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  • It appeared that all along there had been, deep in her temperament, a core of cheerfulness, which must have fuelled her long fight against A-bomb lassitude, something warmer and more vivifying than mere submission, than saying, "Shikata ga-nai."†  (source)
  • At length lassitude succeeded to the tumult I had before endured, and I threw myself on the bed in my clothes, endeavouring to seek a few moments of forgetfulness.†  (source)
  • They saw the zonked layabout, all lassitude and spent attention span.†  (source)
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  • Kate sensed their lassitude, was grateful for it.†  (source)
  • A cold lassitude came over him and he passed into a dreaming, inert stupor, full of cramp and pain.†  (source)
  • But the medication produced lassitude and I felt constantly on the verge of nausea.†  (source)
  • They did not go hunting at all that night, but stayed near the den and rested, The next morning dawned fine and warm, and a general air of contented lassitude seemed to overcome all three.†  (source)
  • For a few moments we sat in complete silence, the pleasant lassitude of Sunday overcoming us and a fragrant breeze pouring through the open first-floor windows.†  (source)
  • She lay half-stretched in an armchair of the living room, crumpled by that heavy, indifferent lassitude which is not the will to laziness, but the frustration of the will to a secret violence that no lesser action can satisfy.†  (source)
  • In every sense of the word having experienced rebirth, she possessed some of the lassitude and, as a matter of fact, a great deal of the helplessness of a newborn child.†  (source)
  • He had been gazing out the windshield with the lassitude of the bedridden, a little slumped in his seat, a little slack-jawed, and now it was as if he'd been shocked back to action.†  (source)
  • Francie never noticed the dirt and the lassitude.†  (source)
  • His lassitude had returned and from its depths he spoke, more gently: It's something I haven't got; that I know.†  (source)
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