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Interview with the Vampire
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- My gesture appeared slow and somewhat languid to me.†
Part 1 *
- It was then I realized that the languid, white hand that made these comic arcs was not painted white.†
Part 3
- She was languid, her nakedness forgotten, those lids fluttering, a sigh escaping her moist lips.†
Part 3
- Now his eyes moved languidly over Claudia with no tribute whatsoever to the human habit of disguising the stare.†
Part 3languidly = without much energy; or moving slowly or in a relaxed manner
- '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.†
Part 3
- 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.†
Part 3
- 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.†
Part 3
Definitions:
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(1)
(languid) lacking energy or relaxed or moving slowly
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)