languor

For the first time, I could picture the legendary tropical city of Malayan sampans, Chinese street hawkers and British colonial languor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2025

Along with stirring up these painful memories, the fall also signals the end of summer’s languor.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2024

But despite reminding those who mention the Jedi and its protocols that the Order no longer exists, this Ahsoka certainly behaves like one to the point of almost verging into languor.

From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2023

But despite this relative languor, apes rarely develop the kinds of disorders tied to inactivity in humans, such as heart disease, arthritis and diabetes.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 7, 2022

He said the right dreams for a man in peril were dreams of peril and all else was the call of languor and of death.

From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy

And with this final season coming in two eight-episode tranches, I’m hopeful that we won’t have to worry about the show getting lost in its own languors this time around.

From Slate ● Jul. 13, 2012

They meet again nearly two decades later amid the summer languors of the Riviera.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was no picayune thing of languors, but a grande passion, a robust, full-stomached affair.

From Time Magazine Archive

While Diplomat Henry-Haye was escorted to the lilies and languors of Hershey, Diplomat MacArthur was packed off to a dreary Vichy prison camp at Lourdes, was later turned over to the Nazis.

From Time Magazine Archive

Like pensive herds at rest upon the sands, These to the sea-horizons turn their eyes; Out of their folded feet and clinging hands Bitter sharp tremblings and soft languors rise.

From The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire with an Introductory Preface by James Huneker by Charles Baudelaire