languor

Liu’s Dominique sometimes loses patience and cuts through the languor with some common sense.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026

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

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

Gone are the formal banquets of saffron-stained, rose-scented languor — and the protein-bar and light-beer cravings of the American contractors who roamed the secure confines of Kabul’s Green Zone diplomatic enclave.

From New York Times ● Mar. 30, 2023

As they began the long walk back to their mother, the heavy languor of the afternoon soaking into them, Ben studied his mother.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

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

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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Her frame grew weaker; the roses faded from her cheeks; she was shaken by every sound, and menaced with becoming a victim to all the tremors, and all the languors of nervous disorders.

From The Wanderer (Volume 2 of 5) or, Female Difficulties by Fanny Burney