languor

First published in Korea in 2015 and recently translated into English by Frances Cha, “Watermelon Pool” unfolds with all the languor of a long summer day.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026

The new wave languor of “Two Lovers” was concocted in tandem with synth-pop wizard Vince Clarke.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2025

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

And this is what Satpathy embodied — now caressing the floor in languor, now twisting herself into knots.

From New York Times ● May 16, 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

Disregarding the roses and raptures of vice, she paints, with a small brush dipt in gilt, the lilies and languors of virtue.

From Time Magazine Archive

The hard workers are nearly all long lived, but the sons and daughters of rest pass away from the scene, not of their labors, but of their languors, rather early, as a rule.

From Religion And Health by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)