Both Uses of
indolent
in
Swann's Way
- with the indolent, painstaking exactitude of a person who has nothing else to do,
Chpt 2 *indolent = lazy
- …tender; then, as I drew near, the sight of their topmost branches, their lightly tossing foliage, in its easy grace, its coquettish outline, its delicate fabric, over which hundreds of flowers were laid, like winged and throbbing colonies of precious insects; and finally their name itself, feminine, indolent and seductive, made my heart beat, but with a social longing, like those waltzes which remind us only of the names of the fair dancers, called aloud as they entered the ball-room.†
Chpt 4
Definition:
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(indolent as in: she is naturally indolent) lazy; disinclined to work