Has Changed 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z More often than not, he seemed all too willing to challenge the image, to draw out the image to languorous extremes, to pummel the image into lyrical submission. Appreciation: 'A Fistful of Dollars' to 'The Untouchables': Ennio Morricone made music a movie star 2020-07-06T04:00:00Z Between those first and final scenes, viewers get a slice of languorous, gothic horror about a family that’s slowly breaking down under the weight of its old sins. La Llorona is not the ghost story you’re expecting 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z For a book about the notoriously languorous sport of baseball, this is a quick and often thrilling read. Review: Chasing homers, ballplayers and dreams 2020-02-02T05:00:00Z “Gretel & Hansel” is quietly and perfectly eerie, moving with a languorous grace that might put horror fans of jump scares to sleep. Review: ‘Gretel & Hansel’ is a feast for the eyes but not terribly filling 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z The set featured just eight songs, unified by their languorous length and the singer’s contemplative style. Roberta Flack: 'My music is my expression of what I feel in a moment' 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z That is, of course, unless you’ve embraced the futility of the situation, preferring instead to conserve energy like the languorous Falstaff from Shakespeare’s “Henry IV, Part 2.” That rust on your shower head? It's a $6-billion problem for the Navy, cruise ships and more 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z The movie doesn’t have the languorous pauses and silences, the patient, under-the-skin mastery that made “Alien” so incomparably disturbing. Review: Kristen Stewart brings depth to 'Underwater,' a surprisingly slick bit of sci-fi schlock 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z In that languorous stretch, Pan and Matsuyama forged a 2-up lead and held it stubbornly in those rare moments when the Americans showed signs of life. Patrick Reed gets the Day 1 reception you'd anticipate as the Most Wanted American at the Presidents Cup - Golf Digest 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z A languorous, world-weary voice replied from the garden: “Cricket! Always astonishing. Always historic. Always unprecedented.” There have been 2,358 Tests since 1877 and this was the greatest of them all | Matthew Engel 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z Around the Middle East, people of all nationalities relax during the long, languorous summer afternoons. Middle Eastern dips and spreads to bump hummus off your summer menu 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z With their social media savvy and a style that is faster and more gymnastic than the languorous subtlety of the classic Egyptians, they perform on bar tops more often than in ballrooms. From her atelier in Cairo, she dresses belly dancers from around the world 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z Bringuier did demonstrate a good feeling for the sweep of the languorous middle section. Review: French meets American as Bringuier and Grimaud take the stage with L.A. Phil 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z The topics loom large over every languorous turn of “Come Over When You’re Sober, Pt. 2,” making the set a natural follow-up to Peep’s 2017 studio debut. Lil Peep leaves behind haunting, emotional posthumous album 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z Erivo’s voice stops the movie and a few eavesdropping characters in their tracks, and for once in this clever if languorous story, you’re grateful for the pause. Review: Twisty motel noir 'Bad Times at the El Royale' nearly overstays its welcome - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z By incorporating jazz, bossa nova, tango and other languorous musical motifs, he gave the most doleful lyrical palette a sumptuous veneer. Charles Aznavour, daring and adored French singer and composer, dies at 94 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z His frame, sinking into a large armchair, seemed limp, languorous, and at the same time suffused with nervous energy. David Bohm, Quantum Mechanics and Enlightenment 2018-07-28T04:00:00Z The show’s most recent pictures date from 2011 — sharp-focused images displaying languorous women at a Venice Beach skateboard rink and a scruffy tattoo parlor. Review: 'Icons of Style: A Century of Fashion Photography' at the Getty Museum reveals the limits of the art form 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z Some parts of Alaska lull the senses drowsily by their languorous charm; under their influence one sinks to a passive delight and drifts unrestingly on through a maze of tender loveliness. A Western Washington University professor works to ‘recover’ the legacy of Ella Rhoads Higginson 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z Musically, Partch’s more disjointed scores, alternating between bouncy rhythms and the moody languorous passages on an altered violin or altered organ, sounding like nothing else in the sonic universe. A festival's final concert brings the microtonal outsiders in 2018-06-17T04:00:00Z The stage is swathed in omnipresent murk in Book-It Repertory Theatre’s stylishly languorous production of “The Picture of Dorian Gray,” Oscar Wilde’s only novel. Book-It’s ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ nails the sensual and spooky mood 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z The languorous hours under the Mediterranean sun cast a dark spell; the roads are treacherous and the rocks are sharp. Beautiful People in European Villas: a Film Genre of Its Own 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z That was the year photographer and, later, museum curator Edward Steichen began to inject soft-focus emotionalism into commercial pictures of languorous women and their equally relaxed clothing. Review: 'Icons of Style: A Century of Fashion Photography' at the Getty Museum reveals the limits of the art form 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z In another sketch, to Elliott Smith’s “Waltz #2,” Peck filigrees the languorous singing with zestful tap releases. Justin Peck Is Making Ballet That Speaks to Our Everyday Lives 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z The young girl is poised, stylish, even languorous, yet with a suggestion of defiance in her straight-to-camera gaze. The big picture: Shop assistant, Orlando West, Soweto, 1972 2018-04-07T04:00:00Z What sport could possibly appeal more to a cat than one played at a languorous pace with scheduled meal breaks? Whiskers in the workplace: More cats with careers 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z They are ironic, determined, weary, languorous, gazing out from half-closed eyes, unsubmissive. A Brothel, Repurposed and Restored, Reveals Another Paris 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z Snoop conjured the sensuality of his own buzz through his very vocal cadence and languorous G-funk backing, as well as his words. The death of Lil Peep: how the US's prescription drug epidemic is changing hip-hop 2017-11-16T05:00:00Z On my languorous wanderings — garden snail was the average pace — I traded pleasantries with strangers. You’re going where? Chattanooga 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z In both series, he avoids the kind of concerned scrutiny that typifies social documentary photography, instead creating an almost languorous atmosphere. William Gedney: a photographer exiled in his own land 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z I couldn’t think of the last time I had seen four middle-aged women fronting a band – languorous and entirely self-possessed as they swathed the rolling thunder of the men behind them in beautiful, keening harmonies. Nidia Góngora: the singer bringing the sound of rural Colombia to the world 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z But his timeline for change — extending to late 2018, or halfway through the presidential term — is languorous by the standards of Washington political cycles. Tillerson stays close to Trump, but the State Department seems to be benched 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z It’s a languorous look at the ups and downs of a career gone awry, and the mysteries and confused culinary disciples left in the wake of the chef’s abrupt disappearance to Mexico for several years. ‘Jeremiah Tower: The Last Magnificent’: Portrait of a chef seeking redemption 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z The Court’s languorous work schedule includes three months of downtime every summer. The Supreme Court After Scalia 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z But in comparison to the languorous, often sublime films of the last few years, Disseminate and Hold is a more human-scaled work of art. Rosa Barba examines the everyday chaos of São Paulo's 'giant earthworm' highway 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z Jet lag may have muddled her words, but it hasn't affected her dusky voice, which skims like a warm breeze over the song's languorous, open chords. Norah Jones goes back to basics - BBC News 2016-09-11T04:00:00Z A talented but maddening pitcher, one who often grinds games to a halt with his languorous pace on the mound, Baez got pounded by opposing hitters last month. Pedro Baez rejoins Dodgers as bullpen continues to grow 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z And all around Tangier, I had the sense that unlike most seaside towns, where the pace of life tends toward the languorous, clocks were ticking faster than everywhere else. Should the United States Save Tangier Island From Oblivion? 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z Along with the increase in steaminess and approach of the solstice, it is the lingering of the sun and the long, languorous evenings it connotes that for many represent the true essence of summer. One sure sign of summer 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z The good news is Hawaii is mostly about fun, beauty, and a rainbow of experiences to be had, whether adventurous, languorous or just plain quirky. LARK GOULD: Eye on Hawaii: How to find paradise in the Pacific 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z Which means that if he is playing Debussy’s ‘‘Clair de Lune’’ — as he does in a languorous, brazenly sentimental arrangement on ‘‘The Epic’’ — it’s jazz. Kamasi Washington’s Giant Step 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z In fact, he might have been useful at competitor Fox Business Network's languorous if vaguely informative Milwaukee gathering. Missing CNBC 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z After a languorous five-week vacation, Congress is finally back in session, and facing a massive to-do list. Congress is back -- and it has a massive to-do list 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z Though there were a lot of story mechanics packed into the episode, we still got a few languorous scenes of psychological and physical torture. Hannibal recap: season three, episode 12 – The Number of the Beast Is 666 2015-08-22T04:00:00Z Giron flew off the platform, leaned back, and turned a languorous somersault backward in the air. The Action Heroes of Dance 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z This morning, it was placid, its grip on me loose and languorous. Surfing into Adolescence 2015-05-25T04:00:00Z Not that it’s all languorous drifting through the galaxy. Interstellar review 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z “We’ve lost so much with Sandy and then the fire,” said Carol Backus, 69, of nearby Toms River, who visited the boardwalk on a languorous summer day recently. Auction Could Be Undoing of New Jersey Carousel That Survived Hurricane and Fire 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z Perhaps most telling, a majority of the volunteers walked at a decidedly languorous pace when asked to estimate the lowest-intensity exercise that would qualify as moderate and provide robust health benefits. Overestimating How Hard We Exercise 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z It spills to the streets, ending languorous hours whiled away on sunny stoops or sun-brightened gardens, as happened near 150 Charles. In the Shadow of Rising Towers, Laments of Lost Sunlight in New York 2013-12-19T23:46:51Z His lanky, loose-jointed build; his blue eyes; his long, lantern-jawed face; his oddly languorous sexual charm; and the eccentric loops and whoops of his voice tended to reinforce the impression of power and extravagance. Peter O’Toole, Star of ‘Lawrence of Arabia,’ Is Dead at 81 2013-12-15T19:08:32Z When asked in 2011 by The New York Times about the comptroller’s lack of interest, an aide to Mr. Thompson offered a languorous shrug. Gotham: Relying on Celebrity and Machismo to Upend a Political Season 2013-07-09T01:28:04Z People would write long, languorous review articles—essays surveying the literature—in which they would cite the trial data they’d come across in a completely unsystematic fashion, often reflecting their own prejudices and values. Trial sans Error: How Pharma-Funded Research Cherry-Picks Positive Results [Excerpt] 2013-02-13T17:15:00.297Z How Not to Fire a College President On a languorous Sunday in June, low season on the campus of the University of Virginia, Prof. Larry Sabato opened a perplexing e-mail. The Education Issue: What the Failed Removal of UVA President Teresa Sullivan Means for Higher Education 2012-09-11T11:00:22Z Britain Exports Its Soul The desperate center of Jessie Ware’s debut album, “Devotion,” is “Taking In Water,” a languorous and arresting tragedy about punishing oneself so that someone less worthy might live. Critic’s Notebook: British Soul Offshoots Evolve Fitfully 2012-09-09T21:59:52Z So on a languorous Tuesday night, Dan Rizzie, an artist, and Bryan Boyhan, editor and publisher of The Sag Harbor Express, are trying to imagine the village without it, like earth without gravity. At American Hotel in Sag Harbor, Tales and Drinks Still Flow 2012-08-07T02:56:59Z Marilyn Monroe’s body, in languorous repose, would stretch across screens as wide as 64 feet. Digital Domain: Movie Screens, Small to Big to Small Again - Digital Domain 2012-07-07T17:14:12Z It has a languorous quality not often associated with genre fiction. City Room: Big City Book Club: Discussing 'Time and Again' by Jack Finney 2012-05-16T20:57:47Z It was as though the heated earth panted for breath; no evening breeze stirred the leaves; the air was heavy and languorous. Mrs. Thompson A Novel 2012-04-25T02:01:10.557Z As the potency of their feelings grew steadily stronger, they swayed in languorous movements, throwing out sinuous arms, their feeble faces smiling, their graceful bodies bending in eager attitudes of expectation. The Siege of Mafeking (1900) 2012-04-04T02:01:01.773Z Perhaps the cadenced prose of Pater, with its multiple resonance and languorous rhythms, may be a sort of sublimated chess-game, as Saintsbury more than hints; yet, what a fair field for his carved ivory pieces. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z About the couch in the corner were grouped a number of languorous women slaves, all very richly dressed. The White Blackbird 2012-03-10T03:00:15.513Z The door and windows of his little chamber were thrown wide open and the soft, languorous breeze, heavy with the odour of wild flowers, stole in and played upon his wasted face. Mr. Marx's Secret 2012-03-02T03:00:10.327Z He was comfortable—quite comfortable—wrapped in a delicious, languorous lassitude which forbade him opening his eyes to realisation. The Chase of the Golden Plate 2012-02-27T03:00:13.060Z But some of the diners still lingered, for it was nearly half an hour later before the door of the sick-room opened and the sick man's wife came gliding in again with her languorous grace. Vignettes of Manhattan; Outlines in Local Color 2012-02-20T03:00:20.550Z His technique was infallible, his temperament truly Slavic, languorous, subtle, fierce. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z It is characteristic that he never sent me any tragedy or epic poem, never anything bombastic or declamatory, never anything languorous or sentimental either. Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z She turned back to Kelly, a languorous smile upon her lips, a tender light in her eyes. Parson Kelly 2012-01-28T03:00:30.303Z The music of a languorous and melting waltz filled the room. The Four Corners of the World 2012-01-26T03:00:15.920Z A languorous pause has come to the year. Minstrel Weather 2012-01-24T03:00:25.640Z Drink to the presence of beauties with the languorous eyes of the narcissus. The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z He was leaning forward, a black forelock over his bloodshot eye, his arm thrown out on the table, and talking in a languorous voice about Doris. Gargoyles 2012-01-05T03:00:27.063Z The chauffeur stretched himself luxuriously, happy in the mere enjoyment of the pine-scented air and the languorous warmth of the sun. The Money Gods 2012-01-04T03:00:39.617Z So you think that a man must have a languorous, melancholy air, in order to make conquests, do you? Fr?d?rique; vol. 1 2011-12-19T03:00:39.830Z And Dupont, after walking about the hall for some time in search of a particularly shapely partner, invited at last a rather attractive person whose languorous eyes gazed into his with infinite good humor. Fr?d?rique; vol. 2 2011-12-19T03:00:37.437Z On arriving at a certain place, a sort of little opening where the languorous, sensuous perfume of heliotrope dominated all others, Matilde made a gesture of pleasure. The Joy of Captain Ribot 2011-12-15T03:00:16.510Z He looked half asleep, and a languorous, stillness pervaded the whole scene. The Protector 2011-12-14T03:00:17.460Z From a subsequent description we learn that he was handsome with the dark languorous eyes of his nation, and that his voice was soft and musical. Oscar Wilde 2011-12-10T03:00:14.120Z Do you begin, baron; but no love songs, and, above all things, no languorous lamentations. Fr?d?rique; vol. 1 2011-12-19T03:00:39.830Z Mr. Dwight in this Stamboul romance has invested his scenes with the languorous and mystical spirit of the orientalism in which his characters so naturally move. Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories 2011-12-01T03:00:20.193Z When Miss Patterson had ate and drunk well she was apt to discover a turn for languorous sentiment which appealed to Mr. Elmore very forcibly indeed. A Master of Deception 2011-11-30T03:00:12.357Z Chopping, sawing up, splitting those giants doesn’t fill one with languorous dreams; the only ones our axe-men indulge in materialise. The Protector 2011-12-14T03:00:17.460Z Within, the arras hardly seems to stir Its languorous folds of purple, blue and green, Whose colours part or mix, as rise and fall The pine fire's odorous gleams on roof and wall. Etain the Beloved and Other Poems 2011-11-27T03:00:13.943Z Nothing else, however, seemed to move, and the air was filled with a languorous, resinous smell. The Boy Ranchers of Puget Sound 2011-11-24T03:00:42.877Z But how languorous she felt, how indisposed to effort. Out of the Air 2011-11-21T03:00:14.460Z It was, however, reserved for Gounod to introduce la note tendre, to sing the tender passion in accents soft and languorous. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" 2011-11-13T03:00:13.177Z It is a sense of the glory that has been, a meditativeness which is induced by the somnolence of the scene, and fostered by the languorous atmosphere of the South. Southern Spain 2011-11-11T03:00:28.423Z Bathampton lies below there, where the air is languorous and the hillsides hold the heat of the sun. The Bath Road History, Fashion, & Frivolity on an Old Highway 2011-11-06T02:00:11.073Z The strings in the orchestra quavered a few languorous notes and Madge started her song "Can love be controlled by advice." The Whirligig of Time 2011-11-04T02:00:23.063Z If Keats's vocabulary had a defect it was a certain over-ripeness, a languorous beauty that, like the touch of his hand, spoke of death. Leaves in the Wind 2011-10-28T02:00:25.937Z She looked handsomer than the gown, said Hodge, as she rose and greeted him, her cheeks flushed, her eyes languorous and smouldering at first, then growing slowly brilliant. A Trooper Galahad 2011-10-12T02:00:53.977Z Though it was not late, there was no stir in the streets; an air of languorous depression brooded over the town. The Coast of Adventure 2011-10-03T02:00:25.810Z But I cannot resist it: it envelops me, just as the spring sunshine and the scent of the may and the cherry-blossom in the Woods envelop one with languorous sweetness. The Later Life 2011-10-02T02:00:13.037Z She was a woman whose form and carriage would be noticeable anywhere—tall, slender, graceful, with a certain slow, languorous ease of motion that charmed the senses. Campaigning with Crook and Stories of Army Life 2011-09-21T02:00:34.517Z It even ruins a few of his Sundays, otherwise languorous, unstructured days dedicated to things like eating Cuban food and sipping red wine. | Narciso Rodriguez: For Narciso Rodriguez, Sundays Are for Cuban Coffee and ?True Blood? 2011-09-09T22:48:42Z The pencilled eyebrows gave a little electric move, and the lids slowly unveiled those dark languorous eyes, which seemed like hidden founts of love. An I.D.B. in South Africa 2011-08-31T02:01:33.733Z By daybreak the vessel would be steaming on an even keel, but Evelyn knew that she would not again be content with glassy calm and languorous tranquillity. The Coast of Adventure 2011-10-03T02:00:25.810Z For in that languorous heat we counted miles differently, and it was pleasanter to suspect than to go and prove, and much easier. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z The wide, grey eyes had lost their languorous melting delight, which had been replaced by one of driven desperation. The Men Who Wrought 2011-07-26T02:00:16.320Z The whole scene was flooded with light and color, and permeated by the languorous spell of the tropics, which it is not good for white men to linger under. The League of the Leopard 2011-07-23T02:00:12.490Z There is one perfect beauty of the best ballet-dancing and there are other beauties of different kinds in the skirt-dancing of the two Englishwomen and in the languorous swaying of the Spanish gipsy. A Book About the Theater 2011-07-21T02:00:23.843Z There is not a writer who could have so steeped himself in this languorous Creole life and then tell so well about it. Concerning Lafcadio Hearn With a Bibliography by Laura Stedman 2011-07-20T02:00:12.413Z The whole air of this curious tented room was heavy and languorous with perfume. House of Torment A Tale of the Remarkable Adventures of Mr. John Commendone, Gentleman to King Phillip II of Spain at the English Court 2011-07-15T02:00:24.257Z Very alluring she looked, her dark beauty set off by her dress of creamy white, by the languorous attitude, so harmonious with the sunshine and surroundings. Fordham's Feud 2011-07-05T02:00:31.267Z The music had commenced—a tripping languorous ballet suite from a famous opera. A Man's Hearth 2011-06-25T02:00:17.093Z Then swiftly reconsideration followed, visibly the selfish second thought took shape in the angry eyes and melted their ice to a mist of unshed tears beneath lids newly languorous. Linda Lee, Incorporated A Novel 2011-06-19T02:00:18.633Z A bed of musk-plant yielded up languorous sighs to the warmed air. Jessamine A Novel 2011-06-15T02:00:24.413Z Their dance was voluptuous, languorous, and without apparent order, although all the figures had been settled beforehand. Ancient Manners Also Known As Aphrodite 2011-06-13T02:00:23.863Z This he did, through vivid descriptions of the languorous beauty of island life, the linguistic Tower of Babel bequeathed by colonialism and the continuing legacy of the slave trade. Intellectual action man 2011-06-10T16:06:51Z Dor� too felt strangely lifted from herself, leaping along perilous heights, striving with invisible windy shapes, that caught her and whirled her, with closed eyes and bated lips, in giddy whirlpools or sudden languorous calms. The Salamander 2011-06-10T02:00:22.890Z Her cake-walk was the embodiment of languorous grace and the acme of sensuous charm. Famous Prima Donnas 2011-05-26T02:00:18.267Z Still and languorous was the day; not a breath stirred above the tiny ripples of the sand; a calm, almost unnatural, seemed to wrap the world in its embrace. The Lady of the Mount 2011-05-24T02:00:15.640Z To-night the Moon dreams with increased weariness, Like a beauty stretched forth on a downy heap Of rugs, while her languorous fingers caress The contour of her breasts, before falling to sleep. The Flowers of Evil 2011-05-15T02:00:07.523Z Looking back now he realised that what had predominated in his mind on that hot, languorous June afternoon was astonishment at her utter unlikeness to her brother, his partner, Gillie Baynton. Love and hatred 2011-05-13T02:00:08.103Z She left her hat with her coat in the dressing-room, and came out confidently, her hands on her hips, which swayed slightly in the languorous movement of the Spanish indolence, mockery in her eyes. The Salamander 2011-06-10T02:00:22.890Z To-day it resembled a huge Japanese umbrella of olive-green lace thickly studded with pink silk aigrettes that shook out waves of sweetness, mellow, fruity, languorous. A Speckled Bird 2011-05-06T02:00:09.097Z She brought with her Accoutrements of slippers, caps of lace, And oriental perfumes languorous. Domesday Book 2011-04-30T02:00:13.397Z When I behold thee wander by, my languorous love, To songs of viols which throughout the dome resound, Harmonious and stately as thy footsteps move, Bestowing forth the languor of thy glance profound. The Flowers of Evil 2011-05-15T02:00:07.523Z I never before saw such handsome, courtly men, such lovely, languorous, beautifully dressed women. All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart 2011-03-31T02:00:16.763Z But, inevitably turning again, the modern pilgrims saw far below them, and most impressive of all, the languorous City of Flowers, peacefully dreaming on either side of the silver Arno. The Spell 2011-03-20T02:00:34.173Z One window was open; a low rustle of leaves was wafted in through the pale-green silken curtains upon the warm languorous breath of the spring night. Countess Erika's Apprenticeship 2011-03-10T03:00:46.973Z All was quiescent, languorous, beautiful in the glow of the sun's stately declension. Anna of the Five Towns 2011-03-08T03:00:38.117Z The bright young things of London’s social elite lead an existence as languorous and lavish as it is self-destructive. ArtsBeat: Musical Couples of All Kinds on the Bill at Tribeca Festival 2011-03-07T18:00:47Z In the air the languorous scent of roses and honeysuckle mingled with the acrid tang of the ocean. The High Heart 2011-03-04T03:00:52.683Z Still glided we over the summer sea—still gazed we at a cloudless sky—still felt we the languorous, sighing breath of the soft South Pacific winds. A Modern Buccaneer 2011-03-02T03:00:23.990Z It is a combination of airy half-steps, sinuous body movements, and slow languorous and graceful weavings of the arms. The Westerners 2011-02-14T03:00:39.347Z Her voice was soft and languorous; her eyes also spoke. Here and Hereafter 2011-02-07T03:00:23.580Z And seemingly �neas, too, has forgotten his glorious destiny, his promised land of Italy, and is sunk in a languorous dream of present bliss. Studies in the Poetry of Italy, I. Roman 2011-02-06T03:00:58.870Z The Polish lady, surrendering herself in a languorous fashion, inspired him with a longing to clasp her to his heart while they were both spinning forward on a sledge along a plain covered with snow. Sentimental Education Vol 1 2011-01-04T03:01:07.467Z She took one with languorous grace and bent nearer for him to light it. Caravans By Night A Romance of India 2011-01-03T03:01:02.370Z Later, Ellen walked out with her through the languorous summer evening to the house which she never called home. Why Joan? 2011-01-02T03:00:20.290Z There was comparative peace indoors; and a languorous Indian calm had set in. The Hidden Force A Story of Modern Java 2010-12-24T03:00:34.823Z Her great brown eyes, languorous and insolent, swept McTaggart from head to foot. The Man with the Double Heart 2010-12-21T22:55:56.757Z I once asked Bob Bowman, the longtime coach of Michael Phelps, why Phelps did not swim the languorous distance sets that were part of some other competitors’ regimens. Speed-Freak Football 2010-12-04T17:15:00Z Two tables away, employees on a break sit, an ashtray between them, languorous on a slow weeknight. | Asbury Park: Tropical Flavors Along the Jersey Shore 2010-08-21T06:57:00Z In a sly performance, Mr. De Shields often appears languorous, until his comic timing snaps in place. | Long Island: Playing Ball With the Devil in ?Damn Yankees? 2010-07-16T22:58:00Z On the hillsides, wind turbines offer the languorous emblems of the gentler energy they would prefer. Letter From Europe: When Spin Turns From Art to Liability 2010-05-14T11:20:00Z Now 50, his hair still a bouncy mop but suddenly a steel‑grey one, Couples always has been the carefree side of languorous. Crowd warms to Tiger Woods' first steps under the Masters spotlight 2010-04-05T19:50:00Z Ms. Essaydi simplifies the setting by eliminating the colorful draperies and props, but her picture still retains some of the languorous sensuality of the original Orientalist painting. Art Review | New Jersey: Reviving the Exotic to Critique Exoticism 2010-03-06T00:33:00Z Normally, they are terribly skittish, otters, but this fellow was languorous as a surfer. 2010-01-25T05:00:00Z Somewhere in the languorous night a harp was being played. The Valiants of Virginia Am I to say she shows a languorous disinclination for close application, and advise her to exert her mental activities? The School by the Sea But what struck him as most lovely in her, was the languorous, yielding tenderness of her whole being, as if she had loosened herself from the trammels of earth and floated in space. Regina or the Sins of the Fathers His great, green eyes were still clouded and languorous from sleep. The Voice of the Pack The dark, odorous earth looked up to the myriad stars, but was not lighted by them; a soft, languorous gloom lay over the land. Rodman the Keeper Southern Sketches A new waltz had begun to sigh its languorous measures. The Valiants of Virginia He could picture her at not so distant a time in wonderful rooms, about whose slim furniture she would move in delicate and languorous promenades. Sinister Street, vol. 2 They scarcely spoke, for they were too well contented with the languorous weather. Sinister Street, vol. 1 He smoothed out the paper and turned to the page indicated, where he saw a paragraph heavily marked in blue pencil that momentarily stripped him of his languorous self-control. Bindle Some Chapters in the Life of Joseph Bindle She loved the graceful, rhythmical movement of the waltz, the rapid whirling round and round which made her heart beat tumultuously, the languorous music which intoxicated. By Right of Conquest A Novel But the mornings are mellow indeed, the dusk is languorous in its beauty, and as for the nights, none others in all the world can compare with them. A Transient Guest and Other Episodes He leaned over the rail of the gallery to watch them sweep round below him, so that he might listen if by chance above the noise Lily's languorous voice could reach him. Sinister Street, vol. 2 What is that you are prattling about in that languorous voice? The Iron Pincers or Mylio and Karvel A Tale of the Albigensian Crusades School was forgotten and the southern girl basked in the languorous fragrance of spring. The Shadow Spring, at its best, is languorous and its pleasures cloying, but autumn is a rousing friend and makes exquisite the burden of life. Years of Plenty She had a lovely voice and would put her head back on her chair sometimes in the evening and sing us languorous Austrian peasant songs with her fascinating Viennese accent. Confessions of an Opera Singer Overhead was a woolly warm sky; underfoot feverish soft grass; and from all quarters the languorous breeze bore faint reminiscences of stale sewage upon its wings. From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel Was there a languorous, all-pervading mesmerism in the very force and power of her love, which drew him beneath its spell in spite of himself? A Veldt Official A Novel of Circumstance Then suddenly her gaze swept to me, and the smile changed into a languorous one that promised all things. The Lost Door "And all the big girls will run away with them," she purred with a tight smile, and stretched a languorous leg out in front of her to waggle her foot. The Ties That Bind On the contrary, those big dark eyes of hers, which could be so languorous, looked hard as glass as she smiled at me and nodded at Jim. The Brightener The trail hath no languorous longing; It leads to no Lotus land; On its way dead Hopes come thronging To take you by the hand; He who treads the trail undaunted, thereafter shall command. Seeds of Pine The second part is hot and heavy with the languorous heat of the tropics. Songs of the Army of the Night The convincing alertness of Ralph Winston, clear and cool and bracing, the glowing mystical enthusiasm of Elijah Berl that breathed upon her, laid hold upon her like languorous exhalations from a tropic growth. The Vision of Elijah Berl She looked straight into the white, subtle face—straight into the velvet-brown languorous eyes, full now of a secret fear. A Life Sentence A Novel She relaxed her hold and leaned back, languorous, smiling. The "Genius" There is a part when, to languorous music, the gentlemen, with their plumed hats, sweeping the ground, bow low to the ladies. Francezka Aloll in the warm clear water, On her back with languorous limbs, She lies. Songs of the Army of the Night Nor of her large limbs' languorous Wind-grace, that glanced like starlight through Her ardent robe's diaphanous Web of the mist and dew. The Garden of Dreams The California spring, more languorous, even with its hint of moisture, than the cloudless summer, sent a thousand odors adrift upon the air. Stories of the Foot-hills So it may well be thought, for what fairest day can be compared with a moonlit night in languorous July? Rossmoyne Her face was thin, but her languorous eyes were expressive and her mouth delicate. John March, Southerner It coiled and hesitated, and then began to swim a languorous way down the mahogany slant. The Monster and Other Stories And who would not succumb to the languorous melancholy of Andromède, not chained to a rock but living on the best of terms with her monster, who calls her Bébé! Ivory Apes and Peacocks The helmeted quail were calling; the bees were just beginning a sun-warmed hum among the bushes; a languorous warmth hung in the air, and a Sunday stillness. Gold The Countess rolled her fan together, laid it in her lap, and rose to a less languorous position. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 7 (of 25) In spite of the languorous heat, she became alert and schemed all her waking moments how best to make time for Archie. Clark's Field Rhoda clung to his arm, and the languorous glances from under her long lashes set the blood racing madly in his veins. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, December 1930 The air is full of odours And languorous warm sounds.... Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 The golden sunlight flooded the mountains opposite, flashed from the stream, lay languorous on the meadow. Gold Maybe the murmur of the pines with the 124drowsy, languorous breeze relaxed his conscience; at all events the contours of the upturned lips were irresistible. The Pines of Lory Malague�a Spanish 3/8 In couplet form A dance of moderate movement, accompanied by guitar and castanets; languorous and sensual in mood. Music: An Art and a Language Was it the low, sweet music of the sea, or was it indeed his voice in her ears, languorous and soft, long-travelled yet very clear. Berenice The air is full of odours And languorous warm sounds ... languorous warm sounds. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 She was alluring rather than charming, with her fan and her rebosa, her veiled glances, her languorous, bold poses, and the single red flower in her hair. Gold The wind beat salt and stinging from the sea, utterly dissipating the languorous breath of the land, the odors of the exotic, flowering trees. Wild Oranges It was a languorous, luscious night, with the scent of new-mown hay mingling with that of gardens. The Side Of The Angels A Novel A glorious blonde: a luxury Of luring blue and wanton gold, Of blanchéd rose and crimson bold, Of lines that flow voluptuously In tender, languorous curves to fold Her form in perfect symmetry. Poems Fresh incense was thrown on the brazier of coals glowing before the garlanded statue of Venus as flutes intoned a languorous measure. Melomaniacs “The last time I saw her,” he said, half to himself, “she was dressed in black––her face as noonday––her hair black as midnight––crowning her with languorous allurement!” The Strollers “The favor is to me, and calls for no redemption,” said Kit awkward at the regal poise of her, and enchanted by the languorous glance and movement of her. The Treasure Trail A Romance of the Land of Gold and Sunshine The gloaming and the blossoms and the languorous heat and the heavy scents continued to act on Claude's senses as a love-philter might in his veins. The Side Of The Angels A Novel She was sufficiently languorous and meek in the moonlight, too—an excellent hammock-half. In a Little Town Only Klara the Jewess stands by, stolid and immovable; the Magyar blood is not in her, hers is the languorous Oriental blood, the supple, sinuous movements of the Levant. A Bride of the Plains Once more upon a fashionable thoroughfare, the land baron’s footstep relaxed and he relapsed into his languorous, indolent air. The Strollers His lounging, languorous indifference irritated her and yet cast a spell over her. The Rainbow Submitting to this new witchery in the same way as he was yielding to the heavy, languorous perfumes of the place, Claude smiled continuously. The Side Of The Angels A Novel Her eyes seemed to drawl languorous words that her lips dared not voice; and she committed the heinous offense of plucking at Eddie's coat-sleeve and clinging to his hand. In a Little Town Yesterday had been warm and languorous and the day before had been hot. The Roof Tree The Andalusian showed in her coy yet open air, in her small, broad hand and foot, in a languorous liquidity of eye. The Readjustment One soft languorous September evening, the loneliness promised to be unbearable, and she determined to go alone for a walk. The End of the Rainbow Elizabeth sighed happily, and, as was her habit, fell into the mood of the day, listless, languorous. 'Lizbeth of the Dale Her mind, which had run riot, fancy-fed with languorous dreams in the days when it was unoccupied and undisciplined, came steadily more and more under control, and grew gradually stronger as she exercised it. The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius The glow of fever through his drowsiness was rather a grateful warmth, blunted of all responsible thinking, than a recognized affliction, and the realization of the presence near him enveloped him with a languorous contentment. The Roof Tree The languorous hour of noon was still far off. The New Tenant It was a warm languorous October day, a day when all nature seemed at a standstill. The End of the Rainbow It was a warm, languorous afternoon in October, and time hung as heavily over the heads of the pupils as the mists hung over the amethyst hollows and sunny hills of Forest Glen. 'Lizbeth of the Dale I was full prepared For thy displeasure,—for the past was bared To mine on-looking; and, with faltering tongue, I left my languorous meanings undeclared. A Lover's Litanies The spicy smell of aromatic leaves and the honeyed perfume of a great climbing trumpet-flower made the air languorous with sweetness. The Dop Doctor The very atmosphere, laden with the sultry languorous heat of a southern sun, seemed charged with memories. The New Tenant It was a song voluptuously sad, wearily languorous, expressing bodily fatigue and the discouragement of passion. The Works of Theophile Gautier, Volume 5 The Romance of a Mummy and Egypt After the boys had left, the languorous October days passed very slowly at The Dale, and Elizabeth's energies of both body and mind soon began to cry out for a wider field of activity. 'Lizbeth of the Dale The drinks made the poor man forget his troubles and filled him instead with delightful visions of sunny lands and blue skies and red poppies and fair women and languorous luxury. A Book Without A Title And nothing in the languorous beauty of the midsummer afternoon could have been quite so pleasing without her presence there. Winning the Wilderness Stillness reigned everywhere, but it was the sweet hush of slowly awakening day rather than the drowsy, languorous quiet of exhausted afternoon. The New Tenant Golden and rosy reflections coloured her warm pallor, in which showed her long black eyes, made to appear larger by lines of antimony, and full of a languorous, inexpressible sadness. The Works of Theophile Gautier, Volume 5 The Romance of a Mummy and Egypt The high, dusty windows facing the Courthouse were raised, and a warm air drifted in, faint eddies of the fragrance of flowering bushes, languorous draughts of a countryside newly green. Mountain Blood A Novel The languorous shade invited one to tarry and rest, but Jeff breasted the sunshine, going hither and yon upon his errands. Sundry Accounts The somewhat muffled air that exuded from the machine was the lovely Miraflores, gay, lively, languorous, sad by turns—and much danced at the moment in New York. Athalie She left on the air as she went A subtle suggestion of perfume; the scent Which steals out of some fans, or old laces, and seems Full of soft fragrant fancies and languorous dreams. Three Women The words he spoke became a languorous mist in her ears. Fantazius Mallare A Mysterious Oath The air was warm, the moonlight and the silence were extremely soothing, and the motion of the raft was gentle and languorous. The Old Tobacco Shop A True Account of What Befell a Little Boy in Search of Adventure Had not his lips pressed hers, his embrace enveloped her yielding form, her eyes, melting and languorous, drooped before his fiery ones? Ringfield A Novel "You know you believe it all," said Lord Henry, looking at him with his dreamy, languorous eyes. The Picture of Dorian Gray But the less spectacular, less beautiful, less languorous, dark-haired Ruth was born a good comrade. The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life The air was full of the promises of spring, keen, bracing, yet with an undercurrent of languorous warmth. Judith of the Cumberlands Did he crave rest and ease?—there was for him the soft swell of languorous music and the wreathed movements of dancing girls. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 3 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History All inanimate objects, shawls, mantillas, combs, and cymbals, become inflamed with life, once they are pressed into the service of these señoritas, languorous and forbidding, indifferent and sensuous. The Merry-Go-Round The air was so languorous that it was as if the day were being slowly smothered in honeysuckle, the heavy scent of which drifted to him from the next garden. Virginia His breath came quicker; his eyes were languorous and teasing. The Huntress As Ware's eyes met her own she flashed a languorous look at him, and a slow smile wreathed her full red lips. A Coin of Edward VII A Detective Story Her partner was a perfect dancer, and this new, delicious waltz—inspiriting yet languorous, rhythmical and half barbaric—sent a keen feeling of joy and of zest into Crystal's whole being. The Bronze Eagle A Story of the Hundred Days Everything had changed from that sunny, languorous, dolce far niente time a fortnight back. Girls of the Forest What news would be so welcome to Lycabetta, languorous Lycabetta, as news of the whereabouts of the fool who had caused her so many hours of mortal anguish. The Proud Prince Even I, old and worn-out as I am, enjoy the calm, languorous, peaceful sensation which steals over me. Witness to the Deed Great tapestries of velvet and jeweled lights; swift, smiling servants; and the languorous well-being of eating strange, delicious foods. The Job An American Novel The air, which should have been full of the twittering of birds, was heavy and languorous. The Sleeping Beauty But what is certain is that the footpath descended in a gentle slope towards the edge of the lake which lay before the two children in all its languorous and silent beauty. Honey-Bee 1911 Compared with the action of this destructive solvent, that of all other disintegrating agencies concerned in our decivilization is as the languorous indiligence of rosewater to the mordant fury of nitric acid. The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays 1909 All the languorous glamour of the night had passed. Stubble A frigid sentimentality replaces passion, and this is expressed with languorous monotony. A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. There is an exuberance of runs and ornamentations until the first feeling of elation lapses into a second dreamy, languorous waltz melody, as if the dancers were floating on the scented atmosphere of the ballroom. The Pianolist A Guide for Pianola Players By chance, the record left on the machine had been that of the latest tango, and as she listened to the pulsing, languorous strains, Willa commenced half-unconsciously to sway in rhythm with its lilting harmony. The Fifth Ace And yet, even worse than this languorous inanition is the active policy of those who despise everything contemporary or native, and substitute sciolism for catholicity, contempt for analysis. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions It had shut off the prospect of a languorous evening. Stubble A languorous, redolent air just stirred the waving grain, on which rested a glossy shimmer. Under the Rose They walk or lounge, languorous and heavy-lidded, yet with a curious suggestion of smouldering fire in their drowsy gaze. Nights in London And that he admired his own languorous ways there is no doubt. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 13 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers From the dawn till the gloaming She used to sit combing Her hair in a languorous way. Grimm Tales Made Gay For a while he would feverishly clamp his attention to his work, while outside the sky continued serenely blue, and the breeze that drifted through his window was languorous and soft. Stubble She was thinking how Joyce charged the batteries of men's emotions by the slow look of her deep eyes, by the languorous turn of her head, by the enthralment of her grace. The Highgrader "You come see me die, missis?" she questioned, in her soft, languorous voice. Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa Sleek, suave men and languorous, desirable women sit amid elaborations, sleep and breed in ornamental beds. Erik Dorn The languorous passion of the South was her inheritance, and excitement mounted in her while she kept time to the melodious dance. Oh, You Tex! On through the languorous May warmth travelled westward the long column. The Long Roll I marvelled at the seriousness of their faces, till I remembered that here was no problem of a languorous sunland, but one of grim emergency. The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance The handsome man fanned Diana with a large palm leaf, and she looked at him with languorous eyes. Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa In my right-hand pocket," said Manuel, in his soft and languorous voice, "is a revolver. Plotting in Pirate Seas August had given place to September, but the languorous days brought no cessation of the fearful heat, no cooling rain to the panting earth, no promise of renewed life to the drought-smitten vegetation. At the Time Appointed Gone were the mountains and the mountain air, present was the languorous breath of the low country. The Long Roll In her face there was a languorous beauty born of the sunshine outside; a soft color glowed in her cheeks, her eyes were large and dreamy, little damp tendrils of gold strayed about her temples. Prisoners of Hope A Tale of Colonial Virginia He could not see her of course, or the rose lights, but he sensed her sitting there in her long chair, looking languorous and subtle, with colours and flowers and books about her. Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa Soon, under these trees, on the beach near Bathsheba, Stuart passed into a languorous waking dream. Plotting in Pirate Seas One sultry Sunday afternoon they sat within the vine-clad veranda, the strains of the violin and guitar blending on the languorous, perfumed air. At the Time Appointed I seem now to be again under the spell of the languorous airs, the cloudless blue, the white palaces, the grey olive groves, and the art, the art! The Daughters of Danaus It was August now, a hot, languorous August, when the river lay veiled in a mist of heat, and the air, even in the early morning, was a sea of liquid gold. The Making of a Soul Her painful brooding was broken by the sound of a soft and languorous voice. Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa And now I felt—as I had seen from above—the languorous, sensuous quality of it all. Tarrano the Conqueror His nature had grown languorous under their too rich variety. The Dictator Moreover, the languorous reaction following the undue exaltation that came of our battling and escape was upon us; so that our pain of body was accompanied by a most sombre and melancholy cast of mind. The Aztec Treasure-House City madam in elegant attire with languorous half-shut eyes and Hungarian drawl is a man's darling. Europe—Whither Bound? Being Letters of Travel from the Capitals of Europe in the Year 1921 Her deep languorous voice seemed to stroke its hearers like a velvety hand, yet had in it some deadly quality. Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa That slender, languorous moon pointed me to humble village spires and grass-grown paths, pale lovers whispering at a rustic gate. Vesty of the Basins And still we lingered on, happy, healthy, generally hungry, and intoxicated with the languorous murmur of Africa. In Africa Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country Ysabeau follows last, with languorous pace; Presses, voluptuous, to her bursting lips. Silverpoints The music, and likewise the rhythm of the dance, were soft and languorous as a July noon. Patty Blossom But within half an hour the languorous voice was whispering once more from the shadow of the doorway. Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa A lime tree, whose leaves were stirred by the languorous breeze, kept tapping against the window. Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo The freshness of the morning had passed and a languorous mist had fallen. The Best Short Stories of 1915 And the Yearbook of the American Short Story One got an impression of the extraordinary languorous beauty of the tropical vegetation; one smelt it, that African night, with its enormous moon beyond the mists. Mary Gray They sing and dance, but their songs and dances are nothing more dangerous than a languorous drone. The Adventures of Uncle Jeremiah and Family at the Great Fair Their Observations and Triumphs There was an African sound in the girl's voice—a sound of mystery that suggested heat and a force that could be languorous and stretch itself at ease. The Call of the Blood I know that it is customary to swoon over Chopin's languorous muse, to counterfeit critical raptures when his name is mentioned. Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques He had the greatest desire to speak to her about Elena, to question her, to reassure himself; but the orchestra struck up a languorous mazurka and the Florentine countess was carried off by her partner. The Child of Pleasure She led him with practiced quiet away from the house and paused under the gnarled old sweet-bough tree: the greenish-yellow, almost translucent globes dotted the lush, warm grass, their languorous sweet filled the air. While Caroline Was Growing Louise, impelled to dreams by the languorous warm night and Boyar's easy stride up the steep, touched his neck with the rein and turned him into the Old Meadow Trail. Overland Red A Romance of the Moonstone Cañon Trail The atmosphere was stuffy and airless, filled with languorous aromatic spices. A Book of Quaker Saints She held at command a warm, languorous charm which had stirred banked fires in the hearts of many men. The Yukon Trail A Tale of the North The clouds seemed lower; the swallows skimmed close to the ground; and in the languorous heaviness of the air there was something that melted the passionate heart of the Siennese. The Child of Pleasure It had now grown quite dark, for the moon had not yet risen; but there was a spring-time sweetness in the air, which was not yet enervated by the languorous heat of summer. Frank Merriwell's Chums A half moon hung idly in the mists above the cypress trees, and long, languorous shadows streaked the silvered ground with black. The Plunderer The merchants lived a languorous, luxurious life there, waited on by slaves, whom they could burn or torture at their pleasure. On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. She was an almost perfect type of the highly developed, highly educated American girl of to-day, a marvellous compound of intense energy and languorous grace. The Mummy and Miss Nitocris A Phantasy of the Fourth Dimension The languorous music floated into the hall, and the trees whispered from the garden through the open door. The Four Feathers For weeks he had looked forward to the match, and now it was so close he felt strangely languorous, tired in brain and body. The Loom of Youth There is tropical warmth and languorous life Where the roses lie In a tempting drift Of pink and red and golden light Untouched as yet by the pruning knife. Violets and Other Tales It is not in the least languorous or luxurious or merely musical and sensuous, as one would gather from both the eulogies and the satires, from the conscious and the unconscious imitations. The Victorian Age in Literature The sights, the sounds, the odors, enveloped my senses and filled me with delighted, languorous content. Emerson's Wife and Other Western Stories I admire her for building character, but it is by her languorous beauty that I am infatuated, and the portrait which most effectively displays that beauty is the one for which I care. American Adventures A Second Trip 'Abroad at home' On the hot agony in his heart the languorous Southern spring laid a cooling and delicate touch. The Miller Of Old Church He is described as kind, courteous, possessed of the most captivating grace and ease of manner, now inclined to languorous melancholy, now scintillating with a joyous vivacity that was contagious. For Every Music Lover A Series of Practical Essays on Music Yet, in this languorous time there may befall a brisker night, cool and lively as an intrusive boy—a night made for dancing. Gentle Julia Thrushes, we’ll suppose, have for their tune-mates The gold languorous lilies of the glade; And the whippoorwill, that plaintive dreamer, Some dark purple flower that loves the shade. Behind the Arras A Book of the Unseen She sat at the piano, her fingers picking out some slow, languorous movement that he did not know, but which soothed him like a lullaby. The Hidden Places He was sitting erect in his chair, his eyes no longer closed in languorous enjoyment; when suddenly the measure changed to that delicious passage descriptive of the creation of birds. Medoline Selwyn's Work "Thief!" said the woman slowly, gazing under languorous eyelids at the white, venomous face of the tall man. The Second Class Passenger Fifteen Stories As her gaze collided with her companion's he saw a disk of many-coloured fire; and then her languorous gestures were transformed into shivering intensities. Visionaries Those even brows, that hair like gold, Those languorous tones, that virgin way; The flowing limbs, the rounded heel Slight men betray. Eyes of Youth A Book of Verse by Padraic Colum, Shane Leslie, A.O. He remembered a morning's ride, when the air of London was languorous, had seemed for a moment almost exotic. Bella Donna A Novel His eyes opened slowly, and his face assumed an easy, languorous smile of immense pleasure. Romance The wind that blows in his pages is no hot and languorous breeze, laden with scents and sweets, but a fresh salt wind blowing in from the sea. An Introduction to the Study of Browning The draperies were now slightly parted and into the room filtered the grave, languorous accents of the new tone-poem. Visionaries Finally, a languorous journey by punt from the Barges to Magdalen Bridge more than compensated us for the somnolent half-hour which we had been proposing to spend under the shadow of the City Wall. Berry And Co. They were sitting alone in the library, the French windows wide open, the languorous night air heavy with the perfume of roses and the sweetness of the cedars, drawn out by the long day's sunshine. A People's Man He got a sort of languorous honey into his voice, and drawled out, "The—the Se�orita's." Romance Attired in a peignoir of pure white, and still a little languorous after the attack, she looked the enchanting perfection of beauty and grace. The Ghost A Modern Fantasy She did not seem to see them, for her eyes were still languorous with memories of Tristan and Isolde. Destiny There was a sign of air, and the crisp smell of growing things, lacking the languorous perfumes of the world outside, puffed into the faces. Plague Ship The House of the Spy had a fine garden, hot and buzzing in the languorous heat. Adventures of a Despatch Rider Surely her soft, dark, languorous eyes had said: "For thee." Caste He was at the back of the box, and clearly it was his benevolent desire to give me fair opportunity of a tête-à-tête with his dark and languorous lady. The Ghost A Modern Fantasy It was most beautiful far back from the oiled roads and trimmed hedges, for here were only woodland voices and languorous forest fragrances. Destiny The genial rays flowed over them, drying their wet, clinging garments, filling their stiffened frames with languorous warmth. Dan Merrithew In a land languorous with tropical inertia, an enthusiastic toiler is not common. The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt It had been a warm season, warm and rich, sun-kissed and languorous, like the fruit, like the Italian women.... Foes Unfortunately, I was quite unpractised in the art of maintaining a tête-à-tête with dark and languorous ladies. The Ghost A Modern Fantasy It was Nan at her most emotionally distracting, now sparkling with an almost feverish vivacity, now drooping into sudden silence, while the lines of her delicately angled face took on a touching, languorous appeal. The Moon out of Reach Step not jauntily, not too grave, Till the lip of the languorous sea you greet; Wait till the wash of the thirteenth wave Tumbles a jellyfish out at your feet. The Glugs of Gosh The poignant pathos of the poor maniac's broken utterances, the languorous beauty of the duet, and the frenzied terror and agony of the finale, are beyond praise. The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory. Theirs is the languorous charm of the orange and myrtle, ��Theirs are the fruitage and fragrance of Eden of old,— Broad-boughed oaks in the meadows fair and fertile, ��Dark-leaved orchards gleaming with globes of gold. The Poems of Henry Van Dyke In two minutes it had become a balmy, languorous night. Love Conquers All Immaculate at last as a tailor's equestrian advertisement he came striding down again into the hotel office, only to plunge most inopportunely into Miss Von Eaton's languorous presence. Little Eve Edgarton Not for nothing did she have the deep, languorous eyes, the perfect scarlet lips, the sumptuous grace of an artist's ideal. A Daughter of the Dons A Story of New Mexico Today In a way she symbolized the false standards, the languorous aristocracy of the South. Children of the Market Place Miss Taylor lay back, listlessly, and drank the soft warm air of the languorous Spring. The Quest of the Silver Fleece A Novel His old wounds were suddenly healed, life became a passionate love-song on a languorous, moonlit sea. The Honorable Percival "Why—good afternoon!" grinned Barton above the extravagantly large and languorous bunch of pale lavender orchids that he clutched in his hand. Little Eve Edgarton The incongruity of their talk was emphasized by the languorous strains of the newest popular waltz that floated over them from the ballroom. A Hoosier Chronicle How full of restful meditation was this dripping-time, how brooding with half-formed, languorous thoughts that begin as an idea and end as a reverie. The Colossus A Novel The day was warm and languorous, and the last pale mist of the Silver Fleece peeped in at the windows. The Quest of the Silver Fleece A Novel They remained a long time undisturbed, and the air in the room was so close and hot that both became languorous and sleepy. The Free Rangers A Story of the Early Days Along the Mississippi The pleasant, languorous feeling came once more, but he was roused suddenly by scattered rifle shots, and sprang up. The Forest Runners A Story of the Great War Trail in Early Kentucky Autumn was gone—though the languorous hours belied it. The Man Thou Gavest The summer night deepened, hot and languorous, with a sweep of moths to the candle flames, with vagrant odours of flowering vines and vagrant sounds of distant laughter, voices, footsteps down the long street. Lewis Rand In the street, beyond the narrow yard, where the grass lay like a veil, there was a curious deadening of sounds, as if the traffic had become suddenly muffled in the languorous softness of spring. Life and Gabriella The Story of a Woman's Courage The warm air was heavy and languorous and now Shif'less Sol confessed. The Free Rangers A Story of the Early Days Along the Mississippi It was one of the last days of July, cooled and freshened by a touch of rain and dropping back again to a languorous warmth. When William Came Malva rose with the indolent gesture of a languorous cat, and with a gesture of regret he started towards the cabin. Twenty-six and One and Other Stories There was the Greek, Scutari, and his bride, a languorous rather opulent beauty, with large dark eyes for all men, and a luxurious manner of lying back and fanning herself. African Camp Fires It was no longer jubilant, but languorous, wistful, haunting, as if it eternally pursued, through the fugitive seasons, an immortal and ineffable beauty. Life and Gabriella The Story of a Woman's Courage The couch is delicious for languorous limbs, the temperature is daintily adjusted, the nurse is deft and silent, and there is no sound to jar on weak nerves. A Dream of the North Sea The girl's head went up proudly, and from the languorous eyes there came one splendid flash before the lids fell over them again. The Inner Shrine Vaunt not its shippers, my friend, but produce it—an Actual, "forty-five," languorous Lusitan, Befitting, whate'er be its label, You, my good host, and the guest at your table. Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 102, March 26, 1892 He said the languorous Southern atmosphere give 'em pellagra or something. Somewhere in Red Gap The sincere passion of his tones not only arrested my steps but lured through the open doorway the languorous and yawning Buck Devine, who hung over the worker with disrespectful attention. Ma Pettengill "They are beautiful," she said in her languorous voice. Queed Her languorous eyes were in sympathy with the voluptuous movements of her feet and lithe body, and the curves made by her arms formed an invisible chain that held everyone entranced. Love Romances of the Aristocracy ARTHUR, on the other hand, though possessed of excellent Parts, appeared to be of a more phlegmatic temperament, and took on a more languorous, not to say saturnine demeanour. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, November 7, 1891 One was beautiful, languorous, carnal; the other was neither languorous nor carnal despite her wonderful body, and she was certainly not beautiful. Through stained glass |
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