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  • She noticed a drowsy hush overtaking Kabul Traffic became languid, scant, even quiet.†   (source)
  • On warm nights Marie-Laure opens her bedroom window and listens to the evening as it settles over the balconies and gables and chimneys, languid and peaceful, until the real neighborhood and the miniature one get mixed up in her mind.†   (source)
  • "A lady," she would say in her most languid, multisyllabic drawl, "expects a gentleman to take what belongs to him!"†   (source)
  • 'Who're you after?' he asked it, languidly removing his orange juice from underneath its beak and leaning forwards to see the recipient's name and address: Harry Potter Great Hall Hogwarts School Frowning, he made to take the letter from the owl, but before he could do so, three, four, five more owls had fluttered down beside it and were jockeying for position, treading in the butter and knocking over the salt as each one attempted to give him their letter first.†   (source)
  • After three days they boarded another train and began a languid crawl toward California.†   (source)
  • It seemed like I had plenty of time, though, and the languid pace and midday heat sapped my will to do anything more taxing than wander the grounds in dreamy amazement.†   (source)
  • They arrived, flushed and breathless, to find Jon seated on the sill, one leg drawn up languidly to his chin.†   (source)
  • The tone of his words fell dead center, without a trace of friendliness or unfriendliness, not interested and not bored, not energetic and not languid.†   (source)
  • House Iral greets us next, led by the lithe, languid movements of Ara, the Panther.†   (source)
  • NOW A LANGUOROUS waiting settled over the hospital.†   (source)
  • Then she thought of Margaret Kochamma and the languid, liquid notes of Handel's music grew shrill and angry.†   (source)
  • "Win wasn't the worst of them," I said, after a languid pause.†   (source)
  • If someone mentions the Cottages today, I think of easy-going days drifting in and out of each other's rooms, the languid way the afternoon would fold into evening then into night.†   (source)
  • He tried to adopt a languorous expression.†   (source)
  • He is chewing gum and his jaw moves languidly.†   (source)
  • Several of them watched Kassad with the cartoon-character sares of their pressure-expanded eyes and seemed to beckon him closer with random, languid movements of arms and hands.†   (source)
  • His tail was wagging languidly, a sign he thought he was alone and getting away with a major food heist.†   (source)
  • You feel exhausted, languorous, and almost Godlike.†   (source)
  • Donald and Astrid are a languidly confident couple, a model, Gogol guesses, for how Moushumi would like their own lives to be.†   (source)
  • Dee's fingers moved in the water, the ripples languid and mesmerizing.†   (source)
  • The sensation, as always, was pleasant and induced in him a warm languor, like the feeling he got after sitting too long in front of a hot stove.†   (source)
  • Languidly they bring their map to order.†   (source)
  • Cold morning light, winterlight, fell languidly through the high windows.†   (source)
  • But he also managed a tired smile, which was encouraging, and when she opened her fist to reveal what was inside, as she had once before done on her rooftop a brief lifetime ago, and he saw the weed, he started to laugh, almost soundlessly, a gentle rumble, and he said, his voice uncoiling like a slow, languid exhalation of marijuana-scented smoke, "Fantastic."†   (source)
  • My gesture appeared slow and somewhat languid to me.†   (source)
  • Valentine's tone was almost languid, but there was fierceness in it, a hungry threat of violence.†   (source)
  • I knew the way I knew that he wasn't Scott the first time I saw him, when he was nothing but a shadow moving towards herjust an impression of tallness, of loose, languid movement.†   (source)
  • He has soaked up the languid pace of the Mekong Delta and is content to sit there and watch his TV sets and fire off a sentence every few minutes.†   (source)
  • Besides, he was beginning to like Blanca, now that she was more robust and had acquired that languor that was smoothing away her rough, peasanty edges.†   (source)
  • Gordon is a striking woman, with a languid wit, who lives in a right-angled, shag-rugged, white-stuccoed modernist masterpiece in the Hollywood Hills, midway between Madonna's old house and Aldous Huxley's old house.†   (source)
  • His natural gallantry and languid manner were immediately charming, but they were also considered suspect virtues in a confirmed bachelor.†   (source)
  • I COME AWAKE slowly, languidly, until I realize what we've done.†   (source)
  • Languidly, controlling his rage with difficulty, the Baron waved his hand toward the young man standing in the arena beside the sprawled body of the slave.†   (source)
  • I have never felt like this—slow-witted and languorous, dreamy, absentminded, forgetful, focused only on each moment as it comes.†   (source)
  • Their talk was idle, languorous, conversations that bloomed over their dinners together or while they lay together in the dusk, glasses of wine on the bedside tables, the moon a pale disk in the window above the trees.†   (source)
  • The air was a reverie of wistful summer things, the last languorous day, a chance to go barelimbed once more, smell the mown clover.†   (source)
  • It was of that heavy, languid kind and gone within the day, but Annie feared it might have withered the buds already forming on Robert's six small cherry trees.†   (source)
  • Harry Carney's languorous bass clarinet performs solo.†   (source)
  • Whoever danced would dance more languorously, holding tight.†   (source)
  • The bathroom is steaming and I am languid as I am hoisted out, my body limp and capable of no objections.†   (source)
  • Jeb asked, his voice almost languid.†   (source)
  • A languid smile spread over his face.†   (source)
  • He was standing there, chin pointing at me, one arm languidly set against the wall.†   (source)
  • "Y'all stop that now," she called out languidly.†   (source)
  • She is a tall, languid young lady with a pallid, oval face and beautiful pale-blue-gray eyes; her hands are extraordinary-long-fingered, flexible, nervously elegant.†   (source)
  • During languid second and third cups of coffee and tea, David Korb tells everyone a raucous tale of a Spanish emigre friend-Juanito, who once attended Thanksgiving here-and how he got lost in New York, "running uptown and downtown in his yellow shorts, yellow T-shirt, camera strapped around his neck dripping with sweat ...yelling to himself, 'Where am I, how did I get here?'†   (source)
  • In the spinning room at the Victory Mill, with its tall frames and endlessly turning bobbins, where the languid thread ran from hank to spool and the tired little feet must walk the narrow aisles between the jennies, watching if perchance a filament had broken, a knot caught, or other mischance occurred, and right it, Deanie plodded for what seemed to her many years.†   (source)
  • The green blob of his head advances toward me, weaving through the trees, and now I can see the glint of a rifle through the languid snow.†   (source)
  • Catherine sees me looking and slides one knee over the other, smoothing her skirt with languorous fingers.†   (source)
  • He swam languorously out to the raft, held on a moment, and swam languorously back to where he could stand on the sand bar.†   (source)
  • The selkie's carriage was proud, and it cruised about the languid waters like a pleasure yacht.†   (source)
  • No one is supposed to touch you in prison, so the intimacy of a languorous foot rub, intended to please, almost sent me into ecstatic tears the first time.†   (source)
  • The music was soft and languorous, and as much as I tried to deny it, part of me just yearned to be held.†   (source)
  • They stood by the window and watched the languid prelunch traffic around the square and waited.†   (source)
  • He stands in the bathroom doorway, steam drifting languidly around him, wearing nothing but a towel draped loosely around his hips.†   (source)
  • It was strange, the languorous, limp hand coming to rest at her side while her breathing was coming so quick and fast.†   (source)
  • There was too much weakness and languor in his nature.†   (source)
  • Suddenly, from under the bridge, with a languid movement of its flat tail, swam a gravel-colored fish as long as a rabbit.†   (source)
  • Time turned into a rope that unraveled as a languid spiral.†   (source)
  • A sonorous rumbling led him to kneel underneath the truckbed, where three figures lay suspended in hammocks, two snoring in languid concert.†   (source)
  • My sleep was dreamless and deep, and I rise languidly, stretching as I meet the Snake's eyes.†   (source)
  • She laid a languid hand in his.†   (source)
  • It was a dream fall, my body languid and fastidious as to where to land, until the floor became impatient and smashed up to meet me.†   (source)
  • "Oh, hi, Lou," came the floating, but hesitant, languorous tones from an expensive apartment in Greenwich Village.†   (source)
  • I woke up with people leaning over me, passed out again, woke up second time in hospital bed, flat on back with heavy feeling in chest—was heavy and weak all over—but not ill, just tired, bruised, hungry, thirsty, languid.†   (source)
  • The sea's languid retreat into the horizon and the terrible silence of its absence.†   (source)
  • They dropped languidly south into the Mediterranean between Sicily and Africa, lost in the blue.†   (source)
  • Though I appreciate the hospitality and generosity that you have shown today," she said, emphasizing the meagerness of our home with a languid movement of her hand, "fate—in the form of your daughter—has brought you an opportunity.†   (source)
  • They lazily oiled themselves with tanning lotion, took turns greasing each other's back, touching with languorous pleasure, as if they were in the opening scene of an adult video, drawing the interest of every heterosexual male on the beach.†   (source)
  • I don't know any of his songs, but it's the same register my mother used to hum while doing the housework, a languorous baritone, the most Korean range, low enough for our gut of sadness, high for the wonder of chance, good luck.†   (source)
  • Old Chao had turned into a languorous man.†   (source)
  • We'll take the leading lady first, who, I believe, would prefer to be briefly described as a languid, sophisticated type.†   (source)
  • Full-bearded, to hide a weak chin, but a lovely boy, carefree, mud-spattered, obviously tired, languid, cheery, confident.†   (source)
  • "Really," Merrick said, and she drew her sharp purple fingernails languidly across the top of Heidi's head.†   (source)
  • Before he left, Alexander shot me a languid, supercilious look.†   (source)
  • His swiftly moving figure was in strange contrast to the languorous slow motion of his hands just a few minutes before.†   (source)
  • So began, for Oedipa, the languid, sinister blooming of The Tristero.†   (source)
  • Earlier,' Nathan had mentioned getting me a girl at Coney Island, a "hot dish" he knew named Leslie; it was a consolation to be looked forward to, I supposed in the stoic mood of the perpetual runner-up, decorously concealing by means of a languidly arranged hand the gabardine bulge in my, lap.†   (source)
  • He was languid, bored.†   (source)
  • Two-Tone sat on the screened porch, rocking languidly and lifting a can of beer to his lips.†   (source)
  • Yeah, it's a nice day," she said languidly.†   (source)
  • "I am, more or less, if you know what I mean," said a languid and rather dandified young person without any armour at all.†   (source)
  • "We ran away," said Phoebe languidly.†   (source)
  • a languid wave of the hand
  • The two men sauntered languidly to the table   (source)
    languidly = moving slowly
  • Louisa awoke from a torpor, and her eyes languidly opened on her old bed at home, and her old room.   (source)
    languidly = slowly and in a relaxing, non-energetic manner
  • A gradual warmth, a languorous weariness passed over him descending along his spine from his closely cowled head.   (source)
    languorous = slow, relaxed, or with little energy
  • She looked up at him languidly, as though her lids were weighted with sleep and it cost her an effort to raise them.   (source)
    languidly = slowly and without much energy
  • Slenderly, languidly, their hands set lightly on their hips, the two young women preceded us out onto a rosy-colored porch, open toward the sunset, where four candles flickered on the table in the diminished wind.   (source)
    languidly = moving slowly in a relaxed manner
  • He paced forward slowly, almost languidly.†   (source)
  • She said languidly, "This is my sister, Briony, Mrs. Jarvis.†   (source)
  • The werecat shook his rough mane and yawned languorously, displaying his long fangs.†   (source)
  • I gave her a languorous, world-weary, faintly mocking smile.†   (source)
  • She stretched, languorously, like a cat.†   (source)
  • He gestured languidly toward his gigantic map of Italy.†   (source)
  • The languorous, sensual music of Duke Ellington.†   (source)
  • Using a pointer, he pokes languidly at the twisted intestines of a dead salt-and-pepper milk goat.†   (source)
  • Some of them seemed to have gone limp and sat languidly in the seats, as if in a daze.†   (source)
  • "Press their heads," Jinny said languidly, over her shoulder.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • In the Free Cities of the west, towers and manses and hovels and bridges and shops and halls all crowded in on one another, but Vaes Dothrak sprawled languorously, baking in the warm sun, ancient, arrogant, and empty.†   (source)
  • Sweet voice, sweet lips, soft hand, and softer breast, Warm breath, light whisper, tender semi-tone, Bright eyes, accomplished shape, and languorous waist.†   (source)
  • Such melting and languorous glances!†   (source)
  • Now his eyes moved languidly over Claudia with no tribute whatsoever to the human habit of disguising the stare.†   (source)
  • Many of them sat languidly along the benches or milled in the aisles discussing the trial in hushed and speculative tones.†   (source)
  • A man could run his hands through such a fog, separating it into tendrils and streamers that gathered themselves languidly once more into the whole and disappeared seamlessly, without a trace.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • "Kiss me," she pleaded, and he did, hot languorous slow kisses that sped up as his heartbeat did, as the movement of their bodies quickened against each other.†   (source)
  • Helen's fingers tightened around the neck of the waterskin, restricting the flow to a languorous trickle.†   (source)
  • He tilted his head up, her mouth came down over his, and they were kissing again, but it was fierce instead of languorous, a hot and fast-burning fire.†   (source)
  • He moved with a subtle rhythm, languidly, the walk of an athlete although he hated all sports and had nothing but contempt for athletes.†   (source)
  • Littlefinger gestured languidly.†   (source)
  • Two figures languidly wrestled within the lair; I called to them, but again could hardly hear my own voice.†   (source)
  • Her movements were slow at first, almost languorous, but soon her pace increased until she matched the frenzied beat of the music.†   (source)
  • Languorous traffic on the canal broke the silver carpet that the moon had laid down, and rolled across it in barely audible swells.†   (source)
  • A few fat bees, enervated by the August heat that was unable to penetrate Joe's chill, forsook their usual darting urgency and traveled languidly across the meadow from wildflower to wildflower, as though flying in their sleep and acting out a shared dream about collecting nectar.†   (source)
  • I was reminded of the women who sat on stools outside certain alley shops of my native seaside town, their faces painted the colors of crimson and ash, languorous popular songs filtering out beneath the lanterned eaves of their tiny "houses."†   (source)
  • He nuzzled his face against mine until he found my lips, then he kissed me, slow and gentle, the flow of molten rock swelling languidly in the dark at the center of the earth, until my shaking slowed.†   (source)
  • And when I was done I felt the enveloping warmth of a fever, its languorous cocoon, though when I gazed at her shoulder and back there was nothing but stillness, her posture unchanged, her skin cool and colorless, and she lay as if she were the sculpture of a recumbent girl and not a real girl at all.†   (source)
  • Propagandizing among the troops, the socialists and anarchists had made the barracks into a war of religion, and among the exhausted prisoners theological debates raged at a languorous pace.†   (source)
  • League after league of trees sailed by underneath them, with little variation save for clusters of deciduous trees—oaks and elms and birch and aspen and languorous willows—which often lined the waterways below.†   (source)
  • He pointed languidly toward the wall.†   (source)
  • A lissome, blond, sinuous girl with lovely legs and honey-colored skin laid herself out contentedly on the arm of the old man's chair and began molesting his angular, pale, dissolute face languidly and coquettishly.†   (source)
  • The girl smiled with contentment when she opened her eyes and saw him, and then, stretching her long legs languorously beneath the rustling sheets, beckoned him into bed beside her with that look of simpering idiocy of a woman in heat.†   (source)
  • Her movements were slow and languorous, without guile or stratagems, and as her large hands reached out to me I remembered how I had learned that there could be an immensely poignant beauty in the awkwardness of human beings from watching Abigail set a table or open a book or simply brush the hair from her eyes.†   (source)
  • They sat in silence, listening to rain gnaw languidly at the windows and skylights, confronted all at once by the marvelous possibility.†   (source)
  • As she sat down again she drew that fan, black and covered over with a shower of forget-me-nots, languidly across her bosom.†   (source)
  • The young wife, leaning back and letting her eyes fall a little while on the child, gave him dim, languorous looks, not quite shaking her head at him.†   (source)
  • Gabriella stayed as she was, caught in an element as languorous as it was strange, like a mermaid who has been netted into a fisherman's boat, only to find that the fisherman is dreaming.†   (source)
  • And clasped at the hollow of her neck was a velvet cloak that fell to the ground in languid folds.†   (source)
  • A Tennyson garden, heavy with scent, languid; the return of the word swoon.†   (source)
  • The lines in her face softened as I watched, and her body became languid again.†   (source)
  • She had a Moorish, languid, and abundant air about her, which induced repose and trust.†   (source)
  • The moment he entered, Edgar's mother's movements grew slower, more languid.†   (source)
  • He was ruddy and languid with a startled look and weak lips.†   (source)
  • Jose Arcadio felt his bones filling up with foam, a languid fear, and a terrible desire to weep.†   (source)
  • Illyrio waved a languid hand in the air, rings glittering on his fat fingers.†   (source)
  • Then she saw me, and smiled, and held out a languid, welcoming hand.†   (source)
  • She was languid, her nakedness forgotten, those lids fluttering, a sigh escaping her moist lips.†   (source)
  • "Yes," she says, in a voice that is slow and languid, but clearly audible.†   (source)
  • In a languid motion, Amanda draped her ponytail over one shoulder, the movement almost sensual.†   (source)
  • Forty There was a languid feel to the night air the following evening.†   (source)
  • Angela looked up from the sock, her expression languid and insolent.†   (source)
  • A languid young man stepped from the gatehouse, a swordbelt buckled at his waist.†   (source)
  • "I had to come," said Xaro in a languid tone.†   (source)
  • Ser Amory raised a languid fist, and a spear came hurtling from the fire-bright shadows behind.†   (source)
  • Vivaldo closed his eyes, feeling an anticipatory languor and lewdness.†   (source)
  • He looked up at Longstreet, waved a languid hello.†   (source)
  • She lay there, languid, as a line of light formed where sky and ocean met.†   (source)
  • Nymeria, languid, elegant, olive-skinned, her long black braid bound up in red-gold wire.†   (source)
  • Jaqen H'ghar closed his eyes again, floating languid, half-asleep.†   (source)
  • The little town took a languor and a kind of beauty from the treatment of time and place.†   (source)
  • He's tall, with long legs and arms, but not what the Governor's daughters would call handsome; they incline to the languid ones in the magazines, very elegant and butter wouldn't melt in their mouths, with narrow feet in pointed boots.†   (source)
  • He ap-proached Harry himself, came so close that Harry could see the usually languid, pale face in sharp detail even through his swollen eyes.†   (source)
  • I watched when she pushed up her sunglasses to rub her eyes, or when she removed the elastic band from her hair and threw back her head to let the dark lustrous curls fall loose, and I watched when she sat with her chin resting on her knees, staring into the yard, taking languid drags of her cigarette, or when she crossed her legs and bobbed one foot up and down, a gesture that suggested to me boredom or restlessness or perhaps heedless mischief barely held in check.†   (source)
  • This feeling was similar, except it was my intellect that was weary and expanded, languid and latently powerful.†   (source)
  • It was not the voice that Fermina Daza had expected from him: it was sharp and clear, with a control that had nothing to do with his languid manner.†   (source)
  • His face wore the same soft languor that Louie had seen on the face of the Quack after he beat Harris at Ofuna.†   (source)
  • They moved with languid grace and, when they touched their hands to their lips in the traditional greeting, Eragon saw that their fingers were joined by translucent webbing.†   (source)
  • Moving slowly in the druglike languor of fugue hangover, the Consul bathed as best he could with only basin and pump, dressed in loose cotton trousers, an old canvas shirt, and foam-soled walking shoes, and found his way to the mid-deck.†   (source)
  • The young woman was gaining weight before everybody's eyes and daily grew more languid and ill-tempered.†   (source)
  • Fermina Daza grew accustomed to seeing him with other eyes, and in the end she did not connect him to the languid adolescent who would sit and sigh for her under the gusts of yellow leaves in the Park of the Evangels.†   (source)
  • Ursula recognized in his affected way of speaking the languid cadence of the stuck-up people from the highlands.†   (source)
  • Those scenes were always skilfully lit, the gestures — his included — languid and graceful, with a kind of luxurious quivering, as in the death scenes at the ballet.†   (source)
  • A year after I took my vows, she became a widow and began to come to church and stare at me with languid eyes.†   (source)
  • It was an easy, sleepy kind of languid fever, and so long as he did not try to move too much or exert himself unnecessarily he could live this way indefinitely.†   (source)
  • He spoke to her of Paris, of love in Paris, of the lovers in Paris who kissed on the street, on the omnibus, on the flowering terraces of the cafes opened to the burning winds and languid accordions of summer, who made love standing up on the quays of the Seine without anyone disturbing them.†   (source)
  • 'Boredom is death!' she cried and bared her vampire fangs, so that Armand put a languid hand to his forehead in a stage gesture of fear and falling.†   (source)
  • Ambition's mausoleum, I think of it now It isn't a particularly elegant house, but it was once thought imposing in its way — a merchant's palace, with a curved driveway leading to it, a stumpy Gothic turret, and a wide semi-circular spooled verandah overlooking the two rivers, where tea was served to ladies in flowered hats during the languid summer afternoons at the century's turn.†   (source)
  • Along the rough cobbled streets that had served so well in surprise attacks and buccaneer landings, weeds hung from the balconies and opened cracks in the whitewashed walls of even the best-kept mansions, and the only signs of life at two o'clock in the afternoon were languid piano exercises played in the dim light of siesta.†   (source)
  • The tug-of-war, sack hop, and three-legged races were over, and a languidness had inevitably crept over things, so that here and there grown men slept in the grass with newspapers over their faces.†   (source)
  • It was then I realized that the languid, white hand that made these comic arcs was not painted white.†   (source)
  • They walked down a corridor of connecting rooms, each identical to the next, dark and small, with tomblike walls, high ceilings, and narrow windows, their wallpaper of discolored flowers and languid maidens stained from the soot of the coal stoves and the patina of time and poverty.†   (source)
  • I felt a warmth and a drowsy languor stealing over me, and urging me to yield, and surrender myself; as to do so would be far easier than to resist.†   (source)
  • Even though the child was languid and weepy, with no mark of a Buendia, he did not have to think twice about naming him.†   (source)
  • Although it was pitiful to see them with their sunken stomachs and languid eyes, the children survived the journey better than their parents, and most of the time it was fun for them.†   (source)
  • In Paris, strolling arm in arm with a casual sweetheart through a late autumn, it seemed impossible to imagine a purer happiness than those golden afternoons, with the woody odor of chestnuts on the braziers, the languid accordions, the insatiable lovers kissing on the open terraces, and still he had told himself with his hand on his heart that he was not prepared to exchange all that for a single instant of his Caribbean in April.†   (source)
  • And then, as if to distract myself from this madness, I thought of Claudia-only to feel her arms around me in the dim light of those rooms in the Hotel Saint-Gabriel, only to see the curve of her cheek in the light, the soft, languid flutter of her eyelashes, the silky touch of her lip.†   (source)
  • But when he demanded her answer with an authority that was so different from his languor, she managed to overcome her fear and tried to dodge the issue with the truth: she did not know how to answer him.†   (source)
  • She was a languid little frog, with incipient breasts and legs so thin that they did not even match the size of Jose Arcadio's arms, but she had a decision and a warmth that compensated for her fragility.†   (source)
  • Not only by that fairy beauty-that exquisite secret of Claudia's white shoulders and the rich luster of pearls, bewitching languor, a tiny bottle of perfume, now a decanter, from which a spell is released that promises Eden-I was bound by fear.†   (source)
  • Ursula would remember him always as she said good-bye to him, languid and serious, without shedding a tear, as she had taught him, sweltering in the heat in the green corduroy suit with copper buttons and a starched bow around his neck.†   (source)
  • The woman of every day, the one with her head held high and with a stony gait, did not arrive, but an old woman of supernatural beauty with a yellowed ermine cape, a crown of gilded cardboard, and the languid look of a person who wept in secret.†   (source)
  • At that time he had finished with the tight pants and the silk shirts and was wearing an ordinary suit of clothing that he had bought in the Arab stores, but he still maintained his languid dignity and his papal air.†   (source)
  • Meme's room became filled with pumice-stone cushions to polish her nails with, hair curlers, tooth-brushes, drops to make her eyes languid, and so many and such new cosmetics and artifacts of beauty that every time Fernanda went into the room she was scandalized by the idea that her daughter' s dressing table must have been the same as those of the French matrons.†   (source)
  • Ursula felt tormented by grave doubts concerning the effectiveness of the methods with which she had molded the spirit of the languid apprentice Supreme Pontiff, but she did not put the blame on her staggering old age or the dark clouds that barely permitted her to make out the shape of things, but on something that she herself could not really define and that she conceived confusedly as a progressive breakdown of time.†   (source)
  • The gringos, who later on brought their languid wives in muslin dresses and large veiled hats, built a separate town across the railroad tracks with streets lined with palm trees, houses with screened windows, small white tables on the terraces, and fans mounted on the ceilings, and extensive blue lawns with peacocks and quails.†   (source)
  • He had the same languor and the same clairvoyant look that he would have years later as he faced the firing squad.†   (source)
  • Then the poolside exchange with close-ups and pauses, the people a bit detached from their own dialogue, and a sense throughout of morning languor in the standard birdsong, in the rhyth mic motion of men with hedge clippers and the shimmer of perfect turquoise in the background.†   (source)
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